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The future of the far-right leader Marine Le Pen will be decided on Monday when a court hands down its verdict on charges she and party officials embezzled money from the European parliament. If convicted, she could be barred from running for the presidency.
@kibcol1049 Far right "leaders" are always involved in some scandal or another of bribes, embezzlement etc etc there is her in France, former Reform leader in Wales, clearly #Trump and so many others.
#FBPE @TimWardCam@c.im@WittyDragon @kibcol1049 There was even a UKIP candidate in my ward who forged signatures on his nomination form.
Which shows unbelievable ignorance and stupidity - he could have collected the ten signatures by knocking on doors at random. Anyone in the politics business knows that there are enough people who will sign anything if that's the quickest way to get you off their doorstep.
@TimWardCam @WittyDragon @kibcol1049 the actual elected UKIP Councillor for a region where I work murdered his wife, then called nines himself and when the Police turned up just said "I've been a very naughty boy". Had enough money and connections to afford good enough defence lawyers to only get 16 year minimum stretch (although a wider problem in society is minimum terms for murder are surprisingly low when the victim is someone known to the offender)
@vfrmedia @TimWardCam @WittyDragon @kibcol1049 Ignoring the politics here, judicial attitudes towards murder are informed by millennia of experience that most of us, thankfully, have no good reason to know much about. But courts very much do.
The rather sad fact is that it's been known for thousands of years that people are more likely to murder someone they know, and believe they have reason to. Sentencing habits reflect this reality, without endorsing it.
@TimWardCam @WittyDragon @kibcol1049 just had my letter from Farage just in time for recycling collection. But I am registered with mailing preference service. He addressed his envelope to me by name. Reform is a company not a political party so he’s breaking the law
And he fiddled his EU expenses just like Marine le Pen 
What is it about these far right grifters 
@John_Loader @WittyDragon @kibcol1049 Probably not, I'm afraid. His agent is probably the right side of electoral law - there's quite a lot candidates and their agents *can* do.
(There was even a ruling that parties don't have to obey TPS. But even though it's theoretically legal *I* am not going to phone anyone TPS registered, even if only on the purely practical grounds that the best it can do is lose a vote.)