NEWSFLASH - John Smith's been called in for questioning. Things are looking pretty serious.
November 8, 2006 at 3:18 PM
Anonymous
said...
What if Gordo is in the middle of a nappy change when Yates the Yardie arrives at No 11? Will he leave No 10 holding the baby , as he is shopping Tony???
November 8, 2006 at 3:19 PM
Anonymous
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Yes, Henry Drucker is very dead. And I am not sure he was as sqeaky clean as he liked to make out either
November 8, 2006 at 3:21 PM
Anonymous
said...
Nice to see that even Gordo has his hands in the till, and has left a trail. Regrettably all the foregoing is outside Yate's brief. But, not outside everyone else's. It demostrates the nature of the beast that is NuLab, corrupt to its lousy heart and full of mendacious, grasping, avaricious ego-maniacs, hell bound on imposing their vision and legacy on our nation. Yates has a lot of responsibilty resting on his shoulders, he must not fail us. Where's Regan and Carter to fit up some evidence? Oh happy days.
The way this is going, not even Keir Hardie will be immune from the deathly touch of the Yard. I'm sure Guido will keep us all informed.
November 8, 2006 at 3:23 PM
Anonymous
said...
F**KING HELL!
Has anyone had a peek at the Smith Institute web-site? How does this festering heap of BS qualify as a Charity? That means they get money from us via the Revenue. How much more corrupt can you be?
And there are people out there wha are dumb enough to vote for these shits?
November 8, 2006 at 3:26 PM
Anonymous
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You want Knacker to question him about a trust that was legal when it was set up?
...'and there are people out there who are dumb enough to vote for these shits' There's a rumour that some of them even filled in their own voting slips.
Hahaha - you're a top fucker, Guido, I've got 28 second year A Level students doing timed essays and wondering why I'm sat at the front pissing myself!
November 8, 2006 at 3:49 PM
Anonymous
said...
It's hardly the first time Gordon Brown has been implicated in corrupt fundraising for the Labour Party. His own 'blind trust' was supported by Geoffrey Robinson ("I was happy to support the political offices of Gordon and Tony" - Geoffrey Robinson, The Evening Standard, 16 October 2000).
Geoffrey Robinson was subsequently appointed Paymaster General (a supremely appropriate title!) under Gordon Brown at the Treasury.
There have been serious questions about the source of Robinson's fortune as well as his tax affairs... sound familiar? Robinson was Brown's Levy.
November 8, 2006 at 3:55 PM
Anonymous
said...
This Labour so-called "government" will be dead and buried before the year is out, and we will finally have the kind of government the Great British People desire and need.
A Tory government.
November 8, 2006 at 3:55 PM
Anonymous
said...
Did I mention that Robinson used to host strategy meetings for Gordon and the shadow Treasury team at his suite at the Dorchester?
Nick Robinson is saying that Brown will simply tell Yates that he knew nothing.
I assume Yates will be probing a little harder than Robinson.
November 8, 2006 at 4:06 PM
Anonymous
said...
Lord Levy never played tennis with Gordon....so Gordon is pure as the driven snow despite Guido's attempt to collar him for Mr Yates.
November 8, 2006 at 4:11 PM
Anonymous
said...
I pray for the day when a few of them will be doing porridge.
Hopefully they will be vigourously probed every day.
November 8, 2006 at 4:11 PM
Anonymous
said...
That include Tessa and Harriet for the Rog probe??
November 8, 2006 at 4:13 PM
Anonymous
said...
Didn't Gordon buy a house from Bob Maxwell at one point?
Not that there's anything shady about that, oh no.
November 8, 2006 at 4:14 PM
Anonymous
said...
According to the Good Porridge Guide there is an Ordinary, a Germenated and a Fermented porridge. Presumably in the present situation Fermented is the choice of the day in No 10.
November 8, 2006 at 4:28 PM
Anonymous
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Ah, yes, here it is
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/595923.stm
And Geoffrey Robinson was (or rather supposedly wasn't) involved too.
November 8, 2006 at 4:29 PM
Anonymous
said...
Aah The Industrial Research Institute funder of Brown's aspirations for high office. Joska Bourgeois, a high born Belgian floozy, shagged officers of the Reich, before approaching Bill Lyons to acquire Jaguar distribution rights for Belguim/Europe. She then met up and coming sales director Robinson who became MD. Joska and Robinson collaborated on a number of scams including breaking exchange control regulations. She had no children. A deal was done by which Robinson serviced her in exchange for her fortune on death. An offshore trust was set up. And so on. Trans Tec followed. Robinson bribed Brown. Our SuperTwat, who had never worked in the real world, was blinded by Robinson's cash(bribes) which he took in bucket loads with never a question. Robinson is a fucking crook. Brown is an accessory after the fact. The stupid fucker then bought, at market price of course, Robinson's Westminster flat. What a bunch of financial lowlifes. This moronic chancellor runs the treasury as a sort of financial Dr mengele lab. Joska B is dead. Orion Trust'loaded with taintd money, lives on. Brown has benefited from offshore money itself the product of exchange control violations and other nefarious practices. And NULab fuckers dare point finger at Ashcroft. He is a saintly Savanarola, compared with Brown's benefactor, the fraudster Shagger Robinson.
I see saintly Ruth Kelly has been asked by Mr Yates to open the can of worms and spill the beans. Can we expect a full confession from the cabinet nun?.
I am having a hollow laugh.
November 8, 2006 at 4:59 PM
Anonymous
said...
Re: Kelly. The 9th commandment say's "You must not give false evidence against your neighbour."
tell her the Broon is gay..that should get her singing...
November 8, 2006 at 5:06 PM
Anonymous
said...
why not make an actual complaint to Scotland Yard?
November 8, 2006 at 5:21 PM
Anonymous
said...
Pardon me if I'm being dumb, but isn't it much simpler than that? Wasn't Gordon in charge of the 2005 election campaign? weren't these funds secured to finance that campaign? Is Gordon saying that when he ran the campaign he had no idea that the funds available to him had just increased by the odd £20 million? The only way that could even remotely be considered true was if he had no budget for the campaign and just spent as much money as he could - but it's a bit weak of a Chancellor of the Exchequer to argue that he never used budgets properly. Oh no, I've just realised he has an excellent defence...
November 8, 2006 at 5:45 PM
Anonymous
said...
Guido, you mischievous scallywag, what are you suggesting?
The Smith Institute is a paragon of virtue and a beacon of light in a world of decaying educational standards.
Its a pity though that some of this academic excellence didn't rub off on Enron who were attendees at one of the SI "events" in 2001.
November 8, 2006 at 5:57 PM
Anonymous
said...
Alternatively, wouldn't a few pointed questions and the odd complaint or two get the Charity Commissioners moving?
The (Not Adam) Smith Institute is registered as a charitable organisation after all.
November 8, 2006 at 5:57 PM
Anonymous
said...
Yates says he believes in following the evidence- wherever it leads.
Go to it, I say, and get these sleazy hypocrites who are whiter than white.
I can never look at that photo of Balls without being reminded of Guido in his prime, the resemblance really is uncanny, of course unlike Balls Guido isn't either economically illiterate or the sort of person who would gladly crawl beneath Gordon Browns desk to give him a happy finish.
Gordon was also present around that time at an interesting meeting of the CFR with Kissinger and the gang.
November 8, 2006 at 8:38 PM
Anonymous
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Gordon Brown employed Anderson, for free, to formulate economic policy for New Labour...millions worth of work for free. Anderson at the time were blacklisted for Government contracts and being sued by the last Tory Government for fiddling over the De Lorean fiasco and had been in court for over a decade, and also were on the brink of finally losing.
When New labour came to power, Brown settled out of court for ten per cent of the original claim, a paltry £30million, and before 2000 they were the biggest Government accounting contractors with contracts, including the Dome, worth £1.5billion.
Brown is as sleazy and fucking dirty as they come.
November 8, 2006 at 8:46 PM
Anonymous
said...
Patsy Hewitt the Australian Slag. Now who did she work for?
November 8, 2006 at 9:15 PM
Anonymous
said...
Dr Crackers ... links would help. Also, got any info on where the gold ended up? Everyone bangs on about it 'cos it was knowingly undersold but ... where did it end up? Who's got the UK's gold stash?
November 8, 2006 at 9:33 PM
Anonymous
said...
Everything pointed to Levy as the scape goat ; it seemed it was all about blair-sleaze and blair-save . It's Brown, isn't it, PFI Brown. Ken knows, after the Tube fiascos, but the dots were not being joined up for those of us 20 miles up the Great North Road and out of the main drag.
November 8, 2006 at 10:39 PM
Anonymous
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Like all charidees the Smith Institute has a bunch of trustees who are legally responsible for its activities. According to the website they are:
The Lord Haskel of Higher Broughton (Chairman) Lord Joel Joffe John Milligan Paul Myners Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale Baroness Rendell of Babergh The Bishop of Birmingham, the Right Rev. Dr John Sentamu
THE BISHOP OF BIRMINGHAM?????!!!!!!
They can't even give the Archbishop of York his proper title. Maybe he hasn't paid for it yet?
November 8, 2006 at 11:22 PM
Anonymous
said...
Go to: http://www.newlabourunplugged.com/archive.asp?response_id=693&pg=4
November 8, 2006 at 11:33 PM
Anonymous
said...
The Baroness Rendell of Babergh, aka Ruth Rendell, aka Barbara Vine, will be more than a match for Yates of the Yard when it comes to solving crime thrillers.
November 8, 2006 at 11:36 PM
Anonymous
said...
Is this a scandal? Jesus. I was hoping for some sex drugs n rock n roll and I get mildly dodgy charidees mate. Marvellous. Reasons why Labour might well lose next time; 1 Everyone's bored of Blair and Brownie's dull as.. Things that won't particularly damamge Labour next time around; 1 what'll be percieved as fairly vague accusations of corruption.
Oh yeah.
November 9, 2006 at 3:13 AM
Anonymous
said...
The MSM and the BBC in particular are badly missing a trick right now.
If the BBC continue to fail to do their job of exposing investigateing and reporting on this type of thing. Therefore directly influencing the party political controll of the country, and the government still falls. Then the BBC will have shown that it no longer has the POWER and influence it has had over the British party political process for the last 67 years.
This will mark the end of the corrupting relationship between government and the states propagander machine, hopefully forever.
November 9, 2006 at 6:12 AM
Anonymous
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Henry Drucker would have been in a position to help police with their inquiries, unfortunately he is dead.
Lord Levy never played tennis with Gordon....so Gordon is pure as the driven snow despite Guido's attempt to collar him for Mr Yates.
There's a whole load more that Yates can ask The Undertaker about than just acquiantance issues with Levy. Perhaps they might want to question him about Brown's allocation of funds to stem cell research just around the same time as Christopher Evans' 'loan' to Labour, let alone his direct appointment of Evans to head the stem cell research task force. Or how about that champion of civil rights violations - Rod Aldridge, CEO of Capita, who mysteriously was appointed head of a £150m youth community scheme by Brown weeks after another making another 'loan'?
One person who I feel seems to be slipping through the net is Matt Carter, the Labour Party's General Secretary. If Labour's treasurer Jack Dromey was indeed 'kept in the dark' about the loans then surely Carter must have known about them, especially if Blair now admits that he knew about them? Has Carter been interviewed by Yates at all?
November 9, 2006 at 8:25 AM
Anonymous
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It all stinks. Just to set the record right about another NuLab corruption. I (much to my embarrasment) used to work for Andersen Consulting (I was young, I was naive). Arthur Andersen of Enron fame was barred in the early 90's from any form of government contract (as Shotgun says) due to the failure in it's audit at DeLorean (they failed to notice that most of the government funding to Delorean in Northern Ireland was knicked to fund Mr.Deloreans not poverty-stricken lifestyle). This knocked onto Andresen Consulting (now Accenture) a partner firm. Andersen Consultings headshed at the time was a delightful individual Keith Burgess - he was a personal friend of the welsh windbag Kinnock (both welsh mafia), and Andersen "looked" after key members of Kinnocks entorage, they funded Kinnock (i'm not sure but probably through a blid trust) gave a job as "research director" to Hewitt who had lost her seat in the electoral debacle for labour (I never saw her do much research!). They also definately had links to Brown and Blair, although I'm not sure what these were. Shotgun is right, strangely enough the moment NuLab came to power, they settled the case with Arthur Andersen and let Andersen Consulting (now acrimoniously split from Arthur) work on government contracts. That's history Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) has made an epic sum of money through NuLab government contracts, not all of which has been successful (as chronicled in Private Eye), Arthur Andersen was closed down by the Enron scandal, but they live on hidden away in Deloitte
Broon is a hypocritical bastard, he's fucked up the family trust but it's alright for him to benefit from one, and it's allowed to exist as a charity as well. If he wasn't such a sociopath he would go far in off-shore finance. A propos of his pal Geoffrey, anybody remember what happened about this? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/12/19/nrobb19.xml
The Smith Institute is a Registered Charity No. 1062967
It's difficult to see how the Smith Institute meets HM Revenue and Customs guidelines for charitable status:
To qualify for charitable status a body must be established in UK law for charitable purposes only and those purposes must be for the public benefit. If a body has a purpose which is non-charitable, (eg political activities) it will not qualify for charitable status, even if it is for public benefit.
If it's a sham, then that tax-evasion pure and simple. Worse than that it would reflect badly on the memory of John Smith, who I believe was a decent man.
November 9, 2006 at 10:25 AM
Anonymous
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Gunslinger says: "It's difficult to see how the Smith Institute meets HM Revenue and Customs guidelines for charitable status".
When did he last check to see who was ultimately in charge of HMRC?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? As I think the famous question goes. (and don't all start slagging off my poor latin - I was excused prep because I was in the first XV).
November 9, 2006 at 11:42 AM
Anonymous
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Julian, Agree with you about Matt Carter. He's another "ringer" put in place for a short time, for a specific purpose (like Alastair Campbell and Charles Falconer)
Labour Party General Secretary at 31, having never held a proper job in his life. Signed the cheques.
Paid Mark Penn #600,000 for the slogan "Forward, not back".
Left the General Secretary post shortly after the General Election. Joined Mark Penn and became founding MD of Penn's polling organisation in the UK.
Wonder where the funding came from?
November 9, 2006 at 12:10 PM
Anonymous
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Andersen Insider said...
It all stinks. Just to set the record right about another NuLab corruption. I (much to my embarrasment) used to work for Andersen Consulting (I was young, I was naive). Arthur Andersen of Enron fame was barred in the early 90's from any form of government contract (as Shotgun says) etc. etc. etc.
Thanks for that Insider and you have made a better and more detailed case than I did. I did know the details but haven't been able to drag them up offhand. I'm sure there was more to it even than than this, but, this is sleaze and corruption on the Skilling and Martha Stewart scale, and sometime in the not too distant future it will be made public knowledge...and then what worth Bliar and Browns legacy?
59 comments:
The [Don't Call Me Adam] Smith Institute has a project in the works call Wealth of the Nation.
That's just creepy.
'Henry Drucker obviously is in a position to help police with their inquiries.'
Yes! Let's have a seance!
Guido - perhaps we should be encouraging Yates to interview the Webbs. Those fuckers know a thing or two, I'm sure of it.
NEWSFLASH - John Smith's been called in for questioning. Things are looking pretty serious.
What if Gordo is in the middle of a nappy change when Yates the Yardie arrives at No 11? Will he leave No 10 holding the baby , as he is shopping Tony???
Yes, Henry Drucker is very dead. And I am not sure he was as sqeaky clean as he liked to make out either
Nice to see that even Gordo has his hands in the till, and has left a trail.
Regrettably all the foregoing is outside Yate's brief.
But, not outside everyone else's.
It demostrates the nature of the beast that is NuLab, corrupt to its lousy heart and full of mendacious, grasping, avaricious ego-maniacs, hell bound on imposing their vision and legacy on our nation.
Yates has a lot of responsibilty resting on his shoulders, he must not fail us.
Where's Regan and Carter to fit up some evidence?
Oh happy days.
The way this is going, not even Keir Hardie will be immune from the deathly touch of the Yard. I'm sure Guido will keep us all informed.
F**KING HELL!
Has anyone had a peek at the Smith Institute web-site? How does this festering heap of BS qualify as a Charity? That means they get money from us via the Revenue. How much more corrupt can you be?
And there are people out there wha are dumb enough to vote for these shits?
You want Knacker to question him about a trust that was legal when it was set up?
Corrected re Drucker. Thanks. Shrum typo corrected as well.
Yes, Kafka, yes.
...'and there are people out there who are dumb enough to vote for these shits'
There's a rumour that some of them even filled in their own voting slips.
Guillermo,
The trust was legally constituted, if donors were enobled as a result of their donations, that is criminal corruption.
Guido - what about the Zinoviev letter? There's question-a-plenty there I'll bet! Perhaps the police should interview a few people . . .
What bit hit the nerve, Guido? Sorry if we're keeping you from your meticulous research!
Deleted you for repetiton. But you got another correction. Enough. Woodward and Bernstein didn't have to put up with this kind of stuff...
BBC reporting that all the cabinet bar Tony have been contacted as part of the investigation
Hahaha - you're a top fucker, Guido, I've got 28 second year A Level students doing timed essays and wondering why I'm sat at the front pissing myself!
It's hardly the first time Gordon Brown has been implicated in corrupt fundraising for the Labour Party. His own 'blind trust' was supported by Geoffrey Robinson ("I was happy to support the political offices of Gordon and Tony" - Geoffrey Robinson, The Evening Standard, 16 October 2000).
Geoffrey Robinson was subsequently appointed Paymaster General (a supremely appropriate title!) under Gordon Brown at the Treasury.
There have been serious questions about the source of Robinson's fortune as well as his tax affairs... sound familiar? Robinson was Brown's Levy.
This Labour so-called "government" will be dead and buried before the year is out, and we will finally have the kind of government the Great British People desire and need.
A Tory government.
Did I mention that Robinson used to host strategy meetings for Gordon and the shadow Treasury team at his suite at the Dorchester?
Nick Robinson is saying that Brown will simply tell Yates that he knew nothing.
I assume Yates will be probing a little harder than Robinson.
Lord Levy never played tennis with Gordon....so Gordon is pure as the driven snow despite Guido's attempt to collar him for Mr Yates.
I pray for the day when a few of them will be doing porridge.
Hopefully they will be vigourously probed every day.
That include Tessa and Harriet for the Rog probe??
Didn't Gordon buy a house from Bob Maxwell at one point?
Not that there's anything shady about that, oh no.
According to the Good Porridge Guide there is an Ordinary, a Germenated and a Fermented porridge. Presumably in the present situation Fermented is the choice of the day in No 10.
Ah, yes, here it is
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/595923.stm
And Geoffrey Robinson was (or rather supposedly wasn't) involved too.
Aah The Industrial Research Institute funder of Brown's aspirations for high office. Joska Bourgeois, a high born Belgian floozy, shagged officers of the Reich, before approaching Bill Lyons to acquire Jaguar distribution rights for Belguim/Europe. She then met up and coming sales director Robinson who became MD. Joska and Robinson collaborated on a number of scams including breaking exchange control regulations. She had no children. A deal was done by which Robinson serviced her in exchange for her fortune on death. An offshore trust was set up. And so on. Trans Tec followed. Robinson bribed Brown. Our SuperTwat, who had never worked in the real world, was blinded by Robinson's cash(bribes) which he took in bucket loads with never a question. Robinson is a fucking crook. Brown is an accessory after the fact. The stupid fucker then bought, at market price of course, Robinson's Westminster flat. What a bunch of financial lowlifes. This moronic chancellor runs the treasury as a sort of financial Dr mengele lab. Joska B is dead. Orion Trust'loaded with taintd money, lives on. Brown has benefited from offshore money itself the product of exchange control violations and other nefarious practices. And NULab fuckers dare point finger at Ashcroft. He is a saintly Savanarola, compared with Brown's benefactor, the fraudster Shagger Robinson.
I dislike Broon immensely
I see saintly Ruth Kelly has been asked by Mr Yates to open the can of worms and spill the beans. Can we expect a full confession from the cabinet nun?.
I am having a hollow laugh.
Re: Kelly. The 9th commandment say's "You must not give false evidence against your neighbour."
But against Blair it's alright.
tell her the Broon is gay..that should get her singing...
why not make an actual complaint to Scotland Yard?
Pardon me if I'm being dumb, but isn't it much simpler than that?
Wasn't Gordon in charge of the 2005 election campaign? weren't these funds secured to finance that campaign? Is Gordon saying that when he ran the campaign he had no idea that the funds available to him had just increased by the odd £20 million?
The only way that could even remotely be considered true was if he had no budget for the campaign and just spent as much money as he could - but it's a bit weak of a Chancellor of the Exchequer to argue that he never used budgets properly. Oh no, I've just realised he has an excellent defence...
Guido, you mischievous scallywag, what are you suggesting?
The Smith Institute is a paragon of virtue and a beacon of light in a world of decaying educational standards.
Its a pity though that some of this academic excellence didn't rub off on Enron who were attendees at one of the SI "events" in 2001.
Alternatively, wouldn't a few pointed questions and the odd complaint or two get the Charity Commissioners moving?
The (Not Adam) Smith Institute is registered as a charitable organisation after all.
Yates says he believes in following the evidence- wherever it leads.
Go to it, I say, and get these sleazy hypocrites who are whiter than white.
I can never look at that photo of Balls without being reminded of Guido in his prime, the resemblance really is uncanny, of course unlike Balls Guido isn't either economically illiterate or the sort of person who would gladly crawl beneath Gordon Browns desk to give him a happy finish.
Jokes aside
This is your best work yet Mr Fawkes.
Gordon was also present around that time at an interesting meeting of the CFR with Kissinger and the gang.
Gordon Brown employed Anderson, for free, to formulate economic policy for New Labour...millions worth of work for free. Anderson at the time were blacklisted for Government contracts and being sued by the last Tory Government for fiddling over the De Lorean fiasco and had been in court for over a decade, and also were on the brink of finally losing.
When New labour came to power, Brown settled out of court for ten per cent of the original claim, a paltry £30million, and before 2000 they were the biggest Government accounting contractors with contracts, including the Dome, worth £1.5billion.
Brown is as sleazy and fucking dirty as they come.
Patsy Hewitt the Australian Slag. Now who did she work for?
Dr Crackers ... links would help. Also, got any info on where the gold ended up? Everyone bangs on about it 'cos it was knowingly undersold but ... where did it end up? Who's got the UK's gold stash?
Everything pointed to Levy as the scape goat ; it seemed it was all about blair-sleaze and blair-save . It's Brown, isn't it, PFI Brown. Ken knows, after the Tube fiascos, but the dots were not being joined up for those of us 20 miles up the Great North Road and out of the main drag.
Like all charidees the Smith Institute has a bunch of trustees who are legally responsible for its activities. According to the website they are:
The Lord Haskel of Higher Broughton (Chairman)
Lord Joel Joffe
John Milligan
Paul Myners
Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale
Baroness Rendell of Babergh
The Bishop of Birmingham, the Right Rev. Dr John Sentamu
THE BISHOP OF BIRMINGHAM?????!!!!!!
They can't even give the Archbishop of York his proper title. Maybe he hasn't paid for it yet?
Go to:
http://www.newlabourunplugged.com/archive.asp?response_id=693&pg=4
The Baroness Rendell of Babergh, aka Ruth Rendell, aka Barbara Vine, will be more than a match for Yates of the Yard when it comes to solving crime thrillers.
Is this a scandal? Jesus. I was hoping for some sex drugs n rock n roll and I get mildly dodgy charidees mate. Marvellous. Reasons why Labour might well lose next time; 1 Everyone's bored of Blair and Brownie's dull as..
Things that won't particularly damamge Labour next time around; 1 what'll be percieved as fairly vague accusations of corruption.
Oh yeah.
The MSM and the BBC in particular are badly missing a trick right now.
If the BBC continue to fail to do their job of exposing investigateing and reporting on this type of thing. Therefore directly influencing the party political controll of the country, and the government still falls. Then the BBC will have shown that it no longer has the POWER and influence it has had over the British party political process for the last 67 years.
This will mark the end of the corrupting relationship between government and the states propagander machine, hopefully forever.
Henry Drucker would have been in a position to help police with their inquiries, unfortunately he is dead.
Woods in Oxfordshire again ?
Lord Levy never played tennis with Gordon....so Gordon is pure as the driven snow despite Guido's attempt to collar him for Mr Yates.
There's a whole load more that Yates can ask The Undertaker about than just acquiantance issues with Levy. Perhaps they might want to question him about Brown's allocation of funds to stem cell research just around the same time as Christopher Evans' 'loan' to Labour, let alone his direct appointment of Evans to head the stem cell research task force. Or how about that champion of civil rights violations - Rod Aldridge, CEO of Capita, who mysteriously was appointed head of a £150m youth community scheme by Brown weeks after another making another 'loan'?
One person who I feel seems to be slipping through the net is Matt Carter, the Labour Party's General Secretary. If Labour's treasurer Jack Dromey was indeed 'kept in the dark' about the loans then surely Carter must have known about them, especially if Blair now admits that he knew about them? Has Carter been interviewed by Yates at all?
It all stinks. Just to set the record right about another NuLab corruption. I (much to my embarrasment) used to work for Andersen Consulting (I was young, I was naive). Arthur Andersen of Enron fame was barred in the early 90's from any form of government contract (as Shotgun says) due to the failure in it's audit at DeLorean (they failed to notice that most of the government funding to Delorean in Northern Ireland was knicked to fund Mr.Deloreans not poverty-stricken lifestyle). This knocked onto Andresen Consulting (now Accenture) a partner firm. Andersen Consultings headshed at the time was a delightful individual Keith Burgess - he was a personal friend of the welsh windbag Kinnock (both welsh mafia), and Andersen "looked" after key members of Kinnocks entorage, they funded Kinnock (i'm not sure but probably through a blid trust) gave a job as "research director" to Hewitt who had lost her seat in the electoral debacle for labour (I never saw her do much research!). They also definately had links to Brown and Blair, although I'm not sure what these were. Shotgun is right, strangely enough the moment NuLab came to power, they settled the case with Arthur Andersen and let Andersen Consulting (now acrimoniously split from Arthur) work on government contracts. That's history Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) has made an epic sum of money through NuLab government contracts, not all of which has been successful (as chronicled in Private Eye), Arthur Andersen was closed down by the Enron scandal, but they live on hidden away in Deloitte
Broon is a hypocritical bastard, he's fucked up the family trust but it's alright for him to benefit from one, and it's allowed to exist as a charity as well. If he wasn't such a sociopath he would go far in off-shore finance. A propos of his pal Geoffrey, anybody remember what happened about this? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/12/19/nrobb19.xml
The Smith Institute is a Registered Charity No. 1062967
It's difficult to see how the Smith Institute meets HM Revenue and Customs guidelines for charitable status:
To qualify for charitable status a body must be established in UK law for charitable purposes only and those purposes must be for the public benefit. If a body has a purpose which is non-charitable, (eg political activities) it will not qualify for charitable status, even if it is for public benefit.
If it's a sham, then that tax-evasion pure and simple. Worse than that it would reflect badly on the memory of John Smith, who I believe was a decent man.
Gunslinger says: "It's difficult to see how the Smith Institute meets HM Revenue and Customs guidelines for charitable status".
When did he last check to see who was ultimately in charge of HMRC?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? As I think the famous question goes. (and don't all start slagging off my poor latin - I was excused prep because I was in the first XV).
Julian,
Agree with you about Matt Carter.
He's another "ringer" put in place for a short time, for a specific purpose (like Alastair Campbell and Charles Falconer)
Labour Party General Secretary at 31, having never held a proper job in his life.
Signed the cheques.
Paid Mark Penn #600,000 for the slogan "Forward, not back".
Left the General Secretary post shortly after the General Election.
Joined Mark Penn and became founding MD of Penn's polling organisation in the UK.
Wonder where the funding came from?
Andersen Insider said...
It all stinks. Just to set the record right about another NuLab corruption. I (much to my embarrasment) used to work for Andersen Consulting (I was young, I was naive). Arthur Andersen of Enron fame was barred in the early 90's from any form of government contract (as Shotgun says) etc. etc. etc.
Thanks for that Insider and you have made a better and more detailed case than I did. I did know the details but haven't been able to drag them up offhand. I'm sure there was more to it even than than this, but, this is sleaze and corruption on the Skilling and Martha Stewart scale, and sometime in the not too distant future it will be made public knowledge...and then what worth Bliar and Browns legacy?