Blair: Scandals show Labor far from working class

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http://www.sptimes.com/2006/03/12/Columns/Scandals_show_Labor_f.shtml

Vote for a party with "Labor" in the name and you might reasonably assume its leaders have something in common with ordinary, working-class folks.

That's hardly the case in Britain these days, where the Labor Party of Prime Minister Tony Blair is reeling from a scandal involving hedge funds, offshore tax havens and a "gift" of $600,000 from Italy's billionaire prime minister

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Among Mills' clients was Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who allegedly used Mills' legal savvy to launder and shelter some of the vast sums that have made him Italy's richest man. Italian authorities have been investigating claims that Berlusconi paid Mills 344,000 pounds - $600,000 - for not revealing details of his huge media empire during a 1997 corruption probe.

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Since then, one of Blair's closest advisers has been forced to resign not once, but twice, over two completely different scandals. The home secretary quit after it was revealed his office had fast-tracked a visa application for his lover's former nanny.

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1. same thing with the democratic party here in the states

the democratic party has done nothing to stop the exporting of the jobs in the usa. the party gives lip service to their strongest base because the working class doesn`t have the money anymore to buy influence...

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2. Mills is only connected to Labour party through Jowell and she's dumped

him since this story broke.

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3. there is a paragraph in this article that addresses that

I can only snip four paragraphs per the rules.