07 April, 2005
Can Brum legal bid halt May election?
The deputy leader of Birmingham City Council has started a legal process that could force Tony Blair to postpone the General Election until adequate safeguards are in place to prevent postal vote fraud.
John Hemming wants the High Court to allow a judicial review into the Prime Minister's decision to go to the country on May 5.
Coun Hemming, who is the prospective Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Birmingham Yardley, said he was taking the unprecedented step of attempting to block the election because of the "very real likelihood" that scores of inner city constituencies across the UK would be riddled by ballot rigging.
(link from Bob Piper)
¶ Thursday, April 07, 2005
John Hemming wants the High Court to allow a judicial review into the Prime Minister's decision to go to the country on May 5.
Coun Hemming, who is the prospective Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Birmingham Yardley, said he was taking the unprecedented step of attempting to block the election because of the "very real likelihood" that scores of inner city constituencies across the UK would be riddled by ballot rigging.
(link from Bob Piper)
¶ Thursday, April 07, 2005
