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Old April 29th 08, 06:20 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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Default The 'South London Overground' and the Mayoral election

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:52:27 +0100, Graeme Wall
wrote:

In message
James Farrar wrote:

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:33:41 -0700 (PDT), MIG
wrote:

On 29 Apr, 11:07, John B wrote:
On Apr 29, 10:17 am, "John Rowland"

wrote:
[...] Ken Livingstone's pet projects [...] for the benefit of
Londoners.

LOL.

You think he doesn't want their votes?

Thanks to Labour's ballot-rigging, he hardly needs anyone's votes.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3828322.ece

Wow, it's like having our very own automatic Daily Mail Talking Point-
bot.


I wonder why he calls it Labour's ballot rigging?


Because it is enabled by a measure brought in by Labour and has
predominantly been done by Labour.


Neither of which statements are true.


"2000 Postal voting on demand introduced with pilots in 32 areas"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3578882.ece

Remind me which party formed the Government at the time?


A House of Commons briefing note lists a significant number of postal
vote fraud and suspected fraud cases, the majority of which involve
fraud or alleged fraud by Labour:

http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib...snpc-03667.pdf