You are worth your weight in gold, Guido, that is if there is any gold left in our reserves. Or should I say worth your weight in euros? Doesn't have the same ring but you know what I mean!!
Did anyone see the Beckett / Mellor debate on Newsnight back in the 90s when Mellor was Secretary to the Treasury and Beckett his shadow?
Apparently it went something like this:
Mellor: "Well of course Margaret's position is (blah blah blah".
Paxman: "Maybe we should get that from the horse's mouth"
Mellor corpses, cue cut to Beckett doing her best 'mouth full of lemon juice' face.
March 27, 2006 at 12:34 PM
Anonymous
said...
I do hope that Ms Beckett does not get in touch with you, or at least if she does, she does not use a taxpayer-funded phone line.
I draw your attention to the cost of calling Guido's premium rate personal number:
Charge codes: http://www.serviceview.bt.com/list/current/docs/Call_Charges.boo/16311.htm Costs per minute to call those numbers: http://www.serviceview.bt.com/list/current/docs/Call_Charges.boo/00165.htm
k - Calls to Personal Numbering Services 07.08.1997 37.50 25.00 12.50
That's 37.5p/minute daytime, 25p/minute evening, and 12.5p/minute weekend..... You could call one of Simon Hughes' mantalk lines for less than that.
It is not normal to rip-off the people providing you with information.
There is some background to the key players in the Labour Party finances over the last decade in the blog by Dave Osler http://davespartblog.blogspot.com/. He's also done a very good book on the role of business in the labour party , Labour Party plc.
March 27, 2006 at 3:00 PM
Anonymous
said...
How much did Enron provide for Labour Party coffers through sponsored tables, lunches, cash ?
How dare you! How dare you suggest that Enron could buy this New Labour government by donating £36,000 to the party. Your Prime Minister's government is not for sale. It can however, be rented for £5,000 a month -- or so went the offer to a consultant for Enron.
I know. I was the consultant.
Access was so damn cheap because it wasn't the cash that moved Tony Blair. It was love. Cash lubricated it, then sealed it, like flowers sent the morning after. Over the following months, I watched as Blair busted his campaign promises to coal miners, to consumers, to the poor, to the we're-not-Tory-sleaze good government types in his party to present Enron and other US power companies with a bouquet of broken campaign promises.
Mittal's £125,000 payout to New Labour was just one more bouquet on the mantlepiece, a sign of affection between the weightless business of the future and its weightless government enabler.
March 27, 2006 at 6:05 PM
Anonymous
said...
The claims surround the fact that, in 1998, the government announced a moratorium on new gas fired power stations in an attempt to "level the playing field" with coal.
The ban was always intended to be temporary and short term and was lifted in November 2000, Downing Street insists.
A spokesman also said that representatives from Enron - along with those from other energy companies including Mobil, Sweb and Esso - met with ministers between 1998 and 2000.
Now having burned up North Sea gas to generate electricity we have depleted the reserves faster and are facing higher prices than elsewhere in Europe...............factories are idle as energy costs make them uncompetitive..................yet back in 1998...............
The price of Enron's Shilling.....
March 27, 2006 at 6:09 PM
Anonymous
said...
Guido yer feckin genius...
March 27, 2006 at 9:03 PM
Anonymous
said...
Had hopes that this woman would be better. Such a disappointment.....
14 comments:
Nice one.
I expect we can expect a major newspaper to follow your lead later in the week?
Is that the sound of a glass house smashing I hear?
Guido sir, you are a genius.
Quality Guido, quality.
You are worth your weight in gold, Guido, that is if there is any gold left in our reserves. Or should I say worth your weight in euros? Doesn't have the same ring but you know what I mean!!
Did anyone see the Beckett / Mellor debate on Newsnight back in the 90s when Mellor was Secretary to the Treasury and Beckett his shadow?
Apparently it went something like this:
Mellor: "Well of course Margaret's position is (blah blah blah".
Paxman: "Maybe we should get that from the horse's mouth"
Mellor corpses, cue cut to Beckett doing her best 'mouth full of lemon juice' face.
I do hope that Ms Beckett does not get in touch with you, or at least if she does, she does not use a taxpayer-funded phone line.
I draw your attention to the cost of calling Guido's premium rate personal number:
Charge codes:
http://www.serviceview.bt.com/list/current/docs/Call_Charges.boo/16311.htm
Costs per minute to call those numbers:
http://www.serviceview.bt.com/list/current/docs/Call_Charges.boo/00165.htm
k - Calls to Personal Numbering Services
07.08.1997 37.50 25.00 12.50
That's 37.5p/minute daytime, 25p/minute evening, and 12.5p/minute weekend..... You could call one of Simon Hughes' mantalk lines for less than that.
It is not normal to rip-off the people providing you with information.
Guido is worth it.
There is some background to the key players in the Labour Party finances over the last decade in the blog by Dave Osler http://davespartblog.blogspot.com/.
He's also done a very good book on the role of business in the labour party , Labour Party plc.
How much did Enron provide for Labour Party coffers through sponsored tables, lunches, cash ?
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=156&row=1
How dare you! How dare you suggest that Enron could buy this New Labour government by donating £36,000 to the party. Your Prime Minister's government is not for sale. It can however, be rented for £5,000 a month -- or so went the offer to a consultant for Enron.
I know. I was the consultant.
Access was so damn cheap because it wasn't the cash that moved Tony Blair. It was love. Cash lubricated it, then sealed it, like flowers sent the morning after. Over the following months, I watched as Blair busted his campaign promises to coal miners, to consumers, to the poor, to the we're-not-Tory-sleaze good government types in his party to present Enron and other US power companies with a bouquet of broken campaign promises.
Mittal's £125,000 payout to New Labour was just one more bouquet on the mantlepiece, a sign of affection between the weightless business of the future and its weightless government enabler.
The claims surround the fact that, in 1998, the government announced a moratorium on new gas fired power stations in an attempt to "level the playing field" with coal.
The ban was always intended to be temporary and short term and was lifted in November 2000, Downing Street insists.
A spokesman also said that representatives from Enron - along with those from other energy companies including Mobil, Sweb and Esso - met with ministers between 1998 and 2000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1786892.stm
Now having burned up North Sea gas to generate electricity we have depleted the reserves faster and are facing higher prices than elsewhere in Europe...............factories are idle as energy costs make them uncompetitive..................yet back in 1998...............
The price of Enron's Shilling.....
Guido yer feckin genius...
Had hopes that this woman would be better. Such a disappointment.....