By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
A question every voter should ask candidates in the coming UK general election
There can be few sights more pathetic than ex-ministers and chums of Tony Blair offering to use their government contacts to help influence policy on behalf of business clients.
"I'm like a cab for hire," said Stephen Byers when secretly filmed by a Channel 4 TV 'Dispatches' programme. Byers could be "hailed" for £3,000 to £5,000 per day.
And so a new expression was born into the sleazy world of Westminster: "political cabbing".
The latest revelations come only a few months after another Channel 4 'Dispatches' report, by Peter Oborne, showed how large numbers of MPs were stooging (or "cabbing") for Israel.
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