Phil Woolas: “This is the end, I’m out”

Former Labour Party MP, Phil Woolas, has lost his bid for a judicial review of an election court’s ruling that stripped him of his Commons seat and barred him from politics public office for 3 years.  The election court ruling was in relation to Woolas’ campaign team’s plot to “get the white vote angry” against his electoral rival, the Lib Dem candidate, Elwyn Watkins, in the 2010 General Election.  Woolas won the seat by just 103 votes. Now the Speaker, John Bercow, …

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Phil Woolas guilty

… of breaching s106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983. Not being in the court, I’m following this via Saddleworth News’ CoverItLive session. It seems (and I stand to be corrected) that the election is now void and a by-election is in the offing. He’s been found guilty of putting out leaflets about his Lib-Dem opponent, Elwyn Watkins, saying that he pandered to Muslim extremists and had illicitly received campaign funding from a rich Arab sheikh. Woolas’ current constituency, …

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