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Póló — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:54:00 -0000

Had this been electronic voting you wouldn't even know about it. Consider yourselves lucky.

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Anonymous — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:03:00 -0000

Timing is important.

I smell the reek of a mandyrancid slime trail

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jgm2 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:13:00 -0000

Aye we Can...

a fix yes. but a betting scam by local cooncil workers , not a high level poitical coup.

Labour may have turned a blind eye as they were the beneficiaries ( it was they who were 5 to 1 against two weeks before polling) , but it was not their sting.

If you say so. Still, long term it has done no harm. It just galvanises the opposition to take nothing for granted in the final annihilation of this Labour reign of Terror.

Meanwhile Brown has just quadrupled national debt and given Lloyds a half billion quid interest let-off on the understanding that they make 40bn quid available to re-inflate his property bubble.

Gotta get all those people borrowed to the hilt again. Otherwise its curtains for Gordo. If that means destroying the entire UK economy and going Mugabe with the economy then that is a price worth paying in his fucked-up diseased brain.

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Anonymous — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:15:00 -0000

They probably all stuff ballots and fiddle postal votes. All that needs to be counted/ looked at again here are those postal ballots. Just check that there were live voters at the addresses on the day.

The curious thing about the vote was that pollsters didn't pick up such a massive vote share going to Liebour. That renders the result at least fishy. The pollsters are rarely very far out.

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Ratsniffer — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:39:00 -0000

It couldn't be long before voters being allowed to democratically choose the party of their choice became an inconvenience for Zanulabour.

Easy solution - do what any good dictatorship does:

Hold "elections" in which the result has already been decided.

Saves a lot of tedious formalities, like losing.

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Aye We Can ! — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:39:00 -0000

a fix yes. but a betting scam by local cooncil workers , not a high level poitical coup.

Labour may have turned a blind eye as they were the beneficiaries ( it was they who were 5 to 1 against two weeks before polling) , but it was not their sting.

True - I was there, the local bookies took a hammering.

Labour were not that desperate to win - it was only a by election and their spinners were already explaining away defeat as the pols closed (ask London lobby jp

jounos Guido) ...and then these ballot boxes were opened

And three weeks later the marked electoral rolls dissapeared.

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Gooey Blob — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:20:00 -0000

I'm sorry to have to say this, but I think we need election monitors in this country, such is the potential for electoral fraud these days. That's not to say I believe it happens everywhere, but it is happening frequently enough to make observers necessary.

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cassandra — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:56:00 -0000

The long delay for the Glenrothes BE was very different from the rush job at Crewe&Nantwich, the liebore bastards called one while the incumbent corpse was still warm, the change in tactics was very strange, were they giving themselves ehough time to rig the vote? Of course they were!
McMental visiting twice was a key indicator of a rigged poll, the NULAB canvassers were spat at and humiliated wherever they dared turnup and the street organisation was dire but in some disused office there were plenty of NULAB droids filling out fake PVs and the actual ballots were stuffed!

A simple count of the actual votes would show this and a simple forensic test on the pen ink used to mark the PV would show that the postal voters were so poor that they had to pass the same biro from house to house, hundreds of times! Yeah thats credible eh? What a sense of community these Jocks have, using the same pen over and over again and so eco friendly eh?

Newlabour stole that election and an inquiry would prove it, an impartial inquiry could uncover the fraud within a month but an inqiry aint gonna happen because more poll rigging is being planned right now on a massive scale, the commissars from the big three are never going to submit to defeat, they will never submit to judgement by the ordinary voter they all so despise!

The coming election results are being negotiated right now, behind the scenes the commissars are deciding who gets what seats to make it look legit on the surface but the coming elections will be so rigged that Mugabe would blush with fucking pride!

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cheed — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:49:00 -0000

It stank so much of fish, I put on a last minute bet for Labour to win at 3/1.

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Trumpeter Lanfried — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:39:00 -0000

1)Any candidate whose view of the counting tables was obstructed should have protested to the returning officer then and there.

2) Cameron should say NOW that a Tory government will restrict postal voting to those voters who can produce evidence that they are unable to vote in person.

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Dinnad the Pict — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:12:00 -0000

Time for Inspector Rebus to investigate this voting conspiracy and the goings-on in Cardenden. McBroon's wife was there, that wee nyaff Rami threatened the press with his special branch heavies and someone stole the marked register from the sheriff clerk.

The smell of personation, postal vote fraud and miscounting of ballot papers from his home village is right up Rebus' street.

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Anonymous — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:47:00 -0000

All in all, and with some good investigative journalism, I suspect that Glenrothes will one day be acknowledged as the most corrupt (and most costly) bye-election ever."

Rexel-this journalism will NOT come from north of Hadrians wall!We do not have any newspapers worthy of the name! All they dredge up on a daily basis is copies of radio four "news" a day later-if you want in depth analysis of politics, you can forget it! All we get are constant lies concerning liebour and sniping at the SNP.

The circulation of Scots "papers" is plummeting as a result and, indeed, they are now having to make large scale redundancies.

This is why most Scots with more than one brain cell get the REAL news from forums such as this and reading the English online newspapers!

Living here must resemble N Korea!

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PC Plodd — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:29:00 -0000

Talwin...

fore-armed indeed you will be Sir if you don't move along and stop causing a fuss.

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jeremy harpoon-weetabix — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:43:00 -0000

Ambrose Silk said...
Silly people,

Tra laa!

What a complete and utter TWAT!

VW=johninman

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urinalpeep — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:42:00 -0000

Quite a long delay in holding the poll!
Zanulab have previous on poll rigging allegedly.

All very strange next to lard arse's constituency.

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bellendgum — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:35:00 -0000

A dry run for the GE?.I won't be at all surprised if Labour stays in power until there's fuckall left to ruin.

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Anonymous — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:04:00 -0000

Just off the phone to a charming young lady from the Electoral Commision in Edinburgh - she says that the record went missing after it became the responsibility of the Sheriff (of Kircaldy, oddly enough, home of our useless leader, though I'm sure there is no coincidence). Because of this the Electoral Commission do not have the remit to investigate it, although there has been an inquiry launched by the Scottish Courts to investigate what has happened (I imagine the Nats have been jumping up and down in anger over this - quite rightly I might add in my opinion). Apparently there is also legislation going through Westminster to make the Returning Officer the responsible official for keeping the record of the election, presumably to minimise the chances of anybody being 'got at' (not that I am suggesting that this happened in Glenrothes, I hasten to add).

Up the revolution!

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Stop the Waugh Coalition — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:03:00 -0000

Anonymous 12.51 pm.

It's about all you're capable of, I think...

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Jess The Dog — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:56:00 -0000

I watched the by-election closely and doubt there was any organised fraud - at least electoral fraud!

There was a virtual campaign run where the candidate was escorted by Sarah Brown around various locations for staged photocalls, lapped up by the press - call it Potemkin campaigning.

Labour picked up on a dog-whistle issue of home care charges, which was spun ridiculously and not rebutted by the SNP.

Finally, the Brown Bounce - now deflated - helped the swing. This was borne out by national polling.

The key factor in this analysis is the fact that the local party was non-existent and all this was run by Labour in Scotland.

The missing register is of concern, but I can speak from experience (not as a criminal!) when I say that the courts service in Fife is utterly useless and this does not surpise me. The other issues seem marginal.

However, I am concerned by the extent of postal voting although this would not be enough to have swung it. These should be closely monitored in future.

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Anonymous — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:44:00 -0000

I remember watching this on the night stv, and even before the final results came through thinking to myself what a scam

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Oldrightie — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:03:00 -0000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/...

Now there's a surprise!

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Anonymous — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:52:00 -0000

117 UKIP votes?

Where did their sack fulls of votes go?

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Anonymous — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:51:00 -0000

Stop the Waugh Coalition - Fuck off cunt. Is this better?

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subrosa — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:46:00 -0000

Thanks for this post Guido. The Scotsman reports it was all hunky dorey and the Herald isn't that much better.

Scots are now having to rely on people like yourself to ensure this is kept in the public eye and give a balanced account of the situation.

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Anonymous — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:42:00 -0000

It is strange that they had an extra 7000 postal votes and then register disappears when the SNP ask for it. Labour have form on this and so it can not be discounted.