Cannydc wrote:Labour will certainly be up against it if Tories carry on like this....
"A Conservative MP and his two aides spent more than double the legal limit in election expenses as they fought off a challenge from Ukip’s Nigel Farage in the 2015 general election, a court was told on Tuesday.
The South Thanet MP, Craig Mackinlay, along with a campaign organiser from Conservative Central Office and his agent, are alleged to have failed to declare up to £66,600. The court heard they then knowingly filed “woefully inaccurate” expenditure returns that included a forged signature.
Declared spending on the campaign came in under the strict £52,000 limit, but prosecutors allege up to £66,600 more was spent on staffing, accommodation, advertising, posters and a bus for Mackinlay’s campaign but was not declared.
Mackinlay, 51, faces two charges of making a false election expenses declaration during the campaign which ended with him winning with a majority of almost 3,000. Marion Little, 62, a party activist employed by Conservative Central Office, is charged with three counts of aiding and abetting Mackinlay. Nathan Gray, 28, is accused of two offences of making a false declaration.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... n-expenses
Tories are shite and that is a fact at this present time, but look at the alternative...
