I linked to this article because there was a discussion just a few threads ago about postal voting, and as we have local elections coming up in May I thought that this article might be of interest! You might find the last two paragraphs particularly pertinent regardless of the age of this article if you had bothered to read it.
""The Electoral Commission has issued a code of conduct signed by all parties, and police have vowed to keep a much keener eye on proceedings.
But Chris Game, senior lecturer at Birmingham University's Institute of Local Government Studies, said the hearing was "like a guide to postal vote manipulation". He added: "The Birmingham cases show how the vote can be undermined very, very easily by postal vote fraud""
Ed Miliband's editorial in the Guardian should be thoroughly depressing for all Labour supporters. I wish the leadership would learn that the thinktankbots who've run the show for the past 10 years, who are obsessed with wonkish guff about public-sector reform, are hopelessly out of step with the public mood.
Have I missed something here or are we now linking nine year old articles.
lol...PB Tories becoming desperate!
Old stories get posted from time to time. Pork posted one from 2005 a few days ago regarding a suppressed report on Scottish oil (and there was hardly this level of hoo-ha about that article being posted).
Have I missed something here or are we now linking nine year old articles.
lol...PB Tories becoming desperate!
Old stories get posted from time to time. Pork posted one from 2005 a few days ago regarding a suppressed report on Scottish oil (and there was hardly this level of hoo-ha about that).
The difference in "hoo-ha" may be a reflection of the number of people who read posts by fitalass but skim over those from Pork.
Here is a pretty comprehensive list of the last 15 years. Now we can stop posting links to individual reports one party at a time, when I hardly think any party is actually condoning these people.
Have I missed something here or are we now linking nine year old articles.
lol...PB Tories becoming desperate!
Old stories get posted from time to time. Pork posted one from 2005 a few days ago regarding a suppressed report on Scottish oil (and there was hardly this level of hoo-ha about that article being posted).
You've an amusingly short memory. The same hypocrites who whined endlessly about that are trying to gloss over this.
You've an amusingly short memory. The same hypocrites who whined endlessly about that are trying to gloss over this.
I wasn't mentioning it to criticise you, Pork. Rather, I was pointing our that previous articles have been posted which haven't raised any of the same comments from the posters below.
"But Chris Game, senior lecturer at Birmingham University's Institute of Local Government Studies, said the hearing was "like a guide to postal vote manipulation". He added: "The Birmingham cases show how the vote can be undermined very, very easily by postal vote fraud"
Thanks RobD, I am on record here as not being a fan of postal voting. And despite posting the comments of Chris Game, senior lecturer at Birmingham University's Institute of Local Government Studies twice now on the thread, its still not computing with some posters that my issue is with postal voting fraud rather than partisan point scoring. I always link clearly and neatly to a site, and always using the article headline.
Here is a pretty comprehensive list of the last 15 years. Now we can stop posting links to individual reports one party at a time, when I hardly think any party is actually condoning these people.
Isam Indeed, though they had some flashbacks of Solomon's character and Pitt had only a small part. Slaves were treated as property in those times, they did not have any human rights, thank God for the likes of Wilberforce and Lincoln. Night!
The storms, flooding and excess rainfall which have caused such existential and genocidal chaos to millions of innocent peasants in the last few weeks would not have happened if Gordon Brown hadn't been so reckless in spending all the sunshine.
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""The Electoral Commission has issued a code of conduct signed by all parties, and police have vowed to keep a much keener eye on proceedings.
But Chris Game, senior lecturer at Birmingham University's Institute of Local Government Studies, said the hearing was "like a guide to postal vote manipulation". He added: "The Birmingham cases show how the vote can be undermined very, very easily by postal vote fraud""
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/7302809.stm
Go and give your head a wobble before the lefty thought police turn up and say you're racist.
You may see an Asian, I just see a Tory.
http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/SN03667.pdf
http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/SN06255.pdf
You've an amusingly short memory. The same hypocrites who whined endlessly about that are trying to gloss over this.
http://www.englishelections.org.uk/england/l12/knowsley.php#whistons
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/26/gangs-sexual-violence-warzones