Jobs for the Boys Articles / Blair Posted by ringverse on Oct 23, 2005 - 01:35 PM |
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Never let it be said that the Bliar doesn't look after his mates. His paying, sycophantic mates, that is. Do you fancy a peerage? Well, just bung the New Labour party a few grand, and use whatever expertise you have to speak well of the Bliar and his policies, and that peerage [1] is yours. Tony Blair is to reward a clutch of millionaire Labour Party donors - including the head of the Priory celebrity rehabilitation clinic - with peerages, The Independent on Sunday has learnt. In a move that will trigger a fresh row over "cash for honours", Mr Blair is to elevate to the Lords four businessmen who between them have given almost half a million pounds to the party. A leaked list of forthcoming honours shows that Dr Chai Patel, a high- profile Labour donor who runs the Priory clinics, is among those who has been personally [2] recommended for a peerage by Mr Blair. The Prime Minister is also set to elevate to the peerage Sir Gulam Noon, who has made millions from ready-made curries and given more than £220,000 to Labour since 2001. Mr Blair also plans to add to the next list of working peers businessmen who have been financially supportive of his flagship projects, including city academies. For those whose relatives have been abused and neglected in Dr Patel's Nursing Homes, there is a new support group [3]. For those of us sickened by this despotic nepotism and cronyism, tough. New Labour's institutional sleaze makes the passing of cash in brown envelopes for parliamentary questions by a few bent Tory MPs look like a birthday present. Shameless, but we knew that already. |
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This article is from Blairwatch http://www.ringverse.f2s.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.ringverse.f2s.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=476 Links in this article [1] http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article321644.ece [2] http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,796656,00.html [3] http://64.91.236.194/~sayita/lynde/index.html |