As Jonathan Calder and Stephen Tall have already pointed out the online petition organised by The Liberal calling for Charles Kennedy to resign appears to have no way of checking whether the people signing are actually Liberal Democrat members at all.
For example I was able to sign it with the entirely ficticious name of Ben Rammisatosser giving the email address as Ben.Ramm@libdems.org.uk.
Any news reort quoting the number of people signing it should be ignored as a result and any journalist reporting such figures as fact - without finding out first how The Liberal has verified the membership of each person signing - should be ashamed of themselves.
2 comments:
Neil. Happy New Year to you Sam and the family....
I am torn between organising a "Plaid for Charlie Campaign" or a "Ming the merciles for domination of the universe" campaign....
I understand there is a "Tories for Charlie Campaign" however it turns out that its for Tories who went to Eton and nothing to do with current or ex-Lib dems.....they also seemed to get totally the wrong impression about my contacts in the Andes.....:)
:-)
Happy New Year to you too Mark.
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