Labour Donations Scandal
This is either extraordinary incompetence or organised deceit. Either the Labour Party have not carried out the proper checks on donations or deliberately accepted the money anyway.
Was was very interesting was the length of time that Gordon Brown took before he gave Labour Deputy Leader and Party Chairman Harriet Harman his backing over her decision to accept money from an intermediary - money refused by Gordon Brown and Hilary Benn’s campaigns. Which in itself asks the question: if those campaign teams knew or at least suspected that the donations they were offered were not legit, why and how did the main party not know or work it out?
By reacting quickly over this, such as with the resignation of the party’s general secretary, Gordon Brown has limited the damage that it will do to him in the long run - but in the short run it will quite likely be worse. What is potentially most damaging is the way that the terms “scandal” and “sleaze” can be attached to Labour and Brown himself over this.
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