Clegg's Non-Dom Donation Hypocrisy

It has been revealed that the Liberal Democrats have recently received six figure sum donations from donors not fully resident in the UK. The entrepreneur Bhanu Choudhrie is said to have given a large donation as recent as a few days ago.

Similarly, they have received a £354,000 donation from French businessman Bruno Sangle-Ferriere. Now this may not seem that bad depending on whether you agree with large donations or not. The point that is so startling is that Clegg ranted on in last week's debate on how the Tories and Labour are funded by millionaires and trade unions respectively. Yet here he is, allowing his party to happily take large donations themselves, what utter hypocrisy. What an insult to the people. Does he think perhaps that now they have a shot of political power (or at least a say in government) he best take as much money as he can get?

Clegg recently announced that under Lib-Dem plans, political donations would never exceed £10,000. Obviously the recent six figure sum donations don't count then, eh Clegg? What an absolute joke.

All this just adds to the notorious donation of £2.4m by fraudster and runaway Michael Brown in 2005. Oh and the Lib-Dems never gave the money back, it was as Nick said "a long time ago", that's okay then...

The funniest bit of all of this has to be their spokesman's response: "We are committed to making everybody pay their fair share in tax and to reforming the system of party funding. Unlike other parties, our donors support us because of our values and have (wait for it!) no influence on party policy or campaign strategy." No of course they don't. Surely most if not all donations are made because the donors share the values of the given party? Of course the Liberal Democrats are different from the other parties because they....um...they...uhhh...their party colour is yellow! Yep, that's about it.

Hypocrisy, lies and pathetic excuses. Well, it is the Lib-Dems...