“It’s awkward timing for David Cameron, who launches his anti-corruption summit today in London:
he Electoral Commission is taking the Conservative Party to the High Court over the election spending scandal.
The Mirror [ but at the instigation of Channel 4 News] revealed two months ago that at least 24 Tory MPs had help from notorious battle buses ferrying hundreds of volunteers to marginal constituencies during the 2015 general election but didn’t declare any of the spending as required by law.
Breaching spending limits is a criminal offence and could lead to calls for by-elections.
It comes at an awkward time for David Cameron, who today kicks off an anti-corruption summit in London.
The slowly-unfolding scandal has led to several MPs and one Police and Crime Commissioner coming under criminal investigation by police.
The Electoral Commission are taking the Tories to the High Court to force them to reveal documents detailing the spending on Battle Buses ahead of the 2015 general election.
The Commission have already asked the Tories twice for the documents, but they have only provided “limited” disclosure.
Political parties have a legal obligation to provide full spending disclosures to the Commission on request.
Bob Posner, Director of Party and Election Finance and Legal Counsel at the Electoral Commission said: “If parties under investigation do not comply with our requirements for the disclosure of relevant material in reasonable time and after sufficient opportunity to do so, the Commission can seek recourse through the courts.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/electoral-commission-takes-tories-high-7952712
East Devon Watch 
Yet another example of how two faced and morally corrupt the Tory party is:
On the one hand wanted everyone else to be whiter than white whilst on the other hand appearing to participate in, condone or sweep under the carpet electoral illegalities.
And of course this is only one of several immoral issues that have been found lately – see also favouring ministerial constituency county council funding, failing to withdraw a PCC(candidate) who is under investigation for this electoral fraud even when the Police Federation demands it, privatisation and destruction of democracy by stealth, etc. etc.
Its about time that the Tory leadership had a moral compass re-fitted!!! You may not have liked Margaret Thatcher or her policies or her government, but at least they had moral compasses (even if they occasionally pointed in different directions to your own). Thatcher was blunt rather than secretive about her policies, and her ministers would resign on principle if appropriate.
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