Archive for elwyn watkins
How you can help Elwyn Watkins and Fernando North
I was helping out in two by-elections over this weekend. On Saturday it was phoning for Elwyn Watkins in Oldham. If like me you’ve not been able to make it there in person (yet!), making phone calls is a really effective way of doing something for his campaign from home. To offer your services, contact [...]
January by-election in Oldham East & Saddleworth (but we can win before Christmas)
Item: The by-election team in Oldham East & Saddleworth have confirmed that Phil Woolas’s judicial review judgement won’t be given this week. Item: According to Oldham Council, the last date in 2010 they can run a by-election is December 16th. Item: Students of election law will already have calculated that the writ for a by-election [...]
Why Iain Dale is wrong about libel
Iain Dale has posed the question why Elwyn Watkins, the Liberal Democrat candidate up against Phil Woolas, didn’t sue for libel instead of looking to have his election result over-turned: To my mind, the way these kind of disputes should be resolved is not to take them to ‘election courts’, but instead through the libel [...]
Phil Woolas election case: follow the online coverage
Monday sees the start of a court case against Labour MP Phil Woolas alleging false statements were made about his Liberal Democrat opponent, Elwyn Watkins, during the general election earlier this year.
Oldham election result heading to court
As we reported last month, the election result in Oldham East and Saddleworth - where Labour's Phil Woolas hung on by just 103 votes - has triggered complaints from the Liberal Democrat candidate, Elwyn Watkins, that Labour's campaign broke the law. The case is now heading to the courts.
