WRU chairman tackled over Labour £1,000-a-plate event

Welsh Rugby Union chairman David Pickering is entitled to support whatever political party he likes.
But what he must not do is using the facilities at the WRU to organise a lavish fundraising pre-election event on behalf of a political party, Welsh Labour in this case. Most employees spending their working hours on private work would quickly find themselves reprimanded by their employees or even dismissed.
How much time has he spent on this private work? Is he going to compensate the WRU, which is a non-political organisation?
We know the Welsh rugby team play in red but the WRU should certainly not be aligning itself, through its chairman, to the political party whose colours are red.
The event also highlights the divide between Labour's expensive backers, who have done well under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and its core working-class vote in Wales. Many voters will be staggered that £1,000 per person is being spent on one event while they struggle to put food on their table for their family in these very tough economic times.