The years of sleaze stuck to the Conservative party - a problem we are only just recovering from. Now we have the Labour party with it's massive loans following on from the Lib Dems with their millions being reported to the electoral commission. It appears that no party can be whiter than white.
But what are the alternatives? Is state funding really the way forward?
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The Lib Dems were cleared of any wrong doing, and it was a slightly obtuse administrative point anyway. Strange how you forgot to mention that ;)
Legal it might have been but was it right.
"The commission found it was "reasonable" for the party to regard the donation as having been permissible.
But it added the Liberal Democrats should have made better checks."
In fact Labour also had a go at the Lib Dims over it (from The Times - May 05):
Labour last night accused the Liberal Democrats of "hypocrisy" in accepting £2.4m from a derivatives trader based in Majorca, despite the party calling a £50,000 cap on gifts made by individuals.
The donation, from Michael Brown, 39, is the largest that the party has ever received, and amounted to more than half its election budget, funding an ambitious billboard and advertising campaign.
The Liberal Democrats have repeatedly argued that donations of more than £50,000 should be banned.
Reports yesterday that ill ease over the cash within the party's ranks had led to the resignation of its treasurer, Reg Clark, in February"
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