"YOU'RE A NASTY PIECE OF WORK, AREN'T YOU?" - THE LOST EDDIE MAIR INTERVIEWS.

It is an unexplained mystery that many hard-hitting interviews by Eddie Mair with left of centre politicians have disappeared from the unbiased BBC's archives.

After much painstaking archeological research, a few fragments of these interviews have been recovered. We proudly present them here in order to give credence to the myth, sorry fact, that BBC journalists are not vindictive, left-leaning lackies.




THE LOST EDDIE MAIR INTERVIEWS:    ZILLIONAIRE TONY BLAIR

EDDIE MAIR:
You were the first serving Prime Minister to be interviewed by the police. Not once, but three times.

Under your premiership, your administration was rocked by unprecedented scandals over cash-for-honours and MP expense frauds.

You were accused by one of your researchers, Andrew Neather, of actively implementing the policy of mass immigration whilst publicly denying it at the time. This has been said to have created overcrowding in schools and hospitals, unaffordable, huge house prices and the cause of much friction within society.

You actively promoted the case for the Iraq war based on known lies and half truths. Some say that without your active support and the carefully crafted propaganda that you, Alistair Campbell and John Scarlett (later promoted) created, the Iraq war would not have been waged and a peace settlement could have been made.

You have made vast fortunes from the American lecture circuits and from directorships of US banks, all thanks to your war crimes. This blood money has helped you and your acquisitive, shop-lifting, fare-dodging, over-lenient magistrate of a wife amass a huge multi-million pound property portfolio.

Do you sleep at night knowing that you are responsible for hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths that are still occurring now?

You're nasty pieces of work, the pair of you, aren't you?

       New York Times - Blair questioned by police
       Sky - Labour encouraged mass immigration to UK
       Max Hastings - If scintilla decency Tony Blair Alastair Campbell John Scarlett faces public again
       Guardian - bounty-blair-war-criminal-chilcot       Telegraph - Has Cherie Blair no shame I think we know the answer to that
       Guardian - Cherie Blair, fare dodger
       Independent - Results-of-cherie-blair-inquiry-were-covered-up


THE LOST EDDIE MAIR INTERVIEWS:    HIGH STEWARD OF HULL PETER MANDELSON

EDDIE MAIR:
Mr Mandelson, I put it to you that not only were you caught lying twice, but you did so while you were a Minister of the Crown.

On one of those occasions, the lie was to cover up your actions in giving an unauthorised British passport to a millionaire Labour party donor.

You are loathed by most in your own party and you were considered a rank hypocrite when you betrayed your labour roots by shamelessly pursuing the lifestyle of an oligarch and accepting a place in the House of Lords.

You're a nasty piece of work, aren't you?

       Guardian - Mandelson loan scandal
       BBC - Mandelson and the Hinduja brothers
       Guardian - Guardian - Glassy eyed Mandelson: Labour, man and boy
       Littlejohn - Peter Mandelson: "This time next year Reinaldo we'll be billionaires"



THE LOST EDDIE MAIR INTERVIEWS:    CLEGGIE

EDDIE MAIR:
Cleggie, You famously claimed to support low student fees and then, months later when the smell of coalition power was in your nostrils, you let those students down by raising tuition fees by a factor of 300% to £9,000.

You're a nasty piece of work, aren't you?



THE LOST EDDIE MAIR INTERVIEWS:    JOHN PRESCOTT

EDDIE MAIR:
You maintained an affair with one of your subordinates, throughout which you very likely told many lies to those around you. I wonder, was she coerced into that affair? You formed many liaisons with your mistress during work time, whilst taxpayers were still working to fund your indulgent lifestyle.

You betrayed your Labour roots by not only playing croquet on a posh lawn of your state-supplied mansion (during working hours) but you didn't really seem to care about being photographed.

Your incompetent "Pathfinder" housing schemes destroyed row upon row of viable housing stock, much of which now forms "Prescott" wastelands in the North.

You betrayed the taxpayers, you betrayed your wife, and you betrayed your old-fashioned, hard working Labour supporters.

You're a nasty piece of work, aren't you?

       Guardian - Prescott two year affair
       BBC - Prescott, croquet
       Money Week - How John Prescott wasted 22bn
       Express - John Prescott has left us in slums



THE LOST EDDIE MAIR INTERVIEWS:    MICHAEL MARTIN

EDDIE MAIR:
You brought the position of speaker of the House of Commons into disrepute, you became known as an ignorant, inarticulate bully and, later, a figure of fun.

You and your wife hoovered up expenses and the lavish Speaker lifestyle like there was no tomorrow.

You sacked civil servants for the crime of being too "posh".

You spent £100,000 of taxpayers money on a soviet-style clampdown on any exposure of the crooked MPs' expenses frauds.

You presided over a regime of biased, political thuggery that saw its zenith when you encouraged police to arrest Damian Green purely for doing what all opposition MPs should be doing.

You're a nasty piece of work, aren't you?

       Irish Independent - Undignified-downfall-of-a-bullyboy-speaker
       Guardian - Sacked by Michael Martin for being posh
       Daily Mail - Speaker-Michael-Martin-condemned-120-000-taxpayer-funded-legal-bid-MPs-expenses-secret
       Guardian - Michael Martin - Damian Green



THE LOST EDDIE MAIR INTERVIEWS:    DAEDALUS X. PARROT

EDDIE MAIR:
You're a nasty piece of work, aren't you?

DAEDALUS X. PARROT:
I have no time for Boris Johnson and I regard him as a two-faced, selfish politician, pretending to be a buffoon in order to cover up the fact that he really is a buffoon.

But I find it the height of nastiness and hypocrisy when you and your colleagues habitually show a blatant bias against centre right politicians while simultaneously showing a casual, cooperative attitude to left wing politicians.

If you regard the likes of Blair, Mandelson, Prescott, and Martin as not being nasty pieces of work, then I am proud to be so accused by you.