Election spend
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The young Tories visiting Newark were part of the Roadtrip scheme which, before he committed suicide, member Elliot Johnson alleged to involve bullying, blackmail and harrassment. Election spends might not be something that worries them.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/busted-24-tories-how-broke-7467603This is how a proper scandal works, Crick beaks it, all goes quiet, while oither papers do some digging, then they start breaking their own stories. Drip. Drip. Drip.
Quote:None of the MPs we name below declared the party's controversial RoadTrip battlebuses in local budgets, with Tory HQ picking up the tab instead.If the estimated £2,000 cost of the bus had been included locally, some of the MPs could have breached strict spending limits.Five Tory RoadTrip battlebuses crossed the country to help handpicked candidates in the final stages of last year’s election campaign, with head office picking up the tabSo, this all rests on whether these buses were national or local spend, but if that, surely, should be for a jury to decide. This will be bureaucratically smothered, because the question is so marginal, and the risks to CPS careers so large…and so the smell will remain.Oh, and they ahve a stabdard reply:
Quote:"My election expense return for the 2015 General Election was completed and returned by my election agent in accordance with the law."It included all items authorised by my election agent for use in my campaign. I signed the necessary declaration as the Candidate on that basis."I am aware that CCHQ campaigned across the UK for the return of a Conservative Government, including in various seats such as mine."Such campaigning would be part of the national election expense return and as such not within our local (General Election or local government) expense return."So, they have an excuse that it was a misunderstanding of the law, but they must know that if those volunteers hold up placards with their name on, or give out a single leaflet for their campaign, it counts towards that seat.
https://twitter.com/MichaelLCrick/status/722789260882026500the Tories are back peddling… And yet it moves…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzwL3N5x8G0Hammer, hammer, hammer…
https://twitter.com/daily_politics/status/727813788230000640The gift that keeps on giving, Andrew neil dissecting forming Tory Chair Grant Shapps. Note how he claims not to shirk responsibility, as a way to shirk responsibility…
Young Master Smeet wrote:Actually, watching it through, I'm seething, not just for the blatant election stealing by bringing in lots of paid workers, but also because at the last election I bust a gut to make sure we declared everything (down to some very small receipts). I know some things slip throuh the cracks, but this is blatant, systematic and appears deliberate…I doubt if anyone would be interested if we exceeded our election expenses. We might receive a few tut tuts from the Electoral Commission, and told not to do it again. It's only if the guilty party actually wins the seat that it matters.
This report seems to have put this issue to rest: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36231138
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/journalist/electoral-commission-media-centre/news-releases-donations/electoral-commission-statement-on-application-to-the-high-court-for-the-conservative-and-unionist-party-to-disclose-documents-and-information?Classic scandal trajectory, now the Electoral commission is going to court for disclosure. Silly of the Tories to even remotely allow this to happen, since, as one of our guest speakers once told us, it's the cover up that kills, and the perception of malfeasance.This is in additional to several police investigations.Doubtless they will all clear the Tories on technical grounds, but the smell will remain…
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