Granny Farming: Classic or Dud? (clue....)

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So, even though the tories are up in arms about imaginary "postal ballot" abuses, here is a story to tell.

Note: The number of times a conservative party person will claim to have "done nothing wrong" as opposed to "nothing illegal"...

Hmmm.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

Last Saturday morning in the King's Road Malcolm Rifkind was out and about, working the street and being trailed by an ocean of blue balloons. Outside the old Chelsea Barracks I witnessed one of his helpers forcibly place one of these blue balloons in the trembling hand of an elderly disabled Muslim in a wheelchair, the latter having no apparent clue as to what this was all about.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

One time, coming out of school, I saw the local tory MP, name escapes me, looks like Arthur Daley, handing out stickers / balloons to the kids, over the fence standing inside the local old peoples centre. Now, this is illegal, canvassing to kids, quite expressly. But, as he was on private property i.e. the old peoples home, he wasn't actually illegal.

Gerry Vaughan. That's him.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

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