Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
In my experience of 3 general elections as a candidate, the election expenses tended to be dealt with by the Agents. The candidate would ask for a leaflet on issues arising “on the stomp” & be told whether the cost of extra election literature could be met within the prescribed legal limits or within defined local budgets. The candidate signed off the elections expenditure after the event & as submitted by the Agent.
In this case it appears that national costs were also involved & how the expenditure was allocated.
I know from comments during the campaign from people supporting the local party that a major part of the activity operating from South Thanet related to the national -not local - campaign supported & organised from Conservative CHQ staff.
It is has their costs are differentiated is the issue.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,070
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
retired to where bob. lol
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
- Posts: 1,071
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,070
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
- Posts: 1,071
#25 ' Little' does he know, it would appear.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,875
Possibly the right decision but I bet he no longer signs documents without reading them, while she is very lucky to only get a suspended sentence.
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