The BBC has more details of the story: "A man believed to a volunteer for the Liberal Democrats has been arrested by police investigating vandalism and theft of Conservative election posters. The 38-year-old from Eastbourne, East Sussex, is being held by Sussex Police on suspicion of theft and harassment. He surrendered himself to officers in […]
Today's South Wales Echo carries a story about how a Labour councillor in the Cardiff West constituency allegedly threatened a shopkeeper with a boycott by Labour members if he refused to display the party's leaflets on his counter. Cllr Ramesh Patel has said that he did ask hardware store owner Russell Cotty to display the […]
Last month I introduced you to Daniel Zeichner, the Labour candidate for Cambridge, who gave a Nazi salute at the Cambridge Union as he smeared Conservative allies in Europe. Now the Old Holborn blog has exposed that Zeichner entered the fray over Gordon Brown's attack on 65-year-old Gillian Duffy yesterday by defending the Prime Minister's […]
The story is in today's Derby Telegraph: "Allegations of postal vote fraud are being investigated by police in Derby. A complaint has been sent by the Conservative party to Derbyshire police about suspected fraud in the Sinfin ward in the Derby City Council local elections – which will be held on May 6, the same […]
Nominations have already closed for the general election, else I doubt whether John Cowan would still be Labour's candidate challenging James Paice in South East Cambridgeshire this morning. Several days ago, the Cambridge News exposed the former glamour model manager as having been expelled from the Lib Dems in 2004 for sending “sexual emails to […]
The Labour candidate for Moray in Scotland, Stuart Maclennan, is facing calls to resign today after details of the messages he has shared with the world on Twitter emerged. Maclennan works for Labour at the Scottish Parliament and is Secretary of Scottish Young Labour, and his Twitter account has swiftly been taken down. But this […]
Amazing recent news. It’s emerged that a very senior Shadow Cabinet member once said that sexually explicit photographs or films of children should be legalised – unless there was evidence that the child had been harmed. And at the time (the late 1970s), the spokesman was a senior figure in a libertarian group that wanted the […]
The image on the right is of Daniel Zeichner, the Labour candidate for Cambridge at the general election, speaking at a Cambridge Union debate earlier in the month. In a debate about whether the Conservatives are ready to run the country again, he ventured onto the topic of the European Conservatives and Reformists – the […]
The Daily Express splashes today on a story which almost beggars belief: "Labour dismissed the British public’s widespread opposition to mass immigration as “racism”, a Government document revealed yesterday. Officials made it clear that public opinion was strongly against relaxing border controls. "But ministers were urged to ignore voters’ “racist” views and press ahead with […]
That reprehensible sentence is unworthy of Jackie Ashley but she writes it in today's Guardian. "Dear Ms Ashley, Five things: 1. I am open to the possibility that the climate is changing and it is man-made. 2. We should improve energy efficiency and diversify energy supplies but I do not believe that we should turn […]