Was this really a spontaneous attraction? Or was the Met undertaking an operation?
I have no idea, but believe, with varying degrees of firmness, that The Question Must Be Asked.
Quote:Scotland Yard is also still trying to contain the fallout from the revelation that Mr Johnson's surprise resignation from the Labour front bench was triggered by his wife's alleged affair with his former police bodyguard.
Exclusive: Brown asks Scotland Yard to investigate if he was hacked
Murdoch flies in for high-level meetings as Yard faces new questions about its conduct
By James Hanning and Matt Chorley
Sunday, 23 January 2011
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pol...qus_thread
The political consequences of the affair Johnson are quite profound.
Ed Panda Death-Stare finds himself short of a shadow Chancellor, the lamentably ill-briefed Alan, and faced with a distinctly unwelcome choice - between Balls and a hard place, so to speak.
Predictably, not least to those responsible for this honeytrap op, Ed has had to uplift both his Balls (one of whom is called, a trifle confusingly for those unfamiliar with the dramatis personae, Cooper), thus enabling the Tories to align Ed with Brown, and Balls with both of them.
Was it the Met's intention to Balls up the Labour front-bench in the service of the Tories?
Or are there high powers yet at work here? Balls was putty in the hands of the City; and is much more closely aligned with the Obama approach to deficit spending.
So many questions, and too many Balls.
If you remember, Blair, Brown and Mo Mowlem were all "thought" tanked in the US before being elected to government...
David Guyatt Wrote:If you remember, Blair, Brown and Mo Mowlem were all "thought" tanked in the US before being elected to government...
There's definitely an unpleasant whiff about Labour's Balls; and, yes, the taint of US elite approval is unquestionably present.
This is getting out of hand:
Quote:Alan Johnson's disgraced police bodyguard 'had affair with his PA as well as his wife'
By Matt Sandy
Last updated at 12:41 AM on 23rd January 2011
The police bodyguard who had an affair with Alan Johnson's wife is facing an investigation into claims that he also had a relationship with the former Home Secretary's personal assistant.
Mr Johnson, 60, resigned as Shadow Chancellor on Thursday after it was disclosed that his wife Laura, 47, had cheated with his former protection officer, PC Paul Rice.
Now Mr Rice, 45, faces a further inquiry into allegations that he enjoyed a two-month relationship with Tracy Windle, 50, a secretary in Mr Johnson's constituency office...
It is believed that the affair between PC Rice and Mrs Johnson began when the officer was guarding Mr Johnson during his spell as Home Secretary between June 2009 and May 2010.
PC Rice went on to guard the current Home Secretary, Theresa May.
Don't forget to check for Met love-rats under your bed tonight. In the old days, they merely sniffed your underwear: Nowadays, they first soil it.
I'm still giggling at your caption "Met Penetration of Labour".
Have you considered the slang use of the name "Johnson"?
David Guyatt Wrote:Have you considered the slang use of the name "Johnson"?
Yes, and the thought was simply too much: Prophylactic policing is a disturbing concept at the best of times; and this, I contend, is most definitely not one of them.
All of which begs the burning question of the moment: Is there any one of prominence in the UK not being rogered by the Met at present?
The nation should be told, preferably by Glenda S or some other tabloid reptile.
David Guyatt Wrote:En garde!
After that remarkable musical interlude, let us all hope & pray the Met comes clean.