Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Wendy Alexander Grubbing For More Cash
Wendy Alexander, Scottish Labour's recently crowned leader, is feeling the pinch.
In a letter to the Holyrood allowances review, her party has pointed out that while the opposition leader at Westminster gets an allowance of £644,000, poor Wendy has to make do with a paltry £22,000 a year from the taxpayers pocket.
Hardly enough to buy a bag of sweets, never mind pay for a private secretary.
Not enough to keep Wendy sweet, anyway.
Poor wee dearie!
Talking about that - she's been very quiet since her embarrassing speech at the Labour party conference in Bournemouth the other week, when she made that grovelling apology for her party losing to the SNP at the Holyrood elections in May, and making the weird and wonderful claim that SNP First Minister Alex Salmond was in cahoots with David Cameron and the English Tories to break up Britain.
Wendy Alexander who not long before had taken tea with the leaders of the Scottish Conservatives and Scottish Liberal Democrats to discuss working jointly to save the Union.
After a speech which was entirely policy-free and completely negative, with an imminent general election likely, and with Alex Salmond more popular in Scotland than Gordon Brown, now is perhaps not the best moment for Wendy to start grubbing for more taxpayers money to keep her in the manner she would like to become accustomed.
She could do without a private secretary for a while, and write her own letters, and answer the phone herself, and make her own coffee... or just resign to spend more time with her family.
The Herald: Alexander allowance 'too small"
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In a letter to the Holyrood allowances review, her party has pointed out that while the opposition leader at Westminster gets an allowance of £644,000, poor Wendy has to make do with a paltry £22,000 a year from the taxpayers pocket.
Hardly enough to buy a bag of sweets, never mind pay for a private secretary.
Not enough to keep Wendy sweet, anyway.
Poor wee dearie!
Talking about that - she's been very quiet since her embarrassing speech at the Labour party conference in Bournemouth the other week, when she made that grovelling apology for her party losing to the SNP at the Holyrood elections in May, and making the weird and wonderful claim that SNP First Minister Alex Salmond was in cahoots with David Cameron and the English Tories to break up Britain.
Wendy Alexander who not long before had taken tea with the leaders of the Scottish Conservatives and Scottish Liberal Democrats to discuss working jointly to save the Union.
After a speech which was entirely policy-free and completely negative, with an imminent general election likely, and with Alex Salmond more popular in Scotland than Gordon Brown, now is perhaps not the best moment for Wendy to start grubbing for more taxpayers money to keep her in the manner she would like to become accustomed.
She could do without a private secretary for a while, and write her own letters, and answer the phone herself, and make her own coffee... or just resign to spend more time with her family.
The Herald: Alexander allowance 'too small"
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