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Corbyn 'vote-buying scam' exposed: Secret funds 'aim to pay back the £25 Labour sign-up fee if…[tr]
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 19:05 EST, 20 July 2016 | Gerri Peev

Posted on 07/20/2016 9:43:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Some of Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters were promised £25 from a secret fund to pay their fees to vote for the underfire Labour leader to retain his position against Owen Smith, it emerged last night.

The Labour Party has closed a JustGiving page that raised more than £14,000 in three days to pay people to vote in the election.

The money will now be returned to donors after the party’s ruling National Executive Committee said it breached its rules.

A separate Facebook group, named Gimme 25, had amassed almost 3,000 members. On its page, it says: “Don’t think of it as begging; just think of it as direct socialism.” …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: corbyn; electionfraud; labour
Full title: Corbyn 'vote-buying scam' exposed: Secret funds 'aim to pay back the £25 Labour sign-up fee if people join the party and then vote for the under-fire leader to retain his position against Owen Smith'

There you go, “direct socialism”.

1 posted on 07/20/2016 9:43:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you that liberals would do such a thing.

Shocked.

{{{Come on now. Don't give Hillary any ideas...}}}

2 posted on 07/21/2016 12:02:55 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ ~~~~ Appeasing evil is cowardice.)
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To: BlessedBeGod

Bad ideas have been migrating out of Europe since two centuries ago. Seems they ran out of good ideas once the USA was established.


3 posted on 07/21/2016 6:39:54 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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