Cash For Editorials

You gotta love the brass neck of Das Herald Sturmer. In it's attempt to distract attention from its corrupt master The Labour Party, it tries to throw slime on everyone else.

In today's editorial you find this headline:

Auctioned lunches are against the rules

This is a reference to Alex Salmond having lunch in the Scottish Parliament with the organisation Asians for Independence. The lunch was indeed auctioned as a way of raising cash for the SNP group to campaign in the forthcoming elections. However the auction didn't take place in the Parliament and Salmond paid for the lunch himself. Das Herald Sturmer argues that the SNP seem hypocritical because they complained about Wendy Alexander whose behaviour was argued to be illegal, the cash for peerages row which was industrial scale sleeze and the 'cash for access' row.

Cash for access was an industry. People like Derek Draper offered clients the ability to change government policy in return for fees. He was part of the 'inner circle' which included all of Downing street whereby commercial interests could not only get access to Tony and Gordon but could get to know about government announcements in advance. This advance knowledge could make companies hundreds of millions in The City. Power stations were handed over to those who paid for access to the inner-circle and environmental issues were stamped on when a client's need arose. Blair took us to war for special interests after all and got his 2.5 million quid a year consultancy with JP Morgan in return for it.

And here we have Das Herald Sturmer comparing Salmond to that geo-political, war-mongering maniac? For having lunch to raise money for political campaigning?

In drawing these comparisons it is obvious that those self-same corporate interests who have influence over Labour government policy also get their pound of flesh in Labour's favourite Scottish propaganda rag!

Cash for editorials?