As elections approach all UK political parties will be splashing the cash and searching for the funds to do so. Here's a scam that Labour has used in a deeply corrupt West Midlands Borough.
The Borough in question is a Labour stronghold. Most seats were "safe" in 2014 and the party devised a simple scam. A crony of a Labour MP was selected for a Council seat. Upon his inevitable victory he would receive the usual annual allowances and the Party promised to immediately place him in committee positions so that he would also receive additional "special responsibility payments" from us taxpayers. In return, the candidate, when elected, made a £5,000 donation to Labour Party funds.
As so it came to pass. The taxpayer "paid back" the Councillor for his "gift" and Labour were £5k up. In any normal Council area this would be considered to be fraud but, happily, the local Police were in the pocket of Labour and declined to even investigate this scam. Most forces around the country are similarly disinclined to investigate such matters and so the odds of getting away with this scam are very favourable!
Notwithstanding all this having been placed in the public domain for some considerable time, "The King" has recently honoured the Councillor concerned with an M.B.E., giving royal sanction to the scam. Perhaps it should have been an OBE - the Order of the Brown Envelope!
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