The leader of the North Britain branch of the Labour Party is in a wee bit of bother. She’s called Wendy and she is the leader of the opposition in the Scottish Parliament.
She only got elected a couple of months ago and now it turns out that she received 950GBP from an oversees tax exile (I am oversees, but I live in the worlds highest taxed country and don’t have 950 quid) to help her get elected (receiving donations from abroad for that amount is illegal). This amount is a bit strange, if it was 1000GBP it would have to be declared publicly, but I’m sure there was no cover-up going on.
Now of course there are calls for her to resign etc. but she’s hanging on for reasons too boring to go into here.
I say that everybody should get off her back. If she wants to stay, then that’s fine. Everybody’s innocent unless proven guilty and the issue is now with the police. I’m sure that they can be trusted to push for a prosecution if there is evidence of funding wrongdoing?
Anyway, it’s only 950 quid and it’s not as if she’s eaten anyone’s babies…
That makes me think, you never see a picture of Wendy that doesn’t look as if she is glaikit or evil or the hungry caterpillar. Sometimes she even looks like a glaikit, evil, hungry caterpillar.
I think that the use of these pictures are probably just to undermine the fact that a woman is in a position of relative power. I don’t think that people in Scotland really take women politicians seriously. I would have hoped that she could prove a few people wrong, but it looks like she has fallen before the race even got going.
