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Wednesday, June 30, 2004 

Regional Assembly Referenda Delay?

The Liverpool Echo yesterday reported that the Regional Assembly referenda could be delayed due to strong pressure from the Electoral Commission for a decisions to be delayed pending delivery of their report on postal voting not due until 13th September. The article is linked from here, the following is a quote:

The Electoral Commission's plea was revealed by Tory former minister Peter Viggers, who answers Commons questions on behalf of the watchdog.

Mr Viggers said: "The Commission believed there would be benefit in Parliament having available to it the evaluation report on the June pilots before taking a decision on whether to approve the orders specifying the form of the referendum."

The revelation will increase speculation that the Commission will decide, in September, that traditional polling booths should not be scrapped for the referendum.

The Government has already agreed it cannot press ahead if all-postal ballots are ruled to be "unsafe" and warned a delay would then be almost inevitable.

With voting in the winter ruled out, that raises the prospect of the long-awaited referendum not taking place this year.


This makes all the more ridiculous the official UKIP decision not to run candidates in the 15th July by elections, which coming the day after the Butler report on Iraq war spin from Downing Street make a massacre of Labour a near racing certainty, see our earlier posts of today below for links.

This is the statement by the party that just a couple of weeks ago was campaigning as a new force in British politics anxious to deliver the country from the grips of the EU and the present lying political parties:

UKIP will not contest the two upcoming by-elections in Leicester and Birmingham.

Instead the Party will concentrate its resources and effort on campaigning in the three referendums on regional government.
The difficult decision was made by the Party’s new Political Committee on strategic grounds.


What resources and effort does the party need to concentrate on referenda not yet called, in an area they have ignored and disregarded for months, and where adequate and active campaigns already exist!
After all the by-elections will be done and dusted in two weeks.

LYING POLITICIANS? UKIP IS PROVING ITSELF WORLD CLASS!

posted by Martin |1:55 PM
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