Monday 3 December 2007

The Curious Case of Wendy.


Mr Smith has to do a lot of things he would rather not do in the name of blogging. The latest was to look at under siege Scottish Labour Leader Wendy Alexander MSP's website, http://www.wendyalexander.co.uk/, which features amongst other things a very amusing picture gallery of our Wendy in various poses out and about with the lumpen proletariat of Paisley and beyond.

Strangely enough given her recent illegalities a number of the pictures feature Wendy with the cops wearing a rather strange and forlorn facial expression.

But Mr Smith also noticed that one link on Wendy's website entitled "Donate" takes the clicker to the Scottish Labour Party's secure donation webpage, https://secure2.labour.org.uk/scotland/donate, where it states very categorically in the Terms and Conditions that:

"In compliance with party funding laws, if I am donating more than £200, I understand that my details will be checked to ensure I am registered on a UK electoral register (this applies to overseas residents as well as UK residents). If I donate more than £1,000 to a Labour Party unit (e.g. Constituency Labour Party) or more than £5,000 to the Labour Party nationally in the course of a calendar year, I understand that my name and the amount of the donation will be reported to the Electoral Commission for publication on their public register of donations to the Labour Party."

Curiouser and curiouser. As well as writing a thank you letter to a Jersey resident businessman who couldn't lawfully make a donation, and having her husband question the donation on an email database for Wendy's campaign, we now also have the Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from her own website referring donors to a website where the law which Wendy herself broke is clearly explained to anyone who can read. Time to say goodbye Wendy.

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