BRITISH POLITICS: CONSERVATIVE PARTY CAMPAIGN MANAGER FOR NIGEL FARAGE OPPONENT FOUND GUILTY
In the 2015 General Election in the UK Nigel Farage was making a bid to be elected to the House of Commons when he led the United Kingdom Independence Party. When the results were counted election night in the South Thanet constituency it took all night as many postal ballots (absentee ballots) were counted.
In the end Conservative Party candidate Craig Mackinlay won but there was the smell of wrong doing by the Tories in this race and dozens of others across the UK.
Cases were brought against the Conservatives under British electoral laws and finally Wednesday a jury made a decision about South Thanet.
Marion Little, Mackinlay's campaign manager, was found guilty on two counts of falsifying campaign finance reports to hide illegal overspending.
Little was given a nine month suspended sentence by the judge. The judge suspended the sentence for two years because she is caring for her terminally ill husband.
The jury also found Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay not guilty of violating the campaign finance laws. Mackinlay had signed the false reports prepared by Little.
The prosecutor argued that the Conservative Party fought the normally safe South Thanet seat violating campaign finance laws against Farage so they could "knock him out" of politics.
Speaking on his radio show Wednesday Mr. Farage commented on the case:
"British politics is dominated by two big parties and despite the legislation and despite the electoral commission frankly if you're a big party and its an important by-election or a very important seat you can just break the law with impunity because nothing is ever going to happen to you."
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