Lord Irvine, the former Lord Chancellor, and Baroness Manningham-Buller, the former director-general of MI5, have spent the past few months investigating the Lords Taylor of Blackburn (dyed in the wool mate of Jack Straw), and Truscott (Labour minister and appointed to the Lords when he lost the last European elections).
Unsurprisingly, this has led to their downfall. Angels would not like to face Lord Irvine in investigatory mode but, most particularly, not Baroness Manningham-Buller in any mode at all unless that of being on the receiving end of an offer of a small dry sherry from the College Principal, and even then entertained with other students.
In a striking rebuff to the Attorney General (en passant, you understand, a casual blow to an over-promoted, unelected politician, and appropriately categorised lawyer) they decided they did have the power to suspend the pair until the end of the current session of Parliament, relying on laws dating back more than 300 years. The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, (what is it with Scotland? Why don't they go away) earlier advised the committee that it did not have such powers. (For people like her the world began in 1955, at birth).
In a particularly delicious felicity of phrase (gold star to whoever drafted the decision) Lord Taylor is described as having an "advanced degree of self satisfaction".
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"Baroness Manningham-Buller": I remember her father, usually referred to as Bullying-Manner.
Baroness 'Scotland' is actually black I think. Just suspending the corrupt Lord is no punishment. It won't even prevent him from continuing his lobbying. Just a minor media ruffle, things will carry on as usual.
I don't care what colour she is, Raven, it's the colour of her soul that matters, and the colours her brain does (or doesn't) light up when she tries to put it in gear.
i don't actually have much to add but wordver is believe it or not polly t so couldn't resist.. sorry
Mmm, quite agree Dearieme. Definitely down the sherry and away.
Now her father was Attorney-General and one of the Lords of Appeal, so you have to give Scotland a point for chutzpah, or simply reel at her ignorance, for telling Lord Irvine and Baroness M-B what they were and were not empowered to do. I'm sure they could have justified removing her head from her shoulders if they could have been bothered.
Back to reading about what seems to have been a particularly juicy lot of murders, real Orwellian English murder quality, Lord Reginald was involved in dealing with.
'Detective Superintendent Herbert Hannam of Scotland Yard, the chief investigator, suspected political interference due to Manningham-Buller's membership of a government, which had no interest in seeing a doctor hang.'
What is it with the government interest in the culpability of members of the medical profession?
It must have been the mention of the word brain that brought you in, Godless. You win first prize for best wordver, but suspicions have been expressed all ready of angelic intervention in wordver.
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