According to the SNP's official Facebook and Twitter page (who says Nats aren't down with the kids?), Labour has been found "guilty of breaching privacy rules by making unsolicited automated phone calls".
There is precious little detail of what and where the story relates to but I do know there has been such phone calls made in the Edinburgh area so could well be close to home. Or, alternatively, could be Dundee going by this story around the time of the European elections.
UPDATE:
The story is now up on the BBC and relates to recorded messages from Vera Duckworth in 2007. Labour was told to stop making such calls but persevered in 2009 and have now been hit with an 'enforcement notice'.
The 'robo-calling' is reminiscent of the calls Alex Ferguson made on behalf of Labour in the Glasgow North East by-election but, to be fair, the same has been done in the past by the SNP with Sean Connery providing the recorded message.
That said, if there is a rule that political parties shouldn't do this, all subsequently do it anyway,they collectively get told not to it and then Labour is found to be continuing the practice illegally, surely at some point some sort of action has to be taken?
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8 comments:
The SNP was the first party to do it I believe. The initial ruling was against the SNP.
Labour have blatantly broken that ruling.
It's actually difficult to understand why. They could not have imagined they would get away with it.
Aye the SNP did it, but the Liberals complained and we got in trouble for it.
Then they did the same themselves..
Labour did horribly in the 2009 Euro elections and they should have lost more seats. Shame.
I got the Vera Duckworth message in 2007 in a council seat Labour were targetting. They lost. Badly.
Btw congrats on the blog Jeff, readable, reasonable and as objective as any I've come across. Although being an English Tory I'm probably not your target audience...
aha ha ha ha
'robocalling'
It MUST be Rufus from the Scotsman.
That deadpan metallic voice whispering banal platitudes and unending unionist rhetoric.
ah ha ha ha
Nats and Tories done in 05, but the Commissioner's ruling said he investigated Labour and they promised to be really really good so he didn't take action.
Odd that some parties get done and some don't wouldn't you think...
Whoever does it is doing the wrong thing.
Bit I feel that all the parties should say that if no action is taken against labour after breaking the law continuously, then we should all be doing it at the election.
We all want a level playing field, just advise where that playing field is.
Labour promised not to be naughty in 2005 it seems, then they were. But no financial penalty and no doubt they said they will be good until the next time.
The Sun seems keen to push Cameron as a sensible polly and not a stuck up arrogant tory toff who does not think the SNP have a place in any debate involving Scotland, coveing Scottish issues and shown in Scotland.
He is going about things just the right way to continue to have 1 MP through the entire country.
Although I hate labour under Brown, I would be tempted to vote labour in the Borders, which I see as their only hope, just to keep any loudmouth lover of the Tory club out.
Then we can see who is irrelevant.
This arrogance will cost him in the North of England as well, they will not put up with this holier than thou attitude either.
Ash othersh have shaid, the ShNP did sho firsht:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article376835.ece
Labour's snubbing of electoral commission rulings is disreputable, but it was known before that this was sharp practice.
I believe the LibDems also did so.
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