Phil Woolas' victory is declared viod.

[MX7]

"Phil Woolas' election as an MP is declared void as two judges order a re-run of the contest in Oldham East and Saddleworth."

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Phil-Woo...

Oh dear!

[Eric Mc]

Good. The man is a fool - he will never recover from the drubbing meted out to him by Joanna Lumley.

[john_p]

Wow


Mind you I bet he gets in on a bigger majority this time

[Andy Zarse]

He will of course now win with an increased majority. Unless of course the Tor candidate stands down.

Folk seem to have gone off the Libdems, now the boy Clegg has shown his true colours.

[MX7]

john_p said:

Wow


Mind you I bet he gets in on a bigger majority this time

He's been declared a liar, so why would more people vote for him? There's still a chance that he will be barred from public office, which wouldn't be highly amusing in the slightest!

[Martial Arts Man]

Andy Zarse said:

Unless of course the Tor candidate stands down.

This is a problem that neither party of the coalition wanted so soon.

This will be interesting!

[MX7]

Iain Dale: "Apparently Woolas is ineligible to stand in the rerun."

[voicey]

It's about time something like this happened.

[mattviatura]

Another Labour candidate will win.

Labour could put a monkey (or maybe Hazel Blears) up in some of these constituencies and win, they represent the working people you know.

[Victor McDade]

MX7 said:

Iain Dale: "Apparently Woolas is ineligible to stand in the rerun."

Fraser Nelson on Sky News says otherwise. He is allowed to stand.

[FasterFreddy]

That's brilliant news.

I've always hated that smug weasel Woolas.

[ninja-lewis]

Victor McDade said:

MX7 said:

Iain Dale: "Apparently Woolas is ineligible to stand in the rerun."

Fraser Nelson on Sky News says otherwise. He is allowed to stand.

The Judgment says they are satisfied that "the statutory penalties for the illegal practices committed by the Respondent are both necessary and proportionate." The Statutory penalties mentioned are voiding the election and disqualifying the respondent (Woolas) from being an MP for 3 years.

[john_p]

Judgement said:

Fourth, in addition to complaining about the Petitioner to the Electoral Commission and to HM Revenue and Customs she made complaints about a number of Liberal Democrat councillors and also complained to the RSPCA alleging that Julie O’Brien had ill-treated her cat. In her oral evidence she added a further complaint against the Liberal Democrats; they had thrown stones at her windows.

[colonel c]

ninja-lewis said:

Victor McDade said:

MX7 said:

Iain Dale: "Apparently Woolas is ineligible to stand in the rerun."

Fraser Nelson on Sky News says otherwise. He is allowed to stand.

The Judgment says they are satisfied that "the statutory penalties for the illegal practices committed by the Respondent are both necessary and proportionate." The Statutory penalties mentioned are voiding the election and disqualifying the respondent (Woolas) from being an MP for 3 years.

Indeed and I would have thought Labour would want to field a different candidate.
It will be interesting to see if the Lib Dem support holds up.

[Pesty]

I heard woolas on radio 4 not long ago.

Basically this is a bad result because politicians will be put off from saying things in future was the gist of what he was saying.

Utter tt

[fido]

This is the same person who said resettlement of Gurkhas would cost £1.4bn! Glad his generally deceitful behaviour has caught up with him.

[Halb]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11699888
banned for three years....
Wonder if back room deals being done to stop a LD from running....

[MX7]

Halb said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11699888
banned for three years....
Wonder if back room deals being done to stop a LD from running....

I hope that it's a Tory that won't run. It was 14k each for Labour and LibDems, and 11k for the Tories. He only won by 100ish votes.

[hornetrider]

I approve of these developments

[DonkeyApple]

MX7 said:

john_p said:

Wow


Mind you I bet he gets in on a bigger majority this time

He's been declared a liar, so why would more people vote for him? There's still a chance that he will be barred from public office, which wouldn't be highly amusing in the slightest!

The clue is in the question. Oldham East and Saddleworth.