The BBC doesn't show up on a Google search for "jack straw" saudi donation BBC, but The Telegraph does:
Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, is facing an inquiry over an allegedly illegal donation to his campaign fund from a company backed by Saudi property developers.
The Electoral Commission has received a complaint over the £2,000 gift from Westminster International Consultants (WIC), a shell company which has never traded in the UK. Electoral law states that MPs must not accept donations from non-trading companies. The money from WIC was paid to the constituency Labour party in Mr Straw's Blackburn seat on the same day it received a £3,000 donation from Lord Taylor, the peer at the centre of the "cash for amendments" row.
Mr Straw could now be forced to pay back the money and apologise to parliament if the Electoral Commission decides he was guilty of breaking the rules. The only donors to the Cabinet minister's 2005 election campaign were Lord Taylor, WIC and a third man, Arif Patel, who runs a clothing firm in Preston. Mr Patel, who donated £2,000, is currently the subject of an ongoing police and customs investigation into an alleged multi-million pound VAT and counterfeit goods fraud...
No doubt the BBC will pick up the story soon ..?
UPDATE My bad, the BBC explained that this was all just an innocent mix-up with cheque books yesterday.
Meh
3 hours ago
2 comments:
Often helps if you check BBC rather than google. They noticed it a day before you did and ran it yesterday
Anonymous
Perhaps but we're still waiting for this embarrassing news for the global warming loonies to be reported by the BBC. "Theon" on the BBC search engine reveals - surprise, surprise - nothing on climate change but there is a redirection to Dr Who: obviously someone at the BBC has a sense of humour if not a sense of honesty.
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