Mark Pack

Police investigating Conservative campaign in Swansea

By | Wed 23rd April 2008 - 1:35 pm

News reaches me that the police are now investigating allegations of forged signatures on a Conservative candidate’s nomination papers in Swansea.

At issue is the nomination paper collected by Norman Whitlock, one of the four Conservative candidates in Uplands ward. Local Liberal Democrats called for an investigation after several residents said that their were down as signatures on a nomination paper, but had not actually signed it. The residents then lodged statements with the council, who have now called in the police.

(Corrected as per Peter Black’s comment below – thanks Peter.)

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5 Comments

  • Hywel Morgan 23rd Apr '08 - 3:58pm

    Well one of them was a re-ratter Justin.

    Of course so was Winston Churchill so he could be of similar quality 🙂

  • Nick 23rd Apr '08 - 4:18pm

    On one of the defections to the Tories, i rather liked the comment posted on the ConservativeHome website –

    http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2008/04/another-day-ano.html

    “A little background – MCA was a Tory who defected to the Lib Dems in 2004 as he knew the Tories were going to lose control of Richmond in 2006.

    He made his announcement at full council last night…

    On the Liberal Democrat side – everyone cheered.

    On the Tory side – glum faces.

    Nobody knows if he is being accepted in to tory group on the council.

    A few months ago he started signing off his e-mails as “Your worship”.

    You are welcome to him.”

    Can’t say fairer than that!

    Nick

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