The Lobbyist, the Security Company and the Tories
What do George F. (Trey) Barnes III, G. Furman (Trey) Barnes, G. Furman Barnes III, George F. Barnes, George F. Barnes III and Trey Barnes all have in common? Well they are all the same person. Trey Barnes and his lobbying activities came to the attention of the Washington Post a couple of years ago, who wondered, quite justifiably, why he worked under six alter-egos. The Louisiana spinmeister has since moved to London and set up Global Policy Partners. They are rather vague about what they do.
Funnily enough GPP leave the fact that they lobby on behalf of dubious security firm Becatech, who on their website are equally vague about what they do. Equally dubious is why Michael Fabricant MP feels it appropriate to give Trey Barnes unfettered access to Parliament by sponsoring a pass for him…
Barnes is the Director of the Conservative Friends of America, a group set up by Fabricant that seemingly does very little other than have David Cameron as President and Hague and everyone’s favourite Atlantic bridge builder Liam Fox as patrons, among some other big hitters. Strangely fellow lobbyist and No.2 at GPP Victoria Read is the deputy Director of the organisation. A very special relationship indeed…
Quite what renders Barnes suitable for the role as Director remains to be seen. You would think his controversial clients and the fact he has been a big donor to Hilary and other Democrats in the last five years would rule him out. Or could it just be a nice way of bending the rules on lobbyists having access?
Developing…
Fuckin hell , will we ever get clean honest mps ?
“It is the next big scandal waiting to happen. It’s an issue that crosses party lines and has tainted our politics for too long, an issue that exposes the far-too-cosy relationship between politics, government, business and money.”
The Conservative leader said that the “£2 billion industry” has a big presence at Westminster and take in some cases MPs are approached more than 100 times a week by lobbyists.”
He said he wanted to shine “the light of transparency” on lobbying so that politics “comes clean about who is buying power and influence.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7189466/David-Cameron-warns-lobbying-is-next-political-scandal.html
What a lying bastard!
What with this, and wanting to give most of Turkey unfettered access to come and live here and the “junior partner in WW2 to America in 1940″ comment.
It seems like Cameron only managed to last just over two months as a refreshing, new and decent leader of this country.
He has gone native to the corrupt international establishment and is endorsing treason already.
(Yeah I know he always was genetically 100% establishment traitor)
I knew he would, eventually turn native, but I was kinda hoping that he would be able to last a while longer and actually dismantle the surveillance state and claw back some sovereignty from the EU before he went native to the establishment. And in spite of Cameron, I am glad, VERY glad, that labour are out of power.
Come on fellow tories, Labour are fucked and in the bin. the tories and liberal alliance is beginning to break down and become a greater threat to the prosperity, security and sovereignty of the UK.
Fuck the lot of them.
Find me a party that is sceptical on the cause and extent of climate change, that supports withdrawal from the EU, NOT expanding it to give 72,561,312 Turks access to live in this country. That believes in putting the UK at the heart of it’s policies not the USA or Israel or Germany. One that is internationalist in nature, but who puts the UK FIRST.
This coalition has shown the first signs of going very very very badly wrong.
Either the real tories should slap Cameron and the liberals down very very firmly, or get the hell out of the left-liberal shithole that the Government looks like becoming.
Give me the B&P or UKIP or ANYONE but the corrupt liblabcon treasonocracy.
NEVER AGAIN!
“Find me a party that is sceptical on the cause and extent of climate change, that supports withdrawal from the EU, NOT expanding it to give 72,561,312 Turks access to live in this country. That believes in putting the UK at the heart of it’s policies not the USA or Israel or Germany”.
English Democrats?
If you made that “find me an ‘electable’ party … ” then I think you are on a winner – especially if you add reduce taxation by reducing subsidies given to Scotland etc
neddie’s nutters
Is this the EDP promo video?
http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/page/invite/Watch%20this?source=edlvideo&utm_source=EDLcampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=video
No anonymous, it isn’t. That is a video of the EDL, The English Defence League.
APPLAUSE
just remind me does an EU immigrant have the right to vote!!!!
72,561,312 predominantly beleivers of islam on the way to get voted into positions to actually change uk law.
Sharia anyone?
B D A.
British Democratic Alliance.
Common Law
Commonwealth
Common People
Mission Statement.
“Keeping the ‘Home Nations’ part of the ‘Free World’ !”
Membership £ 52 per year. £ 26 if your over 65.
(Pay as and when able)
Rules.
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Ever so ‘umble sir! ‘ a la U Heap. Good deals are never struck by being servile.
Spot on, and there’s a doubly whammy. Don’t forget the obligation to bail out failing economies within the EU. I’m guessing that a lot of Turkey is rural poverty, the part the tourists don’t see.
Rural poverty with strict Islamic dress and honour killings – sophisticated Istanbul and the tourist belt near Izmir is a million miles away from central and eastern Anatolia
Britain clearly needs another couple of terms of socialism Mr Ned before the people, including you, are to see the light.
I, although very Tory, am more than happy, seeing as I’m about to make the island of Antigua my main home, to see a Miliband as Prime Minister next year and Ed Balls as Chancellor. They will probably manage ten years in power.
Are you happy to see the same, if not, why don’t you shut the fuck up then!!!
“Britain clearly needs another couple of terms of socialism”
Of course by implication you are trying to pretend Cameron is not a socialist himself?
Well he may or may not be, though judging by his most recent pronouncements, he does sound awfully like Bliar mk2, replete with contradictory policies and ridiculous initiatives aimed at appeasing the weather gods, our EU masters and the corporate cartels that ZaNu made laws and policies, for the benefit of.
Of course he may just be acting and underneath, does actually give a shit about this country and the people who populate it, though the more it talks, the less convincing Bliar2 sounds.
Still, when you have nothing to offer, it is probably best you tell the weary and cynical to “shut up”. Silencing dissent is so, how do you say, socialist no?
Modded? WTF?
Sir Trev
The country is skint now ffs. Forget about where your main home is going to be. Why do you want to foist another 10 years of those bastards upon your country? Why are you an MP at all, if you see it that way?
I am none too convinced about Cameron. But politics is about the possible, not some unattainable ideal. I think it is better to have the present PM, albeit with the LibDems (which understandably must stick in your throat) than Brown’s lot.
Unless you are talking ironically, perhaps?
seconded Mr Ned
If only….
Clean & honest MPs? Get rid of lobbyists?
Not in my lifetime…
you’re mental mate mental
Does he make wigs ?
thats just bad photo shopping. innit?
PS:
Michael Fabricant – you couldn’t make it up could you?
But stick Boris’ mop on his pate! Its just not on.
Do they sell them in london?
It’d be quite fun if there were 1000s of japanese tourists wandering round London with them.
I’ve never seen one, but its an interesting idea.
Somewhere is all that loft lagging that Brown promised but never delivered is a suitable material.
Might make a good thatch for a look-a-like Boris.
We’ll call the fabric “Genuine Mayorhair” to suck in the yanks.
Call them “Johnny caps”
Get yourself a “Johnnie” … As unused by the real thing.
Michael Fabricant doesn’t wear mohair suits cos there’s mo-hair on his head than in a wardrobe of suits.
I always wondered who that guy wearing the straw thatch was. He generally sits behind the PM during PM’s questions, hair and self satisfied grin in evidence.
that be Worzel Gummidge
He cant’ help it…
His dad was a Rabbi…
Could not make it up…
He is the Tories answer to Mandelscum…
Giving “passes” to “friends”
Sound familiar…
Cant we just start again with a blank bit of paper and people who actully give a fuck about the country and not just themselves?
To do that I think we have to start with a brick wall, up against.
It’ll be the shortest list in history.
Brick wall, AK47 and several dozen rounds, mate.
Isn’t their a British firearm we can use? No? Okay carry on.
BILKO!
Thank you so much for this thread,Guido.
It will run & run I can promise you, my ocntacts at Sky News have been in touch
Great stuff
Fabric*nt looks like a fraggle. Has no one got the balls to tell him he just can’t go around looking like that.
For more profound political insight, read someone else’s posts.
I quite like him.
It says on the CFA website – ‘Although membership of the CFA is restricted to Conservatives in the United Kingdom, CFA seeks to engage in a bipartisan relationship with members of both the Republican and Democratic parties within the United States.’
That explains the Director’s Democrat links. It also confirms that you couldn’t get a cigarette paper between the policies of the two parties.
The democrats and republicans are not interested in different policies. They are both trying to get elected to enact the same corporatist policies. They just want to get into power. They are both expansionist, war-mongering, corporatist parties. The only real difference appears to be on gay rights and abortion.
The Democrats and Republicans are also bought by the same Lobbyists…
Starting with $ billions (over the years) from the fraudulent Wall Street Bankers..
Birds of a feather…
It’s at times like these that you understand why people turn to potential tyrants, when they offer a patriotic cleansing of the parasite class within politics.
If the morons in power keep on their venal, treasonous, anti British path, I would not be surprised at all, if a charismatic populist stepped into the current vacuum and started saying the things that people are crying out to hear. Dangerous times ahead I fear, the political establishment will have none to blame but themselves, if they do not hear well, the warning sounds of an angry country.
I’m Spartacus !!
A Louisiana democrat is well to the right of most of those who have commented above, let alone most of the Conservative Party. Also local elections is Louisiana are freer, fairer and less dishonest that those in Birmingham, Bristol, Brixton (Lambeth) and most of the rest of banana republican Britain.
Hi , My names Tim Lovejoy and i am a legend .
Oi! Lovejoy.
Got an old antique rocking horse for you to look at.
Found it in a skip outside No.10.
Pongs a bit, but Tinker can sort that out.
£50 notes, awright?”
lady jane can help polish the dickie bits
I vote for the one on the left.
So which of his six names does he use on his westminster pass?
I wouldn’t be surprised if he ad 6 passes.
this lot are as bent as the last lot
Why has Fabricant got a golden tamarind on his head?
how dare you? That’s our best model, is that! The Blond Bombshell (Male) X5000 Wigmeister!
Hang em !
Turkey in the EU?
Here we fuckin’ go again!
give them turks a good basting
Are you a closet fruitcake, racist or loony?
You’re probably one of those fringe right-wingers who think Britain should make its own laws and politicians should keep their promises of referendums too.
You leave the fruitcakes out of this!!! It is always the Victoria Sponges that cause the trouble……….
Yeah, fuck you too you traitorous bastards!
Same government different party.
Your vote was wasted of these crooks folks.
“It dosnt matter who you vote for , The goverment always wins “
Sad but true. Good on Guido for holding everyone to account though, the fewer lobbyists around the better.
Why cant they just represent us ?
We represent ourselves. That’s the anarchist way.
There has been a wave of these fooking Lobbyists coming from the US in recent years…
UK politicians are muich cheaper to buy than US politicians as well…
Easy game…
That is not one of our wigs.
Why have you included a photo of Michael Hestletine?
Perhaps he’s a drinks Trey?
Who the FUCK do you fuckin’ limeys think you are huh? Don’t make me get up and slap your asses.
Bitches!
A turd walks into a bar…
Actually, don’t worry, it’s a shit joke.
These bastards just don’t learn do they!
That twat Fabricant is still an MP! How the fuck do we get rid of this dross?
Easy, stop voting for the three party cabal of traitors. They are all bought and paid for.
Your vote for the cartel allows them to form cosy relationships with people who do not give a shit about you or this country, other than as a resource to plunder for their enrichment.
Stop playing their game.
‘Fabricant’ sounds like a chemical used to make washing powder. “The surfactant is mixed with a polymer base in these giant vats and then dosed with fabricant to bulk out the degreased substrate…..”
Three lads sitting in a bar discussing the previous nights drunken antics.
Man 1: I was so pissed that when I got home I fell on thekitchen floor and slept there.
Man 2: that’s nothing when I got in I told my wife I wanted her to fist my ass! I can’t sit down for too long!!
Man 3: Mine is even worse than both of them put together. I ended up blowing chunks.
Man 1: Thats not that bad I’m always sick after a night out.
Man 3: No you dont understand, Chunks is the name of my dog!!
Are there any Conservative Friends of Britain?
No, Britain is a bit common.
mostly turks and they won’t vote for christmas or thanksgiving
I used to be a friend of Britain, but the Conservatives got rid of me pretty quickly (said I was embarrassing them). I’m dead now, but I just thought you might remember me. Alf Garnet used to make fun of me (he’s tribe you know), he encouraged the underclass to view me as a racist bigot – thought I might get a following I suppose.
Correction…..Johnny Speight made fun of Enoch Powell by making a bigot like Alf Garnet a rabid supporter of his views.
Yeah but you were stupid – if you had ever gone to university, studied some history or learnt a foreign language you might have opened your mind
Worst of all i read you were a fascist who tried to destroy parliament, least i think that’s what polly or diane or one of the milibands or the BBC said…
Anyone for a beer?
As long as you’re buying!
I love counting the cash I make from not representing my constituents and I hate parting with any of it.
Unless I’m spending it on myself, of course!
Ker-ching!!!!
I’d have a beer with you any day, mate but I must get my handle back first!
Sounds like its time for the “Bonfire of the Lobbyists”.
Why do we allow these scum access to Westminster which the ordinary public are denied, its scandalous. This corrupt practice has been going on for far too long and needs to be stopped.
It’s not only Parliament Square that needs tidying up and cleansing…!!
This is a grain of sand in a desert. Lobbying is never going to be eradicated. The Buyers/Hewitt/Hoon/Moran debacle is a great example of how to tackle corruption. But once you get rid of one lot of corrupt troughers another group come to fill the vacuum.
But what if we put them in the vacuum?
It might help if lobby groups properly penalised and MP’s could be fined and barred from office or future lobbying, for any wrongdoing, transgressions or financial benefit.
Make the ban on lobbyist’s personal as well as corporate. Then the individuals and the companies could both be banned for life, from engaging in lobby activity again.
Not perfect, but a start.
All Lobbyists should be banned from entering the Parliamentary Estate to start with…
Do you know, I hardly noticed.
I must try the XR3i of syrups myself,
go down Top rank sharpish.
“Mind the windows Tino “
First remove the cloth. Move the hair out of the way. Gently part the lips. Then start eating.
The thing muslim women have to go through for a simple sandwich.
They also have to shave their bushes to get any sex…
And have their clitorises removed…FFS
Tory MP Anne Milton whats over weight people to be called “FAT” and not Obese.
Anne therefore will not mind being referred to as a Cameron C*nt rather than cutie.
Is she from the skinny lobby?
Does she want to be the 21st century edwina?
I’m not changing my name for any eejit of an MP.
you are stout and you are proud
So Pickles is leaving the planning system in Pickles.
And Milton needs her head disinfecting.
The reason why they use the word Obese is so that they can redefine it. Using FAT would allow us to fight their genocide in court. Why is it that in a democracy the biggest public employer (NHS) can refuse their services to certain genetic traits!
There is nothing wrong with me other than I HAVE SHORT LEGS!
So BMI, that actually does not in anyway measure fat content, makes me a person that they refuse to perform operations on. No there is no sense in the NHS. Some desk bound dimwit just sorts the list into those worthy of help, and those unworthy without any reference to medical information, just a number in a box.
The proof is that many Olympic athletes, and as see recently in the papers, many healthy children fail the BMI test. When will we get politicians with some brains.
By the way I have a waist of 34″ and size 10 feet, but am under average height! But I am human! Just not politically correct.
Want to know who’s up for eviction on Friday in Big Brother?
Me. I’m fucking off to the pub, I’m not staying in watching that shit
the only thing worse than missing it would be you and the slagette yvette being in it..although its not a bad idea to finish the chanel off b4 desmond gets it.
What are Desmond’s politici ?
Pornographic ??
oh dear these politi*ns are ghastly
I am a friend of Felt Tipped Penolope
Is that Felt Tipped Pen of Clerkenwell?
Fabricant is part of the wig tory coalition
Very good. Often thought wig wearers should get ‘death by wind tunnel’.
30mph humilates them as the syrup flies off and 200mph splatters them against the wall.
Saw one splattered like that in the Paris Metro. Made my day. Still laughing.
Doesn’t Dave yet know that the yanks take a very dim view of lobbying (joke).
Lobbying is global and we maybe able to minimise the problem in this country with legislation. But hey there is always a loophole. The corrupt do not give a jot about rights or wrongs. They love legislation because it is riddled with loopholes.
All the same person? I can’t believe it!
I lobby for Jack Straw to cross the Atlantic and explain about Megrahi, a one way ticket would suffice, we could say we needed to get rid of him on compassionate grounds.
Whether or not Megrahi’s release was a poor decision it has nothing to do with the Yanks – we do not need to explain ourselves to them. If we did it because it was politically expedient or benefited our interests is fine – they have done much worse when it suited them
To hear senator Menendez whining on about 190 American lives is sisckening – implies he thinks an American life if more sacred than any other
Come on, would be fanatics will look upon that and think yes I can slaughter a few hundred people in the West, get my own well appointed cell all found and in a few short years get repatriated to a Heroes welcome. It wasn’t just Americans that where killed in the plane or on the ground, It seems the Scottish Parliament thinks Scots lives are a throwaway, these warped pc merchants think all human rights belong to the perpetrator and not the victims.
Better to let one ex-terrorist (who may or may not be guilty of horendous crime) free to protect our oil supplies than wage war in Iraq for same purpose in which thousands have died
Better to do neither and have a think about morality for a change.
I thought about morality once, but decided against it.
You english better do as we say or we might find some evidence for WMD in your beloved Scotland. You can keep your US built nuclear deterrent, we made sure that you can’t launch that unless you’re pointing it at an arab country.
Without oil, we would die. A Government’s first duty is to protect the lives of its citizens. Therefore….
the relatives of the lockerbie dead know he didn’t do it
you can’t seriously expect a few dumb yank senators to know any better
I was talking to Rolf Harris on the phone earlier when I was interrupted by a gay parade.
“Sorry Rolf, the fags, hags and the bitches who put their scabby riddled dicks in the bum cheeks of the boys who put the powder up the noses of the boys known as ladies with the harlets and a gay Hunt who takes it up the arse, was just passing by”
Has this developing story actually developed yet Guido?
Michael Fabricate, is he the one who looks like a nutter!
PS. I originally chose my moniker out of respect for Judge Martin Stephens, but it seems to be quite universal!
The NYT article makes it clear that this chap Barnes has not used aliases. He has just given his name in different forms on different occasions and the database, being a database, is too dim to connect them up. All databases are corrupt and the longer one remains in existence the more corrupt it becomes.
I wouldn’t say that $9,100 in donations over three years really makes him a ‘big donor’, by US standards.
Clegg under fire and having credibility problems.
Check out @paulwaugh’s piece on the TSC hearing today: “Merv swerves over Clegg claim” – http://tinyurl.com/363ddsg
I think the majority of people who post on this site have got something wrong with them
Why do you all keep on swearing so much?
Because profanity is both big and clever.
Unlike you.
Fascist, don’t you realise that tourettes syndrome is an involuntary medical condition?
I am not shocked I expected replies like this
I’ve got bigger tits than wot you’ve got, so do one you fucking geek.
Might we offer you employment? We have a pier that’s short of a couple of fenders.
Nice to see that the lads are keeping an eye the place while i’m away.
The Big Society in action, it’s fantastic to see everyone mucking in.
Seems to have been taken down
Oh,Yes.
muslimsagnstcrusades … This account is suspended.
Let’s hope they don’t work themselves up into a tizzy.
100th
Some of us have no choice
Go get em…
This tale tells you all you really need to know about the value of Cameron’s election promises…
You got it. All depends on the ‘quality’ of people who lean on those who pull the strings.
OT but cripes… Govepuppet’s said something I agree with…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7914719/Rich-thick-kids-do-better-at-school-says-Gove.html
Labour will find something wrong with Gove’s idea, simply because Gove uttered it.
Vernon Cokehead is probably kicking himself for not having thought about it first.
Btw, ‘cripes’ Dack? I bet you don’t say that in class.
Vernon Cokehead ‘thought’? Oh do come on.
You have to be subtle. We have ways of cursing yet avoiding the ‘sue you for swearing at me even though I was punching you in the head’ brigade. I still miss that teachers’ favourite, ‘Ugly Kid Pacman’ now we no longer have to invigilate exams.
Happier times, exam invigilation was always good for a game of ‘Funny Face, Not Funny Face’. Damn you, workload agreement.
Thick and rich is not necessarily bad. Think clotted cream. (OK – best in moderation.)
Think MP.
The resemblance is startling….
Some time ago, Frank Field (I think) referred to “poverty of ambition”, which I think hits the nail on the head. The sort of extreme poverty including semi-starvation and dressing in rags is pretty much eliminated, but some of the attitudes and expectations of some parents has not risen commensurately. How that problem can be alleviated isn’t obvious, but to give the politicians (of all parties) some credit, at least they acknowledge the general ignorance.
Personally, I think that enforcing better standards of discipline in schools (and giving teaching staff the support they need to achieve that), and more rigorous concentration on teaching the basics really well would go a long way to raising expectations. You can’t build sucessfully without good foundations.
What do the professionals think, Dack?
They probably think you’re an old perv that likes beating schoolboys.
Just fuck off and let us get on with teaching, mainly…
I reckon getting parents to pay for their own childrens education will get them more interested…
“Or could it just be a nice way of bending the rules on lobbyists having access?”
There’s too much bending going on in the HoC as it is.
Blog: Political Editor Gary Gibbon writes: (Channel 4)
I’m told that Ed Balls’ departure from the leadership race is still “possible though not imminent”. He has a couple of weeks before ballot papers are printed.
He has 33 MPs’ nominations. If Ed Balls recommended they shift to David Miliband that could have quite an impact. In total they represent 12 per cent of the MPs’ section of the electoral college which makes 4 per cent of the entire electoral college.
There’s no guarantee that all of them would follow any possible Ed Balls recommendation to switch to Brother David but quite a chunk of them could. That would give David Miliband a big bit of momentum – as would a recommendation by Jon Cruddas.
Fuck you.
So these 33 MPs simply do whatever Balls tells them to do? Nothing new there, then. They’re all brainless lobby fodder. ‘Quite a chunk’? What’s that in round figures?
So what you’re saying is that, if these people decide to vote for David Miliband, he will get more votes?
You may have to explain that in more depth Sir William. The complexity of this theory may be more than the average Labour activist can cope with.
And talking of Channel 4 News, Jon (Enemy of the West) Snow was talking yet more pro-immigration bollocks last night – how we need squillions more Indian IT ‘professionals’ as we haven’t got any of our own. Ignorant cυnt.
Thousands of British IT professionals (- real ones, unlike the mass produced Indian ones) are kept unemployed so foreign companies can get rich by using foreign cheap labour to write shoddy software that doesn’t work properly. The result of three decades of misrule by the liblabcons.
Threads getting slow Guido. If a lack of gossip/news is the problem, just post a photo of either Ed Balls or Sally Bercow with a sentence reading, ‘opinions please’.
The thread will fill up in no time.
fuck off dipstick. (that should liven things up a tad)
I spoke too soon…
Profane banter eh? Good, i’ll start.
You Sir, are a spacktard. A spacktard that qualified easily for the finals of ‘biggest spacker in the world’.
And when the finals came round, you won by a country fucking mile.
thanks for proving me right numbnuts.
You’re still a spacktard.
Spacktard.
a spacktard who is smarter than you it seems. says a lot douch bag.
‘Douche’ has an ‘e’ at the end of it.
Who’s smarter now?
Dickhead.
not the way I spell it, cuпt. and btw, it doesn’t make you any less of a douch.
douch
Think that’s more to do with Guido’s campaign of blocking multiple-name commenters, presumably to try and weed out some of the more egregious trolls. Seems to be working – the threads are cleaner, the comments more sensible, and the humour is better.
Also – it’s summer (or what passes for, anyway) so more people are out and about.
I’m still here with my axis of thugs.
Well sorry for you.
But the job of ‘fading brown’s bagman’ is fading fast!
News is that balls will be withdrawing his leadership challenge before the final date because he doesn’t want to be registered as coming last after diane and andy.
Where’s whelan by the way? He was, last I heard, trying to persuade UNITE to support balls.
Then what happens? UNITE threw their support behind edmiliband. (Did mandy have something to do with that??)
Oooh dear! – (brown’s) whelan trashed as well!
The brownites are falling fast and furious aren’t they??!!
Tories shitting themselves at the prospect of facing a resurgent Labour party under the thrusting new leadership of the Millibands.
‘Thrusting leadership of the milibands’?
They’re about as appealing as a slug on a lettuce.
modded?
what?
slug or lettuce?
Slug or Lettuce? You must mean Dave and Nick’s civil partnership.
Bless!
Slug and Lettuce = Balls and Brown !
And whelan? I suspect he’s that nasty brown hole that appears in the lettuce leaf after the slug has eaten it away.
Any truth in the rumour that Fabricant has become a spokes model for
Shake and Vac ?
Guido,
Why does Becatech automatically earn the title ‘Dubious’ – just because it is security company? Do you not approve of private companies providing security?And it’s pretty clear from the website what services they provide and to whom.
Trashy journalism does not make a story any better.
They appear to be nothing more than a double hard DHL on the skin of it.
But any company that has an ‘ethics’ link, has got to be treated with suspicion.
They provide thugs for cash. What do you think they do? Piss about with CCTV and hidden wires, to catch tea ladies nicking sugar. If you have a problem, they’ll eliminate it.
What happened to 8 billion dollars that “private security” delivered to Iraq?
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2010/July/middleeast_July536.xml§ion=middleeast&col=
Who on earth is that old man on the left with a straw coloured wig for hair?
He’s surely not an MP?
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/worzel460440.jpg
~#~chuckle~~
I think you are right – he looksw very like worzel gummidge.
Talking of which:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ed-balls-twice-hitched-a-lift-in-lord-blacks-jet-2034993.html
What about Labour’very own worzel gummidge and his strong connections to bilderberg and use of Ld Black’s personal jet?
Smacks of elitism doesn’t it?
New moniker Nell?
She’s been through “the change”.
yes mr or mrs sandpiper 164 and what about camerons interview in india which shows him standing behind a comm*n purp*se poster for all to see
Lady Penelope would you please post a link – I need to think about what you’re saying before I can post a response.
dear sanspiper 173 i have not got a link or rather dont know how to do it sorry im blonde : ) however it is on sky news right now
His name is Michael Fabricuпt, and he’s a jolly nice bloke.
http://tinyurl.com/3y3762s
One suspects from looking at that and his subsequent photos that he’s trying to emulate Boris.
But he’s far too old and far too ugly of course!
Poor soul!
Are you my daddy ?
Danny Alexander proves he is too European for the coalition.
I can’t help thinking that you have a bit of a fixation old chap…might I suggest some therapy?
Oh Dear the balls, brown’s, bliar’s, whelan’s, alastairc’s are flailing around trying to cover their asses aren’t they?
Well don’t bother, Wikileaks has just exposed all labour’s and bush’s faults!!
Ha Ha! Ho Hum !
All the atrocities in Afghanistan finally exposed! No imagination needed to understand that the same things happened, under bliar, in Iraq
http://wikileaks.org/
you still don’t get it do you?
nothing has changed
they bombed the shit out of civilians only a few days ago
the Wikileaks reveal that anyone who believes the war is going well (it’s getting worse) or that our troops are going home any year soon is a fool
It’s just a troll looking to wind you up. And succeeding.
actually it’s nell posting the same ‘the War has nothing to with Dave’ bullshit she has for weeks
Have you ever met “nell”?
With plenty of puff, she could be your dream date.
The Marxists really are having a good go at discrediting this blog.
They will be running around New York showing this to the media.
The Kapo brothers will find this very useful on their future trips.
“Look hate the Tories” “They could have saved more of us if they tried harder.”
“Hate the British and their system of government and law.”
“Europe is the birth place of freedom, Not Britain.”
The marxists? Do you mean the milibands?
They are of less influence in the political ether than a shooting star!
I suspect davidemiliband will be the next leader of the lost labour party.
And that he will be of less interest to the public and the electorate
than IDS was!
Expect a late surge for the people’s Princess.
The people’s Princess ??!!
Do you mean mandy or gordon?
Hello Ducky!
Nick is my little princess and I’m his
love and kisses,
Dave with a Dildo up his arse x x x
tedious stuff. bring back youtube TAT
If we’re going to need more voluntary workers in the Big Society, what about MP’s giving up their salaries in order to serve the community?
At the very least, if you’re here posting shite, you’re not out on the street agitating.
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/labour+leadership+the+apossquabbleapos+for+power/3726177
Labour at it’s best!!
Out of office and squabbling like cats in a sack!!
That’s quite normal for the party that loses government. Then they have a bit of a sort out, a quick spurt of blood letting, and the next thing is, they’re preparing to take back power.
The charade of British democracy, envied, and copied, the world over.
A quick spurt of bloodletting huh??!!
Ya think labour are going to be back in power soon then??
Bit like hague, ids and howard?
Gonna be fun to watch isn’t it??!!
5, 10, 15 years? Does it really matter in the long run?
“Whichever party wins this election will have to inflict such painful austerity measures on the British population that they will soon find themselves out of power for a generation.”
Not my words, the words of Mervyn King, Bank of England Governor.
Anybody running a book on how many troops our government will send to their deaths this week, in pursuit of democracy for the Afghans?
I could do with a little earner while i sit on the beach for the next few months.
The times they are a remaining the same.
Who gives a fuck about this really? There must be 2 dozen similar stories simultaneously floating about Westminster.
Anyone got any juicy goss about McMental arrested for wombling on wimbledon common late at night in the 80s? I had heard he had to be “instructed” to lay off the rent boys when promoted to the shadow cabinet too. Kinnock knows all about that repressed bumboy.
So many of those rumours floating about, in time we’ll all know the truth of the bum boys of Westminster.
That will be £40,000 in ‘rent’ Brokeback Cameron.
“Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ‘em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.”
The problem is not the lobbyists but the Lib/Lab/Con siphonaptera themselves.
HaHaHaHa we are all on the fiddle together!
And now for a chance to see Ed”Bully Boy” Balls and Ellie again
Thank You
Ed Balls released a video with @BevaniteEllie, and visited the Labour students office http://bit.ly/8YPjcw
That is a fucking private fucking video for fucks sake and is not for the scrotes who blog on this shittty site to view.
Listen I am in the leadership contest to fucking well come last,let’s be quite clear about that
Have a fucking nice day
I have to say that if the allegations persist that I have a sister called “Ophelia” I will go fucking well ballistic
I have no sister called Ophelia Balls
This story is wrong! Trey Barnes has NOT had a House of Commons pass since the last election so has not had a pass since the Conservatives came into Government. And (despite the CFA website not being updated yet) I am no longer the Executive Chairman.
Also, when he was issued a pass he signed a letter stating: “As we have discussed, I will only use the pass solely in my capacity as your researcher and will never use it for lobbying or other business purposes”.
On seeing your blog, I asked whether he had used the pass for any purposes other than for CFA and my work and he says “absolutely not”.
Incidentally, we also have Vicki Read as Deputy Director because she is a Republican. We wanted both a Democrat and Republican as directors. Neutrality!
(My main criticism of your blog is – couldn’t you have used a better photo of me??)
Thanks for taking the time to post a reply. Even if most of the cynical old windowlickers don’t believe a word of it on principle, at least one of our elected representatives is doing what they’re paid to do by talking to us.
Guido may have some of the details wrong in this case (he’ll no doubt speak for himself) but he does have a point on the general subject of lobbying. Even those of us not politically active do care about the way our country is governed, and the “behind closed doors” aspects of some lobbying activities, together with the appearance (or actuality) of vested interests seeking advantage by influencing MPs and Lords in various ways up to and including bribery (Lords Truscott et. al.) looks very dodgy. It’s an aspect of governance that many of us feel needs to be more transparent, and perhaps more rigidly regulated.
PS On photo’s – just be grateful you’re not Ellie Gellard!
Or even photos.
Why did that get stuck in the mod., Guido?
This Michael Fabricant always seemed like a reasonable enough chap to me. For a tory, obviously.
Does such a photo exist Mr Fabricant?
The Beast of Clerkenwell is very uncharitable.
The short answer is ‘Yes’ !!!
Somewhere, I think………….