Monday, July 17, 2006
Loans for Peerages
According to http://www.transparency.org.uk/TI_UK_Loans_for_Peerages_note.pdf the provision of loans for peerages is illegal, and even more so are gifts for peerages likely to be illegal.
e.g. by the offence of bribery. I quote "This offence may have been committed where the political party solicited, or the lender offered or gave, a loan in exchange for the political party agreeing to secure or influence. If there is difficulty in obtaining direct evidence of a corrupt bargain between the political party and the lenders/donors, such a bargain may need to be inferred from the circumstances, such as, where: (1) Nominations for peerages were made in cases where there was no real justification for such nomination and such nomination could be explained only by the provision of loans/donations to the party... and so on...'
Now Blair seems to be verbally contending that the gift or loan of money to Lord Levy or the Labor Party in itself constituted a reason for the honour, since it would benefit the Labour Party and thus entitle the donor to an honour. But this corrupt reasoning is explicitly outlawed as referred to above.
Blair should really go to the nick but if the Labour Party have any guts left they will literally frogmarch him out of the House of Commons right away.
The word on the street is that he has been offered a good job with his pal John Major at the warmongering corrupt US firm Carlyle Group, along with his mafia pal George Bush. So he has no worries of further work, unlike many honest UK people.
e.g. by the offence of bribery. I quote "This offence may have been committed where the political party solicited, or the lender offered or gave, a loan in exchange for the political party agreeing to secure or influence. If there is difficulty in obtaining direct evidence of a corrupt bargain between the political party and the lenders/donors, such a bargain may need to be inferred from the circumstances, such as, where: (1) Nominations for peerages were made in cases where there was no real justification for such nomination and such nomination could be explained only by the provision of loans/donations to the party... and so on...'
Now Blair seems to be verbally contending that the gift or loan of money to Lord Levy or the Labor Party in itself constituted a reason for the honour, since it would benefit the Labour Party and thus entitle the donor to an honour. But this corrupt reasoning is explicitly outlawed as referred to above.
Blair should really go to the nick but if the Labour Party have any guts left they will literally frogmarch him out of the House of Commons right away.
The word on the street is that he has been offered a good job with his pal John Major at the warmongering corrupt US firm Carlyle Group, along with his mafia pal George Bush. So he has no worries of further work, unlike many honest UK people.
# posted by uv : 12:22 AM
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