Cash for Honours

Blair welcomes decision not to bring charges

Tony Blair today said he was "very pleased" no one would face charges after the cash-for-honours inquiry.

The former prime minister, who was questioned three times by detectives as a witness, said that all those involved had been put through a "terrible, even traumatic, time".

He also defended the police, accusing the Scottish National party of putting them "in an invidious position" by making the original complaint.

In a statement, Mr Blair said: "This investigation has ended as I always expected it would. Those involved have been through a terrible, even traumatic, time.

This doesn't mean they are innocent, just means there was not enough evidence.

There was no direct evidence because it was a nod nod wink wink deal, you know a case of 'I can't promise you anything but...', this has been going on for years.

I think the British police were aiming to humiliate the government, or at least knock it down a peg or two.

It will make the government think twice before handing out peerages.

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Knacker Wants Search Warrants for Downing Street

Prisons furore threatens to engulf Reid

· Two more judges question cut in use of jail sentences
· Youth justice chief quits over many children in jail

The row over prison overcrowding threatened to engulf the home secretary, John Reid, last night after two more judges called into question his advice on sentencing and the chairman of the Youth Justice Board resigned in protest at the rising number of children in custody.

Rod Morgan, who quit the YJB, said the country was "on the brink of a prisons crisis", three days after Mr Reid told courts to issue custodial sentences more sparingly as jails reached capacity.

The home office is where the thick civil servants are sent, the smarter ones are sent to the Treasury and the Foreign Office.

tee hee the British judges and the police are punishing the government for the way they have been politicized and generally fucked around early morning raids and judges not sending criminals to jail.

The police could easily ring up the political aide or MP but instead they are being treated like any other criminal so 6am arrests.