2007-07-19 10:34:43 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Probably - and what about Labour Peers selling their services ?
Wholesale revision of the chamber is necessary to remove the last hereditary peers and provide the foundation of a proper Chamber to properly revise legislation and act as a check on the power of the House of Commons.
It should be fully elected.
2007-07-19 10:42:19 · answer #1 · answered by LongJohns 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well from the limited window we have, we are usually left feeling that the CPS doesn't pursue these situations not because there absolutely isn't a case, but that the CPS doesn't think the police can win a long drawn out trial and therefore it is not in the public interest.
At the very least I would like to see an independent public enquiry of the procedures used by all political parties to raise funds.
All this proves is if you muddy the trail enough and you are powerful enough you can put the 'system' off from attempting prosecution.
This money is in effect 'income' I would like to see you or I successfully confuse the Inland revenue if it thought we had been fiddling our taxes.
2007-07-19 18:10:08 · answer #2 · answered by noeusuperstate 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think so and another big one. I had a fiver on the outcome with my husband (he has always been an optimist and lacks my cynical streak). I wish I had purchased shares in the company selling whitewash - think of the dividend over the last few years. I do, however think it has been going on for many years and is not the sole prerogative of the Labour party.
2007-07-20 09:29:48 · answer #3 · answered by SkodaKat 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course its a cover up , but the people in charge have to be seen to be doing something , at the end of the day who as paid for it the man in the street . We are the suckers who pay for this governments corruption and incompetency .
2007-07-19 17:48:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course it is. You only have to read the twists and turns and the "we have co-operated fully with the police" comments to know that the full power of the state has been used against this investigation
2007-07-20 10:57:19 · answer #5 · answered by Scouse 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course it's a cover up, politicians have always covered up there mistakes by giving out peerages! You know what, I blame Gerry McCann.
2007-07-19 19:03:35 · answer #6 · answered by BettyBelter 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If there are no charges, then it's political. There is too much evidence for there not to be a prosecution at the very least - maybe Lord Cashpoint would be found not guilty, but we have the right to demand that the evidence be heard in court.
2007-07-19 17:41:15 · answer #7 · answered by piggingheck 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Did we expect anything other than buckets of whitewash? It was one of the conditions that Tony exacted before agreeing to stand down for Gorn.
2007-07-19 17:45:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It has always gone on discretely by other names.
The Blair crowd were daft enough to do it almost openly and now need to cover it up.
The problem is proving it !!!
2007-07-19 17:48:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes , But it was always going to be
The fact is that our govenment got caught , now they are not going to admit it , are they
2007-07-19 18:08:35 · answer #10 · answered by Stephen A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋