A Matter Of Judgement. by Les May

I DON'T ‘do’ Twitter, Facebook or any other form of ‘social media’, but last evening I had an e-mail from someone who suggested that as I live in Rochdale I should take a look at a recent post by someone called Jay Beecher. It turned out to be a picture of Councillor Faisal Rana and Andy Burnham apparently campaigning together, which inevitably throws into question Burnham’s judgement as it includes a link to the original Rana vote fraud story in the Daily Mail.

Many of the ‘tweets’ which follow are frankly nasty in tone and I know that the person who sent me the link would not want to be associated with their racial element. But this should not be allowed to distract from the fact that in 2018 Faisal Rana did fraudulently vote twice in the council elections of that year.

If the re-emergence of the story causes any embarrassment to Rochdale Labour party and the Council Leader then they have only themselves to blame. Anyone with any sense of decency would have recognised that Faisal Rana should have been asked to resign and the seat re-contested. Not to do so simply brings the Labour party into disrepute.

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