Is the "Cash for Honours", enquiry a smoke screen?

Question

Is the Commissioner of Police, Sir Ian Blair, using the "Cash for Honours" enquiry to divert attention away from the high profile "c**k ups" by his force in the last year or so, in order to stay in his job?

Answer 1

If you want to keep your job you don't usually attack the incumbent party and PM! I would have thought it's as a result of tory lobbying and the police's recognition that they'll be in power in the next couple of year.

Answer 2

It is impossible to understand how such an almost unprecedented enquiry into the very heart of British politics could be initiated without any evidence merely to protect Commissioner Blair from criticism. I rather suspect that he is so far up the Government's backside that he wishes more than anything that this enquiry had never come his way.

Indeed, the Met Police are in so much mire that it is difficult to see how they can get out of it. Blair presides over a demotivated Force that has gone down the road of recruiting sub-standard police officers just to meet politically set quotas. Its presence on the streets of London is negligible and public confidence in the Met is at an all time low.

This is purely and simply due to poor leadership and political interference.

As far as the cash for honours scandal itself is concerned, it strikes at our democracy. It is perfectly clear to us all that peerages WERE exchanged for cash. Whether anyone is ever convicted of a criminal offence is another matter.

What really DOES matter is that the Government were appointing people to the House of Lords purely on their willingness to financially support this corrupt administration. Given that the only EFFECTIVE opposition over the last 10 years has come from the House of Lords, the implications are both obvious and dire.

Let's hope that the investigation rids us of this corrupt cancer in our midst once and for all.

Answer 3

Wasn't the enquiry dreamt up by the SNP in order to get their view on Scotish independance across. Following which the Tories thought that they could use it to discredit the Labour Government by bringing in the police. The enquiry isn't finished yet but so far the Tories have had nothing to laugh about. I seem to remember some queer things happening when Maggie was in charge.

Answer 4

I don't think as a diversionary tactic this will work, but it perhaps is indicative of a lack of leadership that is shown by a scatter-gun (no pun) approach to following and then giving up on high profile cases. Eg the money spent on investigating Kate Moss drug use, etc etc.