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mark occomore
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 Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:10 am Post subject: No Charges For on Cash For Honours |
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No-one is to face charges after the 16-month cash-for-honours investigation, the BBC understands.
Four people were arrested - including two of Tony Blair's aides - during inquiries into whether honours were sold and whether a cover-up followed.
Police interviewed 136 people, including ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Tory leader Michael Howard.
All denied wrongdoing, but friends of Mr Blair say the investigation helped weaken his authority.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6907594.stm
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The questions should be answered " why did the police let it drag out for over 16 months" Wasting One million pounds worth of tax payers money?
I suppose the police were doing their jobs, but a lot of CPS cases are thrown out if they can't charge anyone. You can't charge someone for no wrong doing. |
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Will the Nationalist MP who started the whole thing be charged with wasting police time? I think not!
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gfloyd
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:38 am Post subject: Re: No Charges For on Cash For Honours |
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| mark occomore wrote: | The questions should be answered " why did the police let it drag out for over 16 months" Wasting One million pounds worth of tax payers money?
I suppose the police were doing their jobs, but a lot of CPS cases are thrown out if they can't charge anyone. You can't charge someone for no wrong doing. |
How would they know until they finish the investigation? If they could automatically tell who was guilty & who was innocent, then we wouldnt need a courts system.
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firewirefred
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:35 am Post subject: Re: No Charges For on Cash For Honours |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | The questions should be answered " why did the police let it drag out for over 16 months" Wasting One million pounds worth of tax payers money? |
Perhaps because, if they didn't, the Daily Mail would be asking why they were not undertaking a proper and thorough investigation?
| mark occomore wrote: | | I suppose the police were doing their jobs, but a lot of CPS cases are thrown out if they can't charge anyone. You can't charge someone for no wrong doing. |
Er, right. |
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gfloyd
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:52 am Post subject: Re: No Charges For on Cash For Honours |
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| firewirefred wrote: | | mark occomore wrote: | | The questions should be answered " why did the police let it drag out for over 16 months" Wasting One million pounds worth of tax payers money? |
Perhaps because, if they didn't, the Daily Mail would be asking why they were not undertaking a proper and thorough investigation?
| mark occomore wrote: | | I suppose the police were doing their jobs, but a lot of CPS cases are thrown out if they can't charge anyone. You can't charge someone for no wrong doing. |
Er, right. |
God you are obsessed with the Daily Mail. Have you thought about counselling?
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:07 am Post subject: Re: No Charges For on Cash For Honours |
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| gfloyd wrote: | | God you are obsessed with the Daily Mail. Have you thought about counselling? |
Wasn't the Mail involved in stirring this lot up? |
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gfloyd
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:24 am Post subject: Re: No Charges For on Cash For Honours |
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| firewirefred wrote: | | gfloyd wrote: | | God you are obsessed with the Daily Mail. Have you thought about counselling? |
Wasn't the Mail involved in stirring this lot up? |
Every news organisation worth its salt was investigating this. That's what journalists should do. The Mail has got its fair share of scoops over the years despite what its critics might say about it.
I dont buy it, but I dont spend my life whining about it either.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:28 am Post subject: Re: No Charges For on Cash For Honours |
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| gfloyd wrote: | | I dont buy it, but I dont spend my life whining about it either. |
Funnily enough, nor do I. But I like do like to point to its editorial (and political) bias because I see it as a threat to me. |
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gfloyd
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:32 am Post subject: Re: No Charges For on Cash For Honours |
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| firewirefred wrote: | | gfloyd wrote: | | I dont buy it, but I dont spend my life whining about it either. |
Funnily enough, nor do I. But I like do like to point to its editorial (and political) bias because I see it as a threat to me. |
Pub bore by any chance? What about all the other people who dont agree with you. Do you list those off as well?
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firewirefred
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:14 am Post subject: Re: No Charges For on Cash For Honours |
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| gfloyd wrote: | | Pub bore by any chance? What about all the other people who dont agree with you. Do you list those off as well? |
No. I just like having a go at the Wail. It's fun - and I'm not alone. I don't have time to talk about the Wail in the pub, I'm too busy drinking. |
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gfloyd
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:43 am Post subject: Re: No Charges For on Cash For Honours |
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| firewirefred wrote: | | gfloyd wrote: | | Pub bore by any chance? What about all the other people who dont agree with you. Do you list those off as well? |
No. I just like having a go at the Wail. It's fun - and I'm not alone. I don't have time to talk about the Wail in the pub, I'm too busy drinking. |
Well your hijacking of any thread where you dont agree with something and accusing the Daily Mail of being behind it is extremely boring at this stage. Its like being strapped into an airplane seat sitting next to some droning man telling the same "joke" over and over. 
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firewirefred
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 4:19 pm Post subject: Re: No Charges For on Cash For Honours |
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| gfloyd wrote: | | Well your hijacking of any thread where you dont agree with something and accusing the Daily Mail of being behind it is extremely boring at this stage. |
Never mind.
| gfloyd wrote: | | Its like being strapped into an airplane seat sitting next to some droning man telling the same "joke" over and over. |
And the Daily Mail certainly is a joke, I'll grant you that!  |
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| It was nothing to do with the bloody mail SNP politician Angus MacNeil started the ball rolling asking for a probe into this. I'm sure he thought there was something to gain out of this, and it's back fired. |
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firewirefred
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | It was nothing to do with the bloody mail... |
No need to be rude. Anyhow - how do you know? |
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gfloyd
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| firewirefred wrote: | | mark occomore wrote: | | It was nothing to do with the bloody mail... |
No need to be rude. Anyhow - how do you know? |
Its not exactly a secret. Anybody who followed the investigation would know.
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