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Labour Election Petition Struck Out

The good news is that Labour's Election petition in Aston against the Lib Dem by-election victors was "struck out" at 10am today.

What this means is that the Judges decided that even if Labour could prove the allegations that they had made that this would not have resulted in them winning an election petition.

The fact is that Labour's petition was merely a copy of the one I wrote without the Wyrlie incident. Not only that, but they haven't paid me a copyright fee.

Comments

PoliticalHackUK said…
Amazing, isn't it? When anybody else raises a suggestion about election malpractice, the failure of that claim is 'good news.'

I would have thought that somebody with your apparent commitment to combatting electoral fraud would have been more supportive.

Oh hang on a sec - the LibDems won in Aston didn't they?

Are you sure that their campaign was without blemish?

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