First off we have the Dear Leader turn­ing a blind eye to alle­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion between a Saudi Prince
and BAE. One could deter­mine if there was any truth to this. one could even inves­ti­gate whether any crim­i­nal offence had been committed.

One could. But what hap­pens if it is found to be a well based alle­ga­tion? Bad. So what does our moral leader do? What does the ‘straight kinda guy’ do? Well obvi­ously he spikes the inves­ti­ga­tion. But not, of course, because it would reveal cor­rup­tion by an ally. Oh no; he spikes it for a good cause, because of the National Inter­est. It would affect our abil­ity to fight ter­ror­ism — hon­est. And it was an old old crime. And jobs. And, well, you know — it’s a small thing; just cou­ple of hun­dred mil­lion here or there.

Mr Blair is seek­ing new pow­ers to com­bat the crime which is a can­cer in our soci­ety. Civil lib­er­ties loonies who object to these pow­ers need to start liv­ing in the Real World and see just how destruc­tive crimes such as bribery and the other dis­hon­esty offences are; they cause losses run­ning into many tens of mil­lions a year and threaten all of us.