Sunday, March 21, 2010

£5,000 a day to use a former Labour Minister to get Labour Government policy changed, is that the definition of corruption?













Dear All

Another day and another Labour scandal of Gordon Brown’s Government, this time it is Labour MP’s for hire influencing Labour Ministers.

When you elect an MP, you would be wrong if you thought they are solely acting in the interests of their constituents.

That is not the case, in many cases it appears they act in self interest.

Former Labour cabinet minister Stephen Byers and three other MPs are for hire and they have offered to use government contacts to change policies in favour of businesses.

Stephen Byers, the grubby little Blairite likens himself as “like a sort of cab for hire” and he isn’t cheap for his services, up to £5,000 a day.

He also likes to play tag team hinting that the contemptible Tony Blair is available to meet clients too.

The Labour Party for hire includes Patricia Hewitt, Geoff Hoon and Margaret Moran.

Moran boasted to reporters that there is a ‘girls gang’ available ob behalf of clients and she named Jacqui Smith, the former home secretary; Hazel Blears, the former communities secretary; and Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of the Labour party.

This shows yet again what I have been saying for some considerable time, we are living in a corrupt society.

Rotten to the core, the mirror is cracked.

Stephen Byers has claimed by specific examples of how he had changed government policy by lobbying his cabinet friends.

Byers is alleged to have claimed that a secret deal was struck with Lord Adonis, the transport secretary, last year on behalf of National Express.

Lord Adonis and National Express have denied there was any deal but with a source close to the former Chief Executive, Richard Bowker stated that the version given to the reporters was “pretty accurate”.

Hewitt was equally brazen in her actions as she says;

“If you’ve got a client who needs a particular regulation removed, then we can often package that up [for a minister].”

It seems that personal greed has replaced public service as the motive for entering politics.

The General Election must be used by the public as a device to get rid of the corrupt, the stupid and the incompetent.
And it can’t come soon enough.

It is now in the interest of the people that there is a hung parliament.

Yours sincerely

George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

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