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Kelvin Mackenzie said on Sky TV…

“Gordon should take a bottle of brandy and a gun, go to a quiet room, have a drink, then blow his brains out. “

Looks like two Labour peers have been found guilty of taking cash for amendments. The Sunday Times reports that Lord Taylor of Blackburn and Lord Truscott face a one year suspension.

A years suspension from the gravy train?  They just got caught trying to sell legislation, isn’t whoring out parliament a bit more serious than that punishment suggests?  Is there really no criminal sanction available?

We still have yet to hear the outcome of the investigation into Alistair Darling’s old flatmate, Lord Moonie.  Guido would also love to get to the bottom of the financial relationship between Moonie, Gordon Brown and Darling.

We know Moonie paid Gordon Brown handsomely for his old Kennington flat which he then sub-let to Alistair Darling. We are clearly not dealing with an obscure outsider here, we are dealing with someone at the corrupt heart of Labour’s Scottish Raj.  Did Darling claiming an allowance from the taxpayers to be paid to his mate Moonie?  Isn’t that a little too cosy a use of public money?