Cartesiano appauled,
Segundo este artigo da BBC, um gangster do Pakistão, condenado por rapto e extorção, era agora membro ativista do Partido Conservador- Tory e depois passou para o Ukip, ou vice-versa. O fulano participava fortemente nas campanhas eleitorais.
Não sabemos se haverá um único cidadão do Commonwealth que não seja visceralmente contra a Europa e a favor da saída do Reino Unido da UE. Estes commonwealths votam nas legislativas do Reino Unido
Por isso, torna-se cada vez mais imperativo de a Comissão Europeia mandar para o Reino Unido uma Directiva (nome das Leis Europeias) para dar direito de voto aos Europeus nas eleições para o Parlamento de Westminster.
Voltando ao assunto do Paqistanês, o Cartesiano está procupado por a ideoplogia do Partido de Cameron e do Ukip atrair este tipo de gente.
Valha-nos Deus, só faltava esta. Aconselhamos o Tory Party a ter mais cuidado com o currículo dos seus membros.
This really looks bad, bad.
This really looks bad, bad.
4 February 2014
Last updated at 18:02
Mujeeb Bhutto: Kidnap gang 'boss' was Conservative activist
Grant Shapps: "He is not now a member of the Conservative Party"
Convicted
kidnap gang "boss" Mujeeb Bhutto was a Conservative activist before he
joined the UK Independence Party, BBC Newsnight has learned.
In 2008, Bhutto, of Leeds, was released from prison after serving a sentence over a kidnap gang he led in Pakistan.
He joined the Tory party two months later for a year. He
later joined UKIP and acted as its Commonwealth spokesman in 2013 but
quit the party in December.
The Tories said an application to rejoin them had been rejected.
Newsnight has seen photographs and documents indicating
Bhutto, 35, who was a Conservative Party member in 2008/9, was involved
in campaigning and supporting the party between 2008 and 2011.
A letter dated June 2010, which was sent to Bhutto by senior
Yorkshire-based Conservative Julia Mulligan, thanks him for his help
during the May 2010 general election campaign.
'Huge help'
"I just wanted to write to thank you for the huge amount of
help you gave me during the election campaign," said Ms Mulligan, who is
now the police and crime commissioner for North Yorkshire.
"Taking on all those deliveries made an enormous difference to our ability to deliver a strong campaign."
Ms Mulligan instructed a North Yorkshire councillor to invite
Bhutto to a garden party in July 2010, so that she could meet him for
the first time.
The BBC has also seen a series of emails to Bhutto which appear to suggest his attempt to rejoin the party was approved.
Mujeeb Bhutto tried to rejoin the Conservatives after leaving UKIP
In one message, dated 30 January 2014, Robert Winfield, the
deputy chairman of Leeds West Conservatives, said: "I am just dropping
you a brief email to say that I was delighted to learn that you have
rejoined the Conservative Party.
"I hope to speak to you soon but unfortunately I am just
getting over flu. I assume this means that you have severed your
connections with UKIP."
'Application scrutinised'
Bhutto told the BBC that he had not yet been contacted by the
Conservatives to inform him that his application had been rejected.
When presented with the email messages on the BBC's Daily
Politics programme, he said: "Every person who joins, and particularly
when they join online, automatically receives a welcoming letter.
"We reserve the right to scrutinise that application. And before that person is accepted we can take a decision on their membership. He is not now a member of the Conservative Party."
He added: "He attempted to re-join the party last week after having been the UKIP spokesman. Because he's the spokesman for another party, we simply rejected that application."
As revealed by Newsnight on Monday, Bhutto served as UKIP's Commonwealth spokesman between March and December 2013. He appeared on behalf of the party on national television and radio programmes.
His role at the Conservative Party was as a grassroots activist helping with canvassing and leafleting, not as an official spokesman.
A senior Tory party source compared his membership to someone
who paid the television licence fee, saying such a person could not be
seen to represent the BBC.
'Cameron selfies' Photographs posted to Bhutto's deleted Facebook account show his active support of the Conservative Party before he joined UKIP. He confirmed they were his photographs and identified the people in them.
They appear to show two attempted "selfies" with David Cameron.
A third image shows Bhutto in front of a Conservative "Vote for Change" banner.
It is understood he was also active in the campaign to maintain the current Westminster voting system in a referendum in 2011, posing in pictures with MPs Nigel Evans and Stuart Andrew.
During his time with UKIP, Bhutto organised a trip to a Leeds mosque for party leader Nigel Farage and, during the 2012 Rotherham by-election, canvassed with UKIP candidate Jane Collins.
UKIP said: "When we recently became aware of possible issues relating to his past and raised the matter with him, he resigned his membership."
Bhutto's gang were behind a high-profile kidnapping in Karachi in 2004 and he then took a £56,000 ransom payment in Manchester.
In 2005, Bhutto, of Leeds, admitted being the gang's "boss" and was jailed for seven years by a UK court for conspiracy to blackmail.
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Grant Shapps Conservative Party chairmanBecause he's the spokesman for another party, we simply rejected that application”
But Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps said it had been blocked.
"We reserve the right to scrutinise that application. And before that person is accepted we can take a decision on their membership. He is not now a member of the Conservative Party."
He added: "He attempted to re-join the party last week after having been the UKIP spokesman. Because he's the spokesman for another party, we simply rejected that application."
As revealed by Newsnight on Monday, Bhutto served as UKIP's Commonwealth spokesman between March and December 2013. He appeared on behalf of the party on national television and radio programmes.
His role at the Conservative Party was as a grassroots activist helping with canvassing and leafleting, not as an official spokesman.
Watch Newsnight's film from Monday on Bhutto and UKIP
'Cameron selfies' Photographs posted to Bhutto's deleted Facebook account show his active support of the Conservative Party before he joined UKIP. He confirmed they were his photographs and identified the people in them.
They appear to show two attempted "selfies" with David Cameron.
A third image shows Bhutto in front of a Conservative "Vote for Change" banner.
It is understood he was also active in the campaign to maintain the current Westminster voting system in a referendum in 2011, posing in pictures with MPs Nigel Evans and Stuart Andrew.
During his time with UKIP, Bhutto organised a trip to a Leeds mosque for party leader Nigel Farage and, during the 2012 Rotherham by-election, canvassed with UKIP candidate Jane Collins.
UKIP said: "When we recently became aware of possible issues relating to his past and raised the matter with him, he resigned his membership."
Bhutto's gang were behind a high-profile kidnapping in Karachi in 2004 and he then took a £56,000 ransom payment in Manchester.
In 2005, Bhutto, of Leeds, admitted being the gang's "boss" and was jailed for seven years by a UK court for conspiracy to blackmail.
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