Tory Election Fraud. #toryelectionfraud

Introduction

This site has been created to help gather together sources casting light on allegations regarding the Conservative Party spending return for the 2015 General Election (and three by-elections in 2014) and make it more accessible to the public at large.

On the 18th February 2016, in response to Channel 4's endeavours, the Electoral Commission launched their investigation and on the 28th April 2016 followed up with a statement confirming it had "requested that the Crown (CPS) Prosecution Service and the police consider applying for an extension to the time limit available to pursue criminal prosecutions."

The Background

In May 2014, attempting to steal a little UKIP limelight, David Cameron promised that

• if The Conservatives won the next General Election
• if they had a majority
• if he was still leader

...he'd try to reform the EU and then hold an EU referendum before the end of 2017. Very few took him seriously.

Later in 2014 one resignation and two defections to UKIP saw the Conservatives contesting three unexpected by-elections that had Cameron's leadership teetering on a ledge.

Right up to the day when the General Election votes rolled in, Cameron's EU promise was widely accepted as the impossible dream.

Perhaps it was.

The Law

The Electoral Commission state -"There are rules on how much candidates can spend on their campaigns and where they receive their funding from." plus "There are two types of spending by or on behalf of parties at certain elections:

• Candidate spending
• Party campaign spending

Candidate spending is when a candidate authorises campaigning to promote them at an election. For example, leaflets, billboard advertising, websites and campaign staff costs.

Party campaign spending is authorised by a party to promote the party and its policies generally. For example, national newspaper adverts for the party, or leaflets explaining party policy. It also includes spending on promoting candidates at elections where the party nominates a list of candidates for a region, rather than individual candidates for local areas.

The Reason

It's all about Legitimacy. The Conservatives won the 2015 General Election returning 331 MPs which gave them a 12 seat majority.

If just 6 winning MPs independently broke the law to win their seats this would reduce the number of Conservatives in Westminster to the magic 325 and they'd no longer have a majority.

However the very real possibility of a Party wide conspiracy, systematically cheating to win, has attracted the Electoral Commission's eye - resulting in them requesting the involvement of various Police Authorities and the Crown (CPS) Prosecution Service - and, if proven, signals the end of Westminster as we know it.

Just imagine if everything the Conservative Gov't has enacted since 2015 turns out to have no democratic legitimacy.

The Action

Despite this being probably the most important news story in a generation, the silence is deafening. This resource was created to aid investigation and has been opened to you in the hope that some of you will be encouraged to look a little deeper.

The information here is by no means definitive, it's just the tip of the iceberg. Look around, take nothing for granted, share what you find and add to the data to help continue the investigation.

The Players (52)

Philip Allott Stuart Andrew MP Gavin Barwell MP Jake Berry MP James Berry MP Alun Cairns MP David Cameron MP Neil Carmichael MP Maria Caulfield MP Alex Chalk MP Oliver Colvile MP

Graham Cox Byron Davies MP Chris Davies MP Nick De Bois Michelle Donelan MP Michael Ellis MP George Eustice MP Graham Evans MP Kevin Foster MP Marcus Fysh MP Robert Halfon MP

Luke Hall MP James Heappey MP Alison Hernandez PCC Robert Jenrick MP Marcus Jones MP Simon Kirby MP Craig Mackinlay MP Mary Macleod Scott Mann MP Tania Mathias MP Karl McCartney MP

Amanda Milling MP Nigel Mills MP David Morris MP Stephen Mosley David Nuttall MP Chris Philp MP Will Quince MP Mary Robinson MP Amber Rudd MP Paul Scully MP Anna Soubry MP

Mark Spencer MP John Stevenson MP Maggie Throup MP Kelly Tolhurst MP Giles Watling Craig Whittaker MP Mike Wood MP William Wragg MP

The Extras (8)

Andrew Feldman - Lord Stephen Gilbert - Lord

Michael Gove MP Chris Grayling MP

Jeremy Hunt MP Boris Johnson MP

Theresa May MP Grant Shapps MP

The Crew (5)

Mark Clarke

Lynton Crosby - Sir

Henry McCrory

Jim Messina

Nick Timothy

The Pictures (50)

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The Time

Only 67 days left. For some inexplicable reason if you cheat at politics and no-one notices for a whole year then you get away with it. Luckily someone noticed, the CPS started an investigation and several Police Authorities applied for an "extension to the time limit available to pursue criminal prosecutions."

Time's up on 7th May 2017. Hopefully, the reason it's all quiet out there is because the various Police Authorities are busily preparing iron-clad cases, however one already dropped case doesn't give much cause for hope.

The Media (46)

A Level Politics Another Angry Voice Basildon Canvey Southend Echo BBC Birmingham Post Bristol Post Byline Channel 4 Cheshire Constabulary Cornwall Live Coventry Telegraph Daily Mail Eastbourne Independent Express and Echo Gazette & Herald Gloucestershire Live Great British Politics Heat Street Herald Express Inside Croydon ITV Kent Online Liberal Democrat Voice Manchester Evening News Mark Pack Mirror New Statesman Northampton Chronicle & Echo Nottingham Post Police Professional Political Scrapbook Rossendale Free Press RT Somerset Live Sussex Express The Bolton News The Canary The Chester Chronicle The Eye The Guardian The Herald The Independent The Lincolnite The Political Medway The Telegraph Zelo Street

The Police (22)

Avon and Somerset Constabulary
Cheshire Constabulary
Cumbria Constabulary
Derbyshire Constabulary
Devon and Cornwall Police
Essex Police
Gloucestershire Constabulary
Greater Manchester Police
Kent Police
Lancashire Constabulary
Lincolnshire Police
Metropolitan Police
Northamptonshire Police
Nottinghamshire Police
South Wales Police
Staffordshire Police
Sussex Police
Warwickshire Police
West Mercia Police
West Midlands Police
West Yorkshire Police
Wiltshire Police

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