Holyrood's standards committee has found Wendy Alexander guilty of breaking Scottish Parliamentary rules on donations. We'll find out what sanctions are to be imposed against her on Thursday.
P.S. And Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper are under investigation over their expenses. Guido will make for great reading today.
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Tiberius
June 25th, 2008 3:32pmCrick not fancy the Cooper/Balls brief? Maybe he's looking into Norman Lamont's expenses claims for pocket calculators.
Perry - passionate about putting words to piccys
June 25th, 2008 4:54pmWHAT WAS SHE SAYING when this piccy was tooken?
“Aw, - thanks for the wee dram mon, - jest set it there on the wee brownie packet” – perhaps?
Carol
June 25th, 2008 4:56pmI bet the main stream do not report the Balls and Cooper story, despite the fact they are cabinet ministers. The likes of the BBC are only interested in reorting so called 'Tory sleaze' i.e Spelman nanny affair.
C Powell
June 25th, 2008 6:07pmThe rules state that your main home is where you spend most nights. Cooper-Balls and their children live in London, which is where their children go to schools so they must spend at least 4 nights there every week. How they've got away with claiming that London is not their main home but their second home is a mystery? The rest of us wouldn't last 5 minutes trying to pull a similar stunt with the Inland Revenue.
Perry, wondering what might yet be
June 25th, 2008 7:15pmGhoulish I know at tea / supper / dinner time (is the naming and time of the evening repast(s) regulated by guv’mernt dictat yet?), - but joining this thread with that of Melanie’s Caledonian Caliphate, - might there come a time when this would literally be a ‘hands off’ affair for Mz. Alexander?
Perry, singing ‘Please, police me, like you do, . . ‘
June 25th, 2008 7:22pmThe point is – C Powell – is that they, the testo’s, can bullsh*t with alacrity, - whereas the rest of us, with a modicum of decency and reserve – would not – or if we did, would be picked up at once.
Remember, only bone-fide law-abiding citizens are picked up nowadays. It’s easier that way, (they have our records) and saves p’leece time ‘n effut ‘n that, like.