Wendy's in the Clear, but the Real Winners Are the Snp Opinion & Debate Opinion & Debate Iain Macwhirter On Labour's Nadir

Sunday Herald › February 11, 2008

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TRIUMPHANT Labour MPs were doling out the humble pie and feeding it to the political hacks last week. Wendy was "in the clear" following her exoneration by the Electoral Commission. "F***ing brilliant, " one said. We journalists should all be ashamed of our "vendetta" against her, went Labour MSP George Foulkes.

Well, the court of public opinion will be the final arbiter of the "donorgate" affair, since no court of law will consider it. SNP MSPs are saying it's one law for politicians, another for the general public. Actually, it's more a case of one law for Wendy and another for Peter.

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Wendy's in the Clear, but the Real Winners Are the Snp Opinion & Debate Opinion & Debate Iain Macwhirter On Labour's Nadir

Peter Hain had to resign because he failed to register donations to his campaign. Yet the pensions secretary had not "knowingly" or "intentionally" broken the law either. In fact, his donations, while much larger than Alexander's, were at least legal. It was administrative incompetence that led to ...

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