According to reports in This Is Lancashire, Bury North MP David Chaytor abused his position during Prime Minister's Question Time this week to make allegations of postal vote rigging against Bury Council's Conservative leader Bob Bibby. The Bury North backbencher was supposed to be asking Gordon Brown what he could do to help low income families facing economic pressure. But as Tory MPs cheered his mention of Bury, which the Conservatives had won days before in the local elections, Mr Chaytor added: "In Bury, we now have the only Tory leader in the country who has been subject to a police investigation into fiddling pensioners' postal votes."Councillor Bibby said later that Mr Chaytor must be afraid of losing his seat if he had to stoop so low. "I think it was completely and utterly out of order, and had no relevance to what he was supposed to be asking," he said. "If he wants to crawl out from under a stone and lower himself to that standard, let him carry on. I'm not going down that road. He is supposed to be the MP for the whole area, and I don't think it will go down well with his constituents."
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