The Tories’ new anti-corruption tsar blames concerns approximately community cohesion for the electoral irregularities in Tower Hamlets. But is he lost the bigger picture?By far the best argument for Eric Pickles when he had a career in front-line politics was that he lifted the curtain. Other Tories clothed ideologies in light suppressing material. Eric loved daylight and the megaphone.
Now out of the government,he has been exiled from the department for communities and local government with a knighthood to the eerie realm of tsardom. Pickles is the government’s new anti-corruption tsar and he is exercised approximately the sanctity of our voting system, notably the terrible excesses that occurred in the London borough of Tower Hamlets. Its preceding mayor, and Lutfur Rahman,was ousted by a judge amid claims of election fraud. A terrible stain on our democracy, it was. Why did it happen? Pickles reveals all to the Spectator.
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Source: theguardian.com