Neo-Labour's 7 Deadly Sins

Remember Tory sleaze in the nineties? Cash for questions etc..? In response to the public's realisation that some politicians were 'on the make', John Major set up the Committee on Standards in Public Life, in 1994. Interestingly, Prime Minister Blair subsequently extended the Committee's terms of reference 'To review issues in relation to the funding of political parties, and to make recommendations as to any changes in present arrangements'- changes that his Neo-Labour 'party within a party' would later cynically bypass by, according to Jack Dromey Labour treasurer, consciously exploiting loopholes.

One product of Nolan's committee was the The Seven Principles of Public Life - Principles which Blair and Neo-Labour have contemptuously disregarded:

As Groucho Marx would say "Those are my principles - if you don't like them I have others"

[Don't think, for one minute, that we think the Conservative Party is much different - however they are not in power]