Dame Tessa Jowell has become late.

[Chz]

How is twice getting caught out over dodgy donations competent?

Everything is relative. Plus, and I'm sorry if it's a bugbear of yours, that's small beans by government corruption standards. One step up from that guy who got crucified for trying to blame his speeding ticket on his wife.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Everything is relative. Plus, and I'm sorry if it's a bugbear of yours, that's small beans by government corruption standards. One step up from that guy who got crucified for trying to blame his speeding ticket on his wife.

its not small beans when they are haranguing poor people to their deaths for being "benefit cheats".

 

[SpookyFrank]

Really? How many more have been denied a decent eduction/health access due to her governments attack to the welfare state?

Anti-welfare retoric which the tories picked up and ran with, giving them a pretext to, amongst many other things, close Sure Start centres all over the place.

All the blair-era gains in terms of social protection and public services have been reversed by the tories, and they've been reversed so easily because they were never designed to be genuine structural solutions, only window dressing for a neoliberal programme of privatisation and corporatisation. Anyone who did anything 'good' as part of Blair's government either knew full well they were just helping to put a sugar coating on a dog turd or they were incredibly stupid.

 

[Pickman's model]

Anti-welfare retoric which the tories picked up and ran with, giving them a pretext to, amongst many other things, close Sure Start centres all over the place.

All the blair-era gains in terms of social protection and public services have been reversed by the tories, and they've been reversed so easily because they were never designed to be genuine structural solutions, only window dressing for a neoliberal programme of privatisation and corporatisation. Anyone who did anything 'good' as part of Blair's government either knew full well they were just helping to put a sugar coating on a dog turd or they were incredibly stupid.

or both

 

[hot air baboon]

The way the BBC have been covering her story, she should be up for beatification soon.

I'm sure Berlusconi could make an appreciative monetary gift to Pope Francis or swing an invite to a bunga-bunga party - that should oil the wheels a bit

 

[SpookyFrank]

or both

Well quite.