Nowhere to run to, baby
I’ve been enjoying the indignant screeching of the Blair circle over the collapse of the cash for honours case. The unseemly braying of wounded pride is a feast. The lack of self-awareness that misses the fact that, in a less supine, bovine age, they’d have been on the wrong end of a piano wire/lamp post interface rather than a few awkward questions from the police, is delicious. That their best defender is a two-time crook like Peter Mandelson says it all, really.
The jug-headed hyperbole has been most spectacular. We absolutely, positively do not live in a police state we’re constantly told by our masters. But a copper knocks on their doors and Lord Puttnam is screaming ‘Stasi!’ on Channel 4 News and former PM chief of staff Jonathan Powell’s wife howls ‘Gestapo!‘ to the Observer.
Where left to go from there? You’ve dealt from the top of the deck with those epithets – Ruth Turner one remove from a Siberian labour camp and Lord Levy a short trip from the ovens. What if there’d been charges laid? The Blair clique would have had to scream about ‘Deatheater’ tactics or the police’s ‘Dalek-like’ disregard for the niceties, surely.
How do you describe these actions of the police, Lord Puttnam and Mrs Powell? ‘Vader-esque’? ‘Satanic’?
Posted on July 22nd, 2007 at 10:15am under New Labour, Sleaze
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Well, I suppose the whole point is that affluent and well-connected people do not expect to be treated in the same manner as people lacking those advantages, that’s half the point of having them. So they’re outraged when they experience a tiny proportion of what it’s like. Also see “newspaper editors who are stopped when driving their cars”.
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On the perils of peaking too soon:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8Kr7HKw2bng
We can but wonder now what this amazing news report was all about:
“Jack Dromey, the Labour Party treasurer investigating secret loans to the party, has previously complained that ‘rich men are too influential at Downing Street’.
“Treasurer since 2004, Mr Dromey has said he knew nothing about loans totalling millions of pounds made to the party in the run-up to the 2005 general election. . . ”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4812462.stm
Was Mr Dromey, in his capacity as Labour Party treasurer, suffering delusions?
This was obviously the “deal” that was done for Gordo to take over. No momentum here for scandals……… dead at birth, Levy to reappear soon playing tennis on the Gaza Strip with Blair.