stuff the post box!

[vetran]

Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman guilty of electoral corruption | Daily Mail Online

A London mayor who 'cynically perverted' the religious feeling of his Muslim community and 'silenced his critics with accusations of racism and Islamophobia' has been removed from office after a bitter legal battle with voters.

Disgraced Lutfur Rahman repeatedly played the 'race card' in his bid to seize the mayoralty of Tower Hamlets and later cling to power, Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey found today.

The judge ordered that last year's mayoral election be run again and Rahman - who was re-elected to the position after forming his own party, Tower Hamlets First - be barred from standing again.

Rahman, who was not in court for the judgement, was ordered to pay £250,000 costs following an Election Court trial estimated to have run up legal bills in the region of £1 million.

The judge said the case 'starkly demonstrated what happens when those in authority are afraid to confront wrongdoing for fear of allegations of racism and Islamophobia'.

and specially for Mr 'let me complete that vote for you and Allah knows the way you vote'


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkwgMMNXjTc

[Batcher]

Same thing happened with the postal votes in the independence referendum. Bet they're wishing they hadn't fixed it now

[TheFaQQer]

Private Eye have been writing about him for a long, long time now.

[SlipTheJab]

Criminal case to follow surely. Will be be mayor of Wormwood Scrubs soon? Also I see he was born in Bangladesh, can he be deported?

[MicrosoftBob]

Wow I didn't think they'd find him guilty, so how do the Labour party get away with postal voting fraud then ?

I wonder what Dianne Abbot thinks of this, she was the one claiming white people like to play divide and rule will she still be allowed to say things like that and play the race card ?

[vetran]

Wow I didn't think they'd find him guilty, so how do the Labour party get away with postal voting fraud then ?

I wonder what Dianne Abbot thinks of this, she was the one claiming white people like to play divide and rule will she still be allowed to say things like that and play the race card ?

she has got away with it so far. She really annoys me seems to combine poor judgement & sense of entitlement with an AssGuru sized chip on her shoulder.

[NickFitz]

The final paragraphs of the judgement are scathing:

On past form, it appears inevitable that Mr Rahman will denounce this judgment as yet another example of the racism and Islamophobia that have hounded him throughout his political life. It is nothing of the sort. Mr Rahman has made a successful career by ignoring or flouting the law (as this Petition demonstrates) and has relied on silencing his critics by accusations of racism and Islamophobia. But his critics have not been silenced and neither has this court.

Events of recent months in contexts very different from electoral malpractice have starkly demonstrated what happens when those in authority are afraid to confront wrongdoing for fear of allegations of racism and Islamophobia. Even in the multicultural society which is 21st century Britain, the law must be applied fairly and equally to everyone. Otherwise we are lost.

- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/judgment.pdf

[vetran]

The final paragraphs of the judgement are scathing:

On past form, it appears inevitable that Mr Rahman will denounce this judgment as yet another example of the racism and Islamophobia that have hounded him throughout his political life. It is nothing of the sort. Mr Rahman has made a successful career by ignoring or flouting the law (as this Petition demonstrates) and has relied on silencing his critics by accusations of racism and Islamophobia. But his critics have not been silenced and neither has this court.

Events of recent months in contexts very different from electoral malpractice have starkly demonstrated what happens when those in authority are afraid to confront wrongdoing for fear of allegations of racism and Islamophobia. Even in the multicultural society which is 21st century Britain, the law must be applied fairly and equally to everyone. Otherwise we are lost.

- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/judgment.pdf

lets hope they result in some jail time!

[darmstadt]

Excellent news, about bloody time

[xoggoth]

Another idiocy of multiculturalism. Not the only case in the news today either:

Five guilty of conspiracy to defraud Woking ballot - BBC News