tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post7767433648628516559..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Mirror Nails Dodgy Tory ExpensesTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-31962245452213759362016-03-02T20:03:18.943+00:002016-03-02T20:03:18.943+00:00when David Cameron and George Osborne visited Crew...<i>when David Cameron and George Osborne visited Crewe in the run-up to the General Election, in support of sitting Tory MP Edward Timpson, they did a visit and photo-op at a train maintenance facility outside town, but did not indulge in any canvassing. There was no walkabout, no contact with the public.</i><br /><br />A day on, and even after your tweet to me, I'm less than wholly convinced by the distinction. I posit it's more a matter of "tradition" — that party leaders do such things, make waves in local press, press the flesh, and move on. Meanwhile those same party leaders may not "canvass" and minimise public contact, but we've all witnessed exceptions to those rules. Consider Gordon Brown's disaster with Gillian Duffy.<br /><br />My further assumption is that <b>no</b> major party would be wholly happy to have flying visits charged to the account. So watch this one get booted forcibly onto the longest grass.Malcolm Redfellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11907427518823910875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-44613766502866739362016-03-01T17:29:31.080+00:002016-03-01T17:29:31.080+00:00Presented with the obvious evidence, Crick could s...Presented with the obvious evidence, Crick could scarcely avoid the broadcast without accusations of collusion or cover up. But he <i>could</i> limit it, which is what he did. Then we got his usual red nose clown bullshit, the kind of stuff that's every bit as bad for genuine journalism as the tories and New Labour are for democracy. He's just a jeer on legs, an amplified megaphone of yells, a scraping of the bottom of the barrel of political "reporting." Tenth rate by any measure.<br /><br />The principles involved here are vital. If they are not fully investigated and reported this country will slide down slowly into the kind of disgusting swamp typified by the corrupt US politics.<br /><br />If this issue continues to be sidelined or minimised in the current manner we can expect our politics to become even deeper embedded in the Canary Wharf ghetto of corruption. Which is just one more reason mainstream media has become a bad joke on British history.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-30231754295739679932016-03-01T16:40:15.310+00:002016-03-01T16:40:15.310+00:00@Sack Theboard:
You left out the last bit of the ...@Sack Theboard: <br />You left out the last bit of the sentence "... and only the police can investigate if there's a problem." <br />Only the police then.Gonzolandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17011176937381625939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-54528752953166918192016-03-01T11:43:37.226+00:002016-03-01T11:43:37.226+00:00Can we now look forward to 24 by-elections?Can we now look forward to 24 by-elections?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13017414585456167914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-84639816219170636872016-03-01T11:40:53.318+00:002016-03-01T11:40:53.318+00:00Not sure why the word 'may' was necessary ...Not sure why the word 'may' was necessary in that last sentence - but one body that can't take any action is, er, the Electoral Commission who admitted their impotence just yesterday: 'The law currently stops short of giving the Commission the power to enforce candidates' spending rules'!<br />http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/journalist/electoral-commission-media-centre/news-releases-donations/electoral-commission-calls-for-new-powers-to-regulate-candidate-spending-at-electionsAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01089115075980999123noreply@blogger.com