I have a lot of sympathy for the Electoral Commission, and indeed in the interests of full disclosure, briefly worked as an external PR person for them. Their role remains unclear, and they should definitely be given some more bite to go with their bark.
However, their decision to let an acknowledged breach of the law by the Scottish Labour leader go unprosecuted is peculiar, to say the least. Even the bark is absent today.
Their website was, when I visited it, headlined as follows:
Impremissible donation - leadership campaign of Wendy Alexander MSP
So does "impremissible" mean "illegal but not to be prosecuted"?
However, their decision to let an acknowledged breach of the law by the Scottish Labour leader go unprosecuted is peculiar, to say the least. Even the bark is absent today.
Their website was, when I visited it, headlined as follows:
Impremissible donation - leadership campaign of Wendy Alexander MSP
So does "impremissible" mean "illegal but not to be prosecuted"?
I think that it's a wee shame on wee Wendy who had to resort to referring to herself in the third person on Newsnicht last night.