Yet another UK election story that's been overlooked by the American MSM: widespread voting fraud in immigrant-heavy urban districts.

The most recent case involves a group of Labour party councillors from Birmingham. On April 4th, Shafaq Ahmed, Shah Jahan, Ayaz Khan, Mohammed Islam, Muhammed Afzal, and Mohammed Kazi were found guilty of using threats and deception to accumulate unmailed ballots. Thousands of ballots were apparently also diverted to a "safe house" where they were filled in on an "industrial scale".

Responding to an earlier government refusal to overhaul its postal voting rules, the election commissioner who judged the Birminham cases, Richard Mawrey, remarked:

"Anybody who has sat through the case I have just tried and listened to evidence of electoral fraud that would disgrace a banana republic would find this statement surprising."

It's not the first time the government's postal voting scheme has been abused. It's unlikely to be the last. The Guardian notes:

"The Guardian has established that criminal inquiries under way in Reading, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, greater Manchester and west Yorkshire into allegations of theft of ballot papers, forged votes and personation - which involves filling in ballot papers in absence of the voter."

Nor is Labour the only culprit.

"They [the police] are looking into claims that the victory of Riasat Khan for the Conservatives in the Labour stronghold ward of Maybury and Sheerwater followed postal voting fraud."

Notice anything yet?

Following the Birmingham decisions, the Times noted that voting fraud has not been seen on this scale since the Ballot Act of 1872 and the Corrupt Practices Act of 1883. The editorial continued:

"The real victims here — apart from the democratic process itself — were highly vulnerable people: Asian [read: Indian subcontinent Muslim] women. There has been an intolerable political correctness around this question which implies that it is not for outsiders to dispute how a community might chose to organise itself for the purpose of voting in elections. Oh yes it is. The block vote does not exist in British political contests and it should not be allowed to come in via a blind eye being turned to allegedly 'ethnic' customs."

Systematic vote-rigging, intimidation, deceit, a particular contempt for women. It just goes to show: politics is culture, too.

Welcome to multicultural Britain.

[Hat Tip: Modern Tribalist for image of Birmingham concillors.]