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[quote]"The moment we were aware of that we referred it to the Electoral Commission and I'm confident that I will be exonerated of any wrongdoing."[/quote] It does seem as though the "moment they were aware of it" , they immediately tried to cover it up as a donation from CPS. Is it also true that the head of the Electoral Comission was a secret donor to the Wendy campaign fund ? Stop the rot, Wendy must go if this is true. Where is Nicol the sleaze sniffer in all this ?

Saw her going beetroot in her rant on telly... she made an utter fool of herself!

labour - rotten to the core - or simply incompetent? No matter either way, unfit to serve the people of Scotland.

I thought she'd already admitted a "wrongdoing" so I assume she must have had the nod that she's going to be let off.

[quote][bold]Scamp[/bold] wrote: I thought she'd already admitted a "wrongdoing" so I assume she must have had the nod that she's going to be let off. [/quote] Or her supreme arrogance assures her sh's beyond reproach

Wendy's brazen attitude on TV suggests she already knows the outcome of the Electoral Commission's deliberations. I smell sh'ite again!

"My campaign team accepted £950 that turned out to be impermissible." So we've gone from [bold]bold[/bold] illegal[bold]bold[/bold] to[italic]italic[/italic] impermissable[italic]italic[/italic] ? This oxygen-thief is going to brass it out, isn't she? The Scots Community deserve much better. We are the Independence Generation. It's Time.

I can get a definite 'wiff' of [bold]S L E A Z E[/bold] Can you Nichol?

[quote][bold]james[/bold] wrote: labour - rotten to the core - or simply incompetent? No matter either way, unfit to serve the people of Scotland.[/quote] [bold]ROTTEN INCOMPETENCE[/bold] I'd say

It really doesn't matter how much she believes her self confessed illegality was unintentional. It really doesn't matter how much the electoral commission, with their senior advisors who donate to the Labour party and indeed Bendy Wendy's leadership campaign, whitewash this investigation. It really doesn't matter how much Alf Young, Douglas Fraser and Kevin Schofield sell their souls to the devil and in order to fabricate as much positive spin to Labour's troubles. What really matters is that the public at large are rapidly realising, and accepting, the Labour party in Scotland and their media stooges for exactly what they are - corrupt, immoral, hypocritcal, scaremongering, self-serving, treachorous parasites.

The list of topics for First Ministers Questions that she can safely bring up must be reducing by the hour!

I said, when this story broke in the Sunday Herald [bold]last year[/bold] that it would come to nothing. New Labour politicians can do as they please and it's now becoming alarmingly obvious that our democracy is being eroded by them. It's now seriously disconcerting.

so having kept the press waiting all these weeks for this report she gives a telly interview to a journalist flown up from London a couple of days before the EC report is due - trying to spin its conclusions? that does seem a little unfair not least on the fall guys in her team

[quote]Speaking on the BBC's Politics Show yesterday, Ms Alexander said: "My campaign team accepted £950 that turned out to be impermissible.[/quote] No, your team [bold]SOLICITED[/bold] the cash!

[quote][bold]Tired of excuses[/bold] wrote: [quote]"The moment we were aware of that we referred it to the Electoral Commission and I'm confident that I will be exonerated of any wrongdoing."[/quote] It does seem as though the "moment they were aware of it" , they immediately tried to cover it up as a donation from CPS. Is it also true that the head of the Electoral Comission was a secret donor to the Wendy campaign fund ? Stop the rot, Wendy must go if this is true. Where is Nicol the sleaze sniffer in all this ?[/quote] Lord Elder of Kircaldy donated to her campaign in secret and his name was subsequently published by The Sunday Herald. His role in respect of the Electoral Commission seems to be as a parliamentary advisor (each of the parties seems to have one)?

Nouveaux, it is indeed disconcerting. It proves the Electoral Commission is as bent as the Labour Party. As for Kevin Schofield, well, what can one say really? No mention of Wendy's personal note of thanks to Paul Green, sent to the CHANNEL ISLANDS. No mention of Labour's grant from the public purse to educate their people on the new laws on donations. No mention of the trail leading back to Alexander's husband's computer. And no mention especially of the right of the people of this country to demand clean politics. Wow, what a journalist!

I heard wee Wendy asked Peter hain to vouch for her honesty, as she was only dabbling in fraud compared to him, she is a shoe-in to get off

I can definately smell sh!te!!!

After a two month silence we've suddenly gone from "no INTENTIONAL wrong doing" to "no wrong doing"... AT ALL!! What's justifying this new boldness? As if we can't guess!! Stinks.

"Roseanna Cunningham, the SNP MSP for Perth, said Ms Alexander had "failed" to shed any more light on the issue" That's because you can't shed more light on being innocent!! Wendy is INNOCENT!! Nuff said on a dead issue. WENDY FOR QUEEN

Dave, I know plenty of Labour supporters, and Party members, who will be furious if Alexander gets away with this. Unlike you, obviously, they care about the Party itself and what it has become. Many in old and new Labour destroyed real Labour and they hurt a lot of people in the process who once believed in what real Labour used to stand for. So if you're ok with that Dave it means you are in favour of dishonesty, deviousness, deceit, fraud, illegal wars, selling peerages for cash and lies all the way. It means you're backing a Party who has shown itself repeatedly to be completely untrustworthy. If Alexander survives this the Party certainly won't Dave. People have had enough.

[quote][bold]Dave[/bold] wrote: "Roseanna Cunningham, the SNP MSP for Perth, said Ms Alexander had "failed" to shed any more light on the issue" That's because you can't shed more light on being innocent!! Wendy is INNOCENT!! Nuff said on a dead issue. WENDY FOR QUEEN[/quote] You state that you are from AWAY.. which planet?

[quote][bold]haud me back[/bold] wrote: I can definately smell sh!te!!![/quote] Me too - coming from all the SNP loonies on here

The longer Labour try to fly with this stench coming from the cockpit, the bigger the crash later. Round about election time, with any luck. I implore you, Electoral Commission, PLEASE exonerate Wendy. Let the result stink to high heaven.

Was Kevin Schofield responsible for this sub heading, or was it Labour HQ?

Well Wendy Alexander has given her first interview since the illegal donations revelations and what a sham it was. Not once was the word illegal used, not once. There was no pursuing of the sequence of events that led to the electoral commissions involvement. Alexander was simply allowed to exhonorate herself by saying that she informed the commission of the donation the moment she was made aware of it’s illegality. Does the evidence support this statement? Why were no questions asked by Soper and Campbell in order to probe this statement? It suggests that Alexander’s caseis so fragile that any probing by a decent journalist or indeed an interviewer will destroy it and therefore it simply isn’t being scrutinised. However the ring fencing pantomime continued as the weak and vulnerable are used as a kind of human shield in order to provide a defence for this woman. The now wholely discredited BBC had as their main political story in Scotland a story so pathetic that Herald journalist Robbie Dinwoodie had already revealed it as no more than a ‘filler’ provided by Scottish Labour over the quiet festive season. The ‘ringfencing’ panto is so clumsy a tactic that journalists should be questioning the motives of those using it. So, as we enter the new year, what has been the two biggets political items in the last 8 – 10 weeks? Well for consistent front page headlines it is the contrived Trump story with headlines suggesting misconduct, sleaze, law breaking, corruption, cover up and lies. Now the main story, if the BBC and press are to be believed, is the ringfencing Christmas panto, complete with big bad SNP and a host of vulnerable and unfortunate victims. No one, but no one in the media is remotely interested in investigating clear endemic corruption and law breaking at the heart of Scottish Labour leadership. We now know that Scottish Labour are above certain laws of the land, the Unionist establishment will allow them to act with impunity. Furthermore, we have a press that are complicit in this in that they are willing to turn a blind eye. The law it seems exists not to protect the Scottish people nor to prevent corruption. It can only be assumed that the law in Scotland exists solely to defend the Union. The Scottish people are being subjected to an ever increasing diet of pro Union propoganda from both newspapers and the state owned BBC. We can only hope that there are sufficient numbers within our society that are aware now of what is happening.

As well as the whole "I will be found innocent" claim I was amused to note that her idea of big news for the week is that Nicol, Annabell and herself are going down together to London to get their orders. If I was the leader of one of the unionist groups in Scotland I wouldn't be shouting about London masters pulling the strings. She seems proud to be a toom tabard.

Well well, Wee Weendy is innocent? Who'd a thunk it. Peter Hain is innocent too, isn't that nice! That nice Mr. Osbourne is so innocent even rich people give him loads of money!!! Much written recently re upward mobility and geting out poverty etc. now we all know what to do. Become a politician and rise up beyond your wildest dreams.... or abilities. For further information please see details of one Tony Blair. Probably the greatest living exponent of 'political rise'.

Confident ( and arrogant) enought to say she wil be exonerated ( when she has admitted wrongdoing ) no doubt becasue she knw's how Labour biased the Police, Crown office and Electoral Commission staff are

All was quiet in the comfort of the paper bag in which Wendy found herself. She punched and kicked. She lashed and slashed. And yet nothing was heard from the Matriarch of sleaze. Not a sound from this megaphone of a mouth. Then 'she came out fighting', but still couldn't fight her way out of that paper bag! She whined and pleaded her defence and all reasonable people just watched in awe at the brazen cheek of this hussy. Oh yes we can hear her now, but what a laugh. This woman is more crooked than the crooked man who walked a crooked mile. Her party, locally and nationally, is a rag bag of incompetence and sleaze, corruption and immorality. Goodbye Wendy and hopefully goodbye Labour!

This whole event has gone past risible. Are we now living in a time where it's "do as i say, not as i do"? Or "I'm all right jack,bu**er you"? If bendy wendy doesn't even get "smacka handies" does this set a precedent for us all?

Im confident that I will be exhonerated of any wrong doing says Wendy! I agree ,but thats not the issue WENDY! Your being guilty, and exhonerated ,[bold]NOW THAT IS AN ISSUE![/bold] We have all known this from day one.Labour have their cronies in positions everywhere and scratch my back Ill scratch yours, does not even begin to describe how rotten the system is. We might as well vote for the Maffia,at least their election slogan [bold]WE TAKE CARE OF PEOPLE[/bold] would be honoured!

NO IFs NO BUTs. Failing to inform the Electoral Commission of an illegal donation within 30 days is a criminal offence.

Labour is corrupt. Top to bottom, North and South. Corrupt.

[quote]Ms Alexander said: "My campaign team accepted £950 that turned out to be impermissible. "The moment we were aware of that we referred it to the Electoral Commission and I'm confident that I will be exonerated of any wrongdoing." [/quote] Another blatant lie, what do we expect form them

[bold]Nat Liars on 2:41am[/bold] How does making a derogatory comment(of zero intellectual capacity) in any way contribute to either this debate,or make Labour and Wendy any less guilty than they are ? I happen to know (along with 1 million other Scots )that LABOUR are a party of liars and have been lying over McCrone for forty years minimum, and its because that is historical fact,not SNP propaganda. Its time you knew it also! Most SNP members I have met are university graduates or lecturers doctors teachers engineers,and generally academic people. You are what exactly? The content of your posting would suggest that you, least of all people ,have any business calling anybody or anything loonies!

[bold]iang, Glasgow on 8:51am[/bold] Exactly The minute they became aware of it was when they [bold]approached this man for a donation[/bold] ,or giving them the benefit of that doubt,when they accepted it.. [bold]WENDY CANNOT BE INNOCENT[/bold] She already admitted her guilt! Wendy will be exhonerated however. Conclusion [bold]THE JUSTICE SYSTEM applies to the rest of us but LABOUR are Immune ![/bold] Solution: [bold]REMOVE the Nu Labour Party[/bold] .

The BBC website still dosen't metntion Bendy Wendy's 'fighting' (?)defence of her behaviour, or anything about the Politics programme. How do they justify having pages called 'Scotland' and 'Scottish Politics' when the only news on them is trivia? I know they only portray a mythical Scotland since the real one rejected their Nu-Lab bosses, but I'm surprised they're ignoring their own programme.

If Wendy gets away with this using the "unintentional" defence why should any politician even examine his donations. urely far better to leave it to the staff and then claim unintentional wrongdoing when everything goes pear shaped. Looks like a crooks charter to me so perhaps this is what Labour intended in the first place.

I have little or no respect for the vast majority of politicians and their er3e wipe party hacks. I see the same sad and lonely sh1tebags in here every day trying to defend the indefensible. Get this intae your thick heids, your SNP/Lab/Lib/Tory garbage are nae different. Just be careful what you all say 'cause am tellin' ye it'll come back and bite ye oan the er3e. Sleaze bags the lot.

Well said Geoge in Lanarkshire! Did this journalist watch the same |Politics Show that the rest of us did? 'Alexander comes out fighting' ha! ha! She came out blushing,she came out prevaricating about the 'vulnerable',which she has done for boring weeks in Holyrood. But it all smells of whitewash again!

Wendy MUST stay. She can be a wee reminder, just like the Duke of Sutherland's memorial on Ben Bhraggie, Instead of being the 'Mannie' she can be the 'Bendy Wendy'.

I can only surmise that Labour have found a 'volunteer' to take the blame with the assurance that once the issue goes away, this volunteer will be suitably rewarded.

It is rather odd to say the least. She admits to breaking the law but is now confident that she will be vindicated! How does she know that...? If she stays then she will do continuous damage to her party - not a bad thing!!!

Wendy has admitted to breaking the criminal law, but on the BBC she is confident that she will be exonerated by the Electoral Commission. Breaking the criminal law aparently has no sanction and is no longer a barrier in politics. Here lies the depth of corruption within the Labour party and the Unionist establishment. Political reporting has been shut down on this story for months. We even had a Herald leader that argued that a criminal prosecution of Wendy Alexander would be bad for democracy. Here lies the depth of colusion between the Scottish media and the corrupt Labour party. WendyGate will only increase the electorate's cynicism of politics, political journalism and more importantly the criminal law and the police. [bold]The lesson that people will draw is if Wendy Alexander can get away with breaking the criminal law then so can we all. [/bold]

Wendy has admitted to breaking the criminal law, but on the BBC she is confident that she will be exonerated by the Electoral Commission. Breaking the criminal law aparently has no sanction and is no longer a barrier in politics. Here lies the depth of corruption within the Labour party and the Unionist establishment. Political reporting has been shut down on this story for months. We even had a Herald leader that argued that a criminal prosecution of Wendy Alexander would be bad for democracy. Here lies the depth of colusion between the Scottish media and the corrupt Labour party. WendyGate will only increase the electorate's cynicism of politics, political journalism and more importantly the criminal law and the police. [bold]The lesson that people will draw is if Wendy Alexander can get away with breaking the criminal law then so can we all. [/bold]

"Alexander comes out fighting" Give us a break, her sole answer to any question was effectively 'What about the poor children?" [italic]ad infinitum[/italic] . Well, Wendy where was your fawning concern for them when in government? Did we hear you championing their cause then? I'm beginning to believe she will 'beat the rap'. If so, it's a damning indictment on the electoral commission and it's claimed impartiality. It would be a sickening reflection on the corruption inherent in the system.

Confident she will be "exonerated of any wrongdoing"? Hopefully the Electoral Commission can take a more objective view on trivia such as the £950 "limit" to skip under the radar, the somewhat inconvenient letter written personally to her Jersey donor, the use of the CPS front, etc. The fact that they have taken about a month to investigate this situation speaks volumes, however. Why is Wendy so confident, despite a shambolic and embarrassing load of nonsense on The Politics show, with the broken record on the abused 2 year olds and other "vulnerable" groups being trotted out as examples of what's being missed by the SNP while the world focuses on her intentional wrongdoing? We can look forward to an official whitewash and no charges bring brought. However she is now, politically a laughing stock so in the end we the voters can have the last say and vote her and her ilk out. This is the only punishment that New Labour will really understand - the P45. Wendy, Hain, Harman and the Master of Illusion himself, Broon.

I am quite astonished at the sheer lack of political skills displayed by this person who insists on trying to continue leading the Labour Party.Her comments on the removal of ring fenching were naive and patronising -her local authority colleagues were cringing and opposition members were insulted.

George Alexander 6.48am - A brilliant post which hits the nail on the head. If that is what Kevin Schofield really calls' Wendy fighting' then the only person he is deluding is himself. I got a real sense from Wendy on the politics show that she knows the damage that is done, her body language suggested she was struggling with her failure to look the interviewer in the eye most of the time, her blushing and her smugness evaporating and desperation setting in as the interview progressed. She knows she is hanging on and that is all she is doing. People have seen through her and labour even more through this and she knows it. Her interview was a shambles and labour know that her time is up as do the public. The media can lie and not report this story all they like but the public will have the last say and it does us the public a huge favour by letting us see just exactly what the media here in Scotland are all about. Truth will always win in the end.

Shame on you all !!! Wendy by her own admission on TV (and according to her likewise all her labour councillor colleagues) only entered politics to protect the “handicapped the infirm the weak the old the single-parent mums” the woman is a saint. So she bends the rules, well not so much bends as fractures them, that’s not breaking them really but anyhow it is in a good cause and does not matter and anyhow a big boy did it and ran away and I had my fingers crossed and what about the cripples if I’m not here who will look after them, not my labour councillor friends because they will spend the money on something else unless we ring-fence it and anyhow my brother's a cabinet minister and he will bash you .

Get the bucket of whitewash ready !

[quote][bold]Dave[/bold] wrote: "Roseanna Cunningham, the SNP MSP for Perth, said Ms Alexander had "failed" to shed any more light on the issue" That's because you can't shed more light on being innocent!! Wendy is INNOCENT!! Nuff said on a dead issue. WENDY FOR QUEEN[/quote] DAVE Thank you JASON4QUEEN......... we haven't missed you even for a second..........but as before, you're back with no thought, no analysis, and no leg to stand on in defending Wendy who has de facto ADMITTED that a breach of the law took palce.......not that her friends in the electoral commission'll do owt about it !!! Still, it'll be nice for you two to compare crowns, grovelling sycophants etc

Cue indignant red packet and whiney voice, "what about the vulnerable two year olds?" Nae danger hen, you'll be spending more time with them soon enough.

The fact is...she's a crook in a party of crooks. To defend her is to become a co conspirator and therefore a crook! There's no way around this. If you defend her you're just as crooked as she is! Bet someone gets hung out to dry to save her sorry ****!

[quote][bold]Scamp[/bold] wrote: I thought she'd already admitted a "wrongdoing" so I assume she must have had the nod that she's going to be let off. [/quote] Yep. A nod & a wink. The system stinks. Take to the streets.

If it looks like $hite & smells like $hite, it's probably $hite.

The appointments process for the Electoral Commissioners is unsatisfactory. The role and status of the Electoral Commission make it imperative that the selection and appointment of Commissioners is undertaken in a transparent and open manner beyond the control (formal or informal) of elected politicians or civil servants. It is unsatisfactory for a ministerial department (the Speaker's) to administrate the selection process. Although I am not questionning the integrity of Sam Younger, Sir Neil McIntosh or Max Caller and they have clearly no overt political allegiancies, the fact that Sam Younger's old man was a labour cabinet minister and that Sir Ian McIntosh and Max Caller have been Chief Executives of the labour controlled Strathclyde Regional and Hackney Borough Councils respectively certainly allows scope for those of an enquiring mind to question the impartiality of the selection process.

Definitely got the feeling in this interview with Glen Campbell yesterday that Wendy was way too confident that she was to be exonerated. Flares nostrils like everyone else. what a bl**dy country, the corrupton/collusion is seemingly everywhere.

BREAKING NEWS: The Electoral Commission's conclusions into WendyGate have been leaked to the press. The Electoral Commission will [italic]"blame members of Ms Alexander's campaign team for sourcing an illegal donation, but will clear the Scottish Labour leader of intentional wrongdoing because she took action to find out whether the donation was allowed."[/italic] [bold]The Electoral Commission is just as corrupt as the Labour party.[/bold]

I'm not sure how Whitewash Wendy can convince *herself* she is innocent, never mind the rest of the country. She sounds confident of getting away with it though. For now.

Surely anyone democrat of whatever political allegiance must be alarmed at the small band of career opportunists who see politics as a vehicle for personal status and financial gain.This cabal are increasing the cynicism of the plebs who see there is really a law for the elite and another for the rest of us.

This is too serious a matter to simply allow Wendy to be "exonerated" after she has admitted guilt.and allowed the team working for her to finagle the donation so that she could use it rather than simply hand it back.Our election system has been hard won over generations and we cannot allow the Alexanders or anyone else to undermine it. It is all we have to ensure we put honourable people into power over us. She is not fit to be in our parliament. IT IS TIME WENDY WENT. It is also time to throw out the counting machines at elections and go back to using decent ordinary people overseen by other decent ordinary people so that we can have some trust in the results.

#george alexander, north lanarkshire on 6:48am today, Your post is bang on the button and needs no further embellishments from me,its good to see so many like minded people posting.

Recent polls show the Labour party ahead of the SNP in terms of party preferences. It seems that there are a helluva lot of people still willing to support new Labour. It might be of course that the BBC is chock full of labour people, i couldn't believe Dougie Donnelys' support for Sam Galbraith and all things Labour in his column in yesterdays Sunday Herald. How many more are there spouting out their Scottishness for ninety minutes. By the way Wendy wil get of scot free and will continue to make a fool of herself at FM's questions

Let's look as this lass a bit more. She is accepted to be above average intelligence, has access to the best political advice in Holyrood, at Westminster (her brother and the PM0 has a graduate father and is held in some high regard in financial matters. Her husband is well tutored in the media and must know a thing or three about "public statements and political protocol". In law, if my Latin memory recalls, "ignorantia legis neminem excusat". Ignorance is no excuse for willful blindness in legal matters and cannot be exonerated. Now Wendy (or Hain or Blair or any other conniving politician) cannot wriggle out of that definition. If they are allowed to do so then indeed THE LAW IS AN **** and any judge who puts a case up to exonerate any one of them is AN **** AS WELL. The derisory responses from those who try to defend Wendy are indeed to be pitied, but it seems most in the Labour (sorry, so-called Labour) party are tarred with the same brush. If Blair can get a whitewash from Hutton then the due process of selective law for a chosen few is on the cards so don't hold your breath that Wendy or Hain will get their just desserts.

Effortlessly she swoops from crass incompetence in media management to lead violinist for the poor oppressed masses. Dear old Wendy. Like so many in the political establishment, it must be so easy to empathise with the poor, the oppressed, the pensioner, the child, especially when you can blow £100k on a one candidate election....or in the case of Peter Hain, several hundred thousand to come fifth out of six. Perhaps rather than rubbing an onion in your eye, and weeping tears for the poor, safe in the knowledge that you yourself could never be poor, Wendy could cut the guff and explain to us what the previous Labour government actually achieved in office - or indeed what the Labour run councils of Scotland had achieved in the past 50 years in terms of dragging people out of poverty. Without dwelling on particular reports, we find that social mobility is at its lowest ebb, the gap between rich and poor is rising, child poverty is at an all time high and, worst of all, despite record investment in schools, results are in steep decline. So, does she, or her party actually give a tuppeny toot about the alienated masses....or, does is suit them perfectly well for people to remain in their place, fed a constant diet of victimisation semantics by the Labour Party who profit very well at the ballot box by constantly repeating the mantra " we care about those at the bottom rung of the ladder". Labour people now have multiple homes, are themselves millionaires and they still blab on about the oppressed masses. What amazes me is that people buy it. We shall get nowhere until Wendy and her ilk, those who have a theoretical understanding of the effects of deprivation, actually have some life experience. Whilst life must be just grandy and dandy as you sit in your charming flat on Byers Road, perhaps a month spent on a sink estate might open the old eyes up a bit. I sincerely believe we have a country run on the principles of vested interest. Politicians will say all it takes to get elected, then do all they can to look after themselves and their cronies whilst in office. To the poor sappy taxpayer caught in the middle, its just a never ending revolving door of faceless, chinless diddies spouting platitudes, spending billions, and achieving nothing. I don't care about the £950. If she is happy with her explanation, fine. That it would shame a five year old is not my concern. But Wendy, go listen to your oppressed masses. Don't tell them you are "in their corner" when patently you only care about your own skin.

[quote][bold]Politically-incorrect Man[/bold] wrote: Wendy's brazen attitude on TV suggests she already knows the outcome of the Electoral Commission's deliberations. I smell sh'ite again![/quote] The labour rag the record also appears to know the verdict already. We should not be surprised if the electoral commission also broke the law, by whitewashing the case as apart from labour bigwigs sitting in judgment on it, I remember reading somewhere of also a labour party donor in the past, sitting on it. IN THE CASE OF A WHITEWASH THE COMMISSION MEMBERS SHOULD BE NAMED AND THEIR INTERESTS TO THE LABOUR PARTY EXPOSED. Its beginning to like if you are in the labour party then you are above the law as they even have sympathisers sit on committees that investigate them. Wendy knowingly broke the law and should rightly be punished for it like anybody else would. To the electoral commission we the public, are not fools, if you fail to punish her, then we will.

What a crap media we have Remember the fuss about the 'welcome to Scotland' slogan. It made front page news for days and was hammered out daily on the telly yet when we have a corrupt, lying criminal politician leading the main opposition party in Scotland not a cheep is said.

Aaah. Lord Elder. "Lord Elder donated to Wendy Alexander's leadership campaign. He is also a political advisor to the Electoral Commission - which is currently considering an inquiry into the illegal donation which Wendy received." Hmm....... "Lord Elder. Former flatmate of Gordon Brown and a Special Advisor to Donald Dewar with Wendy Alexander during the Holyrood building fiasco." Hmm........ * He was also adviser to the late John Smith. * He is a personal friend of Wendy Alexander - and donated to her election campaign. Yep. It's $hite.

[quote][bold]JohnnyMac[/bold] wrote: Effortlessly she swoops from crass incompetence in media management to lead violinist for the poor oppressed masses. Dear old Wendy. Like so many in the political establishment, it must be so easy to empathise with the poor, the oppressed, the pensioner, the child, especially when you can blow £100k on a one candidate election....or in the case of Peter Hain, several hundred thousand to come fifth out of six. Perhaps rather than rubbing an onion in your eye, and weeping tears for the poor, safe in the knowledge that you yourself could never be poor, Wendy could cut the guff and explain to us what the previous Labour government actually achieved in office - or indeed what the Labour run councils of Scotland had achieved in the past 50 years in terms of dragging people out of poverty. Without dwelling on particular reports, we find that social mobility is at its lowest ebb, the gap between rich and poor is rising, child poverty is at an all time high and, worst of all, despite record investment in schools, results are in steep decline. So, does she, or her party actually give a tuppeny toot about the alienated masses....or, does is suit them perfectly well for people to remain in their place, fed a constant diet of victimisation semantics by the Labour Party who profit very well at the ballot box by constantly repeating the mantra " we care about those at the bottom rung of the ladder". Labour people now have multiple homes, are themselves millionaires and they still blab on about the oppressed masses. What amazes me is that people buy it. We shall get nowhere until Wendy and her ilk, those who have a theoretical understanding of the effects of deprivation, actually have some life experience. Whilst life must be just grandy and dandy as you sit in your charming flat on Byers Road, perhaps a month spent on a sink estate might open the old eyes up a bit. I sincerely believe we have a country run on the principles of vested interest. Politicians will say all it takes to get elected, then do all they can to look after themselves and their cronies whilst in office. To the poor sappy taxpayer caught in the middle, its just a never ending revolving door of faceless, chinless diddies spouting platitudes, spending billions, and achieving nothing. I don't care about the £950. If she is happy with her explanation, fine. That it would shame a five year old