Thursday 20 August 2009

One rule for UKIP, one rule for them ...

From the BBC:

The Liberal Democrats broke electoral rules when accepting donations from a south London MP's son, it has emerged.

Jonathan Kramer, son of Susan Kramer, MP for Richmond Park, donated more than £1,300 to the Liberal Democrats between December 2008 and March 2009. But the party was forced to repay the money when the Electoral Commission discovered Mr Kramer was not registered to vote in the UK. Parties can only accept donations from those on the electoral role [sic]...

Parties have 30 days to check whether donations are permissible or return them - something the Lib Dems failed to do. Legal action against the party was not necessary because the money was repaid as soon as the error was pointed out, the Electoral Commission confirmed.

2 comments:

Witterings from Witney said...

Good spot MW - the EC really are bastards!

James Higham said...

I really think this donations thing is ridiculous. Who cares where the money came from? Conservative leaning people will donate to conservatives and UKIP leaning people will donate to UKIP. Simple logic.