The whole Labour Party leadership campaign funding saga is turning into a farce, with the revelation that even Gordon Brown broke his own party's donation rules.
Guido has checked the Electoral Commission website, his campaign lists 21 donations amounting to £196,700 and 3 non-cash donations totaling £19,005, giving a total of £215,705 altogether.
Under the Labour Party's own rules he must pay 15% of the campaign funds raised into central party funds. Gordon, unlike all the other candidates, has not paid any funds over to the party according to the Electoral Commission. He should have paid £32,355. All the other candidates, including even Peter Hain, made their payments months ago. We know Gordon says he isn't an accountant, but does he have the minimal competence required of a party leader, to ensure his campaign follows the party's own rules? No wonder why he allows Wendy Alexander, Harriet Harman and Peter Hain to cling to office despite their breaking the rules, he is no different...
UPDATE : Dizzy has spotted something interesting. Remember Silverfish buying up websites like gordonbrownforbritain.com "speculatively"? Of course they all ended up, despite earlier denials, being used by Brown's campaign. Did Silverfish get properly paid or did they, as many believe, give it all as a benefit in kind? If the latter, where are the declarations to the Electoral Commission?
Guido has checked the Electoral Commission website, his campaign lists 21 donations amounting to £196,700 and 3 non-cash donations totaling £19,005, giving a total of £215,705 altogether.
Under the Labour Party's own rules he must pay 15% of the campaign funds raised into central party funds. Gordon, unlike all the other candidates, has not paid any funds over to the party according to the Electoral Commission. He should have paid £32,355. All the other candidates, including even Peter Hain, made their payments months ago. We know Gordon says he isn't an accountant, but does he have the minimal competence required of a party leader, to ensure his campaign follows the party's own rules? No wonder why he allows Wendy Alexander, Harriet Harman and Peter Hain to cling to office despite their breaking the rules, he is no different...
UPDATE : Dizzy has spotted something interesting. Remember Silverfish buying up websites like gordonbrownforbritain.com "speculatively"? Of course they all ended up, despite earlier denials, being used by Brown's campaign. Did Silverfish get properly paid or did they, as many believe, give it all as a benefit in kind? If the latter, where are the declarations to the Electoral Commission?
56 comments:
He should have £32.355
Surely that can't be right?
Doesn't Brown have an amoral compass?
I am the Son of the Manse. It was merely an oversight. I was too busy looking long-termism.
Back off Guido.
How dare you question my abilities and competence. I have a cunning plan. I will be announcing another 5 year plan on Monday.
Since 1979 we have MORE people in work, LOWEST inflation for 500 years, RECORD tractor production ratios and have WON every war whilst in power.
Excuse me whilst I extract another Bogey.
mmmmm Nice and chewey.
Who'd like a bet that this will be used as a perfect excuse to push through taxpayer funding for the (chosen) parties?
WELL DONE GUIDO. THE WHEELS ARE WELL AND TRULY COMING OFF NOW.
You have to hand it to blair, he may be a worthless cunt, but he was a pretty good judge of when the wheels would finally and irevocably come off the wagon !
nulab - Serially Incompetent
Criminally Corrupt
Somebody's gotta take the rap and be thrown to the wolves over this fiasco and it sure as hell won't be Gordon. Hain is "Dead Man Walking" especially if the "Sundays" turn up any more "oversights"
Oh, if there was NO leadership campaign, where did the £215,705 get spent ?
Has it been returned to the donors ? Surely it would be inapropriate to keep the money - has it been returned ?
Otherwise people might be tempted to put their name forward for elections, just as wheeze to collect unacountable donations, erm , like hain for example !
The announcement that Northern Rock is to be nationalised will be made this week. The taxpayers are stuck with this crock of shit. What a fucking mess Brown has made of it.
Hain speaks at 13h00. What's the betting???
It's true, it's crap, and noone cares. People just aren't shocked by corruption in politics, it seems.
Brilliant. A 15% levy on fundraising. These Labour wankers are priceless, they even tax each other.
When the NuLab vermin take a day off from their corruption then that really will be news worth reporting.
Excuse me, but why doesn't HMQ take a stand and fire ministers who are 'misbehaving'? After all, it's HER government! I suspect people would support HMQ doing this!
Backwoodsman - that is a very good point :)!
Peter Hain is toast IMHO
Obviously,as Gordo will point out at PMQs next week,it's all the fault of the previous Tory government,he'll then go on to spout his list of NuLab "achievements" while baying idiots cheer as he does so.British politics,what a farce,is it any wonder the Taliban e.t.c. fight so hard to avoid "democracy"?
Hain statement delayed til 2.00-2.30. more covering up? or has Gordo made the call and its all over for the vile orange cunt
Hain has delayed his statement until 14:30. I wonder why...
Backwoodsman 12:14. Will Cameron ask "where's the money?" at PMQs.
Fat chance
why, when it is clear that Hain has broken the LAW, are the police not involved? The electoral commission do not decide what is lawful in this country, the courts do. The police must be involved ASAP
'...Oh, if there was NO leadership campaign, where did the £215,705 get spent ?...'
Brilliant Backwoodsman!!
So simple, so bleeding obvious.SO where is it Gordo you crook?
Good timing Guido. The PH press statement just got delayed another one and a half hours. Hotline open to No.10 right now. Change the substance, change the time, change your mind. You are fired. We are all fired.
Treasury lines up new Rock boss
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7184813.stm >
The Treasury has recruited the former boss of Lloyd's insurance market, Ron Sandler, to lead Northern Rock, should the troubled bank be nationalised.
A decision could be taken within days, says BBC business editor Robert Peston.
According to bankers close to the Rock, the Treasury has a fully developed plan to own and manage the bank, should a commercial solution be impossible.
Mr Sandler is widely regarded as having restored confidence in Lloyd's after its years in financial disarray.
The BBC has learned that Mr Sandler would become executive chairman of Northern Rock in the event that the troubled bank is fully nationalised.
The former boss of Lloyd's of London is well known to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and worked for the Treasury in developing the so-called stakeholder pension and investment products that were intended to help those on lower incomes save for retirement.
Last night I watched Caligula - an excellent performance from Malcolm McDowell et al. Then, I was struck by the similarities between him and our very own Snotgobbler Ceaser. Both treat the public and Senate / Parliament with contempt, both are morally depraved, both are financially incompetent, both believe themselves to be divine. I could go on but I think you get the drift.
The question is, who is our own Snotgobbler's Incitatus?
Could the delay be because Hain has threatened to bring others down with him if he is fired? This would cause the bogeymeister to have one of his famous long dithering thinks.
The 15 per cent troubles me. So 15 per cent of monies raised will go to Labour. THAT'S money laundering! Labour is receiving money from a third party. ie Mr Smith gives money to Hazel Blears who gives it to Labour. Mr Smith is down on the lists as a Hazel supporter, not a Labour supporter, but his money has gone to the party. How is this not money laundering?
Northern cRock should be in Administration not nationalisation.
NR didn't have many depositors, so it would be much cheaper.
The shareholders should get nothing! This farce has gone on far too long.
This would never have happened if all political parties were state funded.
I blame Lord Ashcroft.
So if the Rock is nationalised will shareholders get compensated or will it be like Railtrack - a nationalisation like Stalin's grab of Russian railways or similarly like nationalisations by any third world tinpot dictator ?
Labour came to power promising to be "purer than pure". In a way they are achieving this, distilling and purifying sleaze and turning it into an art form. Impurities are quickly discarded lest they dilute the mix - where are the likes of Frank Field now, Gordon? He isn't sleazy. He isn't in the cabinet either. Spot the connection.
Why are we waiting.
Perhaps he learning his lines this very minute. Or does he think he's a star ie keep them waiting.
Itv debuts new show
"Dancing on Ice" sponsored by Labour and the BBC
Gordy and his drop jowl
Robert Peston and his ticcy eye
Cricky waving his Mystic Meg wig over his crystal ball
Another case of the teflon labour arse
10.00am "Mr Hain will be making a ststement shortly"
1.00pm "Mr Hain will be making a ststement shortly"
2.30pm "Mr Hain will be making a ststement shortly"
3.20pm "Mr Hain will be making a ststement shortly"
Lost for words, is he?
Hain - " I will get on with cabinet jobs" 5 and half hours of prevarication and putting off his expected statement to say basically "I've done nothing wrong and have apologised" so **** off.
Yet another Labour Minister who feels that they are above the rules that govern the "proles"
So comical to see him doing his statement from what seemed to be a park...
Thats probably the reason there was such a delay, Gordo wouldn't let him use any of the NuLab facilities... or maybe Gordo et al are in the bunker and cannot be reached...
Shouldn't Hain have been making statements to the House about this, rather then the media?
Any contribution to Labour from Jon Cruddas (should be around £21k) has yet to appear as well.
Anonymous said...Could the delay be because Hain has threatened to bring others down with him if he is fired?
Good point,Hain not only knows "where the bodies are buried" but also who's body has been buried in who else's.
Oh good.
He's staying. The danger was that he'd go and all the fuss and recriminations would allow this bunch of mendacious twats to claim to have cleared up the mess... one bad apple... nothing more to see.... vote for strongman Gordon... and all the rest of the spinners shit.
Not now.
The MSM are gonna be pissed, they've been denied their scalp, it ain't just gonna be the political blogs doing the digging from now on. Not that Gordon had much option - if one goes, the dam's liable to crumble and wash away others too, and besides, NuLab are such a talentless bunch of arseholes, there aren't any credible replacements.
Sorry Peter - not good enough. You'll have to do better if you want to stay in office.
What a cocky barsteward. Does he get sheep in to keep the grass down in his private park.
No sign of a sweaty brow either. Perhaps the permatan is waterproof.
BTW Does anyone know whether he gets two separate salaries for his two jobs, Secretary for Work and Pension and Secretarty of State of Wales. Pure base greed and a true socialist.
I hate all of them.
Hain's back garden is so big it has its own lampposts
This will be a 'NuLab troll free area' for the weekend, as they frantically try to write 'papers' that the party can release as proof of the work of the PPF...
I can't remember hating anything as much as Gordo's bunch of blame-dodgers...
interesting that "any answers" on radio 4 took 5 calls from the public on Hain. ALL wanted him to go INCLUDING Labour Party members.
goodnight gordon - when your own supporters are embarrassed by the corruption you allow the game really is up!
Well done Guido. I've always thought Pathetic Brown was a moron. Now we all know he is.
I'm So Angry...
Defiant Hain 'to get on with job'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7185087.stm
Does this slimey bastard have no shame?
"I make no apology for being a committed candidate in Labour's deputy leadership campaign or for raising the funds necessary to run a modern campaign"
The man makes me almost physically ill.
Great for Gordo that he expresses his full confidence in the twat - speaks volumes does that.
why havent anyone of the opposition parties complained to the police???
Hain threatened to release his copy of the photo of Gordon on the rocking horse, dressed in a nappy, sucking a toffee apple so Gordon has backed down and let him stay on for the time being.
Gordo: Hain, I think you should resign.
Hain: I'll out you if you make me go.
Gordo: I have full confidence in your abilities and will say so publicly.
Anon 4:38
Because then it might blow up in their faces. They will want the police to do it all on their own, as opposed to being caught calling the coppers on their political opponents. That said, even if the police did take some steps, I wonder if anything would happen since they seem to be an extension of the fucking Labour party these days.
alan bastard - thats my point. th epolice are a busted flush so why dont people just start ignoring them, like politicians
'course fucking brown isn't a fucking accountant. If he'd been just a fucking book-keeper he might not have fucked up the fucking economy the fucker.
How did Gordo blow the huge donations he got for a leadership contest that never happened. Was Mel Brooks ,the comic author of The Producers, his inspiration?
Can fellow Scot, Lord Alexander (sandy to his fellow nobs) Leitch expect a substantial refund?.
Oh, well spotted Guido.
I am boggling slightly at the thought that Oor Anointed King *had* a leadership campaign in the first place. What does all that money go to do in a competition where there's no...competition?
I wonder how much gorgons support will cost hain will he be touring the tv studios praising snotty to the heavens maybe emptying the prime ministerial nappy and pushing the horse (rocking not wife).
Personal memo from Broon to Wendy Alexander, Harriet Harman and Peter Hain...
"Och, ye bunch o' fuckin' eejits, how many times have I got tae tell ye, it's 'do as I say, nae do as I do!' Alexander, grab the brush! Harman, lift the carpet! Hain... bend over."
Guido,
You say that "All the other candidates, including even Peter Hain, made their payments months ago."
This raises an interesting question - how much did he pay? Either Hain paid about 12,000 - on his earlier claims of having raised 80,000, or he paid about 27,000 - on the 180,000 he actually raised.
Either amount suggests interesting lines of investigation to pursue. If he paid 27,000, then it shoots down in flames Hain's claims to forgetting the donations, if he paid 12,000, then someone needs to push the Labour Treasurer into demanding a cheque for 15,000 from Hain.
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