Bad News Day
Allegations are swirling around in today,’s Sunday papers that Tony Blair chose to be interviewed on the ” Honours for Sale” scandal on the busiest news day of the year. On the same day the government announced that it was halting a Serious Fraud Office investigation into the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia, the Stevens inquiry reported into the circumstances of Princess Diana’s death ( bound to dominate the tabloids) and there was more grisly news on the hunt for the Ipswich murderer. All this quite apart from the Prime Ministerial trip to the Middle East and Turkey.
Irrespective of that the stench of something rotten lingers in the air in relation to a batch of recent peerages. Inconsistencies as to the basis of the awards and positioning of the top stars in the Labour firmament in attempting to avoid the flak does not help the government’s case. While the alleged ” Do you wnt a K or a. P” conversation makes it look seriously seedy unless Lord Levy, or whoever it was,was playing “blockbuster” au Bob Holdness.
The case for reform of party funding becomes ever stronger. David Cameron’s proposal of a ceiling of 50,000 pounds seems sensible and overdue.
