George Galloway, Respect and the overseas donation

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George Galloway, Respect and the overseas donation

By Mark Pack | Thu 6th December 2007 - 11:13 pm

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And now, some variety. It’s a donation story and it doesn’t feature Labour.

Over to the East London Advertiser:

A NEW crisis has engulfed MP George Galloway‘s troubled Respect party after it emerged this week that the Electoral Commission has been called in over a suspected unlawful foreign donation.

The election watchdog is probing a $10,000 cheque from a Dubai construction company that ended up in the bank account of an organisation set up by Respect, the East London Advertiser can reveal.

Even more troubling for Left Wing Respect is the donor company is owned by one of Britain’s biggest private finance initiative contractors, which itself is headed by a former policy chief to John Major’s Tory government.

The Electoral Commission is now making “preliminary enquiries”.

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2 Comments

Chris Paul 6th Dec '07 - 11:20pm

George refused the donation suspecting a sting – the donor company being owned by PFI contractor supreme Interserve which has one of John Major’s lackeys for MD or Chair.

He asked staff to request a donation for Stop the War Coalition instead. John Rees diverted it instead to the strangely named Organisation For Fighting Unions which could be a CBI rather than SWP vehicle if you think about it.

I blogged this story 24 hours ago almost.
Letters From A Tory 7th Dec '07 - 9:43am

Is it just me, or does the Electoral Commission deciding to investigate something inspire absolutely no confidence whatsoever?

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