Strike One:
David Blunkett quits for the second time, this time as work and pensions secretary, after being accused of breaking the ministerial code of conduct over paid work he took while he was out of the Cabinet. He took a job as director of DNA Bioscience shortly before the May 2005 general election, without seeking advice from the relevant watchdog.
Strike Two:
Sir, David Blunkett points out the claim made by some that “ID cards could not survive” the “Datagate” debacle. Mr Blunkett claims: “This is simply a diversion by those who have never wanted ID cards anyway.” I wonder whether his brushing aside these claims might be related to his position as a paid adviser to Texas-based security firm Entrust. The company has declared a formal interest in bidding to run Britain’s ID card scheme. Garrick Alder, Bedford.
(Via Longrider, if memory serves)
Strike Three:
The latest register of members' interests shows that the former home secretary's incomings over the past year or so were boosted by a £30,000-a-year salary from a Sheffield-based international training and support services company called A4e... Blunkett, 61, the MP for Sheffield Brightside, has garnered some useful headlines for his new employers A4e with the Star newspaper in his constituency reporting in January: "A4e's free legal line wins Blunkett's approval". That was shortly before Blunkett took a job with the company.
(Via Watching A4E).
NB - A4E received £122,978,495 from various government departments in their 2008 financial year.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm no big fan of the Tories but Nulab make them look like choirboys.
No argument taken to a finish
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I should have switched sides in '97.
But with holy Blair spouting all of whiter than white guff... well who'd a thought it?
Choirboys? You have a short memory. The next Chancellor has spent plenty of time on oligarchs boats. Why is he still here I wonder? Because everyone accepts it as normal. All in the name of the people.
RS, the worst that the government could throw at Osborne was the fact he had declared certain donations as donations, rather than declaring them in register of members' interests (the distinction being unclear and both being publicly available information anyway).
If that's all they can find, bearing in mind all the resources at their command, then I'm happy.
Let's not forget that Mandy was not only cavorting with self-same oligarchs, but there were certain EU-related aluminimium deals ... etc. etc.
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