Tower Hamlets Conservative candidate being investigated by police

The Conservative Party have suspended one of their candidates in Tower Hamlets while he is being investigated by the police over his eligibility to stand in the election.

Allegations over Jewel Islam's financial history and business dealings that might make him ineligible to stand are being investigated by the Metropolitan Police.

Further commentary on the Trial by Jeory website.

Foot fetishist Lib Dem apologises for sleazy Twitter account

A pervy Lib Dem council candidate in Surrey is being investigated by his party's regional office over his sleazy Twitter account.

Mark Regan, who is standing for election to Mole Valley District Council, tweeted "love to lick and kiss feet" and was looking for large single women in Surrey. He also retweeted content from swinging and porn accounts.

His local Lib Dem branch are standing by him, saying that he's an "ideal candidate" on his website but their regional office might be harder to convince. He has apologised for any offence caused.

Portsmouth Lib Dems can't spell "Portsmouth"

The Lib Dems in Portsmouth have been ridiculed by locals after mis-spelling "Porstmouth" on their election leaflets.

Unlike the UKIP candidate who thought UKIP had deliberately been put at the bottom of the list on the ballot paper, the Lib Dems' literacy malfunction hasn't made the front page of the Huffington Post or Guardian. In fact, it's not even mentioned on the Huffington Post's fawning altar to the yellow party.

To be fair to the Lib Dems (it's cruel to mock the afflicted after all) they say that the Tories in Portsmouth put out leaflets with the phone number for Tamworth Borough Council instead of Portsmouth City Council. If this is representative of the attention to detail you get from the Tories and Lib Dems in Portsmouth, it's no wonder they didn't take the complaints against Mike Hancock seriously until the police got involved.

Labour leader of Thanet District Council resigns

The Labour leader of Thanet District Council has resigned after the Local Government Association criticised the council for not stopping tackling toxic and homophobic behaviour and "hostility and discourtesy".

The BBC reports Cllr Clive Hart resigning because of the LGA's report and blaming the disgraceful behaviour on a tiny minority of councillors in his resignation letter but Kent Online tells a different story, quoting Cllr Hart as saying that he's resigning because of "futile and vexatious complaints and information requests" during council meetings from Green Party councillor, Ian Driver. It was Cllr Driver who helped organise the violent protest in Kent in January during which local UAF/SWP activist and one of Cllr Driver's supporters, Andrew Scott, assault Nigel Farage with a placard. He was subsequently fined and sentenced to community service for the assault.

Thanet District Council - which has previously been criticised for the suspicion of "secrecy and corruption" at the council - is preparing an action plan to address the LGA's report.

Tower Hamlets council candidate accuses Tory councillor of being KKK Grand Wizard

A council candidate in Tower Hamlets has apologised for calling a Conservative councillor a Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard.

Tower Hamlets First candidate for St Katherine's & Wapping, Stuart Madwell, made the offensive (and libellous) comments on Facebook about Conservative councillor Peter Golds. The comments have been reported to the police and Cllr Golds is taking legal advice.

Tower Hamlets First is the party the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, represents. Rahman was recently investigated by the police over claims that he had illegally doubled funding for Bangladeshi groups in Tower Hamlets to buy support.

Independent panel resigns in protest at Conservative councillors' allowances

Council Leader, David Hodge

All three members of Surrey County Council's Independent Remuneration Panel have resigned in protest at Conservative councillors rewarding themselves with huge pay rises.

The IRP makes recommendations on councillors' allowances, including Special Responsibility Allowances which are paid to those councillors who are expected to do more than the average councillor because of a specific role. Surrey's IRP made a number of recommendations on SRAs which the ruling Conservatives largely ignored, including:

• Increasing the Leader of the Council's allowance from £27k to £43k when the IRP only recommended an increase to £35,548
• Increasing the Deputy Leader's allowance from £19,500 to £31,250 when the IRP only recommended an increase to £30,333
• Implementing the pay increases immediately rather than phasing them in over a period of time

The Chairman of the IRP, Cathy Rollison, said:

This flagrant disregard for the carefully considered recommendations of its own IRP has left us with no alternative but to resign.

Like most members of the public, we do not believe that it is right for councillors to award themselves pay rises, against the advice of an independent panel.

Gerard Batten MEP's home attacked

UKIP's London MEP, Gerard Batten, has had bricks thrown through the windows of his house.

Gerard and his wife were woken twice in the early hours by the sound of bricks being thrown at their windows. The police are reviewing CCTV footage in the hope of catching the perpetrators.

Left wing extremists linked to trade union backed hate groups Hope not Hate and Unite Against Fascism have been escalating their attacks on UKIP members, moving on from verbal abuse to physical assaults and criminal damage and now a cowardly attack on an MEP's home in the early hours of the morning. Far left extremists have been sharing the home addresses of UKIP MEPs on social media and encouraging people to "pay them a visit".

Nigel Farage said:

I've just heard the disgraceful news that my colleague Gerard Batten MEP's house was attacked with bricks. The attack on his home is a direct consequence of the media campaign against UKIP.

H/T Roger Viggers

Newark By-election Candidates

The candidates for the Newark by-election to replace Tory cash for questions MP Patrick Mercer have been announced.

Major Parties
Party	Candidate
UKIP	Roger Helmer
Conservative	Robert Jenrick
Labour	Michael Payne

Minor Parties/Independents
Party	Candidate
Bus Pass Elvis	David Bishop
Green	David Kirwan
Independent	Paul Baggaley
Independent	Andy Hayes
Lib Dem	David Watts
Monster Raving Loony	Nick The Flying Brick
Patriotic Socialist	Lee Woods
Stop Commercial Banks Owning Britain's Money	Dick Rodgers

The real rebuttal of those Lab/Green Lies - courtsy @dinofancellu http://dinofancellu.com

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Another Cast Iron Guarantee™ from Dave

David Cameron has given another Cast Iron Guarantee™ of an EU referendum and says he won't be Prime Minister if he can't deliver one.

Cast Iron Dave (as we like to call him) says that he thinks it's important he carries out several years of negotiation before holding a referendum and is confident that he can get meaningful change because the eurozone countries was more changes to support their fiscal union. He says that regardless of the outcome of his negotiations he'll hold the referendum anyway and that's a Cast Iron Guarantee™.

Let's examine this in a bit more depth ...

Is negotiating before a referendum useful?
For Cameron it is, yes. He can "negotiate" some superficial changes to the EU that will be ultimately meaningless and cost us more of our sovereignty and money and the spin doctors can package it up as a big coup for David Cameron and a major blow to the EU's plans for ever closer union. Under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, once we tell the EU that we're leaving we then have to spend the next two years negotiating to see if there's a way we can be convinced to stay. Negotiating now is only useful if you need propaganda for the campaign to stay in.

Can meaningful change be achieved?
Since the Lisbon Treaty was signed we have to give two years' notice that we're leaving and we're required to spend those two years negotiating with them. It's during those two years that any meaningful negotiation might take place, not before it and not when Cameron has already told the EU that he wants to stay in and will campaign for us to stay in regardless of the outcome of his negotiations. The threat of a referendum on our membership was Cameron's ace card and he wasted it by very publicly announcing that he would want to stay in the EU regardless of the outcome of negotiations. It doesn't matter that the eurozone countries want change as well because what they want is more integration and more power for the EU, not less and there is no legal mechanism for taking power off the EU, only to give it more.

Will we ever get a referendum?
Doubtful. We had a Cast Iron Guarantee™ of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and it turned out to be worthless. Cameron whipped his MPs to vote against a referendum in 2011 when it finally got to parliament after a 100,000 signature petition forced the issue to ensure that no referendum took place in this parliament. He got a Bill through parliament to legislate for a referendum in 2017 if the Conservatives win the next election outright which is extremely unlikely and any politician that feels the need to pass a law to make them keep a promise clearly can't be trusted anyway. Not that the law will actually force him to hold a referendum anyway because as we saw with Labour's pinky promise law not to introduce the university tax in England in 2001, laws can be repealed as easily as they're made when you have an outright majority.

UKIP's racist black, Asian, eastern European and Jewish candidates

Here are some of the black, Asian, eastern European and Jewish UKIP candidates who were subjected to racial abuse by far left extremists from trade union funded hate groups this week. They're all racists, apparently.

Conservative ex-mayor charged with possession of indecent images of children

A former Conservative mayor of Weston-super-Mare has appeared in court to face 11 charges of making indecent photos of children.

Philip Judd was still a Conservative councillor and mayor of Weston and a school governor when he was arrested for possession of indecent photos of children last year. He resigned as a councillor and school governor.

He has been given unconditional bail and is due back in court again on 3rd June.

English Democrats MEP candidate calls for forced repatriation of immigrants

An English Democrats MEP candidate in the East Midlands euroregion has called for the forced repatriation of immigrants and their descendants.

Oliver Healey is number four on the MEP list for the English Democrats in the East Midlands despite living in Telford which is in the West Midlands euroregion. He has been promoting his policy that "repatriation either voluntary or compulsory must now begin".

In a fairly lengthy discussion on the British Democracy Forum with UKIP supporters, Healey spouts reams and reams of pseudo-intellectual nonsense repeatedly calling for the forced repatriation of immigrants and their descendants.

The English Democrats aren't having much luck with their MEP candidates. South east of England candidate, Julia Gasper, who was forced to resign from UKIP after calling gay rights a "lunatics charter" and linking homosexuality with bestiality, wrote on her blog that there are "too many gay people" in position of power and said that World Aids Day is responsible for spreading disease around the world. Meanwhile, their lead candidate for the south east of England and EDL activist, Steve Uncles, is due to appear at Maidstone Crown Court on June 12th to answer 10 twice-denied charges of electoral fraud relating to the local elections last year.

If you'd like more information on how the English Democrats would manage this forced repatriation of 6m people or prevent gays from becoming MPs, you can ring their campaign hotline on 01293 873894.

Respect candidate has electoral fraud conviction

The Respect Party have been accused of hypocrisy for condemning ballot-rigging whilst putting up a candidate who has a conviction for electoral fraud.

Arshad Ali, who stepped down as chairman of the party in 2012 when his conviction became public knowledge, spent 6 weeks in prison in 1997 for his part in fiddling Labour's landslide election victory.

The Tories, Labour and Lib Dems on Bradford City Council have called for a change to the law that would ban anyone convicted of electoral fraud from standing for public office for life.

Anti-UKIP protesters shout racist abuse at black and Asian candidates

Nigel Farage appeared at a meeting in London with a selection of UKIP candidates from ethnic minorities to ask how UKIP can be a racist party with so many BME candidates.

If you listen carefully you can hear the left wing extremists shouting racist abuse at them, including "coconut" and "oreo" - brown on the outside, white on the inside. It's not uncommon to hear black and Asian people call each other these names as banter but when it's screamed across a public auditorium at people you're branding racists it's clearly racial abuse.