Another Tory vote-rigging scandal

Irn Bru wrote:Moggy! Moggy! Moggy! Out! Out! Out! Tory cat in pet contest vote-rigging scandal

Battersea Dogs and Cats Home is running an online Purr Minister competition to raise funds and attract publicity - but one right-wing cat is under suspicion

Fur is flying in Westminster over claims of cheating in a beauty contest for MPs’ CATS.

London’s Battersea Dogs and Cats Home is running an online Purr Minister competition to raise funds and attract publicity.

But contestants became ­suspicious when Tory MP Sheryll Murray’s cat Bosun clawed in 30,000 votes in just seven hours – or 70 a minute. It works out as 70.6% of the total votes cast.

Labour’s Andrew Gwynne, who withdrew his pet Jude in protest on Friday, said: “I think there has been vote-rigging. It is not fair – it is against the spirit of it.”

Mr Gwynne said an IT worker friend told him someone may have used computer trickery to bombard the ­charity’s site with votes for Bosun.

When he told daughter Maisie, 12, she said: “Cheating is wrong.”

Ms Murray declined to comment but her office manager Bob Davidson said: "Obviously there have been dirty tricks.

"It could have been an opponent trying to frame her.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/moggy-moggy-moggy-out-out-3130114

Is there no end to the depths that these people will go?

Irn Bru wrote:

Ms Murray declined to comment but her office manager Bob Davidson said: "Obviously there have been dirty tricks.

"It could have been an opponent trying to frame her.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/moggy-moggy-moggy-out-out-3130114

Is there no end to the depths that these people will go?

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Irn Bru wrote:Moggy! Moggy! Moggy! Out! Out! Out! Tory cat in pet contest vote-rigging scandal

Battersea Dogs and Cats Home is running an online Purr Minister competition to raise funds and attract publicity - but one right-wing cat is under suspicion

Fur is flying in Westminster over claims of cheating in a beauty contest for MPs’ CATS.

London’s Battersea Dogs and Cats Home is running an online Purr Minister competition to raise funds and attract publicity.

But contestants became ­suspicious when Tory MP Sheryll Murray’s cat Bosun clawed in 30,000 votes in just seven hours – or 70 a minute. It works out as 70.6% of the total votes cast.

Labour’s Andrew Gwynne, who withdrew his pet Jude in protest on Friday, said: “I think there has been vote-rigging. It is not fair – it is against the spirit of it.”

Mr Gwynne said an IT worker friend told him someone may have used computer trickery to bombard the ­charity’s site with votes for Bosun.

When he told daughter Maisie, 12, she said: “Cheating is wrong.”

Ms Murray declined to comment but her office manager Bob Davidson said: "Obviously there have been dirty tricks.

"It could have been an opponent trying to frame her.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/moggy-moggy-moggy-out-out-3130114

Is there no end to the depths that these people will go?

Maybe they should ask this bunch how to plumb new depths...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10616150/Leaked-Falkirk-report-alleges-vote-rigging-cover-up.html

Hamster wrote:Well thanks to the Daily Mirror, fine paper that it is, the cats out of the bag so to speak.

I'm glad that the really important issues are discussed on here as well as trivia.