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A former Conservative councillor who was jailed for election #fraud is now competing for a seat on a Derbyshire council.

Richard Smalley had been jailed for two months in 2016 after being found to have given the wrong address on his electoral form.

derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-new…
The @Conservatives have been urged to clarify whether they will hand back about £500,000 of donations from a company linked to a Venezuelan-Italian banker charged with conspiracy, bribery and wire #fraud in the US.

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
A Conservative candidate in last year's May local elections has been charged with alleged electoral fraud. It was claimed signatures on his nomination papers for May 5's poll were invalid. Mr Afzal has been charged with 'two counts of corrupt practice'.

lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/20904020.…
Last year, a former Scottish council leader and his wife were charged with electoral fraud.

Andrew Polson, 50, was a Conservative candidate in the 2021 Scottish elections and was the co-leader of East Dunbartonshire council until May 2022.

thetimes.co.uk/article/ex-cou…
Last year a Conservative minister in the House of Lords has resigned attacking the government's handling of fraudulent Covid business loans.

Lord Agnew accused the Treasury of having "little interest in the consequences of fraud to our society".

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
In January, police looked into 'alleged expenses fraud' after a Tory MP may have 'falsely pocketed tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayer cash for housing expenses'.

No criminal investigation has begun but the Met are 'assessing the information'.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
In 2020, a Tory MP convicted of expenses fraud was ousted from his Commons seat after more than 10,000 voters in Chris Davies's Brecon and Radnorshire seat backed a recall petition.

He lost the by-election to LibDems' Jane Dodds.

politicshome.com/news/article/c…
UK taxpayers will be footing the bill for mistakes the Tory Govt made during the pandemic “for years to come”, the chair of a key Westminster committee has said. It's estimated that as much as £400 MILLION in taxpayer cash could have been lost to fraud. thenational.scot/news/20290617.…
In 2019, a Conservative party official was found guilty of falsifying election expenses after becoming “carried away by her conviction” that the party must defeat Nigel Farage in the #GE2015. Image
Her sentence would cause political parties to “crack open the champagne. If the penalty for committing electoral fraud is walking away with a non-custodial sentence & a £5,000 fine that’s an advertisement to break the law, not a disincentive.” - Director of Unlock Democracy.
In 2018, former Ukip & Conservative MP Bob Spink was sentenced to six months imprisonment, suspended for two years, after being found guilty of tricking elderly constituents into signing electoral forms backing local candidates - a type of electoral fraud.
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May 4
#BREAKING: Four members of the ideologically extreme far-right neofascist group the Proud Boys - including the former leader, Enrique Tarrio - have been convicted of seditious conspiracy.

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The conviction follows a seven-day jury deliberation on five members of the proud Boys accused of conspiring against the peaceful power transition between Trump & Biden in January 2021.

The jury was unable to come to a decision on two charges against a fifth co-defendant
Tarrio was not in Washington on January 6, 2021 during the deadly Captiol riots but prosecutors said he organized and directed the attack by Proud Boys who stormed the Capitol which killed 5 people.

The seditious conspiracy charge carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
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Jeremy Hunt & Suella Braverman are among five cabinet ministers & 68 Tory MPs - nearly one in five - who are currently landlords, bringing in at least £10,000 a year renting out housing during the #CostOfLivingCrisis.

theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
The @38degrees study counted 87 MP landlords – more than 13% of the Commons – of whom 53 claimed rental income from one home and 34 from two or more properties.

By contrast, only 4% of the UK population declare income from renting property. Image
On the Labour frontbench, David Lammy, Emily Thornberry and Lucy Powell are all landlords.

Overall, MPs could be earning as much as £2.2 MILLION a year from renting out homes. Image
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The Who Funds You? project initially ran from 2012-19. @openDemocracy relaunched the project with a series of new audits.

Organisations are rated on a scale from A to E. A is the most transparent. Organisations given an E grade are the least transparent about funding. Image
I agree with @openDemocracy that debates about important issues that affect us all should be as transparent as possible.

That means we need to know who is being paid what, and by whom, to influence public policy.

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In the UK – and many other countries – there are organisations that describe themselves as ‘think tanks’ & expressly set out to explore ideas & influence public policy. They usually produce research reports & promote them through the media and in policy circles.
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FIVE THINGS successive UK Govts ignore about deterrence because they believe that sounding 'tough' on 'law & order' is a vote winner, & therefore far more important to them than *what actually works* when it comes to preventing & reducing crime.

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1. The certainty of being caught is a vastly more powerful deterrent than the punishment.

Research shows clearly that the chance of being caught is a vastly more effective deterrent than even the most draconian punishment. Image
2. Sending an individual convicted of a crime to prison is not an effective way to deter crime.

Prisons are good for punishing criminals and keeping them off the street, but prison sentences (particularly long sentences) are extremely unlikely to deter future crime. Image
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The WHITE Hart Inn, raided by Police for displaying golliwogs (which Braverman dismissed as 'nonsense'), has closed for business after Heineken & Carlsberg told the pub to stop serving its lager, & maintenance company Innserve refused to work there. 🍻

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
The vile "patriotic" Landlady, Benice Ryley, & her far-right husband Chris, have decided to close the pub & return to their home - in Turkey!

"I've had enough now. I'm angry, annoyed & upset".

Boo fucking hoo.

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A Heineken UK spokesperson told the pub to stop serving its beer, & that it would stop supplying materials such as glasses: "After being made aware of the abhorrent display feature in the White Hart Inn, we advised the pub owners that we want nothing more to do with them." Image
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The #PaulFootAward was set up in memory of revered investigative journalist, Paul Foot.

#Britain urgently & desperately needs much more high quality investigative #journalism than ever, at a time when cuts to journalism are being made. 🇬🇧

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Paul Foot worked variously for the Daily Record, the Daily Mirror, The Guardian, & @PrivateEyeNews.

He was involved in many high-profile campaigns throughout his illustrious career, including the Birmingham Six, the Bridgewater Four and the John Poulson scandal.
Paul's accolades include the Journalist of the Year, the Campaigning Journalist of the Year, the George Orwell Prize for Journalism, and in 2000 he was honoured as the Campaigning Journalist of the Decade.

Paul died in 2004 at the age of 66.
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