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The Times reports the arrest of the former City Academies advisor Des Smith:

The Times
April 14, 2006

Tycoons face police on cash for honours
By Andrew Pierce, Rajeev Syal and Rosemary Bennett

Head teacher arrested over city academies

12 millionaires face questions

MILLIONAIRE businessmen who secretly lent money to the Labour Party have been warned that they will be questioned by Scotland Yard in the criminal investigation into allegations of peerages for sale.

The Times has learnt that 12 businessmen, including four whose peerage nominations were blocked by the House of Lords Appointment Commission, have been told by Labour to expect the police to approach them after Easter.

The revelation comes after detectives yesterday arrested Des Smith, 60, a head teacher and former adviser to the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT), which recruits sponsors for the city academies, specialist schools partly funded by the private sector.

Mr Smith resigned after being taped by an undercover reporter apparently promising potential donors OBEs, knighthoods or peerages in return for funding an academy.

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Thw original Sunday Times story of 15th January 2006 "Revealed: cash for honours scandal" which led to Des Smith's resignation from the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust

Other bloggers such as Guido Fawkes have made the obvious link with Lord Levy, the NuLabour fundraiser, who was the chairman of this Trust..

However, we seem to remember that the Downing Street Special Advisor who was the architect of the City Academies scheme was Andrew Adonis.

Asttonishingly, immediately after the May 2005 General Election he was enobled by Tony Blair and made Lord Adonis into the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools: whose Ministerial duties include "Delivery of the Academies programme".

Surely Lord Adonis must have been involved in this City Academies funding and honours / peerages scandal ?

Will the police also be interviewing Lord Adonis ?

The Independent on Sunday claims to have another leaked document, detailing some possible "cash for Peerages" candidates.

However, some of them appear to be only relatively small financial donors, and the biggest, e.g. Lakshmi "£;2 million donation" Mittal have not yet been "honoured".

Forking out a relatively small amount of cash, in return for lots of Government subsidies, by participating in the controversial City Academies scheme, seems to be the path to enoblement. The undeserved enoblement of NuLabour political commissar Lord Adonis, i the architect of this scheme .is an ongoing scandal.

The full post election Cabinet has now been announced, and there are some controversial appointments at the Junior Minister level:

Department for Education and Skills
Minister of State (Children)
The Rt Hon Beverly Hughes MP for Stretford and Urmston is the disgraced ex-Home Office Minister who had to resign over the immigration scandal involving Romanian and Bulgarian visas exposed by whistleleblowers Steve Moxon and James Cameron.

Beverly Hughes takes over from The Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MBE MP for Barking, whose disregard for Data Protection and Privacy worries about her controversial "Big Nanny Database" Children Act does not bode well for future policy in her new postition as Minister of State (Work) under the authoratarian technological illiterate David Blunkett at the Department for Work and Pensions.

Department for Education and Skills
Parliamentary Secretary
Lord Adonis

Andrew Adonis was, until today, simply a NuLabour political commissar, with the ear of the Prime Minister's office, and not even a Member of Parliament, which is why he has been ennobled so that he can serve as a Junior Minister. he was responsible for dreaming up amd meddling with the implementation of the City Acadamies, which waste vast sums of public money. handed over to private companies, who are also allowed to brainwash the children with their own products and meddle with the curriculum to include rubbish like Creationism, and who can decide to sell off assets like buildings or playing firlds for their own profit.

What right has he to be literally now lording it over Education policy ?

Ministry of Defence
Parliamentary Secretary
Lord Drayson (unpaid)

Pual Drayson, a businessman, whose ennoblement was already controversial due to his apparent donations of over £500,000 to the NuLabour party, and whose company PowderJect managed to secure a £32 million Government contract for smallpox vaccine, awarded without it being put out to competitive tender. Allegedly this was because PowderJect had managed to contractually sew up the capacity of the actual pharmceutical company producing the vaccine with an ironclad contract.

Why has this man appeared as a Junior Ministry of Defence Minister ?

Tony McNulty MP for Harrow East is now Minister of State at the Home Office, presumably replacing Des Browne, in charge of Citizenship and Immigration (who in turn had replaced the disgraced Beverely Hughes). Will he really be spearheading the re-introduction of the controversial Identity Cards Bill ?