Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Alexander Should Quit (And Take His Useless Big Sister With Him)
Douglas Alexander, UK Scotland Minister at the time of the Scottish elections in May this year and the fiasco of the 150,000 rejected ballot papers, took decisions on the running of the election based on party political interest.
"What is characteristic of 2007 was a notable level of party self interest evident in ministerial decision-making (especially in regard to the timing and method of counts and the design of ballot papers)," wrote Ron Gould, the former Canadian election official who investigated the Scottish vote for the Electoral Commission.
In other words Labour in London did their best to rig it.
Alexander is the brother of Wendy, Labour group leader in the Scottish Parliament, notable by her face and her silence when things don't go her way, which is mostly.
Now International Development Secretary and Labour's general election co-ordinator, Douglas Alexander was at least partly responsible for Gordon Brown's own election-that-never-was this Autumn.
Opposition parties in Westminster and SNP Ministers in Scotland are calling for his resignation.
Tory back bencher Andrew Mackay said yesterday: "How can he continue going round the Third World lecturing on democracy when he has been caught with his hand in the till?"
Labels: Labour, Politics, Scotland, SNP, UK
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