Silence of the Cameron - Are They All The Same?
According to the pollsters 56% of people think that Blair has given peerages in exchange for loans and donations and 54% thought Downing Street acted improperly in relation to the way Jack Dromey was not informed of them. 53% of people think Tony Blair is sleazy.Labour are now trying to desperately shift the focus on to the Tories with a "we're all at it" spin. Which, as Guido has said before, is not a defence, it is an admission of guilt. Guido's sources tell him that Tory donors have in fact been approached to untick the no publicity box, and some may well do so. Cameron after all can obviously park the blame on the old Tory regime and still be Mr Clean. Perhaps that is why Labour has planted a frankly ridiculous story in the Indy about cash-for-policies accusing Cameron of appointing donors to his policy commissions. Of the four people named two are Tory MPs, and another is a fundraiser for the Tories, so it would be odd if they had not given money. It is not exactly on the scale of Lord Drayson is it?
Cameron needs to cough up some names sharpish or the voters will rightly conclude "they are all at it." In any event Guido understands that the Scotland Yard sleaze busters have now written to the Tory treasurer Jonathan Marland and a peerage-nominated Tory donor, so it may be out of his hands.
9 comments:
All very nicely done whilst Tony is out of the country ...
The whole point is though that when New Labour were chomping at the bit in 1996-7 for election, one of their things was the Tories were full of sleaze, and they were anti-sleaze.
"Things can only get better" ring a bell? Not "Things are gonna pretty much stay as they are".
Actually it would be interesting to go through the list of New Labour policies pre-1997, and see how many of their promises they HAVE delivered.
I remember being told when Tony got in that the NHS was in much safer hands. Now I seem to be paying much more to the NHS in taxes, but seeing very little difference ...
It would be very good Guido if we can persuade the'pollsters' to sell us the names and addresses of those who still think Blair has not been selling peerages or is not sleazy.
We could then start selling these extraordinarily gullible people some used cars,'winning' lottery tickets etc etc!
That picture is horrible. It looks like Lembit Opik.
The picture looks like that Detective Rosewood in Beverly Hills Cop.
I wish DC would just give Michael Crick a good slap on the nose and tell him to fuck off.
back to peerages.DC must come clean.It's not his problem and more importantly,it will shift the emphasis back onto TB who's been having time off on this one.
C'mon DC,release the attack dogs.
This is no longer about party politics. It is about party political fraud, bribery and corruption. The whole damned House should be investigated and if necessary brought to justice.
The Party System is to blame.
Sorry to harp on, but surely the point of all this is that Labour (the anointed ones, anyway) knew full well that their loans were dodgy, because otherwise why the secrecy? Never mind not telling the public, they didn't want to tell ANYONE about them, certainly not the Treasurer of the Labour Party, who surely should be aware what money is coming in and going out? This attempt to smear Dromey by suggesting he wasn't up to the job - he'd have to be too stupid to put his own shoes on if he didn't notice £14,000,000 appearing in his accounts.
Again, who were the cheques handed to, who were they made out to, and what/whose account were they paid into? How much interest did they generate, and who got that?
This is the point of the argument - not whether other political parties have borrowed money or not.
Too true JJ ...
The Party System is to blame.
George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax stated that "parties were an organised conspiracy against the nation"
It is remarkably funny that having banned hunting with dogs Labour continues to have "Whips" in the Commons; shouldn't they be called "Sheepdogs" instead ?
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