GMB leader 'was elected on rigged ballot'

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=594821

GMB leader 'was elected on rigged ballot'
By Barrie Clement, Labour Editor
20 December 2004


An independent inquiry will be launched today into allegations that one of Gordon Brown's principal political allies in the union movement was elected by a rigged ballot.

Supporters of Kevin Curran, general secretary of the GMB union, a major financial donor to the Labour Party, are accused of a scam in which possibly thousands of voting forms were sent to "safe houses". His backers are also accused of unlawfully using the GMB's money to fund his campaign.

Mr Curran's backers allegedly voted for him on behalf of workers who had died, left the union or failed to pay subscriptions. It is said that the addresses of the "ghost members" were altered so that the forms were dispatched to houses where Mr Curran's supporters would fill the forms in.

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Sounds like American tactics have invaded Britain and the Ukraine!!!

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there are differences in scales, and histories, aren't there?

that does not hide the fact that they are an anti labour (with a small `l') newspaper. Tony O'Reilly, need i say more ?