Peter Hain - No charges(not the same as not guilty)

The CPS said:
CPS decides no charges for Peter Hain MP
5 December 2008

The Crown Prosecution Service has today advised all concerned parties that there is insufficient evidence to charge Peter Hain MP with any offences in relation to donations made to Mr Hain's campaign to support his bid to become Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in mid 2007.

Stephen O'Doherty, reviewing lawyer from the CPS Special Crime Division said: "Although Mr Hain did not report all regulated donations to the Electoral Commission within the 30 days stipulated by the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, in order to prove a criminal breach of the Act the Crown must first prove that Mr Hain held the position of either a 'regulated donee' or, if operating via a 'members association' he was the 'person responsible for dealing with donations to the association'.

The evidence in this case shows that Mr Hain's campaign was run through an organisation named 'Hain4Labour' which was made up of members of the Labour Party. That organisation had its own bank account and the funds for Mr Hain's campaign were solicited for that account and cheques donated were made out to that account. Those were all characteristics of a 'members association' as defined in the Act. Mr Hain was not a signatory to that account and did not direct where funds should be spent.

"In light of this evidence, I have concluded that Mr Hain was not the 'regulated donee' and nor was he the person responsible for dealing with donations to the association under the terms of the PPERA."

As to who should have been responsible for reporting these regulated donations, it is not possible to prove from the evidence available that any other individuals involved with Mr Hain's campaign fell into the category of being either the regulated donee or the person responsible for dealing with donations. Accordingly I have advised the police to take no further action.

Following a review into donations received to support Mr Hain's election campaign by the Electoral Commission, the matter was referred for investigation to the Metropolitan Police Service in January 2008. Following their investigation, a file was submitted to the CPS in July 2008.

So the Hain Policy Forum can gather lots of lovely cash in the manner of a "slush fund", in total some £100,000 without declaring it to the Electoral Commission in support of an elected politician passing itself off as a "think tank". Note that I said and the CPS will agree that it is a think tank, a policy forum and not "slush fund" as their is no evidence that this was a "slush fund" what so ever. 

I would say that Hain has got away with it(much like that robbery....), muddy the waters a lot and all that. The Progressive Policies Forum which was not a "slush fund" according to the CPS, despite having done nothing, had undertaken no known political activity, had no employees, no policies and there was no forum or indeed any meeting ever.

Repeat not a "slush fund", nothing to see here, move along.... 

**Its also worthy of note that he gets lots of love and hugs off of Paul Flynn MP, an MP who is also known for playing fast and loose with the truth.

Mr Flynn who a couple of years back lost a libel case brought by Endowment Justice Ltd, he also likened Peter Hain to the shapeshifter Odo from DS9. Read the stroke ridden, whisky sodden libel case losing MP's words from http://www.paulflynnmp.co.uk/Hain.htm
Peter Hain’s condemns ‘control freakery’ and blames New Labour for the Assembly election disasters in Wales. What next ? Will Milosevic nominate himself for a Peace Prize ?

Peter is gambling that Wales has already forgotten who was the architect of the Welsh Leadership stitch-up and masterminded the loss of the Islwyn, Llanelli and the Rhondda.

Peter has tiptoed deftly from left to right in politics, then back again. Without hesitation or blush he took the Welsh Office job that should have gone to Rhodri Morgan. He choreographed the stitch-up and denounced Rhodri Morgan supporters as ‘crypto-nationalist.’ Now Peter Hain’s job at the Welsh Office is coming to an end. In May Peter was on the Right. Blink ! Now he’s on the Left.

The logic of his statement is that Ken Livingstone should be backed as London’s Labour nomination for mayor. He dodged this question on BBC Wales this morning. 'That’s for Londoners to decide' he said.

In Star Trek there is a Shape-shifter, named ODO

He liquefies at the end of each day and sleeps in a bucket to emerge in another chosen shape the following morning. The Shape-shifter in the only one of his kind. 

Or is he ?

**It might also be worthy of reading this minor spat between what can only be described as "lovebirds" these days... http://old.paulflynnmp.co.uk/commonsdetail.jsp?id=1037

Cunts the pair of them....

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