Comments on: York students accused of organising illegal fundraiser for Barack Obama http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/10/29/york-students-accused-of-organising-illegal-fundraiser-for-barack-obama/ Award-winning University of York Student Newspaper and Website Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:53:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Greg http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/10/29/york-students-accused-of-organising-illegal-fundraiser-for-barack-obama/#comment-53944 Greg Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:37:39 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/?p=4929#comment-53944 What a refreshing PPC Claire Hazelgrove is. What politicians normally do after getting caught is to make highly unconvincing excuses and fail to take responsibility for their connivance... she hasn't done that at all! Yes. What a refreshing PPC Claire Hazelgrove is.

What politicians normally do after getting caught is to make highly unconvincing excuses and fail to take responsibility for their connivance… she hasn’t done that at all!

Yes.

]]> By: Dan Taylor http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/10/29/york-students-accused-of-organising-illegal-fundraiser-for-barack-obama/#comment-53500 Dan Taylor Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:56:47 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/?p=4929#comment-53500 And yes, 'Mrs Blaney', just like George Osbourne who was equally innocent. And yes, ‘Mrs Blaney’, just like George Osbourne who was equally innocent.

]]> By: Dan Taylor http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/10/29/york-students-accused-of-organising-illegal-fundraiser-for-barack-obama/#comment-53499 Dan Taylor Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:56:00 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/?p=4929#comment-53499 I think this is all rather a mountain being made out of a molehill, however much a silly idea it was in the first place to so blatently do something that was clearly in breach of US electoral law. Both Raf and Claire obviously know that. I do however think that it would have been massively different had this event gone ahead, but the bottom line is that it didn't. Donal Blaney (as much as some of what he blogs is quite useful to those of us on the 'right' of British politics) attempted to blow this minor incident out of proportion and it fell spectacularly on its arse. I think news is slow, to be perfectly honest. I think this is all rather a mountain being made out of a molehill, however much a silly idea it was in the first place to so blatently do something that was clearly in breach of US electoral law. Both Raf and Claire obviously know that.

I do however think that it would have been massively different had this event gone ahead, but the bottom line is that it didn’t. Donal Blaney (as much as some of what he blogs is quite useful to those of us on the ‘right’ of British politics) attempted to blow this minor incident out of proportion and it fell spectacularly on its arse.

I think news is slow, to be perfectly honest.

]]> By: Mrs Blaney http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/10/29/york-students-accused-of-organising-illegal-fundraiser-for-barack-obama/#comment-53498 Mrs Blaney Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:35:00 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/?p=4929#comment-53498 “As far as we know it is not a crime to have a bad idea and then not act on it in either this country or the United States. No money was exchanged and none will be. Nor did we solicit, it was just an idea we decided against.” Bit like George Osbourne! “As far as we know it is not a crime to have a bad idea and then not act on it in either this country or the United States. No money was exchanged and none will be. Nor did we solicit, it was just an idea we decided against.”

Bit like George Osbourne!

]]> By: Dimitri http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/10/29/york-students-accused-of-organising-illegal-fundraiser-for-barack-obama/#comment-53476 Dimitri Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:33:28 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/?p=4929#comment-53476 Sounds like conspiracy to break Federal election law whatever way you look at it and however it might be dressed up as just a "bad idea". Raf may think it is not a crime to "have a bad idea" but if "having" that bad idea means conspiring to break the law then he's sadly mistaken! Sounds like conspiracy to break Federal election law whatever way you look at it and however it might be dressed up as just a “bad idea”.

Raf may think it is not a crime to “have a bad idea” but if “having” that bad idea means conspiring to break the law then he’s sadly mistaken!

]]> By: Ste http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/10/29/york-students-accused-of-organising-illegal-fundraiser-for-barack-obama/#comment-53472 Ste Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:11:48 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/?p=4929#comment-53472 is it just me or does this article suggest that Raf is resigning from his role as editor, rather than simply coming to the end of his tenure as editor? I was under the impression that Raf's year as editor was up, that he'd done an excellent job, and had passed the role onto someone else. The last sentence implies Raf is resigning due to a connection to this "fundraiser" is it just me or does this article suggest that Raf is resigning from his role as editor, rather than simply coming to the end of his tenure as editor? I was under the impression that Raf’s year as editor was up, that he’d done an excellent job, and had passed the role onto someone else. The last sentence implies Raf is resigning due to a connection to this “fundraiser”

]]> By: Ron Weasley http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/10/29/york-students-accused-of-organising-illegal-fundraiser-for-barack-obama/#comment-53464 Ron Weasley Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:17:03 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/?p=4929#comment-53464 What a compete bunch of muppets! I wouldn't elect either of them to fart in a plastic bag, let alone be a constituency MP! What a compete bunch of muppets!

I wouldn’t elect either of them to fart in a plastic bag, let alone be a constituency MP!

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