Businessmen and wealthy donors are bankrolling Scottish politics. Who are they?

Businessmen and wealthy donors are bankrolling Scottish politics. Who are they?

The Ferret did a deep dive into the Electoral Commission’s donation records to find out who was funding Scotland's political parties.

Businessmen and wealthy donors ARE bankrolling Scottish politics but only the Unionist parties

The Ferret has been good recently. I’ve shared their latest reports but this one smells a bit, like some of their earlier ones, of Scottish Labour residual loyalty and of Unionism. They offer us this: before going on to name Robin MacGeachy: Companies he owns or co-owns handed £910,000 to the Scottish Liberal Democrats and £700,000 to Scottish Labour. This represents nearly half of all of the Lib Dems’ donations, and nearly a quarter of Labour’s…