Bending the rules

Posted on February 26, 2009 by bobpiper

When politicians say that what they are doing is “within the rules”, my antennae always start to twitch. Whether it is Mr Speaker, Caroline Spelman, Jacqui Smith… whoever. The implication is always, OK, it may appear to you to be morally wrong… but there isn’t a rule against it. I suspect the Laws of Cricket, when they were written, never anticipated an England captain filling his pocket full of grit to allow him to rough up one side of the cricket ball and affect the ability to bowl in-swinging deliveries. So, whilst Mike Atherton may not have broken any rules, his behaviour was definitely out of order.
Oh, and perhaps I should mention this too. Tories accepted £250,000 from Lord Ashcroft’s wife.

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3 Responses to Bending the rules

  1. Letters From A Tory says:
    February 26, 2009 at 9:41 am

    As Guido pointed out recently, anyone who goes after Ashcroft will presumably have to go after Lakshmi Mittal as well for his £10 million donations.

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  2. Bob Piper says:
    February 26, 2009 at 10:19 am

    I rarely visit Staines’ site, so I’ve no idea what comparisons he made. Does Mittal live in India? Is Corus just a front for supporting the Labour Party? I’ll leave the investigation into the pair of them up to the electoral commission.
    But if you’ve come here expecting me to defend Labour accepting money from billionaires, you’ve walked through the wrong door.

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  3. Gary Elsby says:
    February 26, 2009 at 10:54 am

    Well I never! So that’s how the Tories do it!
    Send a bung via carrier pidgeon and no one is any the wiser!
    Whatever happened to just accepting cash in exchange for a Peerage? It was all so honest, way back then.
    Bring back the good old days when Nobles were Nobles and we serfs walked slowly towards the sound of enemy gunfire and proud to be British.

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