More on Peter Hain

If the following is true then Peter Hain's fall from power should be all but assured, This is London claim today that:

"Half the cash given to the Work and Pensions Secretary was donated via a virtually unknown think-tank created just five months before the contest, fuelling suspicions that it was used as a gobetween to shield a series of 'hidden' donors.

They included Isaac Kaye, 78, who is linked to South Africa's pro-apartheid National Party and was embroiled in a police investigation into a suspected £ 400million fraud against the NHS."


Allegedly receiving money from a someone linked to a pro-apartheid party in South Africa? This would be the same Peter Hain who on his website spends much time detailing his upbringing in South Africa and how he fought back against the horrors of apartheid.

"When Peter was 10, he was awoken in the early hours of the morning with Special Branch Officers searching his room for ‘incriminating evidence’. Peter became accustomed to multicultural meetings taking place in his home and visiting black townships which his white friends never did. Special Branch would regularly park outside the Hain household and would follow them wherever they would go including school...

His parents’ struggle made a lasting impression on Peter who himself took up the fight against injustice. Following his arrival in Britain Peter became involved in anti-Apartheid protestes (sic), disrupting an international Davies Cup Match against Britain with a sit-down. Then at the age of 19 he became chairman of the Stop The Seventy Tour. As Chairman of the STST campaign in 1969-70, Peter scored the first victory for anti-apartheid protests by first heavily disrupting the all white Springbok rugby tour and then finally stopping the all white South African cricket tour of Britain. His mother, father, brother and sisters were all involved in helping him run the STST from his home.

Following his campaign Peter was named as “South Africa’s Public Enemy No 1.” As Desmond Tutu said recently, "Peter was such a stalwart in the Stop the Seventy Tour Campaign...someone we were glad to have on our side"."


Do I hear the word hypocrisy?



Peter Hain's website is of course paid for by the taxpayer not Peter Hain, as "This website is funded by the Communications Allowance". The latest way that the Labour government have tried to keep their hands on power.



As Peter Hain says on his website, "The key to this website is dialogue and I have tried to make it possible for you to post your own views, so please use this site to join the debate about Labour's future.

I look forward to hearing from you."

Let's all keep him up to speed on what we think of him...