Tory whistleblowers accuse Conservatives of 'huge betrayal' of electorate over expenses

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3. Despite evidence like this, the CPS has just announced that no charges will be pressed

against individual MPs in this matter

Link to tweet

Press Association ✔ @PA

#Breaking No criminal charges over 14 police enquiries in to Conservative election spending, CPS says; one file remains under consideration pic.twitter.com/ssl3jlBFkg

Press Association ✔ @PA

Full statement from @cpsuk as it announces no charges over Conservative Party election expenses pic.twitter.com/WB36Q7cfvC

So basically, because Conservative Party Central Office told the MPs and their agents everything was OK, they're off the hook. Ignorance of the law isn't usually a defence.

However, the conduct of the South Thanet election (the Kent Police file) is still under investigation.

The Conservative Party as a whole has already been fined £70,000 for the misreporting of battlebus expenses: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/16/conservatives-fined-70000-mp-reported-police-following-investigation/

Some Tories are now out for blood:

Tory says Electoral Commission should be abolished if its top managers don't resign

The Conservative Karl McCartney, who is seeking re-election as MP for Lincoln and who was one of the MPs under investigation, said the Electoral Commission’s chief executive, Claire Bassett, and her senior management team should resign.

If they don’t, Tory MPs after the election will urge the government “to abolish this incompetent organisation”, he said in a statement.



https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2017/may/10/general-election-2017-tory-mps-expenses-one-show-politics-live?page=with:block-5912ec9ee4b0762dda0b9acc#block-5912ec9ee4b0762dda0b9acc

Sacking somebody for doing their job - albeit slowly - and eventually letting miscreants off the hook on a strict interpretation of the law despite evidence of wrongdoing (a.k.a. a technicality). Ladies and gentlemen - your Conservative Party.