Something does not add up

Gordon Brown decides that there is no need for a parliamentary inquiry into the Labour MPs and peers (current & past).

Harriet Harman declares that "They (the departments) have assured the cabinet secretary that they are satisfied that there has been no improper influence on government policy or ministerial decisions."

The Labour party have suspended three MPs from the Parliamentary Labour Party over claims they were prepared to influence policy for cash.

So the Labour government line is that the only guilty parties are the Blairite former ministers and that no government departments or ministers are implicated in any way. For some strange reason I don't believe them; Lord Adonis and Peter Mandelson need investigating over their part in these claims. Don't forget that there have been stories about Peter Mandelson's amenability to lobbying for some time - the Hindujas and Oleg Deripaska spring to mind as examples from the resent past.