Cash for honours

[chance]

Cash for honours: Do you still trust Tony Blair?

[Siobhan]

Cash for honours: Do you still trust Tony Blair?

Can you explain further what you are talking about?

[chance]

Can you explain further what you are talking about?

Just assuming people are watching the news.

Heres for the ones who dont.

Police investigating alleged abuses of the honours system have refused to comment on reports they are preparing to interview Labour party donors.
A head teacher arrested as part of the cash for honours probe was freed on bail on Thursday after questioning.

Des Smith, 60, quit the City Academies programme after a paper accused him of promising honours to people who sponsored the institutions.

Mr Smith is expected to release a statement through lawyers after Easter.

The cash-for-honours inquiry was originally launched in response to a complaint by Scottish and Welsh nationalist MPs that Labour had broken the law preventing the sale of honours such as peerages and knighthoods.

Labour went on to reveal it had been secretly loaned nearly £14m ahead of the last election. The Conservatives were loaned a total of £16m by 13 wealthy backers.

The inquiry has since been widened to cover the activities of other parties.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who is leading the police investigation, has said he is prepared to consider more general allegations of corruption.

'Naive' admission

Mr Smith had already resigned from his post with the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.

He was freed on bail on Friday after being held for questioning under the 1925 Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act.

In January, he had suggested sponsors for the government's flagship city academies programme would be given honours in exchange for funding.

The trust helps the government recruit education sponsors. Set up in September 2005, its president is Lord Levy, Tony Blair's chief political fundraiser and close friend.

[Meh]

I don't trust Blair on anything he says.

The Hutton Inquiry - run by pro establishment Lord Hutton who just happens to be a friend of Blair. The Bultler Report was watered down by Labour, so cash for honours doesn't suprise me.

The biggest problem thins country has is that we don't hold the Govt accountable and that's the reason they get away with it.

Only yesterday at work a colleague was boasting how much his house was worth and how Labour had got everything right. I made the point that if his house was worth 250k so was everyone elses on the same street and other peoples by the same ratio. So he wasn't really any richer, he just had perceived wealth. Then I told him we have more debt than the gross GDP of some countries. I reckon in two years we'll see the full effect of Blairs lies with the miracle economy and the lies he perpetuated to get his friends wealthier and in power.

The man really makes my blood boil.

[Siobhan]

I don't trust Blair on anything he says.

The Hutton Inquiry - run by pro establishment Lord Hutton who just happens to be a friend of Blair. The Bultler Report was watered down by Labour, so cash for honours doesn't suprise me.

The biggest problem thins country has is that we don't hold the Govt accountable and that's the reason they get away with it.


Govt are never accountable and when they are they have long winded drawn out tribunerals (sp?) that cost the tax payer a fortune.. Look at all the ones we have in Ireland.. nothing has changed

[Em]

I don't trust Blair on anything he says.

The Hutton Inquiry - run by pro establishment Lord Hutton who just happens to be a friend of Blair. The Bultler Report was watered down by Labour, so cash for honours doesn't suprise me.

The biggest problem thins country has is that we don't hold the Govt accountable and that's the reason they get away with it.

Only yesterday at work a colleague was boasting how much his house was worth and how Labour had got everything right. I made the point that if his house was worth 250k so was everyone elses on the same street and other peoples by the same ratio. So he wasn't really any richer, he just had perceived wealth. Then I told him we have more debt than the gross GDP of some countries. I reckon in two years we'll see the full effect of Blairs lies with the miracle economy and the lies he perpetuated to get his friends wealthier and in power.

The man really makes my blood boil.

Problem is, i dont just mistrust Blair, I mistrust all politicions (sp). the same thing happend before with the conservatives, and your totally right, the government in power is never held accountable.

will it ever change?

[Jojo]

They are all the same - I dont trust ANY politcian, whether they are Tory, Labour, Lib Dems or from Mars - they are all as bad as each other

[Florijo]

Nope, never have, never will. They are all a bunch of liars and all out for what they can get.