Well the curse of Dale has struck again. This morning I wrote a laudatory post about Tony McNulty and by this evening it looks as if he may well soon have more time to spend at Upton Park. The revelation that he and his junior Minister have known about the problem of foreign sex offenders not being added to police sex offender registers is fairly damning. David Davis is scenting blood..."If this is true, the position of two Ministers would be untenable. We need to see the full copy of this letter. ACPO should now publish it including all replies. It is also the case that any inquiry cannot be carried out by a civil servant. It must be carried out by a Judge".
David Davis was going to distroy John Reid this morning too, you were predicting. That didn't happen either.
ReplyDeleteNuLabour ministers never do the honourable thing and resign. No matter how incompetent, or in some cases criminal, they cling on till the death. The only difference between junior and senior ministers is the length of time before the coup de grace is delivered. The Tories of the 90's had their faults, but at least they resigned like gentlemen, or ladiies.
ReplyDeleteIain please write a polly toynbee style encomiastic posts about Gordon Brown post haste, please consider Chelseas for your approbation too!
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ReplyDeletewait 'til tomorrow...
RE: Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteDavid Davis was going to distroy John Reid this morning too, you were predicting. That didn't happen either.
Give it a few days!.
Unfortunatley there will be another inept labour regime member to replace the ones that take the flack for those higher up, nothing will ever change until the grinning fool in No:10 goes, nothing will ever change until the tartan taxman in No:11 goes, nothing will EVER change until the Labour regime goes, those ae the simple facts.
I think some of these Ministers should meet the fate of the Earl of Strafford
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ReplyDelete"...nothing will EVER change until the Labour regime goes, those ae the simple facts."
And then Dave will be in charge and it will be all change?
Hmmmmmm!!
It's 'savaged by a dead sheep' time again! McNulty must be shaking in his seeds after that pussycat performance Davis put in against Reid.
ReplyDeleteNot sure that anyone should be 'sent off' to do their time at Upton Park over matters concerning offences related to sex.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand it is a place with a 'family atmosphere' where gents can be assured of a good carpeting.
'The revelation that he and his junior Minister have known about the problem of foreign sex offenders not being added to police sex offender registers...'
ReplyDeleteI think you will find that this 'revealation' only refers to British Nationals who have been found guilty of offences abroad. Foreign rapists, paedophiles,murderers et al are being allowed in without any criminal backgroung checks.
It should hardly come as a shock!. Tony McNulty was bounced from the immigration portfolio as he wasn't able to cope!
ReplyDeleteIt can't be long before he does and Estelle Morris and is elevated to the Lords now...
Am I the only one finding it interesting that this whole scandalous affair of the foreign sex offenders, and the heavy responsibilities this lays at the feet of the Home Office and John Reid, is happening at a time whene Gordon Brown is upping his visibility in the media and gearing up for Blair's impending step-down?
ReplyDeleteThe scandal is bad enough, but one can't shake the impression that maybe some Brown-ite ministers knew about this and sat on it for a while, waiting forthe right moment to use it to bring down the only half-way credible challenger to Brown's ascention. And if that were true, it'd be all the more damning.
No doubt I'm reading too much into all this and should return to my ponderings over Roswell and the Kennedy Assasination...
Reid is already toast.
ReplyDeleteImagine his leadership-campaign-launching speech now:
"I'm going to bring to government the same rigour that I brought to the Home Office. Oh f*ck, has anyone seen those files?"
If he spent more time running his department, and less time acting the tough guy, and trying to square up to Gordon Brown, perhaps he wouldn't be in such a mess.
On the other hand, imagine if this bunch of clowns ran an ID card system. Would never work, thank heavens. Won't stop them jazzing billions of pounds on trying, though.
Maybe it's the curse of West Ham ?!!
ReplyDeleteGoing down ...
John Reid's only chance of political survival is to announce and fight a strong campaign for leadership and step down from the Home Office to do so.
ReplyDeleteIf he wins enough votes he may be allowed to stay in the cabinet. If he doesn't announce very shortly and another problem comes along (which it will), he will be brown-bread.
Has anyone checked if David Davis is part Pit Bull Terrier ?
ReplyDeleteDavis does a damn good job.
ReplyDeleteNext to Cameron, he's the most visible - and effective - shadow minister.
Contrast this with Fox, who I'm very disappointed with.
We haven't heard a peep from him over the government virtually scrapping the Navy. All I've read is about him saying Poland and Hungary shouldn't be in NATO - on Guido Fawkes blog. What?!
Why is he so useless?
It's not about David Davis; it's about Gordon Brown. I don't think the good Doctor is going too be much of a threat to the Labour leadersship anymore, do you?
ReplyDeleteMuch as I can'tabide the idea of Gordon Borown as PM, one has to admire the sheer ruthlessness of his latest approach. If nothing else, I look forward to the clean sweep of ministers and advisors.
giovanni - you are so right !
ReplyDeleteOne cannot prove that this is the doing of the 'nutters' but one also cannot help but wonder just how timely this trouble is for John 'Psycho' Reid in his showdown with Brown.
Maybe there is more 'stuff' that GB has ready to throw at him if the guy doesn't take the hint. Fantastic !
man in a shed: As I had David Davis by the short and curlies yesterday, I can assure you that there is no dangerous pit bull terrier in his make up, rather neutured pussycat as Bob Piper suggests.
ReplyDeleteHow is this the doing of Brown? It was released by ACPO.
ReplyDeleteIn his weasel words about the letter he has read and will not publish,Tony McNulty shows how he lacks moral judgement. Not irrelevant in evaluating this is his support for a group of his constitutent supporters who are followers of the self-proclaimed God Incarnate, Father Who Sent Jesus - Sathya Sai Baba - the guru charged with pedophilia on a BBC documentary, 'The Secret Swami and recently exposed again in The Guardian. McNulty even attends some meetings of this Sai Baba worshipping cult and has involved himself in promoting them by inviting them to Parliament!
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