Less than a week into the Gorton & Denton buy-election campaign & Reform UIK Ltd (the business masquerading as a political party) are being investigated by the police for failing to disclose that a letter sent to voters was paid for by Reform.
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Less than a week into the Gorton & Denton buy-election campaign & Reform UIK Ltd (the business masquerading as a political party) are being investigated by the police for failing to disclose that a letter sent to voters was paid for by Reform.
As usual Reform are trying to blame others (this time claiming it was their printer who failed to include the legally required notice of funding), but we can be confident there's dodginess more to come.
#GortonAndDenton #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/reform-police-investigation-letter-byelection-campaign-gorton-denton@ChrisMayLA6 Farage’s UKIP. Farage’s Brexit. Farage’s Reform. It was all right there...
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Less than a week into the Gorton & Denton buy-election campaign & Reform UIK Ltd (the business masquerading as a political party) are being investigated by the police for failing to disclose that a letter sent to voters was paid for by Reform.
As usual Reform are trying to blame others (this time claiming it was their printer who failed to include the legally required notice of funding), but we can be confident there's dodginess more to come.
#GortonAndDenton #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/reform-police-investigation-letter-byelection-campaign-gorton-denton@ChrisMayLA6 Well, it's true that a competent and experienced printer of election material will query artwork that doesn't contain the imprint, but that's not an excuse for failing to include the imprint in the first place.
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Less than a week into the Gorton & Denton buy-election campaign & Reform UIK Ltd (the business masquerading as a political party) are being investigated by the police for failing to disclose that a letter sent to voters was paid for by Reform.
As usual Reform are trying to blame others (this time claiming it was their printer who failed to include the legally required notice of funding), but we can be confident there's dodginess more to come.
#GortonAndDenton #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/reform-police-investigation-letter-byelection-campaign-gorton-denton@ChrisMayLA6 Of course thy did! Simple oversight, Guv! Just like those dodgy finances of Farage's. All someone else's fault. A pathetic echo of the same excuses from the other side of the Atlantic ("Just an overzealous staffer...") Pull the other one, it has bells on it!
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Less than a week into the Gorton & Denton buy-election campaign & Reform UIK Ltd (the business masquerading as a political party) are being investigated by the police for failing to disclose that a letter sent to voters was paid for by Reform.
As usual Reform are trying to blame others (this time claiming it was their printer who failed to include the legally required notice of funding), but we can be confident there's dodginess more to come.
#GortonAndDenton #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/reform-police-investigation-letter-byelection-campaign-gorton-denton@ChrisMayLA6 Normally printing firms will ask their customers to approve a final proof before they do any actual printing.
If they have a record of this then I wonder if they might have a case for defamation or something?
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Less than a week into the Gorton & Denton buy-election campaign & Reform UIK Ltd (the business masquerading as a political party) are being investigated by the police for failing to disclose that a letter sent to voters was paid for by Reform.
As usual Reform are trying to blame others (this time claiming it was their printer who failed to include the legally required notice of funding), but we can be confident there's dodginess more to come.
#GortonAndDenton #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/reform-police-investigation-letter-byelection-campaign-gorton-denton@ChrisMayLA6 Reform: Big claims, absolutely massive incompetence.
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Less than a week into the Gorton & Denton buy-election campaign & Reform UIK Ltd (the business masquerading as a political party) are being investigated by the police for failing to disclose that a letter sent to voters was paid for by Reform.
As usual Reform are trying to blame others (this time claiming it was their printer who failed to include the legally required notice of funding), but we can be confident there's dodginess more to come.
#GortonAndDenton #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/reform-police-investigation-letter-byelection-campaign-gorton-denton@ChrisMayLA6 even in the unlikely event it was the printer’s error, that’s irrelevant. Conform UK’s election agent is legally responsible for compliance
But of course, it was as likely deliberate as not. Their “concerned neighbour” letter will have landed with some voters as genuine, rather than election literature and when they are fined or reprimanded, they can play the victim and claim they’re being silenced by the metropolitan elite
Classic Trump
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@ChrisMayLA6 Normally printing firms will ask their customers to approve a final proof before they do any actual printing.
If they have a record of this then I wonder if they might have a case for defamation or something?
@ChrisMayLA6 Interestingly it seems that the printing company has taken responsibility for the omission.
https://manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-reform-uk-just-broke-electoral-law-in-gorton-denton/
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Less than a week into the Gorton & Denton buy-election campaign & Reform UIK Ltd (the business masquerading as a political party) are being investigated by the police for failing to disclose that a letter sent to voters was paid for by Reform.
As usual Reform are trying to blame others (this time claiming it was their printer who failed to include the legally required notice of funding), but we can be confident there's dodginess more to come.
#GortonAndDenton #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/reform-police-investigation-letter-byelection-campaign-gorton-denton@ChrisMayLA6 How many times can Reform Ltd and Farage ignore or blatantly break the laws and rules before their licence to operate as a political party or Limited Company will be suspended. Or can they face legal action for regular law-breaking? If not, why not?
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@ChrisMayLA6 Interestingly it seems that the printing company has taken responsibility for the omission.
https://manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-reform-uk-just-broke-electoral-law-in-gorton-denton/
@FenTiger @ChrisMayLA6 Were they paid to take responsibility? Any printing company worth its salt knows the rules about promotional fliers.
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@FenTiger @ChrisMayLA6 Were they paid to take responsibility? Any printing company worth its salt knows the rules about promotional fliers.
See the thread for some discussion of this very issue...
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@ChrisMayLA6 How many times can Reform Ltd and Farage ignore or blatantly break the laws and rules before their licence to operate as a political party or Limited Company will be suspended. Or can they face legal action for regular law-breaking? If not, why not?
Its a good Q.; you might think the Companies House would take an interest, but they are really only concerned with accounting practices.... as far as repeated illegal acts, I'm not so sure other than the costs of fines there's much else that can be done to a firm - and even that would require a willingness to prosecute which would seem to be lacking
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Less than a week into the Gorton & Denton buy-election campaign & Reform UIK Ltd (the business masquerading as a political party) are being investigated by the police for failing to disclose that a letter sent to voters was paid for by Reform.
As usual Reform are trying to blame others (this time claiming it was their printer who failed to include the legally required notice of funding), but we can be confident there's dodginess more to come.
#GortonAndDenton #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/reform-police-investigation-letter-byelection-campaign-gorton-denton@ChrisMayLA6 Even if it was the printer that stuffed up, it’s on them for not checking it and distributing it.
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@ChrisMayLA6 even in the unlikely event it was the printer’s error, that’s irrelevant. Conform UK’s election agent is legally responsible for compliance
But of course, it was as likely deliberate as not. Their “concerned neighbour” letter will have landed with some voters as genuine, rather than election literature and when they are fined or reprimanded, they can play the victim and claim they’re being silenced by the metropolitan elite
Classic Trump
@Simon318ppm @ChrisMayLA6
The other candidates should ask Reform to produce Patricia! Let her tell us the "truth"! -
@ChrisMayLA6 even in the unlikely event it was the printer’s error, that’s irrelevant. Conform UK’s election agent is legally responsible for compliance
But of course, it was as likely deliberate as not. Their “concerned neighbour” letter will have landed with some voters as genuine, rather than election literature and when they are fined or reprimanded, they can play the victim and claim they’re being silenced by the metropolitan elite
Classic Trump
@Simon318ppm @ChrisMayLA6 I know it's an autocarrot error, but "Conform UK" is an *amazing* name for that crowd of reactionary chancers.
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Less than a week into the Gorton & Denton buy-election campaign & Reform UIK Ltd (the business masquerading as a political party) are being investigated by the police for failing to disclose that a letter sent to voters was paid for by Reform.
As usual Reform are trying to blame others (this time claiming it was their printer who failed to include the legally required notice of funding), but we can be confident there's dodginess more to come.
#GortonAndDenton #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/reform-police-investigation-letter-byelection-campaign-gorton-denton@ChrisMayLA6
Of COURSE this was intentional from Deform UK!
They will have weighed the costs/benefits of breaking the law v. the political advantages (+ the media polemic: "no such thing as bad publicity", that they can also massage to their advantage).
Yes, classic Trump.
The adequate sanction here should be disqualification, even though they'll claim bias etc. ad nauseam. Rules are rules. -
Less than a week into the Gorton & Denton buy-election campaign & Reform UIK Ltd (the business masquerading as a political party) are being investigated by the police for failing to disclose that a letter sent to voters was paid for by Reform.
As usual Reform are trying to blame others (this time claiming it was their printer who failed to include the legally required notice of funding), but we can be confident there's dodginess more to come.
#GortonAndDenton #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/reform-police-investigation-letter-byelection-campaign-gorton-denton@ChrisMayLA6 And idiots will still vote for these idiots.
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Less than a week into the Gorton & Denton buy-election campaign & Reform UIK Ltd (the business masquerading as a political party) are being investigated by the police for failing to disclose that a letter sent to voters was paid for by Reform.
As usual Reform are trying to blame others (this time claiming it was their printer who failed to include the legally required notice of funding), but we can be confident there's dodginess more to come.
#GortonAndDenton #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/reform-police-investigation-letter-byelection-campaign-gorton-denton@ChrisMayLA6
I think printers printing election material know well-enough what is required, and where advice might be sought.Is the printer linked?
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Less than a week into the Gorton & Denton buy-election campaign & Reform UIK Ltd (the business masquerading as a political party) are being investigated by the police for failing to disclose that a letter sent to voters was paid for by Reform.
As usual Reform are trying to blame others (this time claiming it was their printer who failed to include the legally required notice of funding), but we can be confident there's dodginess more to come.
#GortonAndDenton #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/reform-police-investigation-letter-byelection-campaign-gorton-denton@ChrisMayLA6 In Caerphilly, they included the disclaimer, but someone ineligible outside the constituency wrote the letter. They tried to brush that off.
Now, in Gorton, it’s blame the printer and try to brush that off again.- The Electoral Commission need to start fining parties the maximum possible for a first offence.
- I don’t believe this letter was written by whoever they claim; compare it to the other letters and doorstep the supposed author until some truth comes out.
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Less than a week into the Gorton & Denton buy-election campaign & Reform UIK Ltd (the business masquerading as a political party) are being investigated by the police for failing to disclose that a letter sent to voters was paid for by Reform.
As usual Reform are trying to blame others (this time claiming it was their printer who failed to include the legally required notice of funding), but we can be confident there's dodginess more to come.
#GortonAndDenton #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/reform-police-investigation-letter-byelection-campaign-gorton-denton -
@ChrisMayLA6 Farage’s UKIP. Farage’s Brexit. Farage’s Reform. It was all right there...
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