Archive for July 16th, 2010
Found this on politicalbetting.com
The problem with the C4 investigation into Zac Goldsmith’s election expenses is that it is an open secret amongst political practitioners that such practices are widespread and touch all the main parties where there are tight races.
Nobody would ever admit it but there is what amounts to an unofficial truce amongst the main parties not to probe too deeply into how opponents accounted for specific campaigns.
The reason is that they’ve all got dirty washing they want to hide and it’s not in the interest of any of them to have too much scrutiny.
This is almost totally confined to campaigns in marginal constituencies where fierce battles took place.
How will the Electoral Commission deal with it.