If he's looking for a place to put it, I'll have some. I'd be delighted with just a small portion.......in place of the job that my middle aged husband cannot get because of the competition from foreigners. It would certainly help to subsidise the appalling pension that he's going to get.

Judy , Liverpool, england

The illegal donations saga, which the Labour party is most deeply embroiled in, continues to amaze and dumbfound. A further revelation into the affair was revealed today - the corruption of Government in its willingness to conclude back room deals and accept financial assistance from wealthy sources by unacceptable methods. In the context of the Labour party over the last few years, a certain pattern of unlawful behaviour and undesirable policy seems to be emerging - those that lend set the trend. Then Brown says the money will be returned but the opposite turns out to be true. Also, the fact that nobody seems to actually know about the sum's whereabouts smacks of, in anything else, administrative incompetence and financial mismanagement. And all this comes from a man whose previous tenure in Whitehall was that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. May be the money has become lost, indeed in trasit, just as the CD's were last week ago or thereabouts? Now that really wound be something.

Marcin Roth, London, UK

Has David Abrahams or the intermedries paid the gift tax on the monies which passed between them?

If not why is this not being reported?

Mark, Leicester,

There is a direct correlation between the soulless and subtly devious politicians who have taken the stage over the last 15 years and the deterioration of the political, social and economic institutions over which they have influence.

Politics is a business for the politicians, run by the politicians, manipulated by the politicians to fill their pockets, increase their pensions, do deals and increase their inflated egos so that they can go onto some consulting job financed by some government that they did favours for at the expense of their own constituents and country.

The mantra of the politicians has truly become ‘whatever it takes’ to get what ‘I want’. lie to millions of people with a straight face, even when caught out continue to lie or say ‘I am innocent’, or ‘I didn’t know I was doing anything wrong’, or ‘don’t interpret it that way.’

JC, Lisbon,

After ten years of the Blair/Brown government all I can say is that we are in moral, politcal, social collapse. The State, the new political 'aristocracy', the corporate sector and the media have colluded to put personal financial gain before all else particularly the good of the nation. We are now reaping the whirlwind.

Mrs Leigh, London, England

David Abrahams has already stated that he paid this money via intermediaries as he did not want to attract any publicity directly to himself regarding these donations. In the light of this it seems that Labour's real reason for not returning the money is the doubt that Mr Abrahams would not give the money back again.

So here we are again, a morally bankrupt political party who seem to consider it perfectly ok to retain illegal donations. Sleaze runs like blood through arteries with these people. If people like myself tried to retain monies from illegal sources we would find ourselves in trouble very quickly once it was discovered, but then I am not a political party. As usual Gordon shows his usual ineffective lack of action.

This is the man who as chancellor robbed the pension funds, told us he had not put up income tax while effectively taxing the self-employed at 30%, including 8% "national insurance" for which we receive no benefit at all. Roll on election time, byebye Gordon.

Ray , Clacton on Sea,

Clearly Mr Brown intends honourably to return £700K to Mr Abrahams (since it cannot be used for the purposes intended) and then pay whatever fine or levy The Electoral Commission or the Coutrs require from general Labour Party funds (overdraft).

Chris, Winchester, England