blunketts gone

[Traf]

I might be wrong here, but I'm fairly sure Blunkett had no outside business interests.

[Maggie Tate]

He was Home Secretary though and earning more than any other MP bar Brown and Blair. He wouldn't have resigned so quick if he never had anything to fall back on. I know there's his Disability Living Allowance but that's only about 70 quid a week, plus free dog.

 

Companies would be queueing up to pay him a wage and give him a fancy title just for their own prestige regardless of whether he does any actual work for them.

[Casino]

Stan, you are losing this argument and losing it badly

 

could well be true [-( , but doesn't change the fact he's got his fingers caught in the till

 

had to go

[Bea Smith]

Companies would be queueing up to pay him a wage and give him a fancy title just for their own prestige regardless of whether he does any actual work for them.

 

 

i'll give him a job in my man brothel- there was an article in the sun( so it must be true 8-[ ) about how blind men make better lovers.

 

Handy hint- dont let your gals see it, they may blind you on purpose.

[Guest ian]

 

Companies would be queueing up to pay him a wage and give him a fancy title just for their own prestige regardless of whether he does any actual work for them.

 

 

i'll give him a job in my man brothel- there was an article in the sun( so it must be true 8-[ ) about how blind men make better lovers.

 

Handy hint- dont let your gals see it, they may blind you on purpose.[/quote

 

but if wanking makes you blind.....................

[Carlos]

Stan, you are losing this argument and losing it badly

 

could well be true [-( , but doesn't change the fact he's got his fingers caught in the till

 

had to go

 

That is an outrageous thing to say, and completely without foundation. Hint: Your failure to understand even the most basic facts here is why you are losing badly! Captains of industry, I've shat 'em.

[Guest ian]

Stan, you are losing this argument and losing it badly

 

could well be true [-( , but doesn't change the fact he's got his fingers caught in the till

 

had to go

 

That is an outrageous thing to say, and completely without foundation. Hint: Your failure to understand even the most basic facts here is why you are losing badly! Captains of industry, I've shat 'em.

 

i am interested stan, what exactky has blinkett done wrong in your eyes.

 

i think he claimed no one in his department did anything to give the application any help to get through. In fact someone who has not been named actually told someone to process it quickly.

 

on discovering this, he resigned as it showed he had either lied or did not know whar was happening in his dept.

 

i base this opinion on reading the papers, he has made a mistake owned up and paid a heavy price.

 

neil hamilton is appearing on celebrity tv programmes. aitken and archer are scum, but suppose blunkett deserves to be put in the same boat as them.

[SatanGreavsie]

Hmmm...lety's get the sleeze comparisons in proportion -

 

1994 Tory Stephen Milligan is found hanged to death while wearing womens underwear and stockings and with a tangerine in his mouth.

2004 David Blunkett's bird get's a free train trip.

 

[mickbrown]

Chuck in the fact he got right royally shafted by some vindictive owd slapper with very powerful allies in the media who won't even let him see his kid and you can't help but feel sorry for the bloke.

 

Is the cheeky mare sending back her nanny, if she finds what he did so wrong? Is she feck

[Guest Biff]

Blunkett used his position to get an application to stay in the UK processed out of turn. His private office sent an email to Immigration and Nationality Directorate to this end. He provided free rail passes for his friend paid for out of the public purse, ie our taxes. He has allowed asylum to run wild while he argues whether he is the father of a child. When he came to the Home Office he introduced a culture of no blame. If anyone made a mistake they didn't get castigated for it. Yet he thinks it is OK to slag off his cabinet colleagues. When he was at Education he had an affair with a girl in his private office. He thought that was all right because although she was living with someone she wasn't married. He has an affair with Kimberley Quin who is married but he regards himself to be in a permanent relationship with her and so she is entitled to free spouse rail tickets.

 

Now the other Labour sleaze merchants. Robin Cook ditches his wife at the airport just before they are about to leave on an official visit.

[Casino]

the following piece is much too well thought out to have been written by me....or traf but i think it seems to put my thoughts quite accurately

 

Labour Sleaze

 

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The public turfed out the last Tory government because of perceived sleaziness; the "Cash for Questions" row and the failure of one or two back-bench Tory MPs to declare minor gifts or sources of income was too much for the public to stomach and they opted for a Labour government, ignoring Labour's track record of sleaze in local government.

 

Seven years on, the Tories' brand of sleaze looks pretty weedy compared to the wholesale corruption practised by the likes of Mandelson, Robinson, Irvine, Vaz, Byers, Jo Moore, Milburn, Hughes, Paul Corrigan, and Blair himself!

 

 

 

 

That's the big difference - whereas under the Tories there were undeniably some individual back-bench MPs with dodgy agendas of their own, the Labour government is rotten to the core - the cabinet itself; the Prime Minister himself. Tony Blair was caught red-handed lying to the House of Commons about the ??1m contribution Labour accepted from the motor racing industry. It was a defining moment and would easily have been the end of a less slimy politician's career.

 

A Different Kind of Sleaze

In the old days sleaze was about politicians succumbing to the material temptations placed before them, such as expense accounts and foreign travel, or it involved the personal sexual morality or marital fidelity of politicians. There was little or no direct impact on the general public, but the press and opposition politicians worked themselves into a frenzy about it.

 

New Labour's New Sleaze works the other way round. It is all about the perversion of democratic government; matters of great importance to the public being cooked up behind closed doors, justified by massaged figures, semi-leaked documents and news management.

 

 

come on lefties....rip it to bits

 

 

ps carlos, captains of industry don't have time to read papers - they spend their days keeping the serfs under control

[Guest ian]

Blunkett used his position to get an application to stay in the UK processed out of turn. His private office sent an email to Immigration and Nationality Directorate to this end. He provided free rail passes for his friend paid for out of the public purse, ie our taxes. He has allowed asylum to run wild while he argues whether he is the father of a child. When he came to the Home Office he introduced a culture of no blame. If anyone made a mistake they didn't get castigated for it. Yet he thinks it is OK to slag off his cabinet colleagues. When he was at Education he had an affair with a girl in his private office. He thought that was all right because although she was living with someone she wasn't married. He has an affair with Kimberley Quin who is married but he regards himself to be in a permanent relationship with her and so she is entitled to free spouse rail tickets.

 

Now the other Labour sleaze merchants. Robin Cook ditches his wife at the airport just before they are about to leave on an official visit.

 

any as bad as getting paid to ask questions in the house of commons ?

 

the number of asylum seekers has gone down since he introduced measures, so that bit is just wrong.

 

he thought the woman carrying his child could be classed as his partner and such entitled to tickets, not quite as bad as mr archer eh ?

 

the guy has made a mistake and ADMITTED it and now has to take the consequences.

 

Aitken was it perjury he went to jail for ?

 

Archer paid someone to lie for him.

 

everyone makes mistakes, blunkett has and now takes the consequences.

[Carlos]

the following piece is much too well thought out to have been written by me....or traf but i think it seems to put my thoughts quite accurately

 

 

Labour Sleaze

 

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The public turfed out the last Tory government because of perceived sleaziness; the "Cash for Questions" row and the failure of one or two back-bench Tory MPs to declare minor gifts or sources of income was too much for the public to stomach and they opted for a Labour government, ignoring Labour's track record of sleaze in local government.

 

 

come on lefties....rip it to bits

 

Not exactly hard!

 

For Perceived sleaziness read corruption.

For One or two back-bench read prominent.

For minor gifts read bribes...

 

Stanley, the website that you failed to credit your article for is laughable, the fact that you consider that well thought out or even possibly agree with it is also laughable.

 

What is scary is that the person(s) responsible for that and also people who believe it are allowed to vote in this country. You really, really need to take your blinkers off and get a political clue.

[Guest Biff]

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the number of asylum seekers has gone down since he introduced measures, so that bit is just wrong.

 

They are just counting them differently. Plus a lot of asylum seekers came from countries which are now in the EU.

 

Blunkett did a lot of talking but no action. He set unmanageable targets like removing 30,000 refused asylum seekers a year.

[Carlos]

If you have a load of asylum seekers, and grant them wholesale asylum then in Blunkett's world then problem is solved as you've met your target.

 

The bloke is a red ginger and quite possibly incompent, but he isn't corrupt and walks away with his personal integrity intact.

 

Back to Biffo's other point, I fail to see how Robin Cook (another red ginger of the highest order btw) ditching his wife, after falling for another women, no matter where or when is "labour sleeze". Perhaps you could enlighten me?

[Guest The Special One]

You know what, I'm going to run for PM. It can't be that hard.

 

Any of you lot wanna jump on my bandwagon?

[only1swanny]

i'm not a fan of any of the labour goverment. but..

 

 

if you were in that position to speed up the process of someone looking after your child and you knew you could i think most people in this country would do. in my opinion, 'people' wanted him outed and this is the best they could find on him to do that.

[Zico]

if a blind bloke shags a blind bird will that kid be born blind?

[Smiley]

some vindictive owd slapper who won't even let him see his kid and you can't help but feel sorry for the bloke.

 

I think he'd have a ragging hard job to anyway.

[SatanGreavsie]

I know there's his Disability Living Allowance but that's only about 70 quid a week, plus free dog.

"Ding dong do!" Swanny