MPs Expenses affair - deep skullduggery afoot

[Peter Presland]

What is the coverage like there now?

Magda

It's pretty much still the dominant story for most of the MSM. I too keep a lookout for the issue(s) it may have been designed to distract from. It still seems to me that the most likely target (at least in terms of its timing) is to influence the European Parliamentary elections - timed to perfection in fact with the polls taking place next week. The net effect so far has been near total disgust and disillusionment with the main political parties and the clear beneficiaries in terms of potential protest etc voting, the BNP and UKIP.

I have no time for the simpering whimpering special-pleading Tory MP Nadine Dorries but the removal of one of her blog posts under legal action threat from the Billionaire owners of the Daily Telegraph (The Barclay Brothers) lends some weight to that view. She accused them of timing the whole thing to precisely that effect and they are clearly very sensitive about it. The offending blog post is available on Wikileaks.

Nothing more on John Wicks the leaker other than his string of failed businesses and that he clearly needed the money. I'm still waiting for the possible piracy-leaks connection to be made.

On the wider effect, I have no doubt that whatever theoretical ability the Westminster Parliament may have to hold the executive and the Deep-State apparatus to account (little enough as it was in practice anyway) will be further weakened. I suspect that is the root cause and that the position of the UK as poodle and EU trojan horse for the US will be strengthened thereby.