[Crabcakes]

Apparently, someone has lodged a formal complaint with The Electoral Commission about the name "Your Party" on the grounds that the name could be read as an instruction to vote, rather than a simple descriptive nomenclature.

As in, the complaint is if someone saw it on a ballot with all the other parties they’d think “Oh, this one is for me as it says Your Party! I’d better tick it!”?

Your Party is a terrible name for sure, but Christ alive if we’re worrying that people are so thick that they’d actually do this*, we’re already fucked.

*unless the complaint is from someone in Reform, as I suppose their knuckle-dragging contingent might be hard of thinking enough to misunderstand. After all, they have to have a fuck-off great big arrow in their logo so their supporters don’t miss it.

[davidjay]

Apparently, someone has lodged a formal complaint with The Electoral Commission about the name "Your Party" on the grounds that the name could be read as an instruction to vote, rather than a simple descriptive nomenclature.

As in, the complaint is if someone saw it on a ballot with all the other parties they’d think “Oh, this one is for me as it says Your Party! I’d better tick it!”?

Your Party is a terrible name for sure, but Christ alive if we’re worrying that people are so thick that they’d actually do this*, we’re already fucked.

*unless the complaint is from someone in Reform, as I suppose their knuckle-dragging contingent might be hard of thinking enough to misunderstand. After all, they have to have a fuck-off great big arrow in their logo so their supporters don’t miss it.

Never underestimate the sheer fucking stupidity of great swathes of the electorate.

[RedSparrows]

I'm currently spending a lot of time building things for other people to use, digitally. It's astonishing how easily people get confused. And these are people with multiple degrees.

[Boiler]

The possession of a degree is not necessarily an indication of intelligence IME.

[mattomac]

Apparently, someone has lodged a formal complaint with The Electoral Commission about the name "Your Party" on the grounds that the name could be read as an instruction to vote, rather than a simple descriptive nomenclature.

As in, the complaint is if someone saw it on a ballot with all the other parties they’d think “Oh, this one is for me as it says Your Party! I’d better tick it!”?

Your Party is a terrible name for sure, but Christ alive if we’re worrying that people are so thick that they’d actually do this*, we’re already fucked.

*unless the complaint is from someone in Reform, as I suppose their knuckle-dragging contingent might be hard of thinking enough to misunderstand. After all, they have to have a fuck-off great big arrow in their logo so their supporters don’t miss it.

They are though

[Yug]

Oh dear

Zarah Sultana’s unauthorised launch of a Your Party membership portal may have been “serious criminal activity” and should be referred to the police, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has advised.

Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace and Justice Project (PJP), which referred Your Party to the information watchdog last September over a potential data breach, has been advised by the ICO that it should consider “taking further action” regarding the matter, after deciding it was not a matter for them.

An extraordinary split opened up between Corbyn and Sultana in September after an email was sent to 800,000 people on Your Party’s mailing list, urging them to become paying members for £55. Sultana revealed the new membership portal on X, urging supporters to “be a part of history”, and reassured her followers that the membership site was “safe and secure”, encouraging them to keep trying to sign up despite “issues due to such high traffic”.

Later the same day, Corbyn issued an “urgent message” telling his followers on X to ignore the “unauthorised” site and said “legal advice is being taken”.

After the referral to the ICO, the information watchdog advised Corbyn’s PJP, the data controller for Your Party, that it was not a matter for the ICO at this stage. The guidance, first reported by the New Statesman, advised the PJP to consider going to Action Fraud, now known as Report Fraud, and the police to determine whether the issue constituted criminal activity.

The advice noted that as “serious criminal activity may have occurred”, any police investigation would take primacy over one by the ICO at this stage...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... iminal-act

Sultana isn't very bright is she.

A source said the ICO’s advice regarding the police “should not be interpreted as a determination or conclusion in any direction” and it remained in contact with the parties involved. (my bold)

On Friday Sultana issued a statement which said the ICO had “dropped the case around the Your Party membership portal”.

Writing on X on Friday, Sultana said: “I always anticipated that this inquiry would conclude with no further action and I am pleased that everyone can now draw a line under the matter.”...

No dear. The ICO hasn't said there's nothing to see here, they've told magic grandpa to take it to the rozzers. Far from drawing a line under it, you may actually be in deep shit.

[soulboy]

I read that as the ICO saying "don't involve us in your squabbles, go bother the Rozzers instead"

[Yug]

I read that as the ICO saying "don't involve us in your squabbles, go bother the Rozzers instead"

Well, no. The ICO has said there's no data protection issues, but setting up an unauthorised website to take money off people may constitute fraud, which is outside their remit so talk to the cops. It remains to be seen just how petty and vindictive Corbyn is, so I'm not putting my popcorn away just yet.

If it's reported I'd expect our fair and noble police to be all over it. Not only will they have a chance of taking down a lefty, but a chance of taking down a lefty who is one of Them. Incentives for the coppers to do their job properly for once.

[Abernathy]

Sultana isn't very bright is she?

Thicker than the proverbial Boxing Day turd. Easily one of the stupidest MPs ever.