Scottish National Party MP Angus Brendan MacNeil, who represents the Western Isles constituency, last year lodged a formal complaint with the Metropolitan Police. He alleged that donators to political parties had received peerages (knighthoods and elevations to the House of Lords) in exchange for money. That is an offence under a 1925 Act of Parliament.
6,300 documents, three interviews with formerr prime minister Tony Blair and several arrests (including Labour Party fundraiser Lord Levy) later, the Crown Prosecution Service have concluded that there is no case to answer, and that no charges will be brought.
Questions are already being asked whether this was all really necessary, saying that the reputation of politics and the police had been brought down. Our MP is sizzling that the CPS is not going to prosecute anyone. I think it's wound-licking time for all concerned. This has done nobody any favours. The public tends to observe that "where there's smoke, there's fire".
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