Money Thoughts

Two questions regarding the whole Peter Hain mess,

Firstly, what happened to this story. Surely if it's true that two people who's money was given to Hain by the no thinking and tankless thinktank did not know about it until Hain reported to the Electoral Commission months later then that should be as big a disgrace as all of the other things he's done (or, more to the point, not done) .

The fact that both men later said they didn't mind the money going to Mr Permatan changes nothing, it was way too late, you're supposed to ask someone before you take their money.

Anyway, I suspect that I must be missing something here, has this BBC story been discredited since it was published? Have the two men said that actually, they were informed? Please let me know!

The second point is just something that's been bothering me regarding the whole donations saga we've had for the past 3months or so:

Hain's Deputy Leader Campaign Expenditure : £200,000

Welsh labour Assembly Campaign Expenditure: £254,447

How the hell is an internal party election worth nearly as much as the National Assembly elections?

Deported Ghanian Receives Anonomous Donation

The Western Mail reports that Ama Sumani, the terminally ill ghanian woman deported from the UK last week is now receiveing medical care in her home county thanks to a £2,400 donation from an anonomous person.

Hen Ferchetan wonders whether Labour MP's John Mann and Kevan Jones hwill report Miss Sumani to the Electoral Commission and whether Paul Flynn will be the first to dub the anonomous donation "Ghana-Gate".

The Pupils of Paul

Remember my post earlier this week about Paul Flynn's tactic of throwing as much muck around to try and protect Mr Permatan? He's clearly been passing on his spin advice to his colleagues. Two Labour MP's have complained to the Electoral Commission about financial irregularities by 80 Tory MP's! Apparently the complaints concerns unincorporated associations (i.e. unofficial party groups) raising money for the party. Guess who else uses unincorporated associations? (Hint: John Mann and Kevan Jones are both MP's for this party)

Is there an Electoral Commission equivalent to wasting police time?