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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Less than a week into the Gorton & Denton buy-election campaign & Reform UIK Ltd (the business masquerading as a political party) are being investigated by the police for failing to disclose that a letter sent to voters was paid for by Reform.

As usual Reform are trying to blame others (this time claiming it was their printer who failed to include the legally required notice of funding), but we can be confident there's dodginess more to come.

#GortonAndDenton #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/reform-police-investigation-letter-byelection-campaign-gorton-denton

the Guardian

Reform faces police investigation over ‘concerned neighbour’ byelection letters

Material distributed in Gorton and Denton did not have legally required imprint stating it was funded by party
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HarriettMB
HarriettMB
@HarriettMB@toot.wales replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@ChrisMayLA6 How many times can Reform Ltd and Farage ignore or blatantly break the laws and rules before their licence to operate as a political party or Limited Company will be suspended. Or can they face legal action for regular law-breaking? If not, why not?

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Donald Roy
Donald Roy
@djr2024@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@HarriettMB @ChrisMayLA6

Breaches of electoral law are a matter for the police and the #electioncommission . The candidate's agent has been held to be responsible for a couple of centuries. If the breaches are likely to have affected the result it may go to an election court which may impose criminal penalties and set the result aside - although the latter event is rare! National parties are more difficult to deal with although the #conservatives were in trouble after #ukgeneralelection2015 .

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Simon Johnson
Simon Johnson
@Simon318ppm@mastodon.sdf.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@ChrisMayLA6 even in the unlikely event it was the printer’s error, that’s irrelevant. Conform UK’s election agent is legally responsible for compliance

But of course, it was as likely deliberate as not. Their “concerned neighbour” letter will have landed with some voters as genuine, rather than election literature and when they are fined or reprimanded, they can play the victim and claim they’re being silenced by the metropolitan elite

Classic Trump

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@Simon318ppm @ChrisMayLA6 I know it's an autocarrot error, but "Conform UK" is an *amazing* name for that crowd of reactionary chancers.

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Simon Johnson
Simon Johnson
@Simon318ppm@mastodon.sdf.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@cstross @ChrisMayLA6 despite the best efforts of my phone to change it to Confirm UK, it was actually deliberate, but not my own work. I borrowed from Zack Polanski’s description after Braverman’s defection

I do agree though, it’s a good one and may ultimately turn out, I hope, to be their achilles heel

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