Less than a month after it was launched with much fanfare, Tory agitation in the distinctly non target seat of Bristol East has backfired massively, with their poor PPC to having the salient details of her financial history picked up by a national newspaper and then exploding all over the blogosphere and Twitter in the most gruesome way possible.
Deep down, Tory Bear knows that throwing around phrases like “shoddy” and “Labour machine” while reprinting eleven paragraphs of Tory boy lawyer-speak does not a rebuttal make. The lame defence rests on the semantics of the terminology used by the Registry Trust, who are the custodians of CCJ records, that ”unsatisfied is not the same as unpaid”. Let’s ask the Trust, shall we?
And once more, with feeling (and underlining)!
“CCJs are shown as either satisfied or unsatisfied on the register. Satisfied means you’ve paid – unsatisfied mean you haven’t” – Registry Trust
If it’s been paid off then Shafi can inform the Trust, who will update the public record.
Sadly CCHQ’s “no comment” response does not inspire confidence.
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Karma is a bitch isn’t it. #rofl
Don’t let the fact FAQs aren’t laws stop you, will you.
Or even the fact that the Trust’s own FAQ contradicts itself:
“Where an entry in the Status column is described as Unsatisfied it indicates the status of the case as at the time the search was made. It does not necessarily indicate that the debt is unpaid either in whole or in part, but if it is fully paid Registry Trust Ltd has not been notified.
In England and Wales or the Isle of Man, once a court has received evidence (or for Scotland, Jersey, Northern Ireland and Eire this evidence has been delivered to ourselves) that a debt has been fully repaid, the entry on that Register can be updated.
Where the status is shown as Satisfied it indicates that we have been advised that the debt has been fully repaid on the date shown.”
Since you think my concerns about the Mirror’s lack of journalism are just “Tory Boy Lawyer speak” do you have something to offer to rebut TB’s principal charge, that the story was planted?
Or are you content with the lame rebuttal you’re offering above?
FAQ #23 shows that “satisfied” means payment in full. So even if they’re paying the money back in installments by mutual agreement with their “creditor” (without missing any payments), it’s still marked as “unsatisfied”. Given the size of sum involved, I’m sure that would be a “reasonable assumption”.
“.,.rebut TB’s principal charge, that the story was planted?”
If that is Tory Bears principal charge then he needs some help. It is a strawman, an utter, utter strawman. It doesn’t matter where the story is from. If it is true, it raises serious problems as to her suitability both to be an MP and to be a member of a party supposedly elected to return financial sanity to Westminster.
You’ve been got. If it was just terminological as you seem to suggest then you can bet CCHQ and the candidate herself would be screaming it from the rooftops.
Over or under 10 days before she drops out.
It’d be a straw man, were it not for the way in which Labour has tried to claim the moral high ground over things like #kerryout. I’ve no time for the kind of campaign #kerryout represents, but I’ve as little time for opposition research being fed to lazy hacks and trotted out as news.
The real sting of Tory Bear’s charge is that it is Labour Party HQ doing the planting. Tory Bear is many things, but he isn’t Tory HQ.
By all means lets fight this kind of campaign, but lets hear no more nonsense from Labourites (as in your blogpost on this topic) trying to paint the campaign against Kerry McCarthy as wrong, but the campaign against Adeela Shafi as right.
Hopefully a couple of the other newspapers are doing the work the Mirror didn’t bother to, so we can shortly talk about this in terms of facts.
Why would they scream it from the rooftops when the mainstream press have barely touched the story?
#KerryIN
#AdeelaBLOCKOUT
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