Tory councillor ordered to pay back just £5 of £154k he stole from Alzheimers victim

A Tory councillor who stole £154k off an Alzheimers sufferer has been ordered to pay back just £5.

Vale of White Horse District Councillor, John Morgan, stole the money off Alzheimers suffered Beryl Gittens and gambled it away on slot machines and a trip to Las Vegas. He stole so much money off her that when she died she had to be given a pauper's funeral.

Morgan's and his wife have divorced and his wife was given their £250k house, leaving him with no assets to seize.

Left wing extremists unite against UKIP in Haringey

Left wing extremists from Labour, the Lib Dems, the Greens and Trade Unions & Socialists Against Cuts in Haringey joined forces yesterday to hand out leaflets produced by the Trade Union anti-UKIP campaign, Hope not Hate.

Haringey's Labour mayor was in the news yesterday after being found guilty of bringing her office into disrepute by misusing her position and council resources in personal matters. The Lib Dems were yesterday calling for the resignation of the Labour mayor whilst campaigning with Labour and Labour were criticising the Lib Dems for bringing in 6 out of town candidates for the local elections.

Nothing unites the far left more than a challenge to Labour's dominance.

Surrey Tory says Muslims should be expelled and mosques demolished

A Tory from Surrey has said that every Muslim should be expelled from the country and all mosques should be demolished.

In his Twitter profile, Stephen Lees describes himself as "Tory, smoker, drinker, cricketer, shooter, ferroequinologist and proud possessor of a Social Services red file. You have no right not to be offended". Last night he tweeted the following:

Every single Muslim should be expelled from this country -- not deported -- expelled, and every mosque demolished.

Strangely, there's no media hysteria over this Conservative's extreme views as yet but he's only in the party that's running the country, not UKIP so it's hardly newsworthy is it?

Conservative council leader forced to apologise for inappropriate email

The Conservative leader of Cheshire East Council has been forced to apologise for sending an official Easter message to voters urging them not to vote for UKIP.

Cllr Michael Jones sent the email as leader of the council during the restricted pre-election period known as purdah when council's are forbidden from engaging in any political activity. The email told voters that if they voted UKIP then Labour would win and result in the concreting of the countryside.

Voting UKIP is a vote for Labour, a party that would like to see an extra 200,000 homes in our communities built each year- yes! Each year!

That would mean Cheshire East Council taking on some of Manchester’s housing quota which would be a disaster.

So, voting UKIP or Labour means you are voting for unprecedented concrete across our countryside.

UKIP's Cllr Brian Silvester made a complaint to the monitoring officer who is responsible for compliance with electoral law who issued an apology from Cllr Jones but failed to acknowledge the breach of electoral law. Cllr Silvester has made a further complaint that the monitoring officer should be censuring the leader, not issuing his half apology for him.

Former Lib Dem MP Mike Hancock fails in attempt to escape justice

Disgraced Lib Dem turned independent MP, Mike Hancock, has failed in an attempt to have a High Court case against him suspended on the grounds of his mental capacity after the court heard that he was standing for re-election to Portsmouth City Council.

Hancock argued that he lacked the mental capacity to appoint a legal team but his alleged victim's solicitor pointed out that he has the mental capacity to stand for re-election to Portsmouth City Council so he should be able to stand trial for allegedly abusing his position as an MP and councillor to sexually assault a mentally ill constituent.

Hancock is standing for re-election for the Fratton ward on Portsmouth City Council - the same ward where his alleged victim lives and will be unopposed by his Lib Dem colleagues.

Labour mayor of Haringey brought office into disrepute

The Labour mayor of Haringey has been found guilty of bringing her office into disrepute after using her position for personal gain.

Cllr Sheila Peacock was investigated by the council's standards committee after sending two personal letters on council headed paper by email and using her mayor title.

The Lib Dems are calling for the mayor to resign, saying it is not tenable for her to stay in her position and that she should resign for the good of the office and the borough.

Meanwhile, Haringey Labour have criticised the Lib Dems after finding that 6 of their 27 candidates in the upcoming local elections don't even live in the borough.

Labour candidate suspended pending court hearing for indecent assault

A Labour candidate in Hounslow has been suspended from representing the Labour Party pending the outcome of a court case over alleged sex offences.

Gurpal Virdi will appear before Westminster Magistrates Court on the 30th where he is accused of indecently assaulting a boy under the age of 16 nearly 30 years ago.

Virdi is still contesting the election but will appear on the ballot papers as an independent.

Conservative Councillor makes paedophile joke in council meeting

A Conservative councillor in Northampton has been criticised for making a joke about suspected paedophile and former Lib Dem MP, Cyril Smith in a council meeting.

Lib Dem councillor Sally Beardsworth said she was horrified that Cllr Michael Hill made a joke at the expense of victims of paedophiles. He had said that maintaining a promise in a Lib Dem manifesto was "like putting Cyril Smith in charge of child protection".

A lot of children have suffered terribly at the hands of paedophiles and to make that quip at their expense I thought was horrifying.

I have been on the adoption panel for years and I know how damaged children can be by paedophiles, so it is not something you jest about. I think it back-fired.

Cllr Hill withdrew his comment when asked.

Labour leader of Stoke-on-Trent survives second vote of no confidence from his own party

The leader of Stoke-on-Trent's Labour-run council has survived his second vote of no confidence in two years from his own party.

Two Labour councillors called the vote of no confidence in Cllr Mohammed Pervez but were unable to secure enough support to oust him. He was previously challenged in 2012 by Cllr Sarah Hill who was removed from her cabinet post as punishment and subsequently resigned from the council.

Cllrs Ruth Rosenau and Janine Bridges are now expected to lose their cabinet posts. Stoke-on-Trent's dysfunctional Labour group will face a big challenge from UKIP in next year's local elections.

Farage won't contest Tory cash for questions MP Patrick Mercer's seat

Corrupt Conservative MP Patrick Mercer has resigned after the Parliamentary Standards Committee recommended his suspension for 6 months for accepting cash for questions.

Mercer was caught in a sting in May last year by BBC Panorama whose undercover reporter paid him £4,000 for asking questions, only half of which he declared s income from lobbyists.

Nigel Farage was widely tipped to contest the election for UKIP but has declined to do so, saying that he would only be seen as an interloper and opportunist because it isn't the right seat for him.

Lib Dem councillor in Exmouth found guilty of breach code of conduct

A Lib Dem town, district and county councillor in Exmouth has been found guilty of "discourteous and disrespectful" behaviour towards a Conservative councillor by East Devon District Council's monitoring officer.

Cllr Eileen Wragg made rude and derogatory comments to the Mayor of Exmouth, Cllr John Humphreys at Exmouth Town Council's annual meeting. This was ruled to be in breach of the council's code of conduct.

Last year, Cllr Wragg was censured by East Devon District Council's standards committee for questioning the competency of the Deputy Chief Executive in a letter to a local newspaper.

UKIP's lead widens in two polls

Two new opinion polls have shown a massive jump in support for UKIP despite a massive media campaign against the party.

A TNS-BMRB poll has UKIP 9 points clear of Labour and a ComRes poll has UKIP 11 points in front.

TNS-BMRB
Party	%
UKIP	36%
Labour	27%
Conservative	18%
Lib Dem	10%

ComRes
Party	%
UKIP	38%
Labour	27%
Conservative	18%
Lib Dem	8%

Shamed Lib Dem porn councillor told to resign

Leader of Wigan Council, Lord Peter Smith, has criticised Wigan councillors for their behaviour and told a former Lib Dem councillor that he should have resigned after being caught using his council laptop to watch porn.

One councillor was removed from the meeting last week for using Twitter during the meeting when instructed not to do so and several others left in protest leading the council to introduce mandatory training for new councillors and instructing officers to find a way to deduct money from the allowances of those councillors who were expelled or left the meeting.

Lord Smith told councillor Robert Bleakley, who resigned from the Lib Dems in shame after being caught with porn on his council laptop - something that would have resulted in the instant dismissal of a council employee. In February, Bleakley was found guilty of doctoring an email in an attempt to get two senior employees of the council into enough trouble to lose their jobs. He has been investigated several times by the council's Standards Committee, suspended by the now-defunct Standards Board for England three times and investigated by the police for misuse of public office yet the Lib Dems still didn't expel him and in the end he resigned over the new year.

Lord Smith said that in his long career, the meeting was "the most atrocious meeting I have seen.”

Disgraced ex-Lib Dem Hancock standing for re-election in Portsmouth

Disgraced ex-Lib Dem MP Mike Hancock is standing for re-election to Portsmouth City Council for the first time since his former Parliamentary assistant and mistress was arrested for suspected espionage and he was taken to court for sexual harassment.

Although Hancock has had the Lib Dem whip removed, the Lib Dems have decided not to put up a candidate against him.

Hancock will face a challenge from UKIP for the first time this year.

White South African says black Englishman should move to a "black county"

A UKIP candidate for Enfield Council has said that Lenny Henry should go and live in a black country if he wants to be around more black people and likened Islam to the Third Reich.

William Henwood was responding to Lenny Henry's call for more black people on TV when he said:

I think if black people come to this country and don’t like mixing with white people why are they here? If he wants a lot of blacks around go and live in a black country.

Whilst he makes a very valid general point that if someone doesn't like mixing with white people they shouldn't come to this country, Lenny Henry was born and bred in Dudley. He didn't "come here", he was born here - he's a black Englishman. Unlike William Henwood who is a white man born in apartheid-era South Africa! As one friend put it last night "The headline should read 'White South African tells black Englishman to emigrate to a black country'."

Whether there are a proportionate number of black people on TV based on the percentage of the population I don't know and frankly don't care. UKIP is a meritocracy - if you're good at something then it doesn't matter what colour you are. We don't believe in race/religion/sex quotas and in all fairness that it probably what Henwood was trying to say in 140 characters on Twitter but failed because of his own ignorance.

As for his suggestion that Islam is like the Third Reich, that's clearly just batshit crazy. Yes, there are a lot of people around the world doing a lot of bad and dangerous things in the name of Islam but there are a lot of people doing a lot of bad and dangerous things in the name of Christianity and Judaism too. Islam itself isn't dangerous, some of its adherents are. Ok, it seems like a lot of them are but to put it in perspective, there are 1.6bn Muslims in the world and it's the world's fastest growing religion. Hitler's Third Reich carried out the state-sponsored slaughter and persecution of million of people and plunged humanity into a second world war. He didn't do it because his sky fairy told him to or because he'd been brainwashed by ideologues, he did it because he hated people who weren't white and Christian, who were gay, disabled, wore glasses, etc. Muslim terrorists do what they do because they've been brainwashed into believing this is what their god wants based on some passages from their bible that they believe says they have to kill non-Muslims. Similarly-worded teachings in the Old Testament - also one of the Islamic holy books - tell Jews and Christians to kill non-believers and prescribe the death penalty for any number of sins.

Henwood clearly thinks he knows more than he actually does and it would be sensible to remove him from the public eye not only to save him from his own stupidity but to protect the 99.9% of normal UKIP candidates who don't want to be associated with his ridiculous comments.