The government's twitter tsar, Kerry McCarthy, the sitting Labour MP for Bristol East, is being investigated by the police after tweeting voting figures from a check on postal votes in her seat.
This is apparently an offence under election law.
The trouble is that several people re-tweeted her figures, so if an offence was committed they may have committed it too.
These include the Unite official, and key ally of Gordon Brown, our old friend Charlie Whelan.
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Comment number 1.
At 30th Apr 2010, JunkkMale wrote:'This is apparently an offence..'
And it IS more than a concern when those who draft and oversee the enforcement of endless new laws, and those whose job it is to report upon them, seem either unaware or unsure what they are or mean.
Funny in some ways. A nightmare for those not paid to avoid the excuse of ignorance of the law daily, and who can all to easily be held to account.
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