BBC News Online has just reported that Peter Hain failed to declare ... wait for it ... £103,000 in donations to his deputy leadership campaign. That's One Hundred and Three Thousand Pounds of the Queen's currency! I don't for one moment imagine this was deliberate on Hain's part, but if he can't oversee the financing of his own campaign, can we really trust him to look after a £100 billion social security budget? I think not.
More in a bit.
I wonder if there are any embarassing donors amongst those hidden £103K?
ReplyDeleteThis really is a case of if he knew, he should resign, coz he's bent.
ReplyDeleteIf he didn't know, he should resign coz he's incompetant
If Stalin is going to keep all these crooks in his team, like harperson, balls, alexander, does he really think we believe anything he says?
As someone pointed out earlier on Guido, the really tragic (or comic, depending on your outlook) aspect of this is that Hain far outspent his rivals in the deputy leadership contest only to finish a very humiliating fifth, his whole USP as the "leftish" candidate having been successfully purloined by Cruddas.
ReplyDeleteI think he might just as well resign really. Gordon clearly doesn't trust him and the deputy leadership result showed that he has no great following in the party any more.
There is however a great counterfactual question around Hain, namely: had he resigned with Cook in 2003, might he have successfully challenged Gordon in 2007 on an anti-war ticket? Quite possibly.
Why do we assume that it wasn't deliberate?
ReplyDeleteAfter all, he does already have a criminal record...
ReplyDeleteI don't for one moment imagine this was deliberate on Hain's part, ................Isn't it a shame that the laws of libel prevent us from saying what we really think?
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone really believe that Hain didn't know about this? Even after we had suffered a government that, at every turn, has lied and twisted its way through the last 10years. Nobody believes him, least of all our esteemed second hand prime minister who apparently has said that peter's embarrasment is punishment enough!