Sour Grapes Of The Week

From El Comm's press release on the judgment handed down today by the House of Lords Supreme Court:

Lisa Klein, Director of Party and Election Finance at the Electoral Commission, commented "Throughout this process, we have made clear that what we wanted to achieve was clarity about the way the law should be applied. Today’s Supreme Court judgement sets out how the rules on forfeiture apply to impermissible donations. The law on what an impermissible donation is has not changed."

From that, you'd never guess that the court found - very narrowly - in favour of the smaller political party which El Comm have been hounding mercilessly for the past four years or so. El Comm are acting as if they were no malice involved whatsoever and it was genuinely unclear to them what the law meant.

And, via UKIP Forum, The Judgment (pdf) and the Summary (pdf).

BBC write up here.