Well, what a surprise. Wendy Alexander isn't going to be charged with anything at all: Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander will not be prosecuted over failing to register donations, the Crown Office has confirmed. The Holyrood watchdog referred her to the procurator fiscal for not recording gifts to her leadership… read more…

So Wendy Alexander is in the clear over her constitution-shattering, world-ending contribution of 950 quid: Election watchdogs have cleared Wendy Alexander of wrongdoing after her Scottish Labour leadership campaign received an illegal donation. The Electoral Commission has decided not to make a report to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal… read more…

Wendy Alexander, sister of Douglas, the architect of Gordon's Early Election (cancelled), is now in the middle of a funding crisis of her own, after Jim Dyer, the Standards Commissioner at the Scottish Parliament, reported her to the portentously-titled Procurator Fiscal over ten leadership donations of more than - wait… read more…

Perhaps one of the less bright ideas of the Conservatives was the debate yesterday on party funding as it gave the hitherto ignored questions ("they're just trying to smear us, you know," CCHQ had previously claimed, flouncily, when the words "Lord" and "Ashcroft" were put to them in any sort… read more…

In case you've been living under a rock (or reading London Lite) for the past couple of days, you won't have failed to notice that there's a baying mob outside the front door of ol' Wendy Alexander. Will she go? Maybe. The Tories want her out certainly as it's quite… read more…

[Disclaimer: we are actually big fans of the CoffeeHouse. But this was just hilarious] Amazing scenes on last night's News At Ten, which had all of us here at the Spectator spluttering into our sherries in indignation.… read more…

"There will be nothing to stop us this time," muttered Darth Ashcroft as he ordered his minions (aka Davy Cameron and chums) to put in for a topical debate on party funding today. The Gord's down on his luck, the media's saturated with Opposition politicians being sanctimonious all over us,… read more…

Chris Huhne's posturing over Donorgate looks even more hollow (after we pointed out yesterday that Chrissy's honour-bound to bankrupt the LibDems if he ever becomes leader of them) as it is revealed - again - that the Durham business park had nothing to do with getting the approval of the comrades… read more…

BONG! Cripes! It looks like Bojo's got his priorities in a wangle again and has been taking time out from his campaign for the mayoralty to write to a judge explaining what a jolly good chap a certain convicted criminal is (via Luke Akehurst). BONG! Take cover folks, the Westmonster… read more…

Westmonster is ill. Very ill. Not going into details but needless to say that as soon as she's done this belated roundup, she's hot-footing it down the quack. Remember me in your prayers. David Abrahams is still flouncing around, roaring that he'll like, TOTALLY put all his cards on… read more…

Okay, so what have we missed with this Mail on Sunday article entitled "Exclusive: Labour to launch inquiry into SECOND donor scandal"? We've read it through twice and as far as we can see it should actually be headed with "Nothing to see here, folks. Man who's entitled to legally… read more…

Another Saturday, another roundup, but we're getting a bit fed up of beginning these with "another grim week for the Gord," so until otherwise stated, just take that one as read, folks. Monday dawned with another attempt on the part of the comrades to "relaunch," this time though a speech… read more…

The Cowley Street Bedouin asks why leadership hopeful Chris Huhne felt it was his place to report the Gord to the coppers over the dodgy loans affair. Whilst most of us have already answered that one (in an assessment that may or may not contain the words "sanctimonious" and… read more…

Gossip of a Scottish nature has just reached Westmonster's ears. Apparently a lot of Scottish grandees were distressed at the amount of time it took to appoint Wendy Alexander's opposition team when she became leader. They waited by their phones in increasing irritation and then phoned each other for… read more…