Electoral fraud Part 2

As reported previously, the Labour party in Tower Hamlets turned a blind eye to the registration of phantom voters, bribery and intimidation by Councillor Lutfur Rahman, who thereby won the party nomination as candidate for the Mayor of Tower Hamlets. After all, it worked for them in the General Election, so why not?

Here's why not - Peter Golds, leader of the Conservatives on the Council, today demanded that the police investigate Rahman's breaches of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act. With electric haste, the Labour party's National Executive Committee made the following announcement:

Having received a number of serious allegations concerning both the eligibility of participating voters and the conduct of Lutfur Rahman, the NEC has decided to investigate the allegations made. As a result, administrative action has been taken to remove Lutfur Rahman as a candidate pending the investigation. Nominations for Tower Hamlets mayor close this week and in the circumstances the NEC had no option but to impose another candidate. The NEC has voted to select Helal Abbas Uddin as Labour's candidate.

Abbas Uddin was always the NEC's favourite son, but they were prepared to put up with Lutfur rather than open the can of worms about how Labour keeps itself in power in all its rotten boroughs.

So now their opponents know: it's a waste of time expecting the Labour pukes to show any respect for democracy or civic decency - the only thing that works is the cattle prod of imminent police scrutiny.