A police investigation into the conduct of the General Election in the east London constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow has found no evidence to support allegations from MP George Galloway of widespread fraud, it has been revealed.
Specialists from the Metropolitan Police Special Branch found that, although electoral records held by Tower Hamlets Borough Council were "not reliable", there had been "remarkably little" polling fraud in the borough.
In fact, Galloway never reported it to police or provided any evidence.
He later told the London Assembly that police had been provided with details of addresses where he feared "very significant prima facie electoral fraud" had taken place.
He said the addresses represented only "the tip of the iceberg" and claimed that Labour had been involved in a campaign to pad the electoral register with non-existent voters.
But an Assembly report into the election revealed that police had no record of any complaints at all from the MP.
In a letter published as an annex to the report, Inspector Graham Brown, of the Met's Government Affairs Unit, wrote: "At no stage has Mr Galloway ever reported any suspicions direct to police or produced any relevant evidence."
Right, so charge Galloway with wasting police time and get our money back. How many more crimes does this guy have to commit before he's jailed?
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