ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF LABOUR'S CONTEMPT FOR DEMOCRACY

ED'S LOOKING FORWARD TO RECEIVING YOUR POSTAL VOTES

It may have escaped your notice, but does anyone else find it significant that whenever any hint of scandal or malpractice erupts around the Labour party, its MPs, councillors or their prospective candidates, John Taylor swops his usual vitriolic political attacks on his opposition and writes at length about superficial rubbish! – This week it was his admiration for the entire cast of Dad’s Army!

 

Strange he didn’t mention the court ruling regarding the five people who appeared in court as part of an investigation into allegations that they were part of a vote rigging operation during elections in Derby last year…

Last week, at Derby Crown Court, Polling clerk Nasreen Akhtar, 46, from Derby, admitted malpractice, while her nieces Tameena Ali, 27, and Samra Ali, 28, both admitted impersonation. 

Akhtar was jailed for 14 months. Her nieces were given eight months suspended for 18 months. Noshiela Maqsood, 23, pleaded guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice and was also handed an eight month jail term, suspended for 18 months.

The fraud aimed to give more votes to a Labour council candidate.

The court heard how Akhtar had falsely told an official at the Madeley Street polling station she did not know who her nieces were, despite her being related to them. Maqsood, then tried to cover up the fraud by giving false information to police.

Sabir also made a false complaint against a witness in the case, the court was also told

that, Tameena and Samra Ali deliberately set out to vote in a ward where they were not eligible to do so in an attempt to fraudulently interfere with the electoral process and boost the number of votes for the Labour candidate in the Arboretum Ward.

Their aunt, Nasreen Akhtar, abused her position as poll clerk by knowingly permitting them to do this.

Now this example of vote rigging is bad enough, but to many of us not really a surprise, as this interfering with our voting system seems to be becoming more and more prevalent.

However, what is a surprise, especially when one considers the row over preferential candidate selection and the alleged interference by trade union UNITE into the election in Falkirk, is that the Labour party, who benefited from this latest vote rigging scam, are prepared to hold onto the seat, which was won by a mere 14 votes! 

Surely, now the scandal has been exposed, just goes to show how desperate these so-called upright Labour councillors are if they insist on hanging onto this seat, which, as the court has clearly proven, to have been gained under suspicious circumstances?

We should take this example seriously, especially when one considers the close family connections that are already rampant in the People’s Republic of Tameside! This latest scandal is just another example of Labour's contempt for democracy.

For your interest, the results in Derby were as follows:

Gulfraz Nawaz (Labour) 1,757 votes.                                              

Tullah Khan (Liberal Democrat) 1,743;

Simon Hales (Green Party) 248; and

Ross McCristal (Conservative) 186.

Labour, the party of the people, but only the selected ones.