Monday - April 23, 2012

the very model of a modern politician

Couldn’t resist the this story of two days cause it’s so good.
Borrowed from the Scottish Sun.
Enjoy.

Police are dummy twits as they nick mannequin in vote fraud probe

ARRESTED:  the agent who put a dummy up for council election

“The dummy is innocent in all this. The person who put her up to it is to blame.”

Outrage erupted in Aberdeen yesterday as it emerged the self-styled “voice of the silent majority” had become a “political prisoner”.

Helena — famously banned from standing in the local elections — was seized by cops probing claims of electoral fraud by her agent Renee Slater.

Last night, as the mannequin spent her first night in custody, The Scottish Sun backed a campaign to free her.

And defiant shopkeeper Renee, 63, vowed Helena will not give in, adding: “All the police have done is transform her into a martyr.

“The support has been stunning. People are furious at how they’re treating someone as humble as Helena. She never says a word out of place.”

Cops took Helena and campaign agent Renee, both of Aberdeen, in for questioning on Thursday.

Renee was grilled for six hours after having pictures, fingerprints and DNA samples taken.

Her plastic pal has been detained INDEFINITELY at Grampian Police HQ. But onlookers said the dummy showed no signs of emotion as she was bundled into the back of a cop car — thankfully without handcuffs.

It now appears she’ll be held behind bars until the council elections are over to avoid her having any influence over the vote.

Last night North-east Tory MSP Alex Johnstone said: “The police have got this seriously wrong.

Aberdeen councillor Willie Young — who is standing in the election — said: “I think politicians can sometimes take themselves too seriously.

“This was a bit of fun and some people have reacted more strongly than they should have.

“If we can’t see the humour in someone putting a dummy up for election then it says more about us than it does about anyone else.”

Police turned up out of the blue at Renee’s home on Thursday morning to haul her in for questioning, before she was charged under the Representation of the People Act 1983. But her worst fears were realised after she got home — when another cop car turned up to seize Helena.

Renee said: “I have no idea how she’s going to cope in a jail cell. It’s going to be difficult for her.

“I just hope the police treat her with the dignity she deserves. They were a bit rough with her when they put her into the car.”

Helena was put forward as a candidate in the elections by Renee.

But she spent just 24 hours on the ballot for the Ashley, Hazlehead and Queens Cross ward before unamused officials discovered she was a mannequin.

The dummy was wiped off the list and a police probe was launched into claims of electoral fraud. Renee insisted she had no word from the authorities until she was arrested.

She’s been told she will appear in court in mid-May — and has demanded Helena be in the dock next to her. It’s unlikely the mannquin will be freed before the hearing — meaning she won’t be around for the elections on May 3.

Distraught Renee said: “Helena doesn’t deserve this. She’s done nothing wrong.

SCOTTISH SUN SOURCE FOR MORE

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