Top Metropolitan Police detectives have today commenced investigating fraud and corruption allegations arising from the strange circumstances in which the Brexit Party suddenly about turned and decided to give Conservatives a ‘free ride’ in the General Election. Southport is one of the couple of dozen ‘key seats’ in the country where, before the ‘deal’ was announced, top Tories feared a Lib Dem win if the Brexit Party did not stand down . This has given rise to speculation that perhaps Darcy of Churchtown might have been on the cards as part of an illicit ‘deal’. Brexit Party candidate Darcy Iveson-Berkeley has shown a very public willingness to stand aside and endorse Tory Damien Moore in Southport if that is what Nigel Farage tells him to do.
Claims that the Tories “induced Brexit Party candidates to stand down” have grown stronger as the highly-religious Brexit MEP Ann Widdecombe has publicly stated that she will ‘swear on the Bible’ that she was offered a top job in the Brexit negotiations by senior and powerful Tories. The words of former Tory minister Ann Widdicombe give most cause for concern to Top Tories since whatever people otherwise think of the eccentric MEP, she is known as being both truthful and highly-religious. So when she says ‘on the Bible’ that things have happened, people are inclined to believe her.
However, Ms Widdecombe’s extreme Christian views have seen her labelled as a homophobe and bigot by many over the years.
As a Shadow Home Office minister in 1996, Ms Widdecombe notoriously defended the practice of chaining up female prisoners in jail.
Ms Widdecombe left the Church of England and joined the Catholic church in 1992 – in protest at the decision to ordain female priests. Even in 2010 she was unrepentant, saying “it’s theologically impossible to ordain women”.
Ms Widdecombe has obstinately voted against LGBT rights and equality. Those included voted against equalising the age of consent at 16, civil partnerships and the repeal of Section 28.
In 2000 she told MPs she “rejected” the idea “that there is somehow equal validity between the homosexual lifestyle and marriage and family.”
The Police investigation was launched after former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer wrote to the head of Scotland Yard and to the Director of Public Prosecutions seeking a probe into “exceptionally serious allegations” that Nigel Farage and eight other unnamed Brexit Party bigwigs were offered peerages to stand down in favour to ‘save the neck’ of particular Conservative MPs.
Eyebrows were raised when Nigel Farage, having publicly attacked Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal as being a fraud, suddenly did a complete about-turn and promised his candidates would not oppose Tory MPs standing for Parliament. The strength of this statement can still be seen on the Brexit Party website: https://www.thebrexitparty.org/read-this/?utm_campaign=8001772252&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=395993816341&utm_term=the%20brexit%20party&adgroupid=77842559730&gclid=Cj0KCQiA2b7uBRDsARIsAEE9XpFQVQ_2qdGcgYSJujfx4vRr1aDJS5xccpM8Yi-0rV4PWBNPdVGppiMaAovpEALw_wcB
The Metropolitan Police have a ‘Special Enquiry Team’ which is responsible for investigating all such criminal allegations wherever they occur in the country. Lord Falconer wrote to the them: “I wish to raise with you as a matter of urgency a number of recent reports in which senior figures in the Brexit Party have alleged that some of their candidates had been approached by the Conservative Party in an effort to persuade them to withdraw their candidacies from the upcoming General Election. I believe these allegations raise serious questions about the integrity of the upcoming General Election, and in particular whether senior individuals at CCHQ or No. 10 have breached two sections of the Representation of the People Act 1983.”
Lord Falconer cites the sections of the Act which refers to “bribery” and “corruptly” inducing or procuring someone to withdraw from being a candidate at an election. He said: “These are exceptionally serious allegations which the DPP must, in accordance with his statutory duty, fully investigate as a matter of urgency.,In order to maintain public confidence in the integrity of our electoral processes and this election, it is crucial that the Metropolitan Police also examine these accusations.” There are also questions, if those offering these alleged “sweeties” did so on say-so of government ministers, of charges of ‘Misfeasance in Public Office’ being considered against the Tory politicians involved.
Nigel Farage has claimed he had repeatedly been offered a seat in the House of Lords in an attempt to persuade him to ‘go quietly’ and leave the field free for Boris Johnson’s men. Mr Farage said that when that failed, people working “deep inside Number 10” had tried to bypass him, going directly to other Brexit Party figures in key seats and suggesting eight of them could be made peers if they could persuade him to withdraw more of his candidates.
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