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Another manifesto for 2015.

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/11/liam-fox-tory-leadership_n_2851902.html?utm_hp_ref=uk   Liam Fox Dodges Leadership Questions.   Liam Fox Liam Fox. Remember him? He was the same Liam Fox who, when as Secretary of State for Defence, gave his close friend Adam Werritty, access to the Ministry of Defence and allowed him to join official trips overseas. This is the same Liam Fox who, after paying back the £22,476 claimed as expenses for mortgage interest payments, appealed against Sir Thomas Legg's decision, and lost. In March of 2010, Fox blamed a "changeover of staffing responsibilities", for his failure to comply with Parliamentary rules of the Register of Members' Financial Interests in connection with visits to Sri Lanka. In October 2011, Fox's association with Adam Werritty, who had been the Best Mann at Fox's wedding in 2005, attracted some media attention.    Adam Werritty It came to light that Werritty had lived r...

Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards or decorators with whitewash?

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/banks-inquiry-branded-total-joke-as-key-inquisitors-excluded-7941466.html   The parliamentary inquiry into the banking industry and Libor scandal was branded a “total joke” today after two of the Commons' toughest inquisitors on financial issues were excluded from it. The first step in Cameron's plan to give the bankers a soft ride in the inquiry, Kick the whole thing into the long grass to wait for the heat to die down and then whitewash the city criminals. This first pass in selecting these lightweight committee members,apart perhaps from Andrew Tyrie in the chair, proves beyond any doubt that there has to be an independent judge led inquiry into the whole rotten scandal.

Parliamentary Inquiry is a cul de sac

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/were-powerless-to-get-truth-about-bankers-says-key-mp-7923528.html Politicians have been virtually "useless"  at getting to the truth behind the banking scandal, one of the MP's responsible for investigating the affair has admitted. This is the real reason why Cameron and Co are insisting on a Parliamentary Inquiry into the Banking Scandal rather than a judge led independent  inquiry. It is a not very subtle ploy to ensure that the witness are allowed to ramble on at length, saying nothing, being asked weak, inane questions and ensuring that no one is any the wiser at the end of their "evidence". The Parliamentary "Inquiry", will ensure that the banks and their crooked practices, together with those of their employees, and the subsequent conspiracy to cover up the whole rotten system are protected from the full glare of public exposure for as long as it takes to bury the matter under heaps o...