Remember, Remember

November 5th, 2008

Since Guido is a tourist in Westminster today, this lunchtime seems like a good day to go for a walk. Assuming that he isn’t arrested (again) Guido will then be sauntering along to Millbank to listen to Hazel give her speech to the Hansard Society and responding to it at about 4pm. Later tonight having tunnelled inside the House of Commons, Guido will be shining a light on the normally opaque world of those shysters known as lobbyists at an event chaired by David Hencke, the Guardian’s delver into dirty deeds. It is organised by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency who ironically are a front group for totalitarian greens. Your enemy’s enemy etcetra…

With the Public Administration Select Committee shortly to publish its recommendations from a year-long inquiry into the lobbying industry, now seems like a good time to put the boot in. Should say incidentally that sleazy lobbyists Morgan Allen Moore have told the Association of Professional Political Consultants that they will withdraw from the self-regulation group if Robbie Macduff speaks on the same platform as Guido. Hopefully that is a promise, good riddance to bad rubbish…

Averting the Next Crisis: why transparency in lobbying matters

Panel

David Hencke, Westminster correspondent, The Guardian (Chair)

Robbie MacDuff, Chair, Association of Professional Political Consultants

Robert Siddall, CEO, Airport Operators Association

Peter Facey, Director, Unlock Democracy

Prof David Miller, Director, SpinWatch

Guido Fawkes, Westminster blogger

6 -7pm, 5th November 2008

Committee Room 9, House of Commons

Sponsor, John Grogan MP

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No PMQs live-chat today, am in Westminster all afternoon. Media bids for Guido re Walk / Blears / Lobbyists to 0709 284 0531. Later…