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Colin Fox

Make poverty history - for SSP thieves

By The Basa ⋅ July 2, 2005 ⋅

It looks like the comrades in the SSP are going to use today’s Make Poverty History march in the city today to gather cash for their own party totally abusing the reason for the march which is expected to be the biggest in Edinburgh’s history.

An e-mail to party supporters from Allison Kane, the SSP’s national treasurer, said they planned to fund raise for the four MSPs who will be suspended from Holyrood for a month in September after their protest in the parliament chamber on Thursday.

Although the SSP is threatening to take the parliament to court, claiming that the MSPs and their staff have been denied a fair hearing, Ms Kane says that they need to begin fund-raising for the £25,000 it will cost the four politicians and their aides.

Her e-mail states that “the bottom line comrades is that we have to prepare for the worst case scenario”. She says that an immediate appeal will be launched in their Voice newspaper, “plus we will start collections over the weekend at G8 and all our interventions”.

Some questions:

How the hell are the SSP goons going to explain to a German, French, Danish, Swiss, etc marcher, who doesn’t speak English that the euro they are going to stick in that can is not to make poverty history in Africa but to boost the SSP coffers?

If they are trying to steal £25,000 how do they know when they have reached that amount and stop collecting?

How much is their legal fund going to be?

It must be illegal for this to happen. Is there not something that can be done to stop these people from collecting money from peopel who may not know where it goes.

According to the recent election figures, this party is fast losing it’s relevance with about a 50% cut in the number of votes it received.

Later an anonymous spokesman for the party denied that they would be collecting - but why is their party treasurer not following that line?

More Info: SSPs in poverty march cash plea for MSPs