Hoon to Vaz: "I trust you'll be rewarded"

Mike, Brighton

...and also proves (yet again) that Brown is a liar.

Charles

To be known hereafter as "Hoon's Stiletto". Nice one Geoff.

cityboozer

Arise, Lord Vaz, Britain's Leading Asian.

kinglear

.. and Cameron stuffed Brown at PMQs with it. Shows how stupid Brown is - it was in the paper so why did he deny it?

John

Lord Vaz ... couldn't happen to a nicer greasy nonentity.

Bernard

King lear. It WASNT in the paper. I was only posted ONLINE tem minutes before PMQ's.......

Sugar Free

what was Gorbals Mick's official reason for why he stopped Gordon from answering Cameron's third question?

kinglear- it was only on the telegraph website, put on there less than 10 mins before PMQs, that's why Brown turned into a stuttering wreck when Cameron raised the issue...

mitch

Disgraceful. The fact this kind of thing is common is no excuse.

Verity

I've always said that Keith Vaz was a big tub of ghee and nothing more.

Cityboozer - Britain's Leading Asian? Sure that is the fragrant and beauteous Lord Adonis (isn't he the one who went to some primitive country, which happens to be Muslim)to beg for a British schoolteacher's life when it would have more appropriately been handled by Britain's great office of state, the Foreign Office?

catesby

Verity

- Britain's Leading Asian? Sure that is the fragrant and beauteous Lord Adonis (isn't he the one who went to some primitive country, which happens to be Muslim)to beg for a British schoolteacher's life

No, that was Lord Ahmed.

Adonis is half Greek-Cypriot, not Asian.

Ray

Can New Labour cut the VED I pay on my six year-old old Ford Fiesta if I promise to support 42-day detention without chage?

Jo

Vaz was forced to resign over the Hinduja hoohah, wasn't he?

And did he go away? Like heck.This man's talent for self-publicity and self-promotion wasn't ever going to die down.

Quentin Letts notes how media savvy Vaz invites 'names' as witnesses on to the Commons committee he chairs:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1030963/Cherie-Blair-shone-starring-spooked-eyes-MPs.html

Don't forget that substantial parts of Elizabeth Filkin's inquiry into Vaz over the Hinduja passport affair was blocked by... Keith Vaz.

That's not to mention his attacks on Rushdie, both at an anti-Satanic Verses rally in Leicester where he said: "Today we celebrate one of the great days in the history of Islam and Great Britain" and writing in The Guardian of the same book, urging that it not be published in paperback since "there is no such thing as absolute freedom of speech".

Vaz is pure slime.

David Boothroyd

The idea this is some kind of smoking gun is ludicrous. The wording is so vague that almost any meaning could be read into it. The key point at issue is whether a direct deal was done in return for Vaz giving high profile support for the government, and the letter does nothing to establish that it was; Hoon simply expresses the "trust" that reward will follow at some point in the future.

Austin Barry

I rather like Vaz: he epitomises the well-fed, smug, amoral, self-regarding, time-serving, pompous, oleaginous, onanistic, sleaze-ball Nulabour fundaments who have dragged their expense-fiddling, self-serving, and gloriously corrupt party to wonderful new lows in public esteem. Well done, Keith you chubby-cheeked little rascal.

Minnie

Vaz is Britain's secret weapon. He is so oily that we can be self sufficient again in fuel

Water

Britain’s leading Asian (dependent on how you construe leading I admit) would surely be the man of steel. Catesby good point.
Though, more topically, regardless of my lowly opinion of labour at the moment, Boothroyd I’d have to agree for now, to remain fair this is very ambiguous, I look forward to the full letter (hopefully it will turn up soon how interesting).

Frank

Who the hell is Lord Vas? Google doesn't seem to know him.

Water

Frank isn't that what Verity meant with the first question mark, to mark the of nature of the comment. I think city Boozer may have been having a bit of a joke (I doubt it was meant literally).

Neil

Frank, come on, you shouldn't need that explained.

Verity

Water - unless you know him/her, how are to you better able to interpret City Boozer's post than anyone else?

The correction of my assumption about Lord Adonis (who is Greek heritage so I was mistaken) by another poster, has been lost in the ether. I was thinking of a different "lord", but the other poster's correction never made it through. Otherwise, the continuity of this thread would have worked.

Tom Dickens

Who will rid me of this troublesome Keith?

Water

Verity I didn't say I was better dear please don't make assumptions, I'm no mind reader, hence why I said "I think" and am fully justified for that's how the cards looked at the time, if the scenario changes so does my interpretation with it.

With regards to your first question mark that I highlighted I interpreted that as your normal fine tuned wit, hence in retrospect the scenario still looks acceptable were you to look at it from that perspective which I did.

But at the time and even now with regards to cityboozers comment my comment stands, but if he/she were to rearticulate so would I, but none the less for now it seems like a bit of a joke and I stand by that assertion.

Verity

And I stand by my right to tell you not to be so obtuse as to even think of patronising me by addressing me as "dear".