Goldsmith Saves Blair’s Neck, Gags BBC

The BBC’s reporting that recently-admitted adulterer and Blair-appointed Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has slapped a hastily-appiled-for injunctionon the BBC that prohibits it from reporting a significant development in the Cash for Honours investigation. The BBC website is reported to have earlier illustrated its report with a photo of Ruth Turner, that’s since been taken down, and Guido and the other Tory blogs are all atwitter.

Aside from the sheer conflict of interest displayed by the government’s senior law officer intervening to directly protect his political patrons from exposure it’s just plain dumb – there’s no doubt that the story’ll be out all over the world by morning.

My money’s on Ruth Turner when Education Secretary having emailed something very indiscreet to Lord Levy and to Tony Blair. Either that or Blair himself has been arrested under caution; but at this point we don’t actually know.

C’mon Beeb, cry havoc and let slip the story to the foreign press or blogs! Has none of you any post-Hutton balls?

New Labour must be feeling it though: Ruth Turner Kelly was openly jeered on Radio 4 this evening when she suggested on Any Questions that everyone respects Tony Blair, while Ken Loach replied, to tumultuous applause, that Blair and all his government should be tried at Den Haag for war crimes.

Then there’s this ultimate humiliation:

Tony Blair’s Old Band Record Anti-War Song

Published Thursday, 1st March, 2007

Ugly Rumours – that’s the band Tony Blair once belonged to – have now reformed and have their sights on the charts with an anti-war song directed straight at the Prime Minister.

The original members have come together (complete with a Tony Blair lookalike it seems) to record a cover version of the Edwin Starr song, War (What Is It Good For?). The band have also started a new website which explains their decision to release the track.

Anyone wanting to show their support can buy the track for just £1.50 by texting the word PEACE1 to 78789 or by this online link. All profits raised are going to support the work the Stop The War Coalition do.

According to their site, Ugly Rumours only need 5000 sales to break into the charts.

I think the country is trying to tell them something.

This has got to be the end this time.

Hasn’t it?

UPDATE: Bleh, shouldn’t post on the fly late at night – have corrected the more sloppy errors.

Latest from early morning news is that Goldsmith has put out a statement saying that he sought the injunction in the public interest at the behest of the Metropolitan police.

Whatever.

The effect is the same, a closed circle deciding that we ordinary mugs are not fit to know what criminality is happening at the upper reaches of the gpvernment we pay for. “They’re all just covering up for each other” – that’s the message the electorate will take from this latest Goldsmith manoeuvre, not prosecutorial fairhandedness. At this point even otherwise perfectly legally valid considerations of whether news reports might wreck a pending prosecution or skew any subsequent hearing seem rather irrelevant to us voters as the tide rises around Blair and his sofa government’s necks. We know he and they’re corrupt, we want them gone and we just wish the media would just do their bloody job and defy the injunction.

DOUBLE UPDATE: The BBC have banned the Ugly Rumours single. Way to go, beeb.