From the Daily Telegraph:
Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, has promised to “get to the bottom” of the “very serious” allegations against four Labour peers accused of agreeing to be paid to change legislation.
Mr Brown vowed to take “whatever action needs to be taken” if the four men - Lord Truscott, Lord Taylor, Lord Moonie and Lord Snape - are found to have actedimproperly. . . .
The four peers, including two former ministers, face a Parliamentary inquiry into allegations that they pledged to amend laws in return for payments from lobbyists. They were secretly recorded in an undercover newspaper sting apparently pledging to seek changes to proposed laws as paid consultants for a foreign businessman.
Libertarian law professor Ilya Somin tries to fashion a defense:
Perhaps Snape only took the money to convince Lord Voldemort that he was truly evil and thereby further his efforts to infiltrate Voldemort’s organization for the Order of the Phoenix. Voldemort himself has so far avoided investigation. Those who bribe the Dark Lord are probably too scared to rat him out.
Well, if Lord Snape suffers “whatever action” Gordon Brown thinks “needs to be taken”, that shouldn’t stand in the way of his joining President Obama’s Cabinet.
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