Cash for Peerages inquiry gets more interesting

[detective-boy]

Does that apply to political parties as well as companies though?

It applies to any document kept for an accounting purpose.

 

[Jazzz]

"When I want a peerage, I shall buy it like an honest man." Lord Northcliffe circa 1920

 

[shagnasty]

according to the mail false accounting carries an heavier sentence i could be that blair is up to his kneck in it.it looks like this has legs but its terrible waiting for something to break
what was that song oh yes it can only get better

 

[laptop]

And though it's nearly a bit of editorialising in the middle of the story and it's only the Independent, this is the most interesting line:

Meanwhile, cabinet ministers have turned up the heat on Mr Blair...


by telling detectives they cannot explain why he nominated secret donors for peerages.

Rats. Ship. Like. Sinking. Leaving. A. Rearrange




E2A:my assumption - based on their reporting of the mininstrers' responses - is that they've talked to at least a few cabinet ministers, whose comments mostly translated into "the fucker's toast".

 

[oake]

E2A:my assumption - based on their reporting of the ministers' responses - is that they've talked to at least a few cabinet ministers, whose comments mostly translated into "the fucker's toast".

These guys have spent the last 10 years protecting Blair, carrying the can and, in some cases, taking the fall for him.

Blair's going soon; they'll still have a living to earn.

Hardly surprising they're not protecting him now - what would they have to gain?

I sense a touch of poetic justice here.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

It applies to any document kept for an accounting purpose.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Meanwhile, there is talk that Downing Street are considering making a complaint about the way the inquiry is being conducted:

Lord MacKenzie of Framwellgate, the Labour peer and former head of the Police Superintendents’ Association, warned the Prime Minister not to try to wreck the inquiry. “The common ploy by criminals is to get their retaliation in first and make a complaint against the police to divert the attention of the authorities and put the heat on the police,” he told The Mail on Sunday. “But it rarely works. If Downing Street is considering attempting to do this, they are making a catastrophic mistake. ”

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