Nah, not really, though the announcement of the members of the panel Gordon Brown’s appointed to make yet another ‘inquiry’ with yet another inevitable, predetermined outcome, this time into the Labour Party funding fraud, does sound as though it could be the beginning of a particularly lame joke
What the bishop and the judge are actually walkiing into isn’t a bar, it’s a steaming pile of horseshit.
They may as well not bother with the enquiry and save their reputations. The Lib Dems and the Electoral Commission have at last called in the police.
Maybe Yates of the Yard will get some co-operation this time. Maybe.
At least we can now guess what it was No. 10 were being so obstructive with Yates about in the Cash for Honours investigation. That makes the Crown Prosecution Service’s decisiion not to prosecute anyone in Blair’s government for selling peerages much more understandable – they must have known, or at least suspected from Yates’ investigation, that New Labour corruption is much deeper, widespread and systemic than a few dodgy loans from social climbing businessmen.
