lil eva
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Cabinet minister in donation rowAlan Johnson insisted he had been "100% honest" after becoming the latest Cabinet minister embroiled in a donations row.
The Health Secretary stressed his Labour deputy leadership campaign team had done "what the law asked us to do" and more to check a gift of some £3,000 from immigrant Waseem Siddiqui.
"We registered everything in accordance with the laws to our best knowledge," Mr Johnson told Sky News. "We are absolutely clear now from talking to the Electoral Commission that everything we have done was what was required of us."
Speaking from his constituency in Hull, Mr Johnson insisted that reporting Mr Siddiqui's gift to the Register of Member's Interests was "not the best way to hide a donation". Mr Johnson said everything had been "above board" and there had been "absolutely no impropriety".
"We did what the law asked us to do. We checked that he is on the electoral roll, we checked that he is registered to vote in this country," he said.
"We also checked - although we are not required to - whether he was a member of the Labour Party, and he is a member of the Labour Party. We submitted his donation to the Parliamentary Register, it has been on there since May 9. We submitted it to the Electoral Commission."
"We noticed back end of last year it was not appearing on the Electoral Commission's website, along with three other contributions, so we met with the Electoral Commission. They advised us to resubmit them all again, which we did."
Mr Johnson insisted it would not have been possible for his campaign team to "chase down the details of every single individual" who contributed.
Mr Johnson said he was "very surprised" by claims that Mr Siddiqui's £3,334 gift had come from a third party. "I'm as surprised as anybody," he said. "But all I can say is that we have followed absolutely the procedures."
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Chrissy Canadian
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bloody politicians, they are all the same buncha wankers
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Twong
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aye
A bunch of lying scheming cheats
The lot of 'em!
Whoever you vote for
Government wins!
Anarchy and Peace
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LynnT
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They seem to loose sight of the fact that they are there to represent the people of the country......and by the grace of those very people they are in that priviledged position. I think they are all out for their own monitory gain. Not much to choose between any of them. 
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Woody
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incompetent and corrupt I cant wait for the next General election 
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LynnT
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i will be voting for the green party .......again
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Woody
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I would vo9te for the Lib dems , but they have no bloody chance of getting in , so it will be the blues for me 
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LynnT
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WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you are an out and out red under the bed!!!!!!!!! 
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Woody
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Laffin , time to move on i think lol 
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LynnT
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Chrissy Canadian
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if we had an election tomorrow i honestly dont know who i would vote for. last time i voted for conservative for the first time in my life, but it was only a protest vote to get rid of the ruling liberals cause they had a huge scandal (they were caught syphoning off taxpayers money to secretly give to separatists in quebec) grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr i have voted for everybody from the ndp (which is like your labour party) the green party, even the marijuana party in the past , but i am dissillusioned with them all right now. everyone of them is just like the last when the get in power
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LynnT
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I agree Chrissy........they seem to forget why and WHO elected them to power. They can all talk the talk but cant do the walk 
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