Officers from West Mercia Constabulary have dismissed claims in anonymous letters passed on by Shrewsbury's Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski alleging postal vote fraud against Labour activists working in the local sorting office. Clearly there are nutters about and one may be involved in these accusations. But as you read the evidence in this case, the words "smoke" and "fire" somehow keep rining in your ears.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Tory MP's Election Fraud Claims Dismissed
Officers from West Mercia Constabulary have dismissed claims in anonymous letters passed on by Shrewsbury's Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski alleging postal vote fraud against Labour activists working in the local sorting office. Clearly there are nutters about and one may be involved in these accusations. But as you read the evidence in this case, the words "smoke" and "fire" somehow keep rining in your ears.
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