Just when you thought it was confined to political folklore, the EdStone returns again to haunt Labour. Mr S was interested to learn this morning that the Electoral Commission has fined the party £20,000 for failing to declare the money spent on the doomed eight-foot tombstone.
Labour failed to declare £7,614 worth of receipts for the stone plinth, which form part of 74 payments worth £123,748 that appear to have been missed out of the declaration of expenses from the 2015 electoral campaign. The commission’s fine is the largest of its kind since it was set up in 2001.
Were the receipts lost in the post? Or were they ripped up at the same point that the EdStone was smashed to pieces by Miliband’s loyal political flunkeys? Either way, Mr S is glad to see the spectre of the EdStone, just in time for Halloween.
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