Cherie Blair cashes in on tragedy, doesn't apologise

The woman has no shame. Our Cherie recently signed a copy of the Hutton report which was then auctioned to raise funds for the Labour party. This was the report investigating the circumstances surrounding the suicide of Dr David Kelly, a government scientist who had expressed his belief that there was no WMD in Iraq. Dr Kelly had been an anonymous source for BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan, who broke the story, until his name was leaked to the press by someone within the government. During the resulting media storm that developed around him he was found in a field with his wrists slashed.
The Hutton report was a whitewash that exonerated the government while harshly criticizing the BBC for pursuing the story and led to Gilligan and BBC director general Greg Dyke losing their jobs. Dr Kelly's allegations were eventually proved correct by the failure to find WMD in Iraq and the 'downing street memos' which revealed that the Blair government knew that Bush was determined to attack Iraq and was manipulating intelligence to suit this purpose. The government has yet to apologise to the BBC and the family of Dr Kelly and still uses the now-defunct Hutton report to justify its actions in Iraq.
And now we find the report being signed and flogged by the PM's increasingly greedy and shameless wife as a novelty item for some rich campaign contributor. The Tories are gathering signatures for a petition urging her to apologise, but she has so far kept her mouth shut and I doubt anyone will accept responsibility for this. This is a woman who charged a £100, 000 fee to speak at a series of charity dinners in Australia last year, while the children's cancer charity concerned recieved only a third of the total money raised. Kind of puts lie to her desperate attempts to present herself as a humanitarian.