The Labour peer at the centre of the donations row bailed out a baroness after she was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
Lord Alli, a multimillionaire former banker and fashion entrepreneur, gave a £62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin more than a decade ago to help her repay the expenses after the Lords authorities ordered her to refund the taxpayer.
Sir Keir Starmer would later announce that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which he ran at the time, would not pursue fraud charges against her.
We’re getting to the point that it doesn’t, in fact, matter who has done what with which cash. Politics is what people believe, not what is true. And this is spilling over into the beliefs of the general public, it’s not just SW1.
They’re all at it, all the same, ain’t they?
That’s the real political import.
I’m sure there’s dozens of similar cases across all parties. If any UK rag still has an investigative capability this might be time to launch an all-party study of the past decade’s troughing.
Sadly, most are so polarised they won’t investigate in case they make their side look bad.
As a wise man says: ” Import the third-world, become the third-world…”
You’re making me think of Oz, Jonathan!!
I’ve just seen a post by a friend heaping praise on the fat woman who was made “London Night Tsarina’ by that fool Khan. Not only did she objectively fail in her job, she seems to have made things worse.
There is a whole segment of grifters making money off of the publc purse working in the “entertainment’ industry.
Such graft is to be found in every aspect of government activity.
ps that Alli chap aldo lent £1.2 million to one of the McDonagh sisters ( one of whom used to be my MP ) to buy a house
All this must be making Nigel salivate for 2029. I mean the tagline writes itself – They’re all at it, vote Reform to sweep the lot away!
Jim, I don’t think Nigel will be free to run for office. The signs are already there in our country, but I’m sure TTK has his eye on the USA where the Dems are using such political arguments as lawfare and assassination in order to ensure that Kackling Kamala “wins”…
The only “clean” party is likely to be Reform. Becasue they (and UKIP before them) have been subject to so many blob confected investigations, accusations and disproportionate journalistic attempts to “get” them or catch them out that there can’t really be anything under their carpet.
Vote for the honest party, vote Reform!
@Jim
Drain the swamp?
Now, who said that?
Up until Blair, Labour could just about get away with claiming to be principled horny-handed sons of toil. Mandelson a that time, and Blair after leaving office, permanently blew that claim to pieces with their grifting.
Now the only difference between the Tories and Labour are that the Tories have always had their fingers in the till and aren’t particularly embarrassed by it, whereas Labour endlessly lecture us about their moral purity, integrity and rectitude whilst doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING.
@Otto
That land whale was getting £130,000 p.a. to close half of London’s nightclubs. Not surprising, really: she visits, and there’s no room left for anyone else.
With the land whale, one does wonder what was going the other way? Why did the paki set her up with this position on that sort of dosh? What was he getting out of it? It certainly what it said on the tin. Apparently she’s been “off sick” for months & then promptly went on holiday. Surely not the obvious reason. In the unlikely event you wanted to, could you even find it amongst the folds of flesh? Maybe he’s into face sitting. He looks the type.
Please please pretty please can the next name to come out be Warsi.
@BiS – that is a repugnant image, although strangely hilarious…
As to why he hired her in the first place; maybe he thought having a nightlife tzar would be good cover for shutting down Londonistan’s nightlife? Or maybe he has so much budget to throw around, he doesn’t care?
I do suspect that the little shit has more limited opportunities for graft than he’d like, because there is more oversight of the mayor than, say, a London borough CEO or council leader. London’s shittest boroughs are full of Muzzas handing out jobs to their mates and relatives.
@BiS
The paki’s a Muslim. They don’t really approve of nightclubs. What better way to diminish their number than by getting a “queer” land whale to do it by stealth, whilst ostensibly doing the opposite?
As for finding it, you’d probably need GPS. And then fundamentally wish you hadn’t bothered.
The paki’s a Muslim. They don’t really approve of nightclubs.
Where ever did you get that idea? Obviously don’t know pakis. They very much approve of anything they can make money out of. Which does make me wonder if the human balloon was the conduit for kickbacks. I’d love to know why you have all those cycle rickshaw bandits, for instance.
“Sir Keir Starmer would later announce that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which he ran at the time, would not pursue fraud charges against her.” Is that the first recorded instance of Two-Tier acknowledging that something involving figures in the public eye ever crossed his desk at the CPS?
I haven’t woken up yet. I read the headline as: Labour peer pulls out of Baroness.
My beloved has an ace question. “Who else?” – meaning who else has been paying bungs. It can’t only be Alli can it?
M¥ beloved was shrewd.
https://thecritic.co.uk/gambling-gifts/
@ Norman 9.31
You are blatantly ignorant or just plain lying. From late C19 until Wilson decided to make being a n MP a relatively high-paid job, politics was a profession for the well-meaning amateur with Labour MPs relying on subsidies from their Trade Unions with corruption being held in contempt and disdained – the famously, but rare, exceptions being Maundy Gregory, a Liberal, and T. Dan Smith, a Labour Councillor.
john77
There was the odd crook, John Stonehouse springs to mind and indeed Wilson himself was pretty shifty. But Norman is right that with Blair and the managerial class taking over, things became quite brazen.
Who wasthe pal of Lloyd George caught selling honours ? Bodkin something.
@john77
Er, if you re-read my remark, that was essentially my point. I’ll take the criticism, though, if Wilson started the grift before Mandelson and Blair.
And the Tories? Always looking after themselves and their own, as one might expect.
Me, I just want to see the receipts that show that this ‘loan’ was repaid, and at what interest rate. Isn’t that a question that HMRC would normally be all-over, since unrepaid ‘loans’ are a classic marker for money-laundering (cf Biden, Pelosi, Clinton et al)?
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