A writer on a well-known satirical news website has become the latest person to fall foul of the Government's strict 'cash donations' regulations, and has come under pressure to resign from his post as 'amateur scribbler'.
Monkey Woods, who is not really a monkey, told yesterday how he had received a £20 note as a Christmas present from his mother, but had failed to notify his wife of it.
When his wife later went through his wallet for some shopping money whilst he was in the local hospital with a Burst Appendix, she came across the 'money from Mummy', and demanded to know its origin.
Woods said that it had 'slipped his mind', and that he had always planned to declare it, but, being ill, he had forgotten to do so.
Relatives are standing by Woods, and say that he is not the sort of greedy, deceitful, untrustworthy, lawbreaking type that someone such as Labour's Work & Pensions Secretary Peter Hain is, and that he has always treated his wife and children fairly in the past.
The donor of the undeclared cash, Mrs B, said she had given the money in good faith, expecting that it would have probably been spent on a book, a CD, underpants or "some other such trash."
