Conservatives fined £70,000 over election expenses

[arista]

This has been a Long time Ch4HD news
Michael Crick investigation.

http://news.sky.com/story/conservatives-fined-16370000-over-election-expenses-10803337

[ebandit]

.................as article fines are zero deterrent.........obviously they have £ to spend.....

....................new vote needed

Mark L

[arista]

Yes and other parties did the same

[ebandit]

...new vote...it would only happen once....................

Mark L

[Kizzy]

Cheats, mind you no matter how much money they throw around how could people not see they were useless?

[Livia]

No one's yet mentioned the agents responsible for this. It's the agent who signs the expenses sheet, it's the agent who is responsible. You can go to jail for lying on your return, and pleading ignorance is no excuse. There's a reason the Electoral Commission exists and for someone to try to outfox them, or to be appointed to a position where they clearly couldn't cope makes me assume the people who did were idiots.

[Kizzy]

Is that called passing the buck?

[Livia]

Is that called passing the buck?

No, it's the law.

[Kizzy]

You better inform the courts the tories are in the clear then.

[Livia]

I never said the Tories were in the clear. I said the election agent, appointed by a Tory candidate and working on behalf of the Tory party, is culpable.

[Vicky.]

Paid for from the expenses accounts no doubt :idc:

[Kizzy]

I never said the Tories were in the clear. I said the election agent, appointed by a Tory candidate and working on behalf of the Tory party, is culpable.

Obviously it doesn't work like that.

[arista]

...new vote...it would only happen once....................

Mark L

It may have Been a Farage Win.


Parliament Rules need changing
if you break accounting and bring in more folks
than permitted - you she be Expelled from
that local Election.
Then No One would dare cheat.

[smudgie]

Strewth, they have nearly all been at it.

[Cherry Christmas]

the public are just pawns, honestly its getting to the point where I wont vote for anyone

[Livia]

Paid for from the expenses accounts no doubt :idc:

Parliament is dissolved when an election is called and there is no such thing and an MP or an expense account during the election campaign. Money spent on elections is usually from donations only.

[jaxie]

Strewth, they have nearly all been at it.

They are all crooked, once you realise that politics gets easier. :laugh:

[jaxie]

the public are just pawns, honestly its getting to the point where I wont vote for anyone

Me too.

[Livia]

Obviously it doesn't work like that.

Sadly, I have to repeat myself.

That's exactly how it works.

[jaxie]

Sadly, I have to repeat myself.

That's exactly how it works.

She'll want you to google that! :laugh:

[arista]

From today's Daily Politics
BBC2HD in 2016 both Labour and LibDems
were fined £20,000 each
for the same Crime

[smudgie]

From today's Daily Politics
BBC2HD in 2016 both Labour and LibDems
were fined £20,000 each
for the same Crime

Indeed they were, they were fined less because they admitted it straight away, didn't put up a fight and rattled cages.

[Kizzy]

Sadly, I have to repeat myself.

That's exactly how it works.

Then who is taking the rap for the party then?.... I googled it and it doesn't appear to have happened, should I inform the police?

[Kizzy]

She'll want you to google that! :laugh:

No tag teaming please :nono:

[DemolitionRed]

From today's Daily Politics
BBC2HD in 2016 both Labour and LibDems
were fined £20,000 each
for the same Crime

And UKIP has been ordered to pay back €172,000 to the EU - "UKIP is accused of spending EU funds on national issues — for polling and analysis ahead of the 2015 general election and the Brexit vote in June this year — which is against EU rules." Just over half a million Euros involved in dodgy practises.