Elections 2008

6 comments from readers

John Simpson
05 May 2008 at 11:33

I note that Paul Evans doesn't mention the fact that an enormous number of ballot papers were "spoiled".

Or that the mainstream media did not bother to mention this either in newsprint or cyberspace.

In fact, I have only been able to access the facts via the BNP web site. Which is instructive, one would imagine.

Check this out:

On 5 May 2008, the residents of the Sixways hostel for jobless men in Aston, Birmingham were, allegedly, pressurised into voting against their wishes by the manager of the hostel, Mohammad Afzal.

Ian Midleton, a resident of the hostel, said this:

"The manager brought out these voting forms ... I could see my name on it and he said 'Sign this'. He's the gaffer so I wasn't gonna to question him. I said, 'I was gonna vote BNP' but he said 'Just sign it' so I did."

In an article titled, SCANDAL OF THE 'ILLEGAL' POSTAL VOTES, The Daily Mirror reorted thus:

"Surrounded by jubilant supporters, Ayoub Khan punched the air in joy and boasted he ran a 'clean and ethical' campaign after winning his council seat... But the Liberal Democrat received a string of illegal votes from residents of a rundown inner city hostel. Some told the Daily Mirror they were pushed into voting for him against their will - a breach of electoral law and Electoral Commission rules designed to stop ballot rigging...

Cllr Khan, a Birmingham city council cabinet member, won in Aston ward. He had entered 200 postal vote registration forms 15 minutes before the April deadline... Mr Afzal said:

'I handled it for some residents but there was no inappropriate voting. I said, 'One of my friends is standing for the vote, it would be nice if you could help him'. Yes I requested them to vote. I didn't ask just anyone, I asked my residents'.

Asked who he delivered the votes to in Cllr Khan's campaign he said:

'I rang somebody ... er - and they sent somebody to pick up the forms from me. I don't remember, I can't put the name to the face'.

Electoral Commission rules state:

'An individual may not exert or attempt to exert undue influence to persuade or force someone to vote, not vote or vote a certain way. Someone who perverts or deters a voter from freely exercising their right to vote or attempts to do so may be guilty of undue influence'.

Cllr Khan said:

'If there is anything fraudulent about these votes then I have no doubt it is a Labour party smear'."

Of course, it's a smear!

Now why didn't I think of that?

On 4 May 2008, the BNP's news team had reported thus:

"When large numbers of London Mayoral/Assembly ballot boxes were brought from supposedly secure overnight storage in the various counting centres on Friday morning, THEY WERE FOUND TO HAVE HAD THEIR SEALS BROKEN!

Worryingly, there was no media outcry! Despite formal complaints being made to the proper electoral authority, NOT A SINGLE MEDIA OUTLET REPORTED ON WHAT MANY PERCEIVE TO BE MASSIVE AND ORGANISED BALLOT BOX TAMPERING – presumably because the most likely target of said suspected vote tampering or 'ballot box stuffing', would be the BNP!

Indeed, without media comment, SOME 400,000 BALLOT SLIPS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY OFFICIALLY DECLARED AS 'SPOILT'!"

http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/05/04/400000-votes-spoilt-was-rob...

The BNP news team, subsequently, upped the "spoilt" ante, saying:

"What about the other 120,000 or so, rejected in the London Assembly elections and the 460,000 or so, in the Mayoral elections?"

http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/05/04/london-elections-and-irregu...

Why do you think Gordon Brown's government gave us cardboard boxes to put out ballot papers in?

Doesn't common sense suggests that it would be much more easy, for those inclined to subvert the electoral process, to tamper with a cardboard box than a wooden or a metal one?

Why do you think Tony Blair's government introduced the postal vote scam?

Well, throughout Asia, and Africa for that matter, electoral fraud is routine and tolerated.

I say that postal voting was foist upon the British people so that the criminally inclined immigrant could rig the vote that bit more effectively in his own behalf.

On 11 April 2005, a month before the 2005 General Election, The Times had previously reported thus:

"Labour is planning to legislate to stop cheating in postal voting immediately after the general election in spite of repeated assurances from ministers that the present system is safe... The disclosure will embarrass the Government, with critics pointing out that it is happy for the system to be used in the general election, even though it is clearly flawed enough to require speedy legislation.

It will prompt charges that the Government failed to act sooner because it was worried that a shake-up of the laws might affect its own vote...

Two judges in the past week have said that the system was wide open to fraud after scandals in Birmingham and Blackburn, where LABOUR STOLE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE'S POSTAL VOTES IN LOCAL ELECTIONS...

David Ritchie, chairman of the Oldham Independent Review into street clashes between Asians and police in 2001, found that community tensions were worsened by election cheating, such as people registering themselves several times on the electoral roll, including the names of dead people and impersonating others in polling booths.

He told The Times that he feared that postal voting could make it easier to commit these frauds...

The Electoral Commission, whose recommendations have been repeatedly ignored by the Government, has consistently called for individual registration to help to combat fraud.

After the scandals in Birmingham and Blackburn, the Government will have to go out of its way to show probity and be seen to listen to the commission. John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, and Nick Raynsford, the Local Government Minister, who have both played down the problem of fraud, are likely to be moved if Labour wins... The Prime Minister can be portrayed as having rushed into calling a general election without giving Parliament enough time to introduce safeguards to ensure that the electoral system is fair...

Tony Blair said last week:

[QUOTE]OVERALL, POSTAL VOTING IS NO MORE PRONE TO FRAUD THAN OTHER ELECTORAL SYSTEMS...

An investigation by The Times last June found widespread allegations of cheating and intimidation involving postal votes in Yorkshire and North West England... (Those subsequently prosecuted were all of Asian origin)

Labour sources now say that reforms will be given a priority and a Bill will be announced at the start of the next session if the party wins."

Looks like Tony B Liar's "Labour sources" lied, doesn't it?

It would appear that elements of the Asian community are still in the business of rigging our elections.

That New Labour would deliberately create such corruptible system, a system that would further disenfranchise and undermine the honest British citizen, speaks worlds for the self-serving Bolshevik mindset of those who rule our lives.

As Joseph Stalin, the second greatest mass-murderer in all human history (his fellow Marxist, Mao Tse Tung, was THE greatest) once said:

"I care not who votes in an election. I CARE ONLY WHO COUNTS THE VOTE!"

In 2005, Judge Richard Mawrey said that there was evidence of "massive, systematic and organised fraud" in Birmingham.

He also criticised the government's insistence that the postal voting system was working and the fact that they had dismissed many and various warnings as "scaremongering". He added:

"Anybody who has sat through the case I have just tried and listened to evidence of electoral fraud that would disgrace a banana republic would find this statement surprising."

What would you call the enfranchisement of the criminally inclined alien to the massive detriment of our democratic process?

I wouldn't call it "surprising".

I'd call it treason.

Check out, I'D CALL IT TREASON here:

http://www.iamanenglishman.com/page.php?iCategoryId=870&iPar...

John Simpson
06 May 2008 at 15:53

Oh dear, I have amendments to make.

Matt Bright, the Communications Manager of London Elects, the organisation that oversaw the 1 May 2008 London Election, sent me the following email:

"Dear xxxxxxxx,

In the Mayoral election, there were 2,456,990 votes cast.

Of these, 41,032 had an incorrectly marked first choice. There were 412,054 second choice votes which were rejected. However, of these 407,840 were blank, meaning voters had LEGITIMATELY chosen not to vote for a second choice. In summary, around 40,000 people spoiled their ballots on the first choice and about 5,000 on the second (although for these people their first choice would still count)."

Having received the above from Matt Bright, I sent the following email to BNP enquiries:

"I have no reason to doubt the information provided by Mr Bright.

It would appear that the figures provided by the BNP News team, re: "400,000 BALLOT SLIPS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY OFFICIALLY DECLARED AS SPOILT" and the "460,000 or so (rejected) in the Mayoral elections" are misleading.

If the news team was suffering from an entirely reasonable paranoia at the time their reports were compiled and misunderstood the info, well, never mind. However, if they were indulging in "spin", then they should CUT IT OUT!

Joe Public doesn't go to the BNP web site to have his todger pulled. He goes there because he believes the mainstream parties and the media are not telling him the truth.

The BNP's reputation for veracity must not be compromised. If the BNP stats are in any way misleading, they should amended immediately.

Off I have to go now to fix what should never have needed fixing. (I quoted this info in about ten different sites on the internet!)

Regards..."

My apologies to everyone for being too trusting. I did try to check the stats provided by the BNP News team but there was nothing about spoiled ballots on the London Elects web site or anywhere else on the web at the time that I looked.

Paul Evans
06 May 2008 at 21:37

John, I'm sorry to hear about the BNP news team "todger pulling" - but I can't help but think there's a lesson in there. The veracity of their news should less of a concern than the cauldron of vituperation which bubbles below their now apparently respectable veneer.

Peppebiundo
29 June 2008 at 15:23

Report

24th June 2008

Dear Companions

I am readdressing with humble concern the report on the subject of the heaviest issue.

There is a necessity of immediate attention, accuracy, consideration and examinations of the conditions heretofore exposed.

On the fifty-fifth session, 7th September 2001, 11th plenary meeting, the UN General Assembly adopted the Resolution 55/282.

The General Assembly proclaimed the 21st of September of each year as the International Day of Peace.

The General Assembly also addressed the subsequent statement embodied in paragraph 3 of the aforementioned Resolution;

3. Invites all Member States, organisations of the United Nations system, regional and non-governmental organisations and individuals to commemorate, in an appropriate manner, the International Day of Peace, including through education and public awareness to co-operate with the United Nations in the establishment of the global ceasefire.

Considering the Provision of the UN Charter and taking into account the role of the above mentioned relevant resolution adopted by the competent organs of the United Nations, each State has the duty to comply in full and in good faith with its international obligations under the principles of International Law.

Non-violence, non-proliferation and global disarmament are of primary importance and essential conditions to ensure order and education within the International Community.

Bearing in mind the paramount importance that the faithful observance of international law subsume and considering in consequence that the prosperity and peace of the International Community are to a remarkable extent endangered, each State has the duty to co-operate with one another, irrespective of their differences in their political, economic and social systems, in the various spheres of international relations, in order to maintain international peace and security and to promote international stability and progress, the welfare of nations and international co-operation free from discrimination based on such differences.

Desiring to draw diligence and respect to the aforesaid objective and therefore to adopt and maintain collective effective measures for the prevention and removal of breaches and threats to the peace and to bring adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations, I have humbly requested the attention of national and international institutions or bodies disclosed into the present report, addressing the necessity to comply with the requirements that the resolution referred to above entails.

The institutions or bodies I do now raise objections to are heretofore reported.

o UN Security Council;

o UN General Assembly;

o UN Peace Building Commission;

o UN Non-Proliferation and Disarmament departments;

o UN Secretary General;

o UN Security Council Presidents;

o UN 193 Permanent Mission Representatives to the United Nations;

o The Vatican City in Rome;

o UN Spiritual Foundation;

o International Court of Justice;

o Court of Justice of the European Communities;

o The Council of the European Union;

o European Court of Human Rights;

o European Commission;

o Eurojust;

o Inter Parliamentary Union;

o Association of Secretary General of Parliaments;

o National Parliaments;

o World Embassies;

o Amnesty International Worldwide;

o Fundamental Rights Agency;

o NHS Mental Health Departments Worldwide;

o The White House, the President of the United States of America;

o The President of the United Kingdom;

o The President of the European Commission;

o The President of Zimbabwe;

o Russian Politician, Founder and Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

o Committee of the Regions of the European Union;

o European Social Committee;

o Office for Official Publication of the European Communities;

o The World Council of Religious Leaders;

o European Ombudsman;

o United Kingdom Ombudsman;

o His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales;

o Her Majesty the Queen Elisabeth the ii;

o UK Royal Court of Justice, 16 Judges informed;

o UK Inspectorate of Court Administration;

o UK House of Lords;

o UK House of Common;

o UK Ministry of Justice;

o UK Ministry of Defence;

o UK Her Majesty Stationery Office;

o UK Government Offices;

o UK London Government Communication Headquarters;

o UK London Local Government Association;

o UK Greater London Authority;

o UK London Foreign and Commonwealth Office;

o UK London Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration;

o UK London Improvement and Development Agency;

o UK London Cabinet Office;

o UK Security Service MI5;

o UK London Secret Intelligence Service;

o UK London Government Human Rights Unit;

o UK London Metropolitan Police Forces, Working for a Safer London;

o BBC News;

o First Minister and Deputy First Minister, UK, Belfast;

o Youth Justice board for England and Wales;

It is discernible that the institutions or bodies reported have neglected to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of national and international law can be maintained.

The cessation of violence and of any other form of abuse, corruption, maladministration and the eradication of conflict within the International Community are relevant factors consequently unattended.

Notwithstanding the fact that concrete and heavy situations are pressing upon the people of all States, political and religious conditions remain unchanged.

I do object contemporary arrangements.

A war of aggression constitutes a crime against the peace, for which there is responsibility under international law.

States shall settle their international disputes by non-violent means in such a manner that international peace, security and justice are not endangered.

All States shall pursue in good faith negotiations for the conclusion of a universal treaty on general and complete disarmament and strive to adopt appropriate measures to reduce and eradicate tensions and strengthen confidence among States.

The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breaches of the peace or act of aggression and shall make recommendation to maintain or restore international peace and security.

Notwithstanding the fact that the situations resulting from a violation of international law, also situations in which co-operation in the economic, political, social, cultural, educational and health fields is deprived of at the national and international scale, the disregard and contempt for human rights and fundamental freedoms and malfunction of the promotion and maintenance of the essential development of friendly relations between nations all do imply a violation of moral obligations, the establishment of the global ceasefire is to date by States neglected.

I do raise objections to States armaments.

To my Sons and Daughters: RISE UP, BE STRONG AND STAND IN PATIENT ENDURANCE!

Your Brother

Giuseppe Biundo

derek6196
31 July 2008 at 07:17

I think China Olympics would see much money from America and London flowing into the China. A lot of Asians are betting a bull run in China to last till maybe June 2009 and beyond. 21st Century is considered as the century of Asia and China and India are its growth engine.

Derek Wong

Financial planner, Singapore

derek6196
31 July 2008 at 07:25

I think Gordon Brown is doing a good job as Prime Minister of Britain. The party and citizens should support their prime minister so that he looks well on the international stage. In Asia, elders are respected and admired.

London should do very well in its economy under a capable finance Prime Minister. Housing issues would be well taken care of under united party leadership. If necessary, Singapore housing (100% Signaporeans own a home) model can be studied as China and many developing countries also study Singapore as a good economy.

China is handling its inflation seriously and Britain and America can support a strong and stable China for a stable world. Chinese are hardworking and wants peace and progress and the world needs to note this when discussion with Chinese leaders.

Good luck China's Olympics and its success would ensure London 2012 would be a success too! Let the funds flow into China to make China progressive and lives better for all in Asia and the G8 leaders to lead the world to more good years of peace and a world of love and beauty.

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