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Wendy Alexander quits as leader



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Wendy Alexander today announced her resignation as leader of the Scottish Labour Party.
The embattled leader said she was standing down with "deep regret".

The announcement comes after Holyrood's Standards Committee ruled she should be suspended from Parliament for one day for failing to declare to donations to her leadership campaign.

Earlier today, Labour MP David Marshall announced he is to quit the Commons, piling further by-election pressure on under-fire Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Ms Alexander's departure now presents Labour with the prospect of a leadership contest in Scotland.

She announced her resignation in a statement delivered before TV cameras at Scottish Labour headquarters in Glasgow.

Her voice still hoarse from a throat infection, and on the day after her 45th birthday, Ms Alexander announced her decision to resign following the decisions this week of Holyrood's Standards Committee.

Ms Alexander said: "I hope the events of recent days will lead to reflections by all MSPs and parliament officials on the appropriateness, objectivity and effectiveness of our current procedures.

"I acted in good faith and the written advice of parliamentary authorities.

"I believe there has been a breach of natural justice in a partisan decision," said Ms Alexander.

But she said the parliamentary process – "if not its conclusion" – deserved respect.

Ms Alexander said the row over the donations had become a "distraction" from the real issues facing Scotland.

Following Ms Alexander's announcement SNP Depute Leader Nicola Sturgeon said: "This has obviously been a difficult decision for Wendy Alexander, and resignation offers her the opportunity to move on.

"While Wendy Alexander has been author of own misfortune, there can be no doubt that the information on her illegal campaign donation could only have come from within the inner circles of the Labour Party.

"For months, there has been an unanswered question in Scottish politics – who within Scottish Labour leaked the information which provoked the serious investigation, culminating in Wendy Alexander's resignation?

"As Labour face another leadership trauma, her likely successors would do well to watch each other as well as their political opponents.

"Decay from within is characteristic of the decline of the New Labour project, and Wendy Alexander's resignation is a symptom of this wider malaise."

The full article contains 372 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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1

Richardinho,

28/06/2008 11:19:06
I don't think she acted in good faith. I think she thought she could cheat the system then smarm her way out of it.
2

Rabbies Wee Bruthir,

28/06/2008 11:22:19
Wendy Has Gone!!!!, at 11:15 am this morning Wendy Alexander, the Scottish parliamentary leader of the Labour Party in Scotland, announced her resignation as parliamentary leader of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party, citing 'the decisions of they Standards Committee this week', she also believes' there has been a breach of natural justice',
She has judged that this issue has clouded the issues concerning Scotland, and claims her 'pursuers have achieved a 'political victory at what expense'.
Cathy Jamieson will lead the party over the summer, she feels the party has made 'significant progress in reconnecting with the people'.
She is not resigning her seat, and continues to claim she acted in 'good faith throughout'

Cathy Jamieson claimed that Wendy followed advice given by 'parliament', however she negated to say that MSP instructions on 'donations' are quite clear 'If in Doubt Declare them, she also negated to mention that she had not made the declaration within the '30 day rule for declaring donations'
3

Boy Wonder,

28/06/2008 11:36:24
And the New Labour meltdown continues. They are in complete disarray and have no-one in the wings who could make an effective leader.

Bye-bye Wendy ... ye'll no' be missed!
4

roughrider,

Glasgow 28/06/2008 11:37:56
The crook ubendy has left the building.
I see Slab are blaming the SNP for her down fall.
Pathetic stuff fae the useless jimmyson.
Bleat,moan,blea,bleat moan.
5

izzie,

dundee 28/06/2008 11:38:14
Typical she blames everyone but herself. What about Lab's
backing for an Independence referendum now. Would it be possible that she is using the donations row as an excuse because she backed herself into a corner over this?
6

roughrider,

Glasgow 28/06/2008 11:39:22
The crook ubendy has left the building.
I see Slab are blaming the SNP for her down fall.
Pathetic stuff fae the useless jimmyson.
Bleat,moan,blea,bleat moan.
7

Jimmy the Pie,

28/06/2008 11:47:15
The thing that amazes me is how New labour Sleaze blame everybody else for their woes.

Comrade Broon is blaming the world economy.

Red-faced Wendy blames the SNP.

They both blame the 'unfavourable' press.

They are too thick to realise that they have lied and cheated the public with a referendum that was promised.
Tax hikes, fiddled expenses and blatant sleaze have been inflicted on us and they still expect to be returned.

Imbiciles, every last one of them.

Their ultimate demise can't come quick enough!!
8

bill2,

28/06/2008 11:51:41
Now she has resigned, let's see justice swing into action and put her and the rest of the criminal gang in the dock whilst we have a general election.
9

Calvinist,

28/06/2008 12:03:04
Why are you rejoicing? Surely this is a black day for the SNP- Wendy was one of your greatest assets.
10

roughrider,

Glasgow 28/06/2008 12:06:57
The sleaze and corruption party will have to hold a leadership contest.
It will be interesting to see who is brave enough to
stand.
Go on JABA go for it .
lol
11

jamb0bwana,

Edinburgh 28/06/2008 12:19:39
Wendy will be sadly missed -mostly by the SNP. She was a great asset.
BTW what happened to all the money donated for the purposes of her non-election campaign? Will it be transferred to her pal Jabba?
12

Huntly loon,

Aberdeenshire 28/06/2008 12:31:07
The standards committee had little option than do what they recommended. Others have fallen foul of rules and had far mor stringent punishements. The SSP banned for a month for a placard protest, others a whole week suspension. I guess Labour members of the committee were in favour of imposing those bans.

What of future actions of the standard committee if they had sought to recommend no punishment on Wendy Alexander. A future MSP would have claimed that that his offence was less than Wendy's so why is he getting a week's supension? At the end of the day the parliament decides, the committee only recommends a punishment.

Alex Salmond endured months of examination over the Trump affair and was accused of being cavalier. No evidence was found against him despite all the delving and was still rebuked.

Labour need to be able to take what they in the past have happlily dished out to others when they wielded power. Thank God that day when Labour thought they were above examination is over. Unfettered power corrupts. Just look at Mugabe. Wendy is hardly his league but it's a thin end of the same wedge.
13

GM,

28/06/2008 12:37:16
Still trying to divert blame on anyone and everyone else -


---- She took donations that should have been declared.

---- Only *after* the 30 day deadline did she decide to ask if this was legit (clearly prompted by info that a complaint was going to be made)

---- She was initially given wrong advice, but it was like closing the door after the horse had bolted - no defence whatsoever.

---- And this *on top of* the **admitted** illegality of accepting a donation from 'abroad'



No choice Wendy, but its all of your own making and no-one elses
14

LEAL,

28/06/2008 12:40:31
Who is going to replace the massive intellect that is Wendy Alexander?
15

The Answer,

Glasgow 28/06/2008 12:43:46
typical little scotland-ers posting here, your an asset to your country!

Waiting for the day that the first snpy muppet falls on his sword, or maybe for the "outing" due anyday soon.
16

Wee Fifer,

Edinburgh 28/06/2008 12:50:00
Blameless Wendy, the biggest female martyr in Scotland since Mary Queen of Scots. What a stomach churner, blaming everyone else. If that speech was designed to rewrite the story and elicit sympathy it failed - it only moved me in the direction of disgust. And Labour let her make that speech, OK, it's her speech - then Cathy Jamieson endorsed it, and that Edinburgh MP whose name escapes me called it trivial, which is a display of the same contempt that lost the Labour party the election.
The SNP didn't take the donations, she did.
The SNP didn't try to hide the donations, she did.
If the brightest political thinker of her generation doesn't know that a donation is the same thing as a gift (donation, from Latin donum = gift - or gift, old Norse 'gipt' = the act or an instance of giving.) then it's her own fault. She's repsonble for this, no-one else.
A sad spectacle.
17

MR.CYNICAL,

a happy place 28/06/2008 12:55:22
lets hope her brother is next to go
18

Geoff,

sa 28/06/2008 12:55:50
A few things here -Firstly Wendy's resignation shows that political accountability,though slightly flawed,
is alive and well in the UK. Here in South Africa, after a promising start,ours is out the window and we are on a slippery slope.
Secondly her resignation is good for Labour and thus bad for the SNP. She was a poor leader and whoever follows could hardly be worse. Scotlands main Unionist Party needs someone more capable to counter the SNP.
Thirdly christian or not, remember the wise words "Let he(or she) who is without sin.." Some of her opponents are so holier than thou-dont crow too much too soon-someone in the SNP is bound to **** up somewhere sometime.
Finally, I thought her resignation speech was a reasonable effort but there was a bitterness in her tone that indicates that attitudes in Scotland are polarising and hardening further. If I was an SNP activist, i would show a little more grace and a measure of humility. Rubbing peoples faces in it with this constant crowing and puffing of feathers is more likely to put people off rather than win converts.As a unionist of course I hope you do not follow my advice!
19

bully wee alba,

Edinburgh 28/06/2008 12:57:55
A sad day for hungry caterpillars and wide mouthed frogs everywhere.

Wendy has been a road crash waiting to happen from day one of her “leadership”.

Time after time she failed to match up Big Eck at FMQ’s. She regularly went missing when the going got tough, deciding to hide under her duvet rather than face what has been a somewhat less than hostile press when difficult questions had to be answered.

Will all those tame liebourite journos, who confidently predicted that her huge intellect, allied to her acute grasp of detail, would soon have Alex Salmond reeling from the power of her forensic questioning, now admit that she was a pygmy in the face of a giant beastie?

Basically, Wendy has epitomised the dearth of talent, vision and respect for the Scottish electorate, which defines the North British Parish branch of the Cringing Liebour Party.

On an aside point, as a native of Shettleston, I take no pleasure in hearing of the ill health of the current Westminster MP for the area of my birth, and I wish him a long and happy retirement.
20

Ananurhing,

28/06/2008 13:09:53
Farewell to a weel skelpt face.

Still in denial though, and still further investigations to come. Did she ever pay back the misappropriated dinner money from the SIF function?

You can almost hear them at John Smith House.
" No. A'hm no doin it. You do it!" Followed by short straw drawing.
21

Ananurhing,

28/06/2008 13:10:28
Farewell to a weel skelpt face.

Still in denial though, and still further investigations to come. Did she ever pay back the misappropriated dinner money from the SIF function?

You can almost hear them at John Smith House.
" No. A'hm no doin it. You do it!" Followed by short straw drawing.
22

Ananurhing,

28/06/2008 13:11:40
Farewell to a weel skelpt face.

Still in denial though, and still further investigations to come. Did she ever pay back the misappropriated dinner money from the SIF function?

You can almost hear them at John Smith House.
" No. A'hm no doin it. You do it!" Followed by short straw drawing.
23

Ananurhing,

28/06/2008 13:11:53
Farewell to a weel skelpt face.

Still in denial though, and still further investigations to come. Did she ever pay back the misappropriated dinner money from the SIF function?

You can almost hear them at John Smith House.
" No. A'hm no doin it. You do it!" Followed by short straw drawing.
24

Ananurhing,

28/06/2008 13:13:34
Sorry. Don't know what happened there.
25

Arnold Codger,

Glasgow 28/06/2008 13:19:27
The resignation of Wendy Alexander today could not have been possible if leaks to the Sunday Herald newspaper that could only have come from close insiders of her camp. Scottish Labour are claiming that a witchunt by the SNP however the partys Deputy Leader Nicola Sturgeon has issued a statement today clarifying that it is their understanding also that the cruical leaks of emails and donations did not come from members or activist from the SNP but from Scottish Labour. The Electoral Rules had been broken on serveral counts:-

i) she accepted donations from a Guernsey businessman, with interests in Glasgow. She denied this until the businessman came forward to with a letter written by Alexander from her home address.

ii) She did not seek advice from the Electoral Commission, who have spent a fortune educating MSPs about the Electoral Code, until after the 30 day deadline. The advice is always the same - if there is even a scintillar of doubt, declare it."

iii) Therefore did not declare her £17,000 expenses until after the 30 day deadline.

iv) It was found that they sought donations of under £1000 thinking that they would not have to be declared when infact the limit is £500.

v) She was not open about who donated and how much with a much repeated statement "we will wait for the outcome from" the various bodies who investigated her financial accounting shortcomings. Not to mention her parliamentary debating shortcomings.

vi) Finally after the Electoral Commission, the Procurator Fiscal and then the Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commission decided that on a majority vote of 5-2 that she should have declared her expenses she recieved the all but minimum punishment of a one day suspension from the Scottish Parliament.



After all this she and Scottish Labour persist in claiming that the SNP hounded this issue when infact it was all of her own electoral campaign involving Jackie Baille and David Whitton managed to corrupt a one horse
26

LEAL,

28/06/2008 13:19:48
Cathy Jamieson will bring a breath of fresh air to the whole thing.She is such a cheery person full of fun.A ray of sunshine.The public may think she is a whining old bag with a face like a torn scone,but the media will build her up.Like they did Alexanders intellect.But the fact is,anyone Labour pick as new leader will have the same problem.Independence is right for Scotland and clinging to the bankrupt union is wrong.It is time for the Labour party in Scotland to back Scottish Independence.
27

Wee Fifer,

Edinburgh 28/06/2008 13:25:07
21 Geoff,
"Finally, I thought her resignation speech was a reasonable effort but there was a bitterness in her tone that indicates that attitudes in Scotland are polarising and hardening further. If I was an SNP activist, i would show a little more grace and a measure of humility. Rubbing peoples faces in it with this constant crowing and puffing of feathers is more likely to put people off rather than win converts."

Why exactly should the SNP to show humility? They weren't involved in taking the donations. You say that Wendy's resignation was a good effort, although bitter, but you think that it's the SNP who should show good grace and humility - not Wendy herself? About having her faced rubbed in it, I think alot of Scots think that her face and the faces of her acolytes, Ch. G. for example, have not been rubbed in it nearly enough. So much of the stuff that has come to light over this donations row has, mercifully for Labour, gone away, at least for now. And they talk about damage to the standing of Parliament that has been caused when all they have done is to make lame excuses for themselves and Wendy, introduce the guff about 'no intentional wrongdoing', 'technical breaches' and other stuff that all added up shows that they view the public with utter contempt. Those are the rules, she broke them. Clear unambiguous statement of fact. And what about the damage done to the public by the fact that it was demonstrated that some politicians were above the law? I think 'wiser heads' might look to that rather than the alleged damage that 'the SNP has done to the standing of the parliament. Wendy forgets an important thing - this parliament didn't have a 'standing' before the SNP won the election and formed a government, and it's not only nationalists who think so.
28

Wee Fifer,

Edinburgh 28/06/2008 13:39:24
28, Arnold Codger.
Spot on - it is important that they do not get away with rewriting the story here. The fact that she is unable to admit that she has done anything wrong shows that she thinks she is above the rules. I am very glad to see her go, and I hope her constituents in Paisley give her the heave-ho when they get the chance.
29

Raj Persaud's ghost writer,

28/06/2008 13:42:05
16 LEAL,28/06/2008 12:40:31
Who is going to replace the massive intellect that is Wendy Alexander?


The Hungry caterpillar...........?
30

LEAL,

28/06/2008 13:54:22
Raj

Perhaps.Salmond would,I think,find the hungry caterpillar a more worthy adversary than anyone on the Labour benches.The question is,how will the Labour party get the Hungry Caterpillar into Holyrood?
31

euro-dreamer,

borders 28/06/2008 13:55:48
I agree with Wendy

There was a breach of natural justice.
It occurred when the Electoral Commission let her off.
32

Longdirk Maceth,

NZ 28/06/2008 13:56:04
PTBS, AM2, Media 1, Where are you?
33

The Tin Man,

28/06/2008 14:00:09
Bye-bye Wendy. To be fair to her, I think she wanted to resign immediately after the affair, but was forbidden by Chairman Brown, what with Labour politicians not resigning at Westminster over substantially more serious matters, at the time.

So.... who's going to be up next?
34

The Tin Man,

28/06/2008 14:03:56
...Please.... anything but Commisar Jamison... Eeeeek!
35

Wee Fifer,

Edinburgh 28/06/2008 14:15:58
And now Des Browne, talking of a woman 'hounded from office', gut-wrenching. Could the Labour Party tell me where I am supposed to lay a bunch of flowers, and are they thinking of a Diana-style concert for her.
36

Maxanim,

Passim 28/06/2008 15:26:32
Wendy Alexander's resignation as leader of the Labour group at Holyrood is a misfortune for the SNP in so far as it has clearly benefited enormously from her failure to measure up to the job.

The graceless manner in which she has vacated this position discredits her and her party further. In seeking to represent the parliamentary standards committee determination concerning her improper conduct as flawed by virtue of being allegedly partisan demonstrates her inability to accept responsibility for her own misdemeanours. Her cavalier disregard for the rules governing members of the Scottish Parliament could hardly be ignored. The committee in question is in any case not controlled by any one party, as we know.

The Labour Party's mean-spirited attempt to smear the SNP at the very moment of its own disgrace shows just how unfit Labour is to represent the people of Scotland. It is to be hoped that in the Glasgow East UK parliamentary by-election the electors of even that theoretically safe Labour seat will send that message to the Labour Party loudly and clearly.
37

M.Corleone,

2nd Vatican State ....Coatbridge 28/06/2008 15:27:38
What was that about 2010 referendum ?

Must have been 10 past eight she was talking about !!
38

SouthernSkye,

28/06/2008 15:32:28
Well,to give her her dues, she's finally done something right.
Will she return to just being a constituency MSP for Paisley North, Linwood and Renfrew now?
39

SouthernSkye,

28/06/2008 15:40:32
Furthermore, having just watched BBC web, her voice sounded fine today....must have just had a 24 hour voice-losss bug eh?!
40

wattie>x 1,

PLYMOUTH 28/06/2008 15:49:52
Not a second before time! This polical New Labour Party abomination should go back home and spend the time with her deprived young children and leave politics to those who who are not gullibel; or stupid!
41

bully wee alba,

Edinburgh 28/06/2008 15:52:37

Wendy who?
42

wattie>x 1,

PLYMOUTH 28/06/2008 16:05:23
Cathie Jamieson is her ' temporary successor'!
I wonder if it's for the good of the the Scottish people or, probably for Cathie? Being almost twice her age and having researched her political career and discovered she was born in my home town; and lo and behold went to to the same school as me; many, Many, Many Years later; but found, not to my amazement, she is another typical supporter of the fame seeking Blair and Brown New Labour fraternity.
43

Raygn,

Stirling 28/06/2008 16:05:31
Labour just doesn't get it. They have been so used to being unchallenged up here that they think the rules simply dont apply to them.

Think about the sleaze and corruption that went on for years that we never heard about because they controlled all the organs of power and simply covered it up.

Toys, pram and oot is what they've been reduced to and it finally is coming home to roost as to why we have never advanced as a nation in fifty years because of the mismanagement, sleaze and corruption.

They are bereft of talent, vision, principles and morals and hell mend them. The sooner they are reduced to a small rump party the better off we'll be as a country.
44

Wee Fifer,

Edinburgh 28/06/2008 16:05:44
See this very prescient article from May 10.
tinyurl.com/6hcudq
It is very much to the point. Describing a let them eat cake pathological inability to take responsibility.
45

wattie>x 1,

PLYMOUTH 28/06/2008 16:20:07
Having perused the comments on this subject belatedly -of the over whelming condemnations of this dreadful little woman. has reionstated my flagging admiration for the Scottish people and its historic nation; not as the BBC regards as a region of England when it suits them.
46

Jwil,

28/06/2008 16:24:44
"Cathy Jamieson claimed that Wendy followed advice given by 'parliament',"

They look for any straw to clutch!
47

Mr. Lachie Todd,

Edinburgh 28/06/2008 16:52:36
The bitter comments on this website show the glee her opponents have for Ms. Alexander's misfortune. However much the Nationalists and Labour members hate each others Party it is nothing of which to be proud?

Her resignation was self-inflicted and there is a suspicion that she would have been pushed if she had not taken this decision?

Many years ago Labour made much of its fight for One Man One Vote(OMOV) within the Labour Party and Trades Union movement, yet, what puzzles the ordinary voter is that Ms. Alexander still accepted large financial donations for her campaign for leadership of the Labour Party in Scotland in which she stood unopposed?


48

HEN BROON 5,

ALBA being held back by the UK 28/06/2008 17:18:17
The rancid bitterness and malevolence displayed by Alexander and Jameson at her resignation press conference was breathtaking. Jameson had a face like a melted welly, whilst Alexanders bottom lip was like a Belfast sink, what a bloody disgrace Labour are in Scotland. No questions were answered as they stalked out like two witches. They are not fit to lead a troop of brownies never mind a once great and honorable party.

GOOD BLOODY RIDDANCE.

ALBA GU BRATH.
49

Strangelet,

Glasgow 28/06/2008 17:22:15
Lock her up, that's what I say. Lock some sense into her. And lock her seedy little brother away an' all. Pair of corrupt, power-clinging self-preservationists.
50

Strangelet,

Glasgow 28/06/2008 17:23:39
Oh, and throw away the key, an' all...
51

The Batboy,

28/06/2008 17:37:17
Labour made a HUGE mistake in letting Paul Nolan go and not advancing him into the Parly, and ultimately leadership of the Party. Look at how he ruled the roost in Craigmillar for years! He would've skelped hid opposition aside and stopped Labour's freefall into oblivion!

Come back Paul. Scotland needs you!
52

The Batboy,

28/06/2008 17:38:21
*Did anyone notice my tongue firmly in my cheek there?
53

Richardinho,

28/06/2008 18:50:22
I was prepared to have some sympathy for Wendy, but her resignation speech was completely unapologetic and racked with bitterness. If she's done nothing wrong then why on earth is she resigning? Lets be clear-she has done something wrong, and that's why she's resigining.
54

McMadman,

http://scottishreferendum2008.blogspot.com 28/06/2008 18:58:07
Batboy

He will be standing for liebore in place of Dr Strang sooner than you think, that's why Strang said he wisnae resigning, cause Nolan has packed oot the local party with his placemen.

But Strang now knows the gemmes up for liebore. He knows it doesn't matter and he'd lose to the nats anyhoo, so he'll let Nolan come and have a go, and laff when the nats take the seat.

SAOR ALBA

Nolan's even benter than bendywendy ffs...
55

Rabbies Wee Bruthir,

28/06/2008 19:07:35
Who amongst the Labour MSP's can actually fill the job, now vacated by Ms Alexander,
Ones to watch Des McNulty, Jackie Ballie both part of the Dumbaaartonshire Labour Mafia, Cathy Jamieson,Cathie Craigie,Malcolm Chisholm ,Frank McAveety,Sarah Boyack, not really one of them worthy of leading anything in Scotland, except perhaps, the exodus of failed Nu Labour MSPs to the DWP office to find out they canny sign oan, but huv goat tae phone in thur claim ;-).
56

McMadman,

http://scottishreferendum2008.blogspot.com 28/06/2008 19:57:49
#58

Rabbie

You forgot Andy (wan) Kerr. They're all chite tbh.
57

Peter Curran,

Kirkliston 28/06/2008 20:13:08
It was right that she should go, but all the gloating is just a wee bit offensive. I hope Alex Salmond distances himself from it - he can afford to be generous.
58

Jock Tamson,

Scotland, Caledonia, Alba 28/06/2008 20:37:00
Oi, reporter, there was eff all wrong with her voice this morning when she made the resignation speech she should have made a tear ago.

Spare me the cräp, MacDonnell, excretum tauri does not always omnia vincit.

The voice was clearly heard on BBC News24 from 1115 this morning.

But anyway, good riddance. Perhaps we can have capable people instead of "phenomenal brains" representing us.

Was she a member of Mensa? If so, why did she not have the intelligence to act other than a pampered brat?

I could go on but I won't.

Here's tae Wendy
Wha's like her
Nane
Thank fück
59

jj veritas,

28/06/2008 20:42:27
She is still on the MSP gravy train though. Fobbed off on the public. The public don't get the right to sack her for years yet. If she wishes she could be fiddling MSP expenses claims for a long while to come.
60

A Better Way,

Republic of Scotland 28/06/2008 21:36:24
Thats one traitor down. Now we want Brown and his cabal of corrupt ratbags who are responsible for the deaths of one million innocent Iraqis thrown out and prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

The London Controlled New Labour Party must be dismantled here in Scotland. In the new Independant Scotland only politicians who had nothing to do with advocating the London Line should be entitled to stand for any type of public office. No more traitors.

I yearn for the day when only truly Scottish political parties of many different persuasions are permitted by the Sovereign Power that is Scottish People. Political parties that owe no loyalty to any other Nation other than their own. Until then we must carry on the great fight.
61

jacquesmac,

Lectoure 28/06/2008 22:23:35
38 Wee Fifer,Edinburgh 28/06/2008 14:15:58
And now Des Browne, talking of a woman 'hounded from office', gut-wrenching. Could the Labour Party tell me where I am supposed to lay a bunch of flowers, and are they thinking of a Diana-style concert for her.

HOW ABOUT A CANONISATION?

SAINT WENDY of the BROWN ENVELOPES?
62

DouglasT,

28/06/2008 22:29:28
Wee Fifer
See this very prescient article from May 10.
tinyurl.com/6hcudq
It is very much to the point. Describing a let them eat cake pathological inability to take responsibility.

What struck me about this article was the similarities between Brown and Alexander that seemed to jump off the page.
63

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28/06/2008 23:32:10
Comment Removed By Administrator
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64

Willie Macleod,

Wick 29/06/2008 00:38:35
#66 MacAlba. To my fellow Scot MacAlba What do you mean by "addressed acordingly"?






















65

Paula,

29/06/2008 01:09:55
If it cost £17k for Wendy's one horse race for leadership how much will it cost if there are a few of them (parcel of rogues indeed!)

Just as long as they take note of where the cash comes from, eh.
66

GavFaeMonty,

Oot o' mi tree 29/06/2008 06:08:33
WOOOOOOOSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Heh heh. Bye bye, ye' won't be missed.
67

PJ Walker,

East Lothian 29/06/2008 08:57:49
So wee Alex, heading up the Nats, the party of broken promises, now finds himself completely unopposed

Scottish politics is clearly in its worst state ever
68

morris,

edinburgh 29/06/2008 09:04:38
17
If you are the answer then I dread to think what the question was!
The facts are Wendy was guilty of numerous offences,some of which she even admitted to!
She was responsible for her own comments and actions,and her explanations are choronologically unnaceptable.She resigned (or did she).The SNP wanted her to stay !
Anyone else would have faced trial and a possible custodial sentence,had the new rules not been introduced by NEW LABOUR which prevent the Procurator Fiscal form doing what he/she alone can do,and decide whether to proceed to trial.The electorla commission was used to prevent justice form being seen to be done.If you support this YOU ARE AS BAD AS THEY ARE!

She has been a disaster from day one,and the only fair comment is that she reflects upon her numptie party well.
She represents a party of corruption who have conned the Scottish people out of their birthright to the tune of billions.Brian Wilson not only admitted this but claimed they did so with our approval!
Maybe you like living in a one party state run by a parcel o rogues,most of Scotland does not!If I am a little Scotlander as you put it,then there are over 1 million who agree with me and have stopped listening to the Unionist arguments which have so many holes in them they are no longer possible let alone palusible
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McMadman,

http://scottishreferendum2008.blogspot.com 29/06/2008 12:52:13
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Get a grip. 1 year in for the SNP; lieboure broke hundreds of promises over the last 50 years and indeed in the last holyrood parliament alone.

 

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