15 December

Tony Blair interviewed by police

Government tactically abandons investigation into BAE corruption

Airport expansion plans but profit over environment

One day in British politics… the Prime Minister becomes the latest senior government figure to be questioned in the “cash for honours” investigation. Meanwhile, a whole new scandal emerges, regarding an allegedly corrupt deal between BAE and the Saudi air force, only for the Attorney General to call off the corruption probe. Could this be because BAE risked losing the deal to a French company? Surely our elected leaders wouldn’t put financial gain before ethical behaviour? Oh, except they did it twice in one day… the new plans for additional runways at Stansted and Heathrow airports fly in the face of environmental good sense and local opinion, all in the name of profit.

Through gradual downfall from the rosy optimism of 1997, there was always the reassuring knowledge that the Blair government could never be as bad as the last Tory government. I’m not so sure now. The combination of sleaze, irresponsible profiteering and sheer arrogance is just so reminiscent of the early 90s.

So now the only positive is that at least they’re not actually *worse* than the last Tory government… well, unless the Dear Leader happens to order the murder of all male infants during the next week or so. I mean, it’s happened before…

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One Response to 15 December

  1. dr rick says:

    Y’know, I’m really not at all sure that they’re not worse than the tories. They did plenty of things that the tories never dared to try, such as the horrific student fees, and (surprisingly little commented on) not only drove the house market to ridiculous heights but changed the tax system in order to destroy pension provision, in all three ways systematically impoverishing the under-25s. They are appalling.

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