WORLD EXCLUSIVE – Blunkett: "Why are you such a fucking greedy bastard"?

Extraordinary scenes yesterday at the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster when a couple of the Met’s goons attempted to arrest Ian Bone after speaking at a conference on community empowerment at the invitation of the Scarman Trust.

Bone, who spoke at the conference alongside that perfect symbol of New Labour’s moral and political decay, the disgraced and disgraceful former-Home Secretary David Blunkett, scuffled with two coppers accompanying Blunkett after they threatened to arrest him “for public order offences”.

Bone, addressing an audience consisting largely of London-based voluntary sector stuffed shirts and Home Office-types, probably more interested in funding their next career move than genuinely empowering any community, finished his speech with a devastating attack on Blunkett, his failure to attend Parliament on behalf of his constituents and his vast extra-parliamentary income assembled from right wing newspaper groups and speeches to big business.

We were even treated to this New Labour champion of communities and selfless battler for the poor, Blunkett’s, recent comments to the Sheffield Telegraph: “There seems to be no understanding in many restaurants in Sheffield about the nature of glasses used for white and red wine,” says the left wing firebrand.

Blimey. Can you imagine?

On a roll, Bone finished with a flourish telling the audience – and an absolutely livid Blunkett to his face – “if you ask Comrade Blunkett one question today ask him why he’s such a fucking greedy bastard”!

Bone then left the stage where he was immediately confronted by Blunkett’s publicly funded heavies who threatened him with arrest, although they had to back off pretty sharpish when mainly black members of the audience and a contingent from Bristol came rushing to his aid.

Amid this chaos Blunkett rose and was heard plaintively wailing “But you people haven’t heard what I do for the poor . . .”

What’s that then Dave? Shag American heiresses and fix passports for their maids?

A bad day for Blunkett and his hapless heavies was nicely rounded off when, in their haste to get Bone out of the building, they handed him Blunkett’s coat – the only thing they actually had to guard at the event!

The coat was handed back to the pair of, by now, panicking incompetents a few minutes later. Bone said: “The coat was returned as I didn’t want that scrounger Blunkett swanning around on my bus pass.”