Following the Greenpeace
expose of clueless Tory MP Chris Heaton Harris letting the cat out of the
bag about the real reason for the fraudulent campaign by James “saviour of Western civilisation”
Delingpole on the pretext of being a candidate for tomorrow’s Corby and East
Northamptonshire by-election, the story has progressed
and Home
Secretary Theresa May has intervened.
Heaton Harris has
been slapped down, but many questions remain unanswered. And they have not
been answered despite Del Boy making
his own statement to the bear pit that is Telegraph Blogs this afternoon. He tells his adoring readership
(Sid and Doris Bonkers) that he will be penning an op-ed on the issue – Ker-ching!
– and proceeds to reel off the usual tirade about wind farms.
Sadly, apart from wailing that the deeply subversive Guardian and Greenpeace are the real bad
guys, and trying – unsuccessfully – to move the focus to the BBC (not even his
own paper is buying that one), Del Boy does not tell us anything that he has
not told us before, ad infinitum and indeed ad
nauseam. He certainly does not deny being part of a plot to change Tory
policy on renewable energy.
And it now transpires that electoral law may have been
broken. But, before we get to that potentially excellent further source of
spectator sport, let us consider the sequence of events in the Delingpole
candidacy that never was.
8 August: Steerpike in the Speccy says
Del has “mooted” a run in the
campaign.
10 August: Steerpike confirms
Del will not be standing.
4 September: David Hayes appointed energy minister in
reshuffle.
6 September: Del now confirms his candidature in his Spectator blog (the post has since been
deleted). This is picked up by both the
Staggers and the Fawkes
blog.
30 October: Hayes makes his “enough is enough” speech.
31 October: Del withdraws, citing Hayes speech as “victory”. Nomination papers had to be
submitted, along with £500 deposit, by
1600 hours on that day.
James Mackenzie has now reported Heaton Harris and
Delingpole to Northants Police for potential breaches of electoral law, most
notably “corrupt withdrawal from
candidature”. You can see the correspondence HERE.
It is also highly likely, despite the spin telling “he was never really a candidate”, that Del Boy’s intervention in
the campaign fulfils the “Meaning of
candidate” under the Representation of the People act 1983. Put simply,
Heaton Harris and Delingpole are in the shit big time.
And nobody, but nobody, is going to spin that one away. More to come.
3 comments:
Excellent resume. Bring on the popcorn!
It just couldn't be happening to a more deserving prat.
*rubs hands with glee*
If the law does get properly involved, I expect at least one of them to say something to the effect of "no wonder there are yobs on every street and old people can't go outside after dusk, when the police waste their time on this nonsense!"
Of course, if it were some "leftard" (cracking terminology there, James, well done) who had done a similar thing, they would complain until said law-breaking scoundrel went to prison. But the rule is "it's different if it's me".
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