Plaid failure to declare nearly £1m of income on time., is peanuts to others bookkeeping practices.

It appears that it is Plaid Cymru who seem to have hit the front page of the Wasting Mule over political donations rather than, those parties that have received millions from dubious sources as I outlined yesterday

They say

Plaid Cymru is under investigation by the Electoral Commission after failing to declare nearly £1m of income on time.
The party is in breach of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA) and is likely to face a financial penalty in the New Year.

Under the Act, parties are obliged to declare donations within 30 days of receiving them, but we have established that on at least 48 separate occasions between 2013 and 2018 Plaid did not comply with the legal requirement.
On April 25, 2018, the party retrospectively informed the Electoral Commission about a total of £976,562.08 that had not been declared in quarterly returns to the commission since 2013, as it should have been.

The Mule whilst sensationalising  what is admittedly a serious breach are forced to admit.

There is no suggestion that Plaid was seeking to conceal unlawful donations.
In fact, all the money at the centre of the inquiry relates to grants it received from two public sources: the House of Commons and the Electoral Commission itself.
Some 37 of the 48 undeclared payments made to Plaid Cymru came from the House of Commons authorities in the form of so-called “Short Money”.
This is the common name given to the annual payment to opposition parties to help them with their costs.
It includes funding to assist an opposition party in carrying out its Parliamentary business, for opposition parties’ travel and associated expenses, and for the running costs of the Leader of the Opposition’s office.
“Short Money” is named after Edward Short (later Lord Glenamara), the then Leader of the House of Commons who first proposed the payments in 1974. They were intended to help opposition parties hold the governing party or parties to account, and to offset the government’s advantage in having access to Civil Service advice.
The late declared “Short Money” payments to Plaid Cymru totalled £268,083.09, and ranged from £361 to £33,346.80.S.

So Plaid are in trouble for not declaring  to Electoral Commission payments which the latter were probably fully aware off.

it is as I have said a serious breach , but is not a case of the party trying to hide what is after all a meagre   income  compared to other parties.

In particular Führer Farage's Brexit limited company which,after forming in April last year it enjoyed initial success, gathering hundreds of thousands of supporters and a reported £11.5m in donations. decimating the Tories - then languishing under Theresa May’s leadership - in May’s European elections.

Since the Party flopped in the December Election Brexit Party staff including senior officials have reportedly been made redundant following Nigel Farage’s general election failure.

The i has quoted a party source as saying: “Straight after the election we were all told we had to look for other jobs.”

 Farage has insisted that he will not shut down the Brexit Party entirely despite its poor election performance and the fact that Brexit is now certain to happen next month.

He said: "It will have to reform into the Reform Party, it’ll have to campaign to change politics for good, get rid of the House of Lords, change the voting system, so much to do."

Will it be a simple name change  or a different party and what , becomes of those donations , from people who did so who may not want to be part of Farage's new set up.

The whole political donations  scam is a disgrace to democracy, but let's be clear Plaid have made  clearly errors, but there is a hint of dubious book keeping  in some parties and the electoral commission should be seeing to expose it.