More Labour Sleaze - Hariet Harman

Harriet Harman has committed an offence under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. The relevant section reads:

39 False statements: offence

A person commits an offence if—

(a)

he knowingly or recklessly makes a statement to the Commission which is false in any material particular, and

(b)
the statement is made, or purports to be made, on behalf of a party for any purpose of this Part of this Act.

Lets get them in court.

Cyclops the mighty clucking claaw Gordon Brown is going to do the right thing by just handing the cash back?

Mr Brown said the money was not lawfully declared Gordon Brown has said donations to the Labour Party by a property developer through middlemen were "completely unacceptable" and would be repaid.
The prime minister told reporters he had had "no knowledge" of £600,000 of donations from David Abrahams and said they could "not be justified".
"The money was not lawfully declared so it will be returned," he said.

Nigel Farage of UKIP raised a good point:

WHO WILL GET THE MONEY BACK, PRIME MINISTER?

Prime Minister Gordon Brown says that the Labour Party will be returning the six hundred thousand pounds it received wrongly from David Abrahams but who will actually get it?asked UKIP leader Nigel Farage today.

Mr Farage said, "Surely the money cannot be returned to Mr Abrahams because he is not the donor of record. Does that mean it all goes back to the jobbing builder, the secretary and the solicitor?

"The Prime Minister is being a little hasty. It may be that the Electoral Commission will declare these donations as impermissible. In that case the money,ironically,would be returned to the Treasury.

"The Electoral Commission chased UKIP pretty hard in trying to get us to cede early four hundred thousand pounds because a donor did not check he was the electoral register.

"But possibly it may be a different ball game when one of the major parties is involved."

Lets see what cyclops Brown comes up with next...

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