British MP in election exposé

THE senior British MP in charge of monitoring last Sunday’s polls in Ukraine has revealed how the election was undermined by intimidation, fraud and invisible ink.

Bruce George, chairman of the Commons Defence Committee and head of the international Short-Term Observation Commission (STOC) in Ukraine, told The Times that one of the election monitors handed him a suspicious pen from a polling station.

Mr George, a veteran Labour MP who helped to oversee the election in Georgia last year, found that anything written with the pen vanished in 15 minutes. “I saw a pen that had ink that disappeared when it dried. People were issued with pens to cast their votes, but their votes would have disappeared after they dropped the paper into the ballot box.”