In the run-up to a General Election, there are some very strange stories jockeying for space in today's Sunday newspapers. But, ever dependable these days are sleaze stories. So... it's another day, and more Labour sleaze stories in the headlines...
The Sunday Times claims that two more former Labour ministers - who it names as Adam Ingram and Richard Caborn - have "been secretly recorded offering to exploit their government contacts and experience to help commercial clients for fees of up to £2,500 a day." The latest claims follow from last week's furore over the joint Sunday Times / Channel Four Dispatches sting revelations which placed Stephen Byers into the public spotlight for all the wrong reasons. The same news report states that "a YouGov poll of more than 1,500 people for The Sunday Times shows that by nearly two to one, 49% to 29%, voters agree [...] this is the most corrupt parliament in Britain’s history."
The Mail on Sunday goes for dirt digging against Labour MP Margaret Moran who, the paper claims, has "boasted she used a private company based at the Commons to change immigration policy to allow cheap workers to be brought in from India."
Staying with politics, and The Observer says that Labour will attack the Shadow Chancellor - George Osborne - throughout the election campaign, in the belief that he is the Conservative Party's 'weakest link'.
They'll have their work cut out... Britain's biggest newspaper, the News of the World, has joined it's sister publication - The Sun - in backing the Conservatives. In their explanatory editorial, the newspaper says: "Overwhelmingly, on all fronts, this country is crying out for change. Which is why, after much soul-searching, the News of the World believes that David Cameron and the Tory Party must now be given the chance to run the country."
The Sunday Express has an interesting piece on the State snoopers who, according to acts of statute anyway, can apparently enter our homes. It reports that "there are 418 pieces of legislation which allow council officials to enter your home" and they "can show up without notice or warrants and with 1,208 reasons to enter your home, workplace or land without your permission." And we have 1,208 different ways of telling them to get stuffed, too.
We won't link to the story about Jordan's haunted sunbed. But it's out there in newspaper land, folks! Honest!
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