Sentences with word «battlebus»

There are about a dozen more who are thought to be have been visited by the election battlebus, but have not spoken out about whether they faced investigation, so their names have not emerged.

If a court were to decide that hotel or battlebus costs should have been declared as constituency spending, what is most likely to happen, according to the respected legal blogger David Allen Green, is that national parties would have to pay large fines.

PM says 2015 local spending was properly reported but CPS finds some evidence that battlebus declarations were inaccurate

Our virtual fundraising battlebus has now headed north and has arrived in the battleground seat of Harrogate and Knaresborough.

Then there was Harriet Harman's pink battlebus.

There was controversy at the outset as the UK Statistics Authority described Vote Leave's claim on the side of its battlebus that the UK contributes # 350m a week to the EU as «potentially misleading».

Having come into public life complaining about open and honest data, I can't step foot on a battlebus or distribute a leaflet with information that I know to be untrue.

A key question is whether so - called «battlebus» expenses — spending to shuttle campaigners into constituencies — were incorrectly reported by the party as national, not local, spend.

While David Cameron spent much of the 2015 battle in Liberal Democrat - Tory marginals, May's tour included the ultra-safe Labour seat of Birmingham Ladywood, launching a battlebus in North Shields and unveiling her manifesto in Halifax, which last turned Conservative in 1983.

Channel 4 allege that one day of the battlebus visiting his constituency had a value of # 2,154.03, which would have pushed him # 1,018 over his spending limit for the campaign.

It is difficult to prove that the battlebus campaign was the factor that swung the last election in the Conservatives» favour, although it was specifically targeting marginal and swing seats, and clearly the Tories saw it as a key campaigning tool.

Despite all but a handful of MPs, the active support of the trade unions, the pleas of every former leader of the party and Alan Johnson's battlebus, more than a third of the party's electoral base jumped at the chance to quit the EU.

It's a strange thing being on a battlebus for the election.

The allegations, first uncovered by Channel 4 News and the Daily Mirror, relate to spending on campaign battlebuses and hotel bookings for activists that were wrongly recorded as national instead of local spending.

No criminal charges will be brought against more than 20 Conservative MPs over the national party's failure to accurately declare campaign spending on a battlebus tour at the 2015 election.

The battlebus accusations focused on the declaration of spending on the Conservative campaign tour in 2015, which took activists to dozens of marginal seats before the election.

At issue was whether the costs of a Conservative campaign battlebus should have been accounted for by local campaigns where the legal spending limits are tighter at between about # 11,000 and # 16,000, depending on the size of the constituency

«By omitting any battlebus costs, the returns may have been inaccurate,» he said.

It is claimed the Conservatives allocated thousands of pounds spent on the battlebus as national spending when it was used to re-elect specific MPs.

Adding to pressure on May, the party is facing a mutiny from Conservative MPs under investigation who feel they have been hung out to dry by the party, which organised the battlebus campaign centrally.

Wednesday also saw Eric Pickles paying us a visit in the battlebus (well, battle - van to be precise).

We got the battlebus, we were instructed to have the battlebus, which is the same for everybody else, which is what the parties do.»

A dozen police forces passed files to prosecutors concerning the Tories» use of a battlebus to campaign in key seats during the 2015 election

Prosecutors have to decide whether to charge the MPs or their agents, after a 10 - month investigation into whether party spending on an election battlebus that brought activists to marginal seats was wrongly recorded as national spending.

Every one of us had the same email from Mark Clarke at the time, who was running the battlebus project, saying it was a national spend.»

The allegation, first uncovered by the Daily Mirror, is that spending in marginal seats on a battlebus tour was wrongly recorded as national spending, rather than local, to help specific candidates win against their Labour, Liberal Democrat or Ukip opponents.

He said he had not wanted a visit from the battlebus campaign at the centre of many of the claims about election spending breaches.

«We did not want the battlebus, and that was said from day one.

«MPs in constituencies visited by the battlebus would have no reason to consider whether it should be included in their local return; they were directed that the bus would be visiting as part of [Conservative HQ] national spending,» she said.

A Conservative party spokeswoman said Sturgeon's claims, linked to expenses costs for its 2015 election battlebus, were misplaced and ill - founded.

Getting arma 2 in the morning missed the sale but stuff it the content is huge the battlebus vids on youtube are a riot lol at the guy who says this is the best day of my life i had a play at a mates house im hooked, the day z mod looks like a breath of fresh air in a stale industry.