Martin Bell Witnesses Crime, Keeps Schtum
Speaking at the University of Wolverhampton yesterday, Martin Bell told an audience at an open public lecture to plug his latest, book that "he saw and heard an MP trade his vote for a peerage while he was a member". He explained that he wouldn't name the party involved because he "didn't want to spend the next 5 years in court".Some might think that reporting crime was a legal requirement, let alone a moral one, for the man in the white suit.
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huhne and bell.......how many more did yates not interview???
guido i hope you laugh your bollocks off when you win that bet.....
Part and parcel of the job really, that why they threw out the Elected Representatives (Prohibition of Deception) Bill today.
Looks like bruun is gonna steal our money to fund his party the stupid fuck wit so thats me not going to the ballot box anymore.He just doesnt get it does he?.
Why didnt bell speak up earlier wot a tosser if he knew this he deserves a good kicking.
I never trusted this shifty white slug. He could have spoken up in Parliament as he had immunity from being sued at the time. Either he's a liar or he was too keen to keep his job at the next election. A little war reporting from Basra would put a bit of life back into this spineless shit.
Bellend - there is a yellow stripe running down your white jacket. All suit no bottom. Twat.
Let's rephrase that, surely :
He explained that he wouldn't name the party involved because "it wasn't the Conservative Party".
Alan Douglas
Couldn't he have raised this in the Commons whilst he was still an MP?
Erm, the defence to this 'crime' is covered in "12 Angry Men".
When Lee J Cobb say's to Henry Fonda, "I'm gonna kill ya", Fonda say's, "did you really mean that?"
The point is that a rash statement made in anger or jest is not necessarily proof of intent.
Can someone provide a List of the MPs who became Members of the House of Lords during the relevant period
Alan, how do you know it wasn't the Conservative Party? They appear to have been at least the second muckiest of the parties in this affair, so surely it's quite likely it was? Or are you bitter because Neil Hamilton isn't still in Parliament?
Bell was an MP from 1997 to 2001. Only the government needs to win a vote badly enough to offer bribes, and they have the power to grant peerages. Ergo: it was a government offer to a Labour MP.
Bell was an MP from 1997 to 2001. Only the government needs to win a vote badly enough to offer bribes, and they have the power to grant peerages. Ergo: it was a government offer to a Labour MP.
Anyone who feels he's so important that he can only ever wear a white jacket has to have some sort of problem with attention ie. not getting enough of it.
How desperate can he be, flogging books at the University of Wolverhapmton?
Okay, Okay - PLEASE do tell us o mighty pure as driven snow muck spreader - who was it?
Every time I see Bell I feel the urge to ask him for a 99.
(NOT a 69, you filthy-minded bastards.)
Bell always was a two-faced stinking hypocrite. He only won Tatton with the help of the Labour party though he always kept schtum about it.
Allan, I was being facetious of course, I do not KNOW. But Bell was a BBC man - the odds on him being Labour are apparently about 11 to 1, by recent relevations.
Neil Hamilton ? Wasn't he hammered based mainly on the unsupported testimony of a man whose more recent claims are that the Duke of Edinbrugh murdered his ex daughter-in-law ?
Obviously a high-quality witness, no ?
Alan Douglas
Bell lied in Bosnia in the service of the War Party. Why should anyone believe him now?
Alan, I don't think even Hamilton still claims he was innocent!
Why is it that NuLab still differs from a blanket? No shit ever seems to stick to it in the eyes of the MSM.
Already plans are well in hand for tax-payer funded parties: will there be civil disobedience? A la poll tax riots?
Don't you think Bell has the look of a dodgy old travelling butcher, selling rank dog meat at some cancerous air-field market and passing it off as "venison so sweet even Jesus christ would weep eating it".
He who keeps quiet speaks loudest of all etc etc
..........tosser
Hasn't he just admitted to being an accessory to the crime by not reporting it? Surely he can be charged with an offence? JD.
And there's me thinking Martin 'truth, justice and the amer..English way)Bell would have gone to the 'cash for peerages' whitew..investigation and told all! What a complete f-wit. The Hamilton's must be chortling over this one!
When are us lot going to stop acting like a gaggle of 5th formers huddling behind the bike sheds complaining that Mr. Floggit sets too much homework - and it just isn't fair!!
Smashed windows is all this lot will react to (remember the poll tax riots - they worked)
Stop moaning and start bricking!
Where to begin the 'riot of discontent'? This may be difficult as most parts of the country at night resemble a warzone!
I'd be up for a riot - when, where? JD.
All that light out into space may well turn out to be beneficial - think of all those lamp-posts which may well turn out to have a use !
Alan Douglas
A butcher? An ice cream salesman? He's always reminded me of a sleazy, back street abortionist; a doc who been struck off, but was allowed to keep his white coat.
err ....
... can we have the List of MPs becoming Peers in 1997 to 2001
UnPleasant abuse, however (in)appropriate hardly advance understading
... we would like to have the relevant facts ...
Can someone provide a List of the MPs who became Members of the House of Lords during the relevant period????
I have never believed that Hamilton ever accepted cash bungs in brown paper bags from Mo Fayed. He's a freloading twat and no mistake, and took the piss on his stay at the Paris Ritz, but if he'd been so bent as to take Mo's cash, he'd surely have just made sure he got his passport. Why wouldn't you?
The thing is, even members of the public don't always want to just come out and tell the police who did what.
For instance, if you were to type in the name:
sean mercer
into Google, and perhaps add the name Rhys Jones,
You might find some compelling reason for a policeman to go and investigate a crime ...
What a fucking wanker
"Oh, I saw someone selling honours for a few bob, but I didn't say anything cos it was one of my mates in the Labour Party. Now, if it I had heard from one of my mates at the BBC, who heard it from that fine upstanding, always trustworthy Mohammed Al Fayed that the Tories were the ones flogging honours then I would have had my whole bloody family standing for the Sanctinmonious Twats in White Jackets party against dubious Tories".
This guy is a complete dickhead.
Aiding and abetting, anyone?
It's not surprising. He went over his election expenses limited and happily submitted false returns.
jd is regettably incorrect. You can only be an "accomplice" if you were directly involved.
There are only two crimes in the UK where you would be commiting a criminal offence if you *knew or even reasonably suspected that they might or actually were occuring* and those are terrorism and money-laundering.
Trust me, I used to work in an Anti-Money Laundering Dept. Even if you overhear a conversation in a pub about dodgy fivers you are technically breaking the law by not reporting it, but you can listen in to a conversation about a murder and walk away with no legal requirement to turn them in.
Bell has a clear moral obligation to report this, but not unfortunately a legal one.
A Dick Head thats for sure.
BTW
Do you know what a Dick Head actually is?
But he is in good company because so are half the MPs in parliament at least and almost all in the Lib/Dem party especially, or so I am told.
Why do you think he sports a white suit? Cleaning bills are expensive these days.
This could not be the same dick head that ran on "the Honest man of British politics" platform back in 97 could it?
Just think the BBC have the nerve to call politicians hypocrites, as if butter does not melt at the BBC in anywhere and under any conditions.
Surely the BBC and its employees have given the word hypocrite, a whole new perspective these days.
BBC reporter/executive = Highly dangerous, party politically motivated, sanctimonious hypocritical lying fuck wit, of truly biblical proportions.
I am sure he is a very nice chap and his mum thinks he is just wonderful. But thats not the point.
So did Hitlers dog before he shot it.
Damn! JD.seskin
Damn! JD.
Does that mean Guido has a moral obligation reveal his sources to the Charities Commission regarding their investigation into the Smith Institute?
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