Gordon Brown is an accomplished expert in the art of misrepresentation, here’s a prime example is from his press conference today:
On the political funding issue, I think the Conservative Party has exactly the same problems, revealed yesterday, in fact a problem in relation to foreign donors which is not lawful… I think the most important thing for party political party funding is that people can see this thing being sorted out as quickly as possible and that’s why I regret the fact that the Conservatives have walked away from the discussions that are necessary to get an all party agreement on this issue.
Exactly the same problems? In his dreams. Four problems…
1) Cameron does not have “exactly the same problems”: no Tory is being investigated by police for a criminal act. Their problem was one of the donor not being on the electoral roll.
2) Cameron’s dodgy donation was for a
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