Time to go

In the words of Pink Floyd: "Time to go!" Mr Blair, it is time to go now isn't it. You and your party has become rotten to the core. All that remains is the smooth varnish that you have in such copious amounts. And even that is showing the strain of time and abuse with cracks all over the surface.

The Peerage for Money scandal has become the latest nail in your coffin and I dearly hope, with many British and other people, that it would be the final nail. What leaves me staggering are the claims from both the deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott and the treasurer of the party, Jack Dromey, now suddenly quite unfamiliar with the loans from wealthy benefactors to fund the last election. Let us just get a sense of perspective here: These loans under discussion were not small loans. These were loans to the amount of 14 million British pounds - more than half the budget of the Labour election campaign.

If the treasurer of the party did not know of the source of this money, where did he think this huge sum of money had come from? He must have known these amounts were loans - because he had to show that in the party's financial books. He had to know from whom the funds arrived, because he was supposed to ensure the loans would be repaid. That is what treasurers do, not so? Had this man taken leave of his faculties while those inscriptions were being made in Labour's financial books?

How could the deputy Prime Ministor not have known about the sources of these loans? Did not the party meet to discuss funding before the campaign? Did Mr Blair lie to the deputy Prime Minister and treasurer? Did he launder the money? Chaps, we are older than two around here. Kindly do not insult the common sense of your audience.

Mr Blair and Co, I can suggest a few suitable retirement spots in the warmer and drier parts of the world, where you would have a splendid time indeed. There are many rotten kinds hanging out there, enjoyings their spoils. You'd be quite at home.

Just get out of 10 Downing Street, would you?