Sleaze

Labour came to power by claiming that the incumbent Conservative government was one more interested in corruption and sleaze than in actual politics. Cash For Questions, the failure of a few backbenchers to declare interests, and a series of marital infidelities all allowed Labour to claim the moral high ground.

Since then, they’ve been waging a campaign to show the Tories that they can do it bigger and more often.

From lying to the Commons about a £1million donation from Formula One supreme, Bernie Ecclestone, to the row over payment for peerages, the David Kelly “suicide,” to Lord Irvine’s £650,000 redecorating bill being handed to the tax payer, to Prescott and Mandelson’s activities, to Byer’s dirty tricks campaign after the Railtrack fiasco, to Jo Moore’s “Good Day” memo, to accusations of fiddling NHS tables to make government policies look more effective, to spending £49 million pounds from the public purse on propaganda advertising to make the Government look good ahead of elections… the list is almost endless.