Fucking idiots.
Dammit Clacton you had one job
Honestly it speaks extremely poorly of the people of that island that the guy responsible for making them all poorer is going to be made their leader a decade after the fact.
Feels like they hit their cultural high-point during the 2012 Olympics and then immediately spiraled down hill.
I’m choosing to believe they voted for him so that the investigation could continue.
The official turnout for Thursday’s by-election was 44.37 per cent, which is higher than some by-elections, but lower than in Andy Burnham’s Makerfield, where the turnout was about 58 per cent
I’m used to 90% turnout in Australia with compulsory voting. This feels so ridiculously low.
He instead competed against an odd assortment of 33 other candidates, including 20 independents and several candidates from the Monster Raving Loony Party, setting a UK record.
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Clacton residents had to use a one-metre-long ballot paper to cast their votes on Thursday.
Ah right, I can understand not wanting to put up with that.
important lesson for the DSA
don’t just be clown option for the brain broken
have policies that you can justify, talk about and implement into real life
So he’s being investigated again. But it doesn’t say what would happen if he were found guilty. I imagine he won’t actually be kicked out of office or banned as a candidate.
If he is found guilty then he is not immediately kicked out of office. If the (can’t remember the official name) ethics panel finds that he deserves a suspension from parliament that is long than 10 days (pretty sure that’s the number) THEN he can be forced to step down and this trigger ANOTHER by election which will cost the government another £250k this asshat just costed us.
Well at least criminal behavior is punished equally in the UK. I’m sure other such criminals get an ethics board to decide if they get to keep their jobs. No chance of jail either. Odd. My understanding was if you broke the law, you went to jail.
Well at least criminal behavior is punished equally in the UK. I’m sure other such criminals get an ethics board to decide if they get to keep their jobs.
Lovely pithy snippet, but I’m sure you know that’s not what is happening.
If any MP is charged with a crime by the police then they are suspended while it works through the courts - same as any other potential criminal, innocent until found guilty and all that.
On the other hand a failure to follow the ethics rules for MPs is not a criminal matter, and is censure is enforced by parliament.
Taking a gift is not generally a crime (unless money laundering etc is involved), it is however not allowed under parliamentary rules, so if lizardman hadnt been an MP he would have no case to answer.
Hence why it is up to the ethics board and not the police, no be very clear that if any breach of the law is discovered in this investigation it will be handed over the police post haste.
The UK is a lot more corrupt than brits think it is, but it’s not corrupt in the way you’re implying.
So odd to me why the technicalities always seem to protect the powerful when they break rules that’d get a normal person fired or jailed, tho, right?
It’s weird…
I’m not sure what kind of penalty he can face with respect to fines or jail time. Purely only recall what can happen to his political office position. I’m not sure anything he did this far is illegal with the law per say. But it is against the rules of parliament members.
You’re thinking of the House of Commons Committee on Standards!
They elected him the first time despite his shenanigans. Why did people expect the idiots to not vote for him again?
Because he’s a reptile.
Sorry, a corrupt reptile.
