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