Last year we had a local solicitor stand as MP candidate here in Birmingham Ladywood constituency. He didn't win, but served the function of scaring Sir Kid Starver a bit, and screwing up the anti-genocide vote, so we ended up with the same Labour MP. Of course I voted Green and am smugly satisfied that I did the right thing.
I went round telling everyone who would listen that if Ahmed Yakoob was elected MP something would come out about him and we would have the rare experience of signing a recall petition in no time (in the UK under certain circumstances a recall petition is automatically triggered and depending on the number of signatures from constituents the petition automatically triggers a fresh election for the MP. The grounds to trigger the petition include imprisonment or suspension from parliament). In fact this prediction didn't require much psychic ability because he was already under investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for spreading false claims about a teacher. So basically he attracted the anti-genocide vote that didn't care about any other standards, and the anti-genocide vote who care about honesty voted Green.
In fact if he'd been elected it would have been the best chance to get a Green MP here, because without the popular Labour MP and without an independent candidate the vote would naturally have turned Green in a by-election during this disastrous Starmerist government. The only time since 1936 anyone other than Labour has been elected in this constituency was another by-election in the sixties when a Liberal MP was elected, but they consistently come last nowadays.
Instead what's happened is he's got arrested under a wider ranging investigation of corruption by solicitors and accountants and is going to be tried for money laundering in 2027. I've had a look at the sentencing guidelines and I don't know the details of what he's charged with but the sentence can go up to 14 years in prison so if imprisoned he wouldn't likely be in a position to stand in the 2029 election and the cadre of candidates he supported for the local elections next year will hopefully be looked at more doubtfully now. 🤞
Finally, if the picture the BBC used is actually from a court appearance, if your solicitor doesn't tell you not to dress as a Peaky Blinder for a court appearance, get rid of your solicitor.
I feel like I know how his trial is going to end. 😂
This post does not constitute legal advice lol.
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