While You Were Sleeping
"All parties do make mistakes"
Cammers' local party was naughty and took £7,400 in illegal gifts. When they realised their naughtiness, they returned the money. Of course, Cammers is all innocent and that, but he said that "Labour's mistakes are of a different order." The funds were forfeited because the benefactors were not on the UK electoral roll. Well well well.
Some good old-fashioned protesting yesterday, with those against the Home Office's treatment of failed asylum seekers locking themselves to gates, vehicles and doorways. Good work indeed.
The Tories suddenly remember that cutting tax is their M.O.
Nick Clegg bravely faces the LibDem future. The Tories can't quite work out if he is a threat or an opportunity. A threat-ortunity perhaps. Cleggers has wasted no time in slagging off the other parties. He's no Ming is he?
If this is what LibDem leadership contests do to people, let's not have another one any time soon.
Gord's rhetoric has "appalled" some of his ministers, says Charles Clarke. Snap! Oh no, you di'nt.
The BNP faces an inquiry for all the naughty spy stuff, plus some light money-laundering. Who'da thunk it? Ain't parliamentary privilege grand? All the details, none of the defamation!
One conclusion of the cash-for-honours inquiry: You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but parties "should not pick peers.".
