Levy Let Off
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted, but I've been fairly doubtful any actual banging up was going to happen for a while. Appropriately, it ends with a leak:
Four people were arrested - including two of Tony Blair's aides - during inquiries into whether honours were sold and whether a cover-up followed. source
The thing is, although some Blairites will now reappear from whichever log they've been living under since the Dear Leader buggered off to crow about how this clears him of everything, they're inevitably going to overdo it. New Labour sleaze is too embedded in the public consciousness to be wiped clean merely by a CPS decision not to prosecute - none of the other scandals and lies have lead to prosecution but they have lead to the general view of 'good riddance' that accompanied Blair out of Downing Street, and that general view is correct. They'll think this exonerates his memory, but that won't wash. The Brown Bounce is, after all, the opposite of what they predicted - nevertheless it happened, and suggests that there's an election-winning margin of British voters who would vote Labour as long as Blair wasn't the leader.
Sticking my neck out, I suspect that the Brownies will let them run for a bit, then squelch them. There's an average of one Retreat From Blairism per day at the moment (public sector targets, the new spin of the Cabinet as Real People With A Past rather than squeaky clean Teflon characters are the latest two) and they won't want that eclipsed by the bastards they've spent ten years getting rid of.
The timing is, however, very interesting - the BBC leak went up about 60 seconds after the polls closed in Sedgefield and Ealing Southall.
Criminality and New Labour,
Criminality and New Labour, don`t get sick or New Labour will be sending a bunch of criminals around to your home to Hmmm... sort you out. I kid you not...
http://www.swansheffield.org.uk/
http://tinyurl.com/3222cl
These are the people New Labour have lined up to run our welfare reform department. Convicted fraudsters in the USA. Read on...
http://tinyurl.com/2puaub
http://tinyurl.com/3xvqx6
http://tinyurl.com/ynnhxs
http://tinyurl.com/3d23u7
As Portillo said on This
As Portillo said on This Week, it's like Hutton Inquiry: too good a result for Blair, and will therefore be discounted by the general public to howls of whitewash, and "well what did you expect?".
Like Hutton, enough information came out (was leaked) during the investigation to show our democracy is corrupt, and Blair is bent, so the result, really is moot.
Cheers for the links on benefit reform, George. What all sides are considering terrifies me, as a disabled person. Another good place for updates on benefit reform news is Benefits and Work's website, with help packs on appeals, form filling, and EMP doctor's decision making handbooks, as well as up to date news on what the <s>wankers</s> DWP fancy doing today to bait sick and disabled people, or which arm of the welfare state to flog to Crapita next.
A great resource,as is Swan network.
http://tinyurl.com/3x6vku Wil
http://tinyurl.com/3x6vku
Will provide you with more information on Unum.
One of the links on my first
One of the links on my first post appears not to work. Try this one, when you go to the web page click on `proceed to site` and then scroll up...
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2puaub
http://www.compassonline.org.uk/article.asp?n=563#comments
Thanks for that, George - I
Thanks for that, George - I actually have family connections in that area and know the history of Atos and LiMA quite well, so this is *very* useful.
The politicians RIG any
The politicians RIG any proceedings they fancy, to get a result they require. There are no such thing as laws anymore, and forget fair play in legal matters. They even manage to get the impossible as a verdict, by simply gagging the oppostion.
Annoyed as I am about this
Annoyed as I am about this result, it just confirms that if you take as a given that Blair was never going to appear in court, then the CPS had to drop it. The best we can hope for now is that some Palestinian will be pushed beyond endurance by his appearance as a 'peace envoy' and shoot him...
Brooks' cartoon in The Times
Brooks' cartoon in The Times says it all (as usual).
In the first three frames, a pig cavorts in muck. Only to appear, in the final frame, pristine and shining clean.
It's interesting to compare
It's interesting to compare this outcome with the attempt to have Andrei Lugovoi extradited, although the Russian constitution expressly forbids it.
It has to be said that if
It has to be said that if the Russian constitution does forbid extradition, it's effectively saying that its citizens can commit crimes abroad with impunity, which doesn't say a lot for its attitude to international affairs (see also the US attitude to the ICC). Our own government's extradition arrangements, on the other hand, are effectively saying it doesn't care about its own citizens, but we knew that anyway. Russia isn't one of the nations involved in the 2003 idiocy, which are mainly Commonwealth or EU, plus the USA, which is actually the odd one out.
The government only cares
The government only cares about the rights of criminals, they freely interfere in civil process, if they can see that the law and the facts are against them.
The right to a fair hearing is abandoned in civil cases, where the government does not want its illegal actions exposed. I took the MoD(UK) to court in Germany on an employment matter, and ended being tried for this, in what can only be described as a Special Court from the NAZI era, where the none government party is bound to lose.
What happened to the e-mail I heard something about that came to light, asking someone to basically lie in the cash for honours saga? Surely if someone is being asked to lie, they are being coerced into perverting the course of justice. This alone must have been a path to take legal action.
We missed this, no wonder it
We missed this, no wonder it was in the Sun...
Porn star quizzed in Levy loans
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007290466,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/33a5rm