Will We Never Learn?
by Brian Bamford
by Brian Bamford
Faisal Rana (second right) a Master of Multiple Vote etc.
Rochdale's Labour Leader Councillor Allen Brett, fresh back from his trip cementing relations with the Feudal Pakistani regime, said that while he was 'disappointed' in Councillor Rana's 'mistake' in multiple voting, when it was discovered he'd voted twice. Since then both the Councillor, and the Council itself had co-operated fully with the police. Now, it seems, he has been sufficiently punished by having to accept a caution from the police.
At the time of writing it is still not clear what precise type of caution has been accepted by Councillor Rana, and the police have yet to be forthcoming on this.
Meanwhile on the 10th, September, Martha Robinson Complaints Administrator of the Labour Party wrote to a local lad Carl Faulkner, saying that it was not a matter for her and concluding 'I
would suggest that it is unlikely that the
council will be taking any further action in regards to this matter, as
it appears to have been investigated and resolved in full....'
Tonight her prediction of the smooth resolution of this matter was fully confirmed in the Rochdale Council Chamber by the members present.
Whether the people of Rochdale will continue to have confidence in democracy as a result of this unsavoury business is unclear. One thing is certain is that the activities that the now Councillor Faisal Rana committed prior to his election struck at the heart of British democracy.
This looks like another attempt by the Rochdale Council to sweep the political dirt under the carpet. More so since another item on the agenda (Agenda Item 14) was entitled 'Freedovm of the Borough Review - the late Cyril Smith'. Curiously, one of the Key Points for Consideration in this Review is that 'there was considerable local disquiet about the way in which Cyril Smith behaved towards children and young people at Cambridge House and elsewhare'.
But the existence of this ongoing public disquiet was a direct consequence of the tendency of the authorities in Rochdale, including the Labour Party, to look the other way and ignore the allegations of what was going on at Cambridge House and perhaps elsewhere. Judging by what happened tonight over their attitude to the multiple voting of Faisal Rana it would seem that they haven't learnt their lessons from that folly.
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That’s very good Brian.
Just one observation – Brett described Rana’s actions as ‘his error’. The law classes one of his actions as a ‘corrupt practice’
Good article
Good article guys!
All part and parcel of Rochdale Council's truly APPALLING and ENDEMIC stonewalling culture. You should perhaps all read THIS article of mine about the Rotten Borough's attitude to 'fat cat' pay packets for senior RMBC officers as well.
https://mailchi.mp/14f8b128f179/legal-notice-steve-rumbelow-chief-executive-rmbc-85639
Similar issues in many ways.
Keep it up,
Mark Birkett
Voting irregularities are rife in this town. My partner who is of South East Asian extraction knows of friends who only know how they have voted when their husbands tell them ( or not as the case may be) how they filled the postal vote form in. Criminal prosecutions would be the result anywhere else but Rochdale. Why does this kind of behaviour go unchallenged by the authorities I wonder ?
In this town there is a proactive dysfunctional culture of wilful denial of inconvenient facts - a culture that allowed monsters like Smith to go unchallenged for decades and the Grooming Scandal to be allowed , then ignored - with a collective 'blind eye ' being turned yet again - with a collective cognitive dissonance by the guilty , and complicit to allow the same abysmally piss-poor services to then make warped claims that because they are no longer as criminally incompetent and negligent at delivering basic service standards that they have as a result achieved some kind of magnificent improvement as a consequence.
I suspect there is so much more to be exposed in the political cess-pit that Rochdale has become ?
The people who have not accepted are the one who lost big time in elections from labour.
The grapes are surely sour...
NORTHERN VOICES was warned a suspected crime had been committed on the night of the election count: 3rd, May 2018. It had been reported to the police earlier that day before the close of the Rochdale polling stations. Hence 'sour grapes' is not applicable in this case. Responding to Carl Faulkner's original complaint the police later announced that they were interviewing a 51-year-old man on 24th, May.
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