It's speading like a cancer

The extent of the corruption in No.10 is slowly becoming clearer. The true extent of the influence of McBride and his group will take weeks to emerge. As the power of the Downing Street machine lessens with every new revelation, more and more skeletons will fall out of Mr Browns' cupboard.

The tentacles of influence spead so wide that even once Tory bastions were breached. I refer to the pathetic attempt by The Daily Telegraph to kill the story over Easter. I, for one, have decided not to buy the paper again, until moderation is restored and the McBridites removed.

The BBC cannot be held blameless. The ineffectiveness over the last few months of most of its interviewers, Marr, Robinson, Peinaar et al., show that Downing Street had the intention to control news and criticism. Holding the story of the emails until most of them were away on breaks, has cracked the shell that was being formed.

The Police service is not without control by these McBridites. Whenever there has been a potentially bad day for the Government what happens? A new 'terrorist' threat, a police raid on opposition MP's, a muslim raid. One can only hope that the Police will now be allowed to do what they have been taught and trained to do, and in the words of Mayne:-

"The primary object of an efficient police is the prevention of crime: the next that of detection and punishment of offenders if crime is committed. To these ends all the efforts of police must be directed. The protection of life and property, the preservation of public tranquillity, and the absence of crime, will alone prove whether those efforts have been successful and whether the objects for which the police were appointed have been attained."

I think those words, in today's climate show how far the Police have been politicised.