Guido knows just how many loafing City lawyers and bored City brokers follow this blog. Sometimes they can be useful in coming up with little gems. This note, about yesterday’s meeting of the Sith in No. 11, is from the Clifford Chance private internal intranet this morning:Number 1 law firm at Number 11
On the podium yesterday morning was Stuart Popham, who was invited to speak at a Smith Institute event at Number 11 Downing Street. Stuart shared the limelight with Alistair Darling, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Adviser to the DTI and Michael Snyder from the Corporation of London. Clifford Chance was there in force, with networking skills worthy of a place in the Prime Minister’s, ehem, Chancellor’s home.
You can just sense the self congratulatory smugness at their proximity to the dark side. What is a small donation to the Smith Institute compared to all the millions to be made from drawing up those PFI contracts for Gordon…
