Blair changing law to get more money

Labour has been accused of altering by stealth the rules over political donations, which would let it solicit gifts behind closed doors.

Under proposals in the Company Law Reform Bill, a copy of which has been seen by The Sunday Telegraph, trade unions would no longer be regarded as "political" organisations. This would enable companies to donate more freely to unions, which supply much of the money that finances the Labour Party.

The legislation would create a loophole in the tight regime effected by the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act of 2000. It would let companies fund unions without shareholder approval.

David Willetts, the shadow trade and industry secretary, said: "This looks like a cosy deal that Labour are trying to smuggle through to help them raise money without the normal controls.

Tory MPs said that the new law could be used to funnel money into the Labour Party via the unions, which donated £42 million out of a total £66 million given to the party in the last Parliament.

As you can see Blair is changing the law to benefit him. How can people still not think this guy is corrupt?

Blair is the most corrupt leader we have ever had and if we continue to have the Labour party in government things are just going to get worse especially with Blair as their leader.

If I was prime minister I would ban all unions from donating any amount of money to any political party. That would probably ruin Labour as they get more than half of their funding from unions which means that at the moment they are in the pocket of unions. To stop political parties being corrupt the public should finance them through taxes like they do in Germany and other countries. Over there they seem to have very little corruption. So maybe for every politician they have in parliament the party receives £10,000. This would make them do what is best for the country and not special interest groups.

The corruption doesn't end there with Blair though because Tony Blair is under intense pressure to explain his links with a City financier whose company has earned millions of pounds from government contracts.

The Prime Minister spent part of his recent Caribbean holiday on Sea Dog, the 20ft speedboat owned by Russell Chambers, and now senior political figures are accusing Mr Blair of failing to address "conflict of interest" issues concerning the businessman.

So Blair gives millions of pounds of government contracts to a businessman who is a friend of his and Blair gets to spend part of his holiday on his speedboat. Do people seriously not see that Blair is corrupt?

Also has anyone noticed that these stories were tucked away in Sunday papers? This normally happens when stories that show Blair as a bad man turn up as the media are in league with him and hardly anyone reads sunday papers.