Most of our contributors provide their names when commenting on articles, but someone who wishes to remain anonymous has supplied a clutch of comments. Judging from the submission: “Labour runs better campaign [sic] than other parties, has improved council [sic] for 4 years… Jules Pipe is… popular and high profile…”, I presume that this person is a supporter of the Labour Party.When these comments started to arrive I thought them sufficiently interesting to merit a separate article. However, they have started to descend into what I can only describe as smears and libels. Clearly I cannot tolerate this on my website whatever shade of political opinion the comments represent.
I have transferred the comments to the original article and added my own comments to them. To prevent future problems I have now added moderation to all comments. This means that any comment you post to this site will not appear until I have had a chance to check it for unpleasantness, prospective libel or other impropriety.
Unfortunately, as so often, it only takes one person to spoil things for the rest of us.
If you have information about election fraud in Hackney, this is the place to blow the whistle. You can contact this website confidentially by clicking on "comments" below the most recent posting and sending a comment under an anonymous or fictitious name. Unlike email, this service does not transmit any address information from which you can be traced. The service is managed by the Blogger hosting service but moderated by me, so I will read your comments before publishing and will respect any request not to publish. Bear in mind that, as I will not receive any address information, the only way I will be able to respond will be via a follow-up comment.
A word about evidence. Most of what people think is material evidence of a criminal offence is in fact either hearsay evidence (asserted, but without any proof) or circumstantial evidence (suggests guilt but does not prove it). For an introduction to the subject of evidence, try: