NuLabor Steady as She Goes

A couple of things here that demonstrate that much of the upper-echelons of the NuLabor establishment are standing on the bridge of an unsinkable ship having just bounced off a bit of ice. Toynbee; it's all unconnected, minor syndrome, yes darling how vexing and poor Straw; how irritating; there you go lovies, sit down and have a cup of tea each.

This is from City Unslicker

"Minor Mishaps" - Polly Toynbee Speaks

"On cue, Polly Toynbee as predicted: "However unconnected a bank, immigrant security guards, missing discs and a dodgy donor, they are all whirled together by the enemy into a downward spiral. Minor mishaps become syndrome symptoms."

Minor mishaps ? Unconnected ?

As CiF commenter Cynosarges puts it:

"A red thread runs through all four incidents … a Labour thread."

And this is from the Daily Torygraph

"Jack Straw has claimed that the Labour donations row is a hangover from the Tony Blair era.

Screw tightens on Brown fundraiser

Attempting to shift responsibility to the aides of the former prime minister, Mr Straw said that the scandal was "distracting beyond belief".
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"This seems to go back for about four years," said the Justice Secretary. "And frankly one of the reasons why all of us are irritated to distraction by what's happened is that we assumed that these historic problems had been sorted out with all the additional controls that were put in place following the so-called cash-for-honours issue."
He said that questions may have to be asked of Mr Blair but said that if the police wanted to interview Mr Brown, "I'm absolutely certain he would be happy to comply"."