To be scrupulously fair, Brown hasn't been channelling money to himself through front organisations. Incidentally, when we're talking about money that Hain and Brown haven't paid to the party, we're not talking about money in their actual pockets are we? Is it their private offices, or what? I find all of this sort of thing annoyingly unclear in the press.
What puzzles me about the whole PPF thing is that no one who's donated to it seems particularly dodgy or questionable, so why not just let them donate publicly? There is apparently some question about whether companies that donated consulted shareholders, as they must do under electoral law, so perhaps that's it.
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Date: 2008-01-16 05:06 pm (UTC)What puzzles me about the whole PPF thing is that no one who's donated to it seems particularly dodgy or questionable, so why not just let them donate publicly? There is apparently some question about whether companies that donated consulted shareholders, as they must do under electoral law, so perhaps that's it.