They just got a different tool to use than we do: They kill innocent lives to achieve objectives. That's what they do. And they're good. They get on the TV screens and they get people to ask questions about, well, you know, this, that or the other. I mean, they're able to kind of say to people: Don't come and bother us, because we will kill you. Bush - Joint News Conference with Blair - 28 July '06

Sunday, April 30, 2006

76% think Labour gave peerages for cash

Tony Blair's government is "sleazy and incompetent" and on its last legs, much as John Major's government was in the mid-1990s, according to a YouGov poll for The Sunday Times today.

... The police are conducting an investigation into whether the
Labour Party gave peerages and other honours in return for loans and gifts
Do you think...

Labour probably did give honours in return for loans and donations 76%
Labour probably did not 9% %
Don't know 15%

Which of the following best sums up your attitude to the issues of loans,
donations and honours?

The present arrangements are corrupt 65%
The present arrangements don't trouble me 15%
Neither 9%
Don't know 10%

Which of the following best describes your attitude to Tony Blair on political funding?


He is sleazy 53%
He is not sleazy 23%
Don't know 24%

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