Freddy Vaccha wrote the letter below to Lord Stoddard of Swindon, Independent Labour, as answer to this Press release from his office:
“The independent Labour Peer, Lord Stoddart of Swindon has criticised the Electoral Commission for what he believes is their ‘cravenly caving in’ to pressure from Remainer MPs and activists over the re-investigation of Vote Leave’s funding of ‘BeLeave’ during the referendum campaign.
Lord Stoddart said: “It is my understanding that the Electoral Commission, not only approved the donation to BeLeave at the time, but it has already subsequently looked into this issue and found nothing wrong. I find it very disappointing that they appear to have cravenly caved-in to pressure from the Remain lobby and decided to investigate again. The Electoral Commission is supposed to be an independent body and should not be seen to be influenced by political pressure.
“It is very dangerous for our democracy for the Commission to give the impression that it takes action based on who shouts loudest in the political arena.”
Dear Stuart (we have communicated before),
Well said!
The Electoral Commission has once again exposed itself as being politically-motivated and biased. We in UKIP are well aware of its true nature; in the 2014 European elections, Elcom found it acceptable to allow a “UK Independence Now” branded party, now dissolved, to appear with that description on the ballot paper, and furthermore to appear at the very top of the ballot paper (its emblem began with “An Independence”)… It cost us one, perhaps two, seats in the EP. What next? “Literal Democrats”? Oops.
To add insult to injury in the recent attempt to derail Brexit, there’s never been an enquiry into that ghastly David Cameron and George Osborne’s utterly misleading, unfair and one-sided “informative” (sic) leaflet, funded with taxpayers’ money to the tune of £9.4 million, and worst of all, masquerading as an independent, unbiased government study that claimed to present both sides of the argument.
That meant that REMAIN overspent by about £9.4 million, and furthermore that the money used was stolen, public funds used for an improper party-political purpose.
The size of that sum and its source makes attacking “Leave” spending the height of hypocrisy.
Why have these odious crooks, together with their accessories and familiars, not been brought to book? And where is Elcom looking, or contriving not to look? It’s time to visit its senior kleptocrats with a few P45s, methinks.
Our country, and the clearly expressed will of the people, are being betrayed.
Let me break off – or I’ll say what I really think.
Keep up the good work, Lord Stoddart. I know that in this quest you have the support of UKIP’s Peers, MEPs and members.
Best,
Freddy Vachha, UKIP Chairman – London Region
Lord Stoddart understands the politicisation of “independent” bodies as we do. I contacted the Electoral Commission over their choice of VoteLeave as lead out group, they actually defended the choice without any truth in their answer. We are still being lied to at every opportunity by a “Remain” PM, high civil servants, vested interest big business with their lobbying.
Revisiting many sites to find our main arguments to get us “OUT NOW”, one of the best, in my opinion, http://facts4eu.org/
We need to get back out there.
Well said Freddy. Thanks for reminding us about those leaflets for our future discussions with Remainers.
I had a quick look on the Electoral Commission website to see who to complain to about their own activities. At first glance it seems to be a dead end:
– you are asked to complain to them.
– if that is inadequate you can complain to: “If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of this review, you can complain to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (or the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman for complaints on our work relating to Scottish local government elections). However, the Parliamentary Ombudsman will normally only consider complaints which are referred by a Member of Parliament, so you will need to contact your MP.”
So you need your MP to be on your side in order to make a complaint. That seems a bit unlikely.
https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/complaints
When you see an oversupply of (some ex-) SNP, BBC, Chief Execs, etc., as commissioners and executives of the Electoral Commission and no way to remove them, you know they are “Remainers”
https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/our-work/who-we-are/the-commissioners
The organisation is not fit for purpose. It is thoroughly infected with Common Purpose drones. They are indoctrinated in leftwing doctrinaire “thinking” that tells them to subvert the democratic verdict when it does not agree with Pravda.