Beau Bo D'Or

Thank You Mr. Blair

The sleaze that was lapping at the toes of the government is now head high and starting to get up Tony Blair’s nose.

Our great leader proposes to clean up the system with a variety of measures that go further than those he helped devise to produce a whiter-than-white government.

It is ironic that the ommission of a couple of regulations had the effect of the inclusion of a couple of red socks in the whites wash which has produced a decidedly off-colour result.

One proposed solution is the state funding of political parties which, in my mind, brings about many potential problems, two of which I list below :

1. Although tax revenues do already fund the provision of arms and components to countries who we may feel oppress those who the government claim to protect, signing up to fund a political party has the potential to make the taxpayer a direct sponsor of state terrorism.

2. The funding of a political party from taxpayers money is discriminatory.

Pity the poor millionaires who are excluded from giving substantial donations or loans to the political party of their choice by the new regulations and cannot make payment via the tax they owe because they contribute so little through tax avoidance schemes, salting their money away offshore and into the pockets of loved ones or sometimes into the pockets of their own grubby lightweight blazers that have hung, unused, on the same coathanger for years somewhere in secure closets in the Carribbean.