NRT on Owen Glenn

NRT smells something nasty in relation to the Monaco consul offer:

This stinks, even worse than Glenn being awarded a gong in the New Year’s honours list. “Honorary consul” isn’t much – I’m not sure if it even comes with a salary – but by even contemplating awarding such a position to their biggest donor, the government has created the impression that government office is for sale in this country. And in doing so, they’ve instantly dragged us back to the institutionalised corruption and patronage of the eighteenth century. FFS, that’s what the Americans do, and we ought to at least think we’re better than them.

Unless the Government is suicidal, I suspect they will not now be appointing him Honorary Consul. And to be fair, he have no one to blame but himself.  Glenn has transformed himself over a few days from Labour’s saviour to Labour’s walking cluster bomb.