Is this the end for dodgy Tessa Jowell?

[mcquiggd]

When it comes to sleaze, the Tories were simply gifted amateurs.... nu labour are professionals.... the scale of the disgrace heaped upon this country by those in their ranks such as Blair, Mandelson and Campbell is unprecedented...

Still, apparently a fictitious character invented by people who thought the world was flat will now be the ultimate arbiter of government policy....

Comforting thought. Personally id have preferred Judge Dredd, but never mind.

And now god has said unto tony 'send forth peter hain to smite down the House of Lords'...

[wendigo100]

It is not often that Opposition Members quote from the diary of Piers Morgan, the former editor of the Daily Mirror, but let me tell the House about the entry for Thursday 27 March 1997, a month before the general election that brought the Government to power. It mentions an interview with Tony Blair.

"I won't be weak on sleaze like the Tories," he said. "We have got to be whiter than white if we are to rebuild trust in government."

The Prime Minister told us: "I'm a regular kind of guy" — after accepting a multimillion pound donation and then changing his policy to help the donor. He defended the former Minister for Europe (Keith Vaz) before he resigned, saying he thought he had done nothing wrong. He defended Peter Mandelson before he resigned, and resigned again, saying he did not think he had done anything wrong. Two weeks ago he defended the right hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Blunkett) before he resigned, and then said that he left office without a stain on his character.

Grayling forgot Geoffrey Robinson.

[Fungus]

And then we could mention the croneyism, whereby he gives jobs to his mates. So Derry Irving, his law tutor, became Lord Chancellor. Then Lord Falconer, Blair's ex flat mate, succeeded Irving to be Lord Chancellor.

There is a definite smell around Blair and it's not a hygiene issue.

[mcquiggd]

As was said at the time by several people, the PCG would have better spent any money raised to fight IR35 by wrapping it in brown paper and handing it to a nu labour minister. Much more cost effective.