Illegal candidate
- 9 Aug 07, 03:50 PM
A viewer, Dan Bindman, has written to say that the Conservative candidate in the , Tony Lit, wasn’t even qualified to stand - at least not under Conservative Party rules.
As everyone knows, Mr Lit only joined the party a few days before he was unveiled as the Tory candidate in Ealing. Dan points out that under the party rules, a candidate must have belonged to the party for at least three months before he can stand for a Parliamentary election.
It’s all set out in the following document which one can download from the Conservative Party website .
"Do I need to be a member of the Conservative party to be a candidate?" it asks in one of a series of questions and answers. The response: "We require everyone to be a paid-up member of the party of at least 3 months."
Mr Lit made much in his election literature about how he’d been personally asked by David Cameron to stand as the candidate.
Perhaps if the Tory leader had obeyed his party rules, and let the local association in Ealing pick their contender (in line with his commitment to devolving power), he would have faced a lot less grief.
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Nice one, Dan Bindman. Is there a possibility that the party Mr Lit actually joined was 'Cameron's Conservatives', a different (much smaller) party whose rules seem to perplex even its members?
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CAMER-ON CLOWNING
There's a toff everyone knows as Dave
We thought he knew how to behave
Tony Lit was his mate
Right up till Membergate
Now he's turned out a fool - or a knave.
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