Friday, September 05, 2008

Labour in children's chartity money sleaze row

Who would have believed the Labour party would take money from a children's charity ? That's right, money accrued by the charity to benefit children was instead used to help fun Labour's over draft.

It worse than it looks as the charity, Catz Club, has a direct interest in government policy which it could benefit from.

Apparently the sleazy Labour party is being forced to pay the £15k back ( note they didn't volunteer - as anyone with any decency would see this was wrong ).

The charity commission says this case is a cause of "serrious concern".

Greg Clarke, shadow schools minister, said "a new low in Labour's donations history".

Well Greg I'd like to believe this was the case, but after all the sleaze and police investigations into Labour funding practices I don't think we can bee to confident.

Labour are quite simply shameless.

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Why does Network Rail make donations to Scottish Labour ?

Network Rail is supposed to be a not-for profit company that was put in by Labour after they forced Railtrack out of business.

Now on the Electoral commissions web site you find the following information on donations to the Labour party: (Hat tip to Andrew who the following in a comment on Guido's blog... "What on earth are Network Rail, a state owned company, doing making any kind of political donations/payments? )

Why is the electoral commission giving UKIP a hard time when this sort of thing is going on ?

Register of donations to political parties

Your search matched 2 donations with an overall total of £ 11,000.00

Types of donations:

Cash

Received by	Donor	Date accepted	Donation
Scottish Labour	Network Rail Ltd status: Company company reg no: 04402220	28/02/06	£ 5,000.00
Scottish Labour	Network Rail Ltd status: Company company reg no: 04402220	31/12/06	£ 6,000.00
Section total:£ 11,000.00

The pound in your pocket

"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

“The trouble with theoretical economists is that they don't understand that when you have a deficit, you can only finance it by borrowing, and you've got to persuade people that it's worth lending money to you and that they'll get their money back... there's no way of escaping it.” Dennis Healey during the 1976 Stirling Crisis.

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of over-turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Maynard Keynes, 1920.

"To preserve [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,1801-1809.

Inflation is taxation without legislation .. Milton Friedman