Guido Fawkes reports that this morning Chancellor of the Exchequer and El Gordo’s BFF, Alistair Darling, is co-hosting a New Labour fundraising ‘power breakfast’ with international financiers Deutsche Bank at their City HQ in London – cost 80 quid a plate.
That New Labour and Darling are still shilling for money (only public opprobrium made Harriet Harman cancel her own proposed fundraising comedy ‘n cash night this week), after admitting criminal offences and while the funding scandal rages on amd more and more senior Labour figures are implicated, is bad enough.
That the party’s supporter base is now those who can afford 80 pounds for breakfast is bad enough.
That the supposedly objective Chancellor, whose job is to to manage the public purse and economy in the best interests of the country, rather than short term party goals of the Labour Party, is going cap in hand to a foreign bank for party political reasons is bad enough.
That the Chancellor is essentially promising influence for cash ( and cheap at the price) is bad enough.
But Darling is begging for handouts at the Bank that is, with Richard Branson’s Virgin, one of the preferred bidders for failed building society Northern Rock, over the eventual disposition of which the chancellor has not a little influence.
How much more openly corrupt can this government get?
