Today is a big day on the campaign trail.
24 hours before Greater London goes to the polls to elect its next Mayor, the BBC has revealed a number of dirty tricks are being used as part of online campaigning, including registering my name as a URL and pushing potential supporters to the Tory candidate’s website.
In what is an outrageously shamefaced scam, the BBC investigation uncovered at least two domains,
brianrose.uk and
brianrose.london, that redirected to my Conservative rival Susan Hall’s official campaign site.
And while the denials of culpability from the Tories have been swift and predictable, it poses a key question: will she join me in demanding that the Electoral Commission thoroughly investigates what is clearly political malfeasance?
Here are the facts:
This domain was set up in the past three weeks
It was first mentioned in a Reddit post, which highlighted that, although a number of other candidates had been victims of domain hijacking, my name was the only URL that...