O frabjous day! Calloo, callay!
Lord Levy has been arrested, again, on suspicion of perverting the course of justice, the BBC reports.
Former pop impresario, Blair best friend, tennis partner, personal middle east envoy, Labour peer and Friend of Israel, party fundraiser and joint British/Israeli citizen Levy was arrested when he returned to answer police bail, which was granted after his first arrest and questioning about his role in the sale of peerages for cash.
Following his being given bail last time Levy hotfooted it to his house in Israel.
I wonder: as he’s a known flight risk, will the plod risk bailing him again, or will they remand him in custody? I bet the latter. It’ll take only one night in Britain’s totally buggered prison system to convince hsi poptastic lordship that he has a good memory after all. like he said, he’s not taking the rap.
Blair must be quaking in his boots. Not only will his best and most trusted friend sing like a canary if jailed, even for the briefest of periods, but it seems that the private Labour internal email system that Blair’s official spokesman denied exists does indeed, exist. and that No 10’s official spokesperson lied to the police about it, thus hiding evidence. That in itself is obstruction of justice, a charge I think quite a few Labour notables and party droids will soon be facing.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. The New Labour project is crumbling from corruption and internal rot, not long now before Blair has no choice but to go too.
UPDATE: He’s been bailed again. More fool the Met. I suspect Lord Levy’s housekeeper in Tel Aviv is stocking the fridge up and airing the sheets right now.
bjacques
February 1, 2007 at 12:02 pmIs this part of the special relationship thing? Seeing as we (the US) have the Scooter Libby trial underway, I wonder which scandal will do the most damage, either in proportion to government size or in absolute terms.
By the way, I still have those 3-D glasses!