No.10 Downing Street fights to stop police from questioning Blair

[Appollynon]

This is an very interesting turn of events, I thought the day would never come when the police attempted to look into Blairs affairs over the Cash for peerages issue in the UK.

I also find it pretty funny that in this article below it states that downing street is today fighting to stop the polica from being able to question Herr Blair. That made me wonder why (other than the obvious political fallout in the commonss from rival parties). If Blair was innocent of any wrongdoing, why keep the police form questioning him? I think maybe he has something to hide and his close advisers know it.

the only thing that worries me is who would take over the power vaccum if Blair resigned from office over this scandal. I don't like the idea of Gordon Brown, the Tories and I bet the Lib Dems wouldn't be a great deal better...what choices are we left with other than a V for Vendetta style takedown (hopefully without the violence) of the whole corrupt system?

Taken from here http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1021312006

BILL JACOBS
WESTMINSTER EDITOR

DOWNING Street was today fighting to stop Tony Blair being quizzed by police over the "cash for peerages" affair after the arrest of his personal fundraiser Lord Levy.

No 10 was denying that the Prime Minister would be questioned by officers as part of their rapidly growing inquiry.

But senior opposition politicians were convinced that Mr Blair had to be interviewed as the next stage of their investigation.

The fight between the Metropolitan Police and Mr Blair's inner circle came as Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Yates was to meet senior MPs in private to discuss the progress of the probe.

The arrest of Lord Levy, Labour's chief fundraiser who secured the controversial

 

[paulnotbilly]

I thought the hilarious thing about all this is that the investigation has been on-going for some time and it's only now that Lord Cashpoint, sorry, Levy has been arrested so that the police can raid his mansion searching for incriminating documents. Are we to believe that any incriminating evidence would still be in existance after all this time?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5177768.stm