Showing posts with label labour. Show all posts
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Thursday, 5 July 2007

The Big Red Book of New Labour Sleaze





The Big Red Book of New Labour Sleaze, written by Iain Dale and Guido Fawkes, it details more than 140 instances of New Labour sleaze since 1997 - cronyism, nepotism, sex, money, drugs. Examples of sleaze include:

- Peter Mandelson's Mortgages
- Ron Davies's 'Moment of Madness'
- David Blunkett and Nannygate
- Bernie Ecclestone's Donation
- Loans for Lordships
- John Prescott's Cocktail Sausage
- Lord Irvine's Wallpaper
- Margaret Beckett's Air Miles
- Cherie Blair's Freebie Holidays
- Tessa Jowell's Mortgages
- The Dodgy Dossier
- Stephen Byers
- Jo Moore Burying Bad News
- Derek Draper and Lobbygate
- Badger Watching with Ron Davies
- Cherie Blair Signing the Hutton Report
- Gordon Brown and the Smith Institute
- Cherie Blair's 'lecture' tours
- Gordon Brown’s Spinning Addiction

It's available for £7.99 from the Politicos bookshop.

Thursday, 10 May 2007

Tony Blair to retire

Via The BBC -


Tony Blair has arrived in his Sedgefield constituency where he will make public his plans to stand down as Labour leader and prime minister.

Blair Tells Cabinet he will quit (Guardian)
Britain after Blair (Wall Street Journal)
Blair announces retirement (Bloomberg)
Books on Tony Blair (via Politicos )


Tony Blair - Prime Minister by John Rentoul


Tony Blair - The Man Behind the Smile by Leo Abse


Tony Blair - The Price of Leadership by Philip Stephens


Accidental American - Tony Blair and the presidency by James Naughtie