Watchdog takes up MP's electoral fraud fight (From Lancashire Telegraph)

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  TONY WALES wrote:
  If you look at the vast amount of political corruption in Pakistan, and look at the large percentage of people in this area, from that country, it is not difficult to see the reason why. As long as you have people from another country, who come to live in this country, but refuse to accept the laws, and rules of this country, you will always have this problem.
  
  A solution may be to have ID cards, but the "do gooders" of this country moan about losing your freedom etc. Checking people's fingerprints, when the voting paper is issued, could reduce the problem.
  The "do gooders" of this country need to realise that by stopping the government making security more strict, they are in fact helping people, when they want to commit a crime.
  The only people who need to fear about additional security measures, are people who commit a crime. If you are doing nothing wrong, you have no fear of being caught committing a crime.

  Absolutely on the money there Tony. I was also going to suggest a fingerprint option. What is the problem unless you have something to hide?
  
  I'm also in total agreement with your other comments. The fact is that Pakistani Asians hail from a culture of haggling and corruption, that's just the way it is over there. Therefore because of the constant links to Pakistani life and heritage it is ingrained
  into their way of life over here. One would think that after a prolonged period of time in this society that this type of activity would be watered down as the generations progress, but taking into account that the Anglo Pakistani community is on it's 5th or so generation there seems little sign of this "inherent" behaviour disappearing.
  
  I've no idea where we should go from here, or how we should effectively tackle this problem once and for all ?"
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