Sadiq Khan Lets Donor Decide Labour Vote
Guido was perusing the notes from last week’s meeting of Labour’s Shadow Justice team when he noticed something odd. Within them is a list of various amendments and clauses to the Justice Bill and how the Labour MPs will vote on them. All boring so far, but what’s this next to one of the clauses?
And another:
Once would look bad enough, but how Labour will vote on two parts of the Bill will be determined after “checking with GMB who have very strong views on other aspects of LSC transfer”. This refers to a particularly dull aspect of pension protection and the Legal Services Commission, but that’s beside the point – one of Labour’s biggest donors is being directly consulted on legislation which affects their vested interests.
The GMB union have Labour over a barrel: eighty of their MPs are members and the union has given Labour £1,545,987.02 since Ed took over. That’s nearly 20% of all donations received and certainly blows the sums involved in the Cash for Questions and Cash for Influence scandals out of the water. Clearly the GMB expect something in return, and that is telling Labour MPs directly how to vote in Parliament. A cash for votes swap.
And who is in charge of this merry policy auction?
Step forward Sadiq Khan, the Shadow Justice Minister and proud GMB member. He’s also the recipient of £11,000 directly from the GMB for his campaigns in Tooting. Want to change legislation directly? Better reach for your wallet with this lot…
Cash for questions episode 2?
Shit Sharia law coming to UK. Death penalty just the Start of the islamification of UK justice system.
Not really, they have the death pen in the USA and you can hardly say that thier justice system is shria.
Ps i am anti death pen (waits for cries of leftie /bedwetter etc)
‘Shady’ Khan is at it again – Dodgier that a Dodgem.
Death doesn’t bother me at all, as long as I am not around when it happens.
Nothing new here the Unions have always run Labour.
And we hold up our parliamentary system as the model of democracy. Assad, Ahmadinejad, Netanyahu and Kim Jong Il must be impressed.
As a member of the public, I can virtually guarantee that John Lyon, Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards and John Bercow will do fuck all about this outrage.
Nothing to see here, move along
Agreed, hanging leaves no room for appeals. Just have a nice 99 year “life” sentence with no parole on some bleak island somewhere where the murderers and other lifers have to earn their keep and also repay society. Justice, retribution and restitution without having the criminal’s blood on your conscience.
Yeah, but they dont have open borders like us. Also they arent a donkey ride from the middle east and have the largest pakistani population outside of pakistan.
If we keep bombing the middle east into the dark ages then they will have no option but to come to the UK and as long as we give them Shria laws it will make it more homely
Around 100,000 foreign nationals enter Britain every day. If the rules were relaxed for half of all shifts, it is likely that up to five million foreign nationals entered the UK while the weaker rules were in operation.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2058634/Theresa-May-UK-Border-Agency-scandal-How-criminals-let-unknown.html#ixzz1d7P0dstV
Replying to your name, rather than your comment:
To take a photo of big ben.
How can it become worse than Labour?
It can’t. And if perchance it does? The shit the country is in (and will certainly get worse) is not because of the incumbents, but because of the loon Broon holding the purse strings wide open from 2003 onwards, ably supported by the likes of Sadiq Khant (pronounced hoon) – in fact all of those on that pestilent opposition front bench.
Thus endeth the sermon – lest we all forget…
Worse than cash for questions. This is labour selling policy direct to “pre-selected preferred bidders”
With cash for questions, no policies were changed, nobody bought policy changes. Labour have a long record of selling policies to bidders, from selling an opt-out from the cigarette advertising ban to Bernie, through to this.
Same as Tories but more people benefit from this. Tories for 1% and Labour for 20%. The rests haven’t got a say.
They all look the same to me.
Shadow Justice team.. Weren’t they on Futurama? Cluberella and Captain Yesterday and all that? Anyway, string em up!
So what?
Truscott and Foulkes were selling amendments to legislation in the HoL. No criminal charge were ever laid. A national disgrace.
If legislators decide what is bought and sold the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
There once was an MP called Khan,
A proud GMB union man,
Seeking cash for influence
Shows reckless imprudence
Deserving a trip inside a police van.
Needs work
votes for homes aka shirley poerter
Those that can run a business do
Those that can’t join a union
He who pays the piper picks the tune.
KHAAAAN!
Kirk was right. You can’t trust ‘em.
Hopefully no change in the lovely public sector pensions until after Missus has hers……
But the Tory money from the city which is directly stopping the govt legislating against the bankers is ok?
Yes
labour’s legislation hurts the economy, hurts the poor and enriches labour’s cronies.
Collectively, the banks could shut this country down in a heartbeat, if they so wished, they have ALL government’s in this country over a barrel, and they know it!
Labour hurt the country because they are run by mafia unions interested in their own greed by Opperating the sock puppet that is a labour mp
Considering the city of London contributes 80% (i think) of tax revenue to pay for diversty workers etc.
dont kill the golden goose.
Which legislation against the banks ???
I pumped £ 1,300,000,000,000 of Taxpayers’ money into the banks I failed to monitor and supervise.
I wouldn’t want the Tories to tamper with the measures I took to save the World.
Let’s see your evidence, sunbeam.
I could remind you of Labour’s City donors, knighting Fred Goodwin, slashing regulation, reducing capital gains taxes and more, and that’s we get to the mother of all bailouts where Incapability Brown gifted bankers billions but got nothing in return. It’s almost as if they had photos of him sitting naked on a rocking horse and threatened to publish unless he gave them everything.
I’ve not seen the Tories this close to the bankers. I’m seeing capital gains tax go up, the Vickers Report getting support, a bank levy and more. If financiers are donating, they ain’t getting their money’s worth.
Your allegation against Gordon Brown is hurtful and potentially actionable. He was not naked on the rocking house, he had his nappy on.
How do you know? Gordon may have been on his pet Pig.
Photographs
If you legislate in isolation i.e. the proposed Tobin Tax for example….what do you think will happen ? …they’ll all bugger off to China or wherever(H*S*B*C is already half way there) and the UK will lose the tax revenues and we’ll be in even bigger poo…and futher cuts in public services and additional unemeployment as bank workers(a lot of whom are on less than £15k not £1million as people seem to suggest) losing their jobs….
Someone who gets it.
This EU transaction tax (to go into the coffers of the EU who cant be audited and we all know why) would by some estimates raise 80% of its revenue in the City. +£50billion sucked out of the UK and straight into those incompetent wankers’ greedy mits. Before the City, as you rightly say, heads East. Methinks Mr Osborne better start showing he has some balls and tell them to go suck Rumpy’s dick.
This country produces fuck all (relative to Germany etc), Plenty of innovators but its rare for the product to be manufactured in the UK. The the one thing we have an advantage with is finance (more so than ever now with the € going tits up).
Point being, look after the finance guys because they are bringing in the big bucks to the Treasury.
Idea: Bring in the tax on one condition – that Germany is hit with a 50% luxury tax on all BMW Merc Audi VW Porsche etc sold within the EU – because anyone buying that level of motor aint struggling. Kinda balances it out, dont you think?
Not of interest to us.
It takes a lot to be deemed (if by themselves) the most trusted national treasure spokesperson of the nation, and discretion is paramount.
Ask other great world leaders to Miliband E. such as M. Sarkozy & Pres.O.
Mes amis… our lips… are sealed!
Now, where is Mr. Watson when you need him across the airwaves again. Cuts, cuts! Murdoch! Murdoch!
He’s not only a greedy toad, he’s stupid enough to get caught.
Khan is a massive liability for the Labour Party.
“Khan is a massive liability for the Labour Party.” Splendid, but Balls and Son of Brown got there first.
And Chuka Umunna.
And Harman. And Cooper.
Sadiq Khan is one of the biggest slimeballs in the Labour shadow cabinet ..
don,t mention postal voting or kickbacks from the GMB union .
Perverting democracy is a misdeamnour in relation to all of Labours major crimes against their country, their heritage & their own people.
They will deny it all.
Ashcroft.
Thatcher.
Out of touch.
1%.
NHS.
So dont kill the Golden Goose and let people lose their jobs because of it. What nonsense. Scaremongering
People are losing their jobs because there’s too much debt in Western economies. In Britain specifically, too much personal debt caused by a relaxation of credit in the late 1990s. Too much bank debt caused by a relaxation of regulation in the late 1990s. Too much sovereign debt caused by excessive government borrowing and spending.
Does anybody see a common factor, here?
Debt is not a problem.
Thank goodness for that. This whole Euro crisis thing will just evaporate in a puff of smoke, taxes can be cut, the country isn’t skint and we can all live happily ever after.
Yes yes, but what about other donations?
They are all at it (TM).
I was in this posh restaurant and couldn’t believe it when I saw David Cameron choking at the next table. I sprang into action and started slapping him.
Someone shouted, “You’re supposed to be slapping his back!”
“Fuck off, I know what I’m doing,” I replied.
It’s common knowledge that Labour are the political and financial arm of Trades Unions. That’s why the unions fund and founded Labour.
This is a non-story!
Not quite.
In politics, paying for legislation is called ‘corruption’. That’s why ‘cash for questions’ was a scandal. That’s why the Bernie Ecclestone affair was a scandal. That’s why the overt consultation of a political party’s paymasters over legislation is a scandal.
This may be a fairly minor incident (hard to tell with such arcane technical matters – it may be very significant). But it sets a pattern – what next? Levels of public sector budgets? Influence over the placing of defence contracts for aircraft carriers in particular constituencies?
Not the same though.
Labour were formed by the unions to represent them and their members in parliament.
How can you claim it’s corrupt to consult them on policy??
It’s not a consultation on policy, though. It’s asking for instruction on how to vote.
Same thing Engineer.
Clearly there isn’t concise agreed opinion on every policy issue.
This one is abscure so there is a need to consult to clarify/unify opinion.
Whichever way you look at it, Labour is The Unions parliamentary arm and therefore must carry out the policy of the unions first.
The public are never consulted, by any party.
Let’s turn it the other way.
Suppose a Union felt that a strike was justifiable over a dispute. They’ve balloted their members and have a majority in favour. Would it be acceptable for the General Secretary to then contact the parliamentary Labour Party to ask when would be to the party’s best political advantage to hold that strike?
General consultation on policy between political parties and interested groups (TUC, CBI, whoever) is fine. However, asking the unions how a vote should be whipped is not. What would be the reaction if it emerged that the Conservatives had been consulting the CBI on how to vote on the same measure?
“Would it be acceptable for the General Secretary to then contact the parliamentary Labour Party to ask when would be to the party’s best political advantage to hold that strike?”
I would say that that is exactly what happens.
Is this a crazy idea or not? How about every registered political party can only be funded by individuals based on a fraction of average individual income per annum? And that fraction should equate to something like a £30 limit per person per year.
If they have popular support then they can pay for their thinktanks, wonks and policy research from that.
Just restrict all funding to flatrate membership fees. You wally.
Change, what change, the only change we have is the change we might get if we get rid of these vile politician’s.
I wonder how many other lawyers are members of the GMB? Or has Shady Khun aligned himself with a wealthy TU to act as the go between. Do you think a retainer is in order?
I went to a greek restaurant last night,but it was a bit of a let down.
Watching plastic plates bounce off the floor due to cut backs just wasn’t the same.
Gold sale
Boom and bust
Cabs for hire
WMD
Lisbon treaty
Damin Mcbride
Lord Cashpoint
Berniw ecclestone
Lord Mandleson
Tony Blair
Alistiar Campbell
The Labour party, screwing the working class for over a 100 years.
(this list is not complete so please you add you favourite Labour hypocrcay moment)
Aqueducts?
Open borders to allow in client state voters
Doubling the rate of income tax for the lowest-paid workers.
Selling half the nation’s gold at the bottom of the market.
And pre-announcing the sale.
Looking shifty.
Telling us that “Things could only get better !”…..failing to add that they meant for them not the country
Human Rights Act. [Slot gob is a Human Rights Lawyer and BLiar wanted to make sure she earned a shed load of money] – the b.a.s.t.a.r.d.
The political party system is utterly corrupt… essentially two self-perpetuating machines which are in hock to various interest groups who fund their existence, as in this way. The only answer to this cesspool is to bring down the whole political party apparatus. Restrict funding to membership fees only and stop the endemic corruption which comes with large donations, cash and loans for honours, organisational subscriptions and self-perpetuating taxpayer subsidy. Cut off the money, cut out the corruption, take the politics out of politics. Restore the bond of trust between MP and electorate at constituency level. The real 1% is sitting on green leather in Westminster thanks to the system of political patronage. Bring them down and throw them out!
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/21338
I think it’s disgusting that Labour were asking a union that represents tens of thousands of low-paid advice workers in CABs, law centres and advice agencies, for their view on the arrangements and terms for transferring pensions when the Legal Services Commission becomes an internal department in the Ministry of Justice.
Exactly.
Everyone knows that the Unions created the Labour Party and have always bankrolled them. They even have direct input to their manifestos for god’s sake!
As far as Liebour’s friends at the BBC and the media (mostly members of the NUJ) are concerned, this has always been the relationship and is therefore exceptable and is to be applauded.
Most of the electorate are too dumb or badly informed to work out that Labour bankcrupted the economy by hosing money at the public sector, partly to enable the unions to increase their membership numbers (as 70% of union members are in public sector) and hence subscriptions. This of course led to increases in Union donations to the Labour Party as well as the laundering of the Trade Union modernisation fund into Labour’s pockets.
Yep, follow the money and you just get dizzy going round in circles
Ok, If the Labour party are the party of the unions and public sector, what party represents the taxpayer?
UKIP if you want too
One would have said the Conservative Party, but with Dave about to piss-away £34,000,000,000,000 of taxpayers’ money on the HS2 rail link that only he and his chums in the construction industry want, I’d have to go with UKIP, too.
Toooooo many 00000000000000000000000000000′s
Could never afford a ticket to use it anyway. Have you seen rail ticket prices recently?
The Labour Party is the political wing of the trade union movement, just as Sinn Fein is the political wing of the Provisional IRA. Neither exists except to further the aims of their parent body, though the IRA probably did less damage to the British economy over the years than the trade unions did, and continue to do.
The Labour Party exists solely to increase my blood pressure to a dangerous level.
And 2 giv me benefit muneeee! Innit.
I turned the US into a semi-socialist welfare state and signed into law a shipload of pro-union legislation, but even I opposed governmental employee unions on the theory that (1) they weren’t necessary (2) the “cost to consumers” of higher wages and lower productivity would be borne by taxpayers, who would end up voting Republican once the situation would get out of hand.
Hang on!!!!!
Is this not the same as as the Fox?werrity scandal?
How much of this £1,545,987.02 contribution to labour is stolen from the taxpayers who detest everything about labour through Pilgrims and Trade Union Modernisation Fund ???????????
We have no time to invest in this story – we are too busy trying to fit up (sorry – investigate) Theresa May
The totally incompetent Theresa May is quite capable of fitting herself up.
Has she been sacked yet? If not, why not?
She was asked that question by David Winnick and whether she took responisbility and had considered resigning ??…she replied with a winsome smile although her eyes were in full “Caligula mode” a la “Thatcher ….”Mr Winnick…. I take responsbility for MY decisions…..!! as she stared at a blinking Mr Winnick….even the oleaginous Mr Vaz shuddered…………
I worked for Mrs Thatcher. I saw Mrs Thatcher close up. Mrs May, you are no Mrs Thatcher.
Why should she fvcking resign when it was that Labour stooge Brodie who took the the decison on his own without telling May, to let non-EU nationals through without checks?
Brodie most likely contrived this to screw the Conservatives on immigration.
He knows he’ll get a fat pay-off and will probably get nominated for a peerage by his Labour masters.
Not to forget Labour’s introduction of the “Parliamentary Member’s Communication Allowance”, that is as blatant as it gets. I remember when I first received a glossy pamphlet with my local Labour MPs’ face leering out at me on the front cover.
Well done – Pork-Barrel Politics exposed by sinister Sadiq, who has neither the wit or wisdom to disguise his corruption.
With Miliband firmly in the pocket of the unions, his support for the forthcoming
public sector strikes will be interesting to observe.
“Pork-Barrel” politics in connexion with a man named Sadiq Khan? You are obviously blaspheming, you sacrilegious infidel, and we shall have no alternative but to apply sharia law and decapitate you.
Sadiq is my MP, you should look at the way my previous MP of 20 years tom Cox got deselected by his cronies who joined the labour party. Very shady.
He also sucks up to various factions in tooting, but not if you are white.
He also helped to veto a housing development of 400 homes off burnwood lane, for low cost housing.
Hopefully if the tories get thier act together next time thye can overturn his ever decreasing majority
I think you will find that come the next election the BBC will be in overdrive promoting Labour so that all those floaters who dont know what they beleive will think that voting Labour is the answer.
Dave needs to do something about it now if he is to stand a chance
They should have been planning how to tackle national broadcaster bias before the election, it’s been so blatant for so long.
Boundary change is only a small factor in comparison.
They really are amateur on professional wages
Just one question, Fawkes.
What will the Tories and LibDems do about it?
Perchance the same thing that they always do, do you reckon, while they gleefully contemplate half-inching another three quid from the taxpayer for every vote cast?
You plonker. It’s common practice for vested interest opinions to be aired at the committee stage of any bill. If amendments are proposed by Labour, they will have to be approved by the committee and then the report stage will see them reviewed and a vote will take place.
Don’t you understand the legislative process?
I do whatever the unionth tell me.
Communithm ith fun.
Before bills come to the floor, each side tries to stick their own little clauses in so as to satisfy their constituencies in both the electoral and metaphorical senses of the word. Government says to Opposition we won’t object to X if you don’t object to Y. This practice is called “log-rolling.” Of course, by the time the bill passes it resembles bog-roll more than log-roll.
Meanwhile back in its own charter compliant way – with its own creative definition of impartiality – the BBC have set out on a fishing exercise, encouraging Civil Servants to break their obligations of confidentiality.
They ask, ‘Do you work for the UK Border and Immigration Agency? Have you been asked to reduce checks on foreign nationals to cut queues? Have cutbacks and increased workloads affected your job? You may speak with the BBC anonymously.’
No agenda there then.
Who do the BBC they think they are? No doubt every malcontent and PCS official will be banging on their door and the BBC pleased to fire the bullets that they are provided with – even the blanks.
A muslim on the fiddle? Whatever next.
Mmmmmmm
Who shall we refer it to?
The Standards Commissioner or the Met?
Sorry. Not really up with things since I departed these shores. What does GMB stand for? The only thing I can think of is Grab My Bollocks?
Gang of Mastabating Barstards?
Got Miliband and Balls.
Grumbling Mendacious Bolsheviks
What it DOESN’T stand for is Give Me a Break…
Well I googled it. Boilermakers. I bet you didn’t leave the UK so long ago that large numbers of people were still making boilers.
People still make boilers (and maintain them). ‘Boilermaker’ basically means ‘welder’ these days.
A “boilermaker” is a beer with a whisky chaser. I thought everyone knew that. Trebles all round!
http://www.gmb.org.uk/about_gmb/gmb_history/the_birth_of_a_union.aspx Just so you know Mr C
None so blind as those who crossed the sea.
Boilermakers eh?
Man makes organisations of all types. If they do not fail, then they grow and grow and grow. They acquire a life and direction of their own, This is often in a different direction to what they were formed for. Then they become predators and absorb other such organisations, many of them which are themselves predators. They reach a size that competition becomes quite ruthless in getting to the upper reaches of them. It invariably entails doing things directly contrary to their fundamental aims, as they have evolved.
It happens to companies, governments and unions. It happened with the GMB which I have been aware of since my childhood, firstly as the NUGMW, the GMBATU and finally as the GMB.
Now let us look at their record:
The Amalgamated Textile Workers – what happened to their work? It all went to India and China.
United Society of Boilermakers – it went to China, Japan, Korea and Poland
London Clothiers Cutters – ha ha, don’t make me laugh. I used to finance gown vans by the thousand in the Mile End Road and in Leicester – all gone to the far east
The Alliance Cabinet Makers – oops
I could carry on but maybe you will see the point. I may have gone overseas but only after all the jobs that these unions were supposed to represent had already done so themselves. What a decline this mighty institution has presided over.
“one of Labour’s biggest donors is being directly consulted on legislation which affects their vested interests”
Ha ha ha – you’re so funny Guido. It’s the way you tell ‘em.
So much better not to let anyone know about these things, the way your tory boys do it.
Sadiq Khan must resign.
Workers being consulted over their pensions? Outrageous! Thank heaven there’s a government which doesn’t go in for this mollycoddling.
Indeed so. And that government was, as we all know, Labour. After all, Brown didn’t bother consulting with those workers about their pensions before he raided their funds back in 1997, did he?
As this “raid” was purely a figment of (let’s call it) the imagination of the nuttier breed of right wing hack, then it was considered unnecessary.
“outside metropolitan circles”
I can assure Guido that people in the countryside and small towns throughout the country, shag.
The BBC have really got it in for Teresa May. What about the Miliband family tax evasion issue?
of course they have. What they dont say is that the immigration officers went on a go slow. Like the police not responding to the riots and wait for NHS staff to let people die in the next flu out break
Cruel but true
There are no enemies on the left. I think you’ll find that on page one of the BBC Charter.
James Murdoch is second item on BBC WatO, I switched off, feckin’ cnuts!!
Newsnight devoted most of last night to the Murdoch hacking story yet again, with the ever present permatanned Tom Watson.
I ever got the chance to name a Road, I’d call it ‘Skin Road’
Just so I could laugh at the people at number 4.
This from a man who lives on Bourneville Boulevard.
GMB – Greedy Mendacious Bastards
Hear about the dyslexic union official who turned up at a meeting wearing his cat flap.
Sadiq Khan is the greatest parliamentarian ever. Anyone who says different has never received a brown envelope
Bit like the Duchy I suppose.
This is amusing for MiniMilli’s death stares. Mean.