Pay to Prevent Party Crime

Gordon Brown is considering party funding reform. According to the BBC (emphasis mine):

"He raised the prospect of more public funding and caps on campaign spending and donations, hinting at a review of the funding Labour gets from unions."

You what? More public funding?

Let's review - what caused Brown to call for funding reform? Oh yeah, the latest funding scandal that the Labour government has stumbled into. So what is Brown's logic? Stick his hand out and beg for cash. Good God, what an absolutely shameless bastard. What an absolute fucking scumbag.

See, this is not unlike a mobster being caught laundering money. This scandal is all about someone trying to hide the source of money. And what happens when a monster is caught laundering money? Oh, they go to prison. They don't go to the state and beg for cash. Such is the mindless arrogance of our unelected leader, he sees a crime committed by his party as a chance to go and fleece the electorate for more cash. Unless this is a new government scheme - "Preventing Electoral Crime Through Raping the Tax Payers' Wallet."

Brown claimed to be a conviction politician. That was promptly shown to be a big old bag of bollocks. However, with the police getting involved in this case, he will end up not so much a conviction politician but rather a convicted one.