Tuesday, 18 December 2007

Rules? What rules?


So, "ELECTION WATCHDOGS are to speak to the Scottish Liberal Democrats in Dunfermline West after it emerged that the party spent more than was allowed at the Holyrood elections. In May the Lib Dem candidate Jim Tolson won a spectacular victory, snatching the seat from Labour. The expenditure limit set by the Electoral Commission for the seat was £11,111.51p. However, the party actually spent £11,125. The Electoral Commission said that no further action would be taken, although they do plan to speak to MSP Mr Tolson in due course."

What? Another politician, this time from Fife, who seems incaoable of obeying the rules and the law as it applies to election campaigns?

It would never have happened in Carnegie's day. Mr Tolson is a law breaker ... and a law maker.

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