tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19208183.post4016536483698222207..comments2023-10-22T14:14:16.419+01:00Comments on J. Arthur MacNumpty: Administrative OversightsWillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978812670312106107noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19208183.post-46458905965269823862008-02-03T14:10:00.000+00:002008-02-03T14:10:00.000+00:00Apparently all her bluster about the advice she wa...Apparently all her bluster about the advice she was given has failed to mention that, at the time she sought the advice, she had already missed the deadline for declaration.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19208183.post-21947476301269258602008-02-03T12:53:00.000+00:002008-02-03T12:53:00.000+00:00There is one similarity between the latest Scottis...There is one similarity between the latest Scottish Labour Party money farce in the rotund shape of Andy Kerr and the ongoing Wendy Alexander. They are both blaming a mixture of 'oversight'... that they later 'put right'.<BR/><BR/>Hmm. the flimsiness of this posture on Wendy Alexander's part has been well gone over. With Andy Kerr, is it not all just a wee bit stretching credulity too far when it is MacDonalds and the ex Health Minister involved here? <BR/><BR/>A cynical soul - no, I'll correct that, a concerned citizen - might ponder how Kerr was a Minister and part of a Scottish Executive that often patronisingly lectured us individuals about our poor diet whilst doing lamentably little about the big industrial producers of hugely unhealthy food... and how that might sit badly with him accepting so-called hospitality from an outfit like MacDonalds.<BR/><BR/>That concerned citizen might then ponder that it would be better and convenient for the Minister to 'forget' and then 'remember' at a more convenient time the enjoyment of the so-called hospitality.<BR/><BR/>Meantime, there was the frankly risible intervention in London this morning of brother Alexander to add the Clerk (or ‘officials’) of the Scottish Parliament to the list of those to blame for her problems – a piece of semantic manipulation that is falling apart within the hour (the Clerk gave an opinion based on the so-called facts given by Wendy Alexander that turned to be, let’s say, open to other interpretations, moreover it is her and not the Clerk’s responsibility to ensure that donations comply with the law… that of course her own Party brought in). <BR/><BR/>This ‘blame the Clerk ( or the ‘Officials)’ line has all the appearance of being the latest agreed line, since Wendy Alexander on the Scottish Politics programme seemed unable to do much more than endlessly go on about how she had acted on their advice. Could she make no decisions on the matter herself… and she wants to ‘run’ Scotland? If in power would she just hand decision-making over to ‘officials’Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19208183.post-82114097339539028902008-02-03T12:21:00.000+00:002008-02-03T12:21:00.000+00:00She sounds like a goner.She sounds like a goner.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19208183.post-83446913120422949572008-02-03T12:07:00.000+00:002008-02-03T12:07:00.000+00:00Perhaps the most ridiculous aspect of this whole t...Perhaps the most ridiculous aspect of this whole thing is that all of this fancy financial footwork was part of an election campaign that was wholly internal and would not see a single new councillor, MSP or MSP elected.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03092264892200529590noreply@blogger.com