MAIL ON SUNDAY
Cherie Blair accused of using her position to help private firm to lobby for NHS contracts
Two page feature on Prescott’s many visits to the house of Health Minister Rosie Winterton
Prescott accused of affair with former press officer Tricia McDaid – and her sister
More on Prescott’s gifts from Philip Anschutz
Ruth Turner, Blair’s Director of Government Relations at centre of invesitigation into procurement irregularities at Liverpool City Council involving her boyfriend and a business she started
Why Labour donor Richard Caring refuses to be interviewed by the Police
Levy: I won’t be the fall guy for Blair
Article by Dominic Lawson on what Levy’s dinner parties are like
SUNDAY TIMES
Mystery honour for Labour donor Derek Tullett
Whitehall smears former Ambassador Craig Murray – bugging claims regarding Murray’s talks with Labour MP Andrew Mackinlay
Labour spinners to smear Cameron as slippery estate agent
Prescott forced to declare Anschutz gifts
Two page feature: Blair isolated as Police close in
Michael Portillo: Sleaze could finish Blair – and political parties too
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Levy passes buck to Blair on cash for Honours
Prescott DID talk about casinos says dome firm
Three page feature on Labour donations
Editorial: Blair’s no longer fit for purpose
Matthew D’Ancona: Blair is already under a citizen’s arrest
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Front page: PM’s secret talks with £250,000 lender at height of cash for peerages investigation
Two page feature on Levy headlined: Prime Suspect
John Rentoul: Kindly leave the stage Mr Plod
Editorial: Blair will have to explain & apologise
Alan Watkins: Blair doesn’t have to put the money under the mattress to be guilty
THE OBSERVER
Cash for peerages trail leads to Downing Street
Andrew Rawnsley: High Noon for the Lone Ranger of Number 10?
Looks as if Blair is in a little difficuly.
ReplyDeleteBy they way, have we heard the full story about Vlair and Mandelson ?
Total meltdown!
ReplyDeleteWhilst the sunday's are belatedly 'hot' on the trail..and good luck to them all. The other discredited journalists those highly renumerated 'politica correspondents' of television/radio 4 (John Humphries honourably excepted) fame! are on yet another freebie, there to ensure that they give Blair a good press on the world stage! One may ask a question on sleeze but will accept the standard answer 'I cannot possibly comment' NONE will try a kidney punch nor even a low punch to get a reaction.
ReplyDeleteNo, its invites to my wedding and dinner at Chequers and cosy private briefings.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if, at the end of all this, the public reaction caused a major re-think in the BBC and Murdochworld about their standards of reporting. I note that skynews 8pm slot are trying to re-create a blog-on-air! Give them credit for actually acknowledging the power of this and other blogs!
More power to your elbow Iain.
Has Tony Blair murdered sleep?
ReplyDeleteExcellent summary Iain. I expect seats with Labour majorities of about 7000 are starting to look attractive to Tory candidates!
ReplyDeleteBlair *is* the abyss. We fell into him, or least fell for his lies.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the game is up for this particular specimen of homo politicus, but I cannot be optimistic about where we go from here.
The expectations of an electorate set a ceiling on the conduct of politicians. In countries where it is assumed that "they are all they same" and "they are all on the take", it soon becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as respectable people avoid politics. We are now such a country.
President Putin was able to get a cheap laugh in St Petersburg by referring to Lord Levy. Our standing in the world; our locus standi to advise others on how to advance their civilisations has already been lost. I don't see how it can be recovered; certainly not by a Conservative Party led by a lightweight, soundbite-merchant, Tony Blair impersonator.
There's some good stuff in Scotland on Sunday about Sleazy and the likelihood of him not levy-ing the building without taking some others with him.
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I'm surprised you didn't mention Rory Bremner's article in the Sunday Telegraph.
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It seems to me that without freedom we're doomed. Freedom of speech etc. is of a different class of 'thing' when compared with behaviour of an individual politician or hanger on. Without freedom those behaviours are likely to become censored and thus invisible to us lesser mortals.
Both Freedom and Sovereignty belong in secondary and a higher class of abstaction than day to day behaviour. This is why Dave was so wrong in dodging the EPP issue (not to mention keeping his word).
Freedom and Sovereignty should 'trump' all lower class (in the mathmatical sense) issues such as internal harmony in the Tory Party and anti terrorist measures.
Set the lead Dave before Rory B. organises a new party which I would most certainly join as things stand at the minute.
You're still a young man Iain (well.... youngish). If things go on the way they have been these past nine years, I'm willing to bet you'll be deblogged long before you're old enough to collect the 'Heating Allowance'.
Tom Paine and others are right..we do not know where we are going.
ReplyDeleteI do not think, if this present scandal ends,as it should, in criminal charges and conviction. That this Country will fall for a 'straight kind of a fellow' Blair clone that is Cameron.
Perhaps, and I cannot believe I am about to say this, BUT perhaps the Lib Dems have got it spot on by having an 'elder' statesman in charge. Perhaps the Lib Dems will take centre stage and win!
God help us!
How much can Tony and John get away with? Aren´t there too many damaging stories allready, and so many pissed off MPs and activists, that can force them out?
ReplyDeleteUK is a country where your greatest PM was stabbed in the back in 1990, but where a lying crook can hang on and on (well i must admit I liked Tony a long time for being a tough leader who changed Labour, but no, surely the time has come for him to go??)
And is´nt it so, that most politicians want to go, at a time where they still has dignity left, like Clinton, which I regard as one of the best and most competent presidents ever. Tony has now, absolutely no dignity left whatsoever.
The right frace surely must be Shame, Disgrace, Resign??
>And is´nt it so, that most politicians want to go, at a time where they still has dignity left, like Clinton, which I regard as one of the best and most competent presidents ever. Tony has now, absolutely no dignity left whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteWell apart from the fact that Bill went when he had to go, at the end of his second of two permitted terms, just how much dignity do you think using an intern as a humidor left him with?
Strapworld wrote:
ReplyDelete"Perhaps, and I cannot believe I am about to say this, BUT perhaps the Lib Dems have got it spot on by having an 'elder' statesman in charge. Perhaps the Lib Dems will take centre stage and win!"
I can hardly believe I'm about to write this, BUT, if it came to the crunch, yes, I'd vote Ming.
Like a flutter? Ladbrokes is offering 5/2 that the Antichrist is "replaced" this year. (4/7 to go in 2007.)
ReplyDelete5/2 feels like it's over the odds...
How far ahead are you in the polls?
ReplyDeleteThe words "hit", "couldn't" and "barn door" spring to mind!
NEWS OF THE WORLD
ReplyDelete"Sven dumps Nancy for toy girl"
Come on Iain, you're missing the good stuff ;o)