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Originally Posted by Mr K
It's the other way round OB as you well know !  . Those without passports, driving licences are likely to be from lower socio economic groups and more likely to vote Labour. That's what's really behind this. We need to increase people's participation in democracy not decrease it.
Suspect it will fail just like they tried to change election boundaries. More fair minded Tories, there are a handful, will oppose it. The whole Queens Speech is a waste of time and will get voted down.
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Or the Tories who spent thousands in the 2015 campaign transporting activists to marginals, and not declaring the expenditure against election rules. The isolated fraud cases aren't all on one side.
You seem to see fraud everywhere, benefits, voting. Not a very high opinion of the riff raff have you ! |
There are multiple instances of Labour activists "helping" people fill out their voting forms. Can't be sure of the name of the Labour MP involved, but I think it was either Margaret Beckett or Patricia Hewitt. Then there was the £600,000 of illegal 3rd party donations to Labour, where of course nobody was prosecuted. Even Gordon Brown seemed to know it was going on, as he refused a potential donation because he knew it was dodgy.
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Since 2003 David Abrahams, a property developer in the north-east, has donated more than £600,000 to the Labour party through a series of intermediaries. He says he did this because he is "a very private person" and did not realise he was doing anything wrong.
Under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 the details of any donor making gifts through a third party must be declared and registered with the Electoral Commission - but this was not done in the case of Abrahams' donations.
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"a very private person", who appeared on BBC2's Newsnight before the new rules came into force, and complained about them. He had attended a Labour party workshop about the new rules.