@TJ1001

Yet a commitment to tighten up the rules was removed at the last minute from the #labour manifesto last year - allegedly at the urging of #waheedalli and #morganmcsweeny !

@ChrisMayLA6

It is worth recalling that #tradeunions and #socialistsocieties set up the #labourparty so as to exercise countervailing power within the political system. There was a real risk during the #blair years that it would be captured by those very corporate lobbies and their useful idiots - set out at the time by #colincrouch who described it as 'post democracy'. I had thought that danger had gone but that may be premature in the light of stories about #morganmcsweeny and #waheedalli !

@richh @midgephoto @heapy @ChrisMayLA6

This status could give it problems if some of the suggestions being put forward by the #electioncommission become law. According to 'Get In' by #patrickmaguire and #gabrielpogrund - published this Thursday - #labour had planned to put a commitment to tighten up the rules over permissible donors in the manifesto. The idea came from #angelarayner and was backed strongly by #gordonbrown . They suggest it was blocked by #waheedalli and #morganmcsweeney .