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I remember Slough very vaguely. I remember it disappearing into the distance through the rear window of the car as my parents were amongst the first White Flighters from that part of the world when I was very young. Good thinking Dad.

As we left through the back door, the enrichers were pouring through the open front door. Those were the days when Pet Food suppliers had to start putting photographs of Cats and Dogs on their tins. Yep it really did happen.

Well the Conservatives who got caught out vote-rigging during last years May elections have offered their apologies to former borough councillor Lydia Simmons who had her seat enriched from her by Eshaq Khan who is now on bail, along with two others awaiting results of the police investigations into ballot fraud.

The Tories are now jumping on the British National Party bus and supporting their calls to lobby parliament for changes to the postal voting system. What would they do without us to make their policies for them.

The BNP has said from day one that only the sick, elderly and those with very special reasons should be allowed to vote by post.

However despite the Conservatives claims that they are now squeaky clean, were I a BNP election agent in that part of the world, I would be keeping a sharp eye of any political party that has been enriched with people who have a different understanding of the word democracy then the native True Brits.

Tags: Postal Ballot Fraud, Slough

Electoral Fraud in Slough

We should not be surprised that the ruling coalition of Liberals, Tories and Independents on Slough Council have refused a motion by an opposition Councillor, James Swindlehurst to introduce reforms to appoint a monitor and detect improper use of Slough's electoral register. How else are they to get elected without fraud?

A council probe has already uncovered more than 100 names which should not have been on the electoral register. I wonder if they would be "enrichers". In Slough? What do you think?

Now the Police are involved and the High Court is scrutinising the ballot papers from just one of their wards. They should check the lot but never mind for now.

But let us leave the last word with Council Leader, Richard Stokes (Lib). He had this to say:

"While we are very anxious to stamp out voting fraud, the cabinet felt that the appointment of a fraud officer would not deal with the problem.

"The judges who've presided over electoral fraud cases in this country say it's the system itself that needs changing.

"Most fraud cases have come about from postal voting"Postal voting is now open to wide-scale abuse.

It's the Government that introduced the system so it's up to them to sort it out."

Well he would say that wouldn't he? Then again it was nice to see the Labour Party hoisted by their own Petard. They were responsible for creating the Postal Voting rules in the first place.

Tags: Postal Ballot Fraud, Slough