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UK Political News: New Labour Spin - Lower Depths
| Watching New Labour politicians has become an nauseating experience and these last few weeks have left people
wondering whether they really have no shame. In their calls for Sir Fred Goodwin to forfeit his pension rights, they seem to leave out of their well tailored message of spin that it was the
incompetence of their government which cost the public purse so dearly. But how can these politicians even have the nerve to question what another negotiated, considering their own actions, for it still sits fresh in most peoples mind that the Home Secretary Jackie Smith obtained a reported sum of £116,000 by declaring to the House of Commons, her family home to be her second home. The New Labour attack on Sir Fred Goodwin seemed to be lead this week
by Harriet Harman stating that: "Sir Fred should not be counting on being £693,000-a-year better off as a result of this because it is not
going to happen." Tessa Jowell on the other hand had woes of her own, this year as
an Italian court found her estranged husband David Mills who is a tax lawyer,
guilty of accepting a bribe of about £400,000 from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Mr Berlusconi has since passed a law making himself immune from prosecution. |
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| Other Related Stories from the BBC & The Telegraph | |
| Harman gets it wrong in telling MPs that Sir Fred Goodwin had received his knighthood for charity work | 4th March 2009 |
| Harman has said chief Sir Fred Goodwin should not "count on" keeping his full £650,000 a year pension | 1st March 2009 |
| Gordon Brown has repeated his threat of legal action against Sir Fred Goodwin over his £16m pension | 27th February 2009 |
| The Telegraph asks: Harriet Harman: Britain’s most deluded woman? | 19th February 2009 |
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