November 9th, 2011

Labour’s Kate Green Forced to Apologise to House

Yesterday Guido broke the news of Kate Green MP and her undeclared special interest involvement with the GMB union. To sum it up, they donate to her campaigns and she does their bidding in the House, including directly amending legislation. Well today she pre-empted a point of order on the very subject and apologised outright, saying she should have declared an interest. The Speaker called it “gracious” despite being aware that the Tories were planning on raising it moments later. Presumably the precedent is now set for every union funded Labour MP to have to make such a declaration before scrutinising any law that may affect the minority interest of said union?

UPDATE: Sky News’ Sophy Ridge reports “I have learned that the Tory backbencher Aidan Burley has written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards asking him to investigate a potential breach of the Code of Conduct.”


112 Comments

  1. 1
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! (Episode six, the Umpire strikes back) also in Cunt3DHDTV says:

    a result, but it wont stop thers from Bull shiting to parliament, just get the gunpowder now.

  2. 2
    ReddyEddy says:

    And how about all Tories declaring interest on any financial services regulations as that lobby funds their party. And any bill involving tax havens as Tories are funded by tax-dodging millionaires like Lord Ashcroft, involved in the little covered Cash for deputy chairman scandal.

    • 4
      misterned says:

      Not just the tories sunshine. Labour’s Lord Paul dodges more tax than Ashcroft and whereas Ashcroft has never claimed a penny in expenses, Labour’s Lord Paul has claimed over a hundred thousand quid!

    • 6
      Labour says:

      Quite right. Just don’t ask us about the Mittals, Ecclestone and Gaddafi.

    • 7
      Ashcroft Bingo says:

      Bingo!

      • 12
        Tony Blair says:

        The Libyans liked him, loved him. Muammar was the People’s Dictator. And one of my bestest rich friends.

    • 10
      Loungelizard says:

      Tax dodging millionaires and Labour are much the same thing, I could give you a list starting with a few shadow ministers but I’m sure we all know them well

  3. 3
    Sarah's meeting place with her secret Canterbury friend says:
  4. 5
    My Other Van's A Comma says:

    MOT the fuckers every year.

  5. 8
    Gordon Brown says:

    Nurse! Where’s my milk?

  6. 8
    Moussa Koussa says:

    LOL…. this is nearly as pathetic as your last thread Guido

    Poor Guido , Tory HQ have been on to him “””Please help, distraction required, thanks for last thread, Operation Save May is in progress”””

    YAWN

    PS Guido. Nothing about NoW spying on Tom Watson. I wonder, if you are in receipt of dodgy information, gathered via dubious methods , does that make the recipient an accessory. Soon be back in Dublin me think eh Guido.

    • 14
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! (Episode six, the Umpire strikes back) also in Cunt3DHDTV says:

      The Mps voted to spy on us.

    • 18
      jgm2 says:

      Labour lost.

      Get over it.

    • 19
      Cynical-old-bag says:

      If you think this blog is so boring, why are you still here?

      • 32
        I Remember You Hoo says:

        You ever been to a socialist groupthink ‘blogsite’? They are without exception, execrable, poltically correct, mind gulags.

    • 26
      Moussa Koussa says:

      Fuck off you right wing fucking arsehole fucking c*nts

      • 30
        The irony is delicious says:

        Aaah, “right wing”. Well let’s see now. Thatcher was allies with right wing Reagan but never shied away from disagreeing with him openly on foreign policy. Unlike Labour messiah Tony who did as he was told by right wing Bush and was fully supported by the obedient and compliant Labour Party. Now get to fuck.

      • 38
        David Attenborough says:

        As you can observe down here in the undergrowth we see the typical lefty reaction to the bright light of reality, oh look now he’s now scurrying back under the stone from whence he came.

      • 41
        Moussa Koussa says:

        Our Bless…Imitation is flattering – thanks

      • 44
        Moussa Koussa says:

        Thanks Imitation is flattering

    • 28
      Marmite says:

      Moussa, you are a complete and utter ars*hole. Has your d.e.m.e.n.t.i.a. been verified by the shrink you are seeing? Poor sod. Poor del*ded sod. What a shame. Pitiful really.

    • 69
      AC1 says:

      Weren’t you (your moniker) that Libyan pawn of Ghadafi who met with various Labour Party leader types and the LSE?

  7. 13
    harry says:

    Is this it.

    It this what you think is important.

    Your site is becomming more laughable and desparate by the day.

  8. 15
    Anonymous says:

    …and Condem MPs will make a declaration before scrutinising every law to make the rich richer and shit all over the English.

    • 22
      Peter Mandelson says:

      We’re very comfortable with people becoming filthy rich.

      • 39
        Anonymous says:

        Yep, nuLab was, but they’re traitor cυnts and all the liblabcon scum can expect termination with extreme prejudice quite soon when regime change breaks out. Yummy.

        • 98
          Grumpy Old Man says:

          Another call to the barricades from the Left! Amazing the way lefties revert to undemocratic methods of gaining power when they people reject them, isn’t it?

    • 105
      Mark Oaten says:

      You can shit over me any time you like! I’m experienced!!

  9. 17
    Today's student protesters says:

  10. 20
    JohnOfEnfield says:

    Eccleston donated to NEW LABOUR and received a direct favour of one year’s delay in the application of a ban on cigarette advertising in F1.

    • 36
      Labour, desperately making excuses says:

      We gave the money back so it doesn’t count.

      • 80
        I Remember You Hoo says:

        What, like Hazel Blears ‘gave’ the money back? Well waved a cheque around in front of some cameras anyway.

  11. 21
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! (Episode six, the Umpire strikes back) also in Cunt3DHDTV says:

    A quality piece on PMQs : http://www.thecommentator.com/article/619/pmqs_how_bad_is_ed_miliband_

  12. 23
    The Hindoojas says:

    GMB old boiler on the ‘take’ from said union! There’s something wrong with Labour scum.

  13. 24
    Joe says:

    Only 2,000 students on this so called march, BBC and Sky cameras zooming right in to the small crowd make it look bigger than it is. Looks like all this student protesting is starting to wane a bit now, maybe reality is finally sinking in…

    • 31
      Well done Plod says:

      So the Police CAN arrest happy campers.

    • 35
      empty House says:

      Pathetic turnout. you get more at a Jedward concert. A lot of them are just the usual socialist worker rabble and malcontents anyay.

    • 42
      The BBC says:

      Hundreds of thousands of innocent students took to the streets in a peaceful demonstration against Conservative Party cuts to vital services.

      There will be no arrests reported

      • 107
        Anonymous says:

        Ah yes BBC,
        Not your worst rerporting.
        But what about the 2 girls going up to Cambridge who were protesting because ‘Education should be free’. Free, free who pays for your education – given that the buildings aren’t and your lecturers certainly don’t come cheap (why else would they be striking ?). Yes, that’s right the bloody taxpayer – so you applaud the gitrl on the checkout at Tesco’s paying for YOUR education, when you could do it yourself so easily on you prospective salary. Pity you for your blind ignorance. Think and have a conscience.

    • 74
      AC1 says:

      You’ve noticed them try and keep the narrative going?

      Let me guess…

      Low camera angles?
      Zoom into front of march.
      Interview with supporters pressed in with signs obstructing rear view.

      I hope no-one on this blog lets themselves be extorted from for the bbc benefit.

    • 79
      Merde !! says:

      Hilarious on Sky with Kay Burley as people tweet her to say that they thought the arrests in Trafalgar Square were heavy-handed policing especially the guy who refused to move and was carried to a police van by 6 coppers……tame stuff ..they should have been in Student Riots Paris in 1968 against the CRS…those fuckers weren’t bothered about such niceities….argue with them and you got a face full of CS and a kick to the goolies….

  14. 27
    Is that your secret meeting place with your Canterbury friend? says:
  15. 29
    Peter Grimes says:

    I wouldn’t count on any more ZaNuLieBor MP’s coughing their string-pulling from the unions. They are much more likely to resort to un-minuted sofa meetings of the sort that The Unrepentant Liar Blair liked so much around the time of the illegal invasion of Iraq!

  16. 33
    Moussa Koussa says:

    Fox…Damaged beyond repair
    Gove …Damwidged wewond wepear…oh sir stop it.
    May…Damaged beyond repair
    Hague…Still a joke figure ( oh yes he is )
    Law… Damaged beyond repair
    Clegg… Damaged beyond repair
    Letbin… Damaged beyond repair
    Langley… Damaged beyond repair
    Fat Boy Fat… Heart damaged beyond repair
    Clarke…Damaged beyond repair
    Huhne…Car damaged beyond repair
    Gidders…Low profile man.
    Waris…nuff said

    And all the rest hiding away.

    A cabinet of Ar*s*eho*les ( and you know it )

    • 112
      ST says:

      The Labour front bench:

      Ed Milliband: Sthudent Politithan, throws his weight behind 200 people who are blocking the street and shitting on the steps of a cathedral.

      Ed Ball: His own party hates him, his country hates him, he looks like his skin might have a thin film of grease over it.

      The rest: erm errrrrrrr erm………… remind me.

      And you know it.

  17. 37
    Moussa Koussa says:

    Guido in “”Labour MP in Union Shock”"

    Oh dear…Barrel Scrapping

    • 40
      jgm2 says:

      I lurrrve the sound of Labour MPs apologising to parliament.

      Hahaha. Suck it up.

      Labour lost.

      Get over it.

      • 46
        Moussa Koussa says:

        Enjoy the one term

        • 57
          Marmite says:

          Enjoy your memory Moussa, as it’s ebbing away very quickly. Poor b*stard. I can just picture you, slobbering all over your keyboard, wondering where the hell you are. Perhaps it misuse of dr*gs/booze/both?

        • 77
          AC1 says:

          You’re going to replace Milliband before the next election then?

        • 82
          Steve Miliband says:

          With Ed Miliband as leader the Labour party couldn’t win at scrabble

    • 54
      Anonymous says:

      Yes, it’s like he senses the good times for rich foreign parasites feeding off the English may be coming to an end. Desperate death throws hoping for some distraction to delay having to run away to his own country.

    • 75
      Dr Whites says:

      Don’t cwy Moussa Ed don’t like it when his activists cwy, chin up and keep the red flag flying.

  18. 43
    Jimmy says:

    Perhaps the party should adopt a name reflective of its links to the Labour Movement to make the position clearer?

    • 58
      Loungelizard says:

      Something like The Idle Bastard Party…

    • 62
      Infuriated of West Mids says:

      “The Workshy, Benefits-Scrounging Hypocrits’ Party”? Hmmm, yes – you’re right – it *does* have a ring to it.

      • 81
        AC1 says:

        The Moocher party?

        The punish the productive and reward fecklessness party?

        The Extortion is more moral than reciprocation party?

        The Leave the country b4nkrupt party?

        The There’s no money left Party?

    • 86
      Of the top of my head says:

      Mass immigration party?
      Multicultural Party?
      Third world invasion party?
      Tax and spend party?
      Illegal wars party?
      Bankrupt Britain party?
      Debt and denial party?
      Positive discrimination party?
      Out of touch party?
      Whitewash party?
      Mong party?
      Save the World party?

      And on and on and on…………

  19. 47
    minutiae-watcher spotter says:

    What’s wrong with barrel scrapping?

  20. 48
    Geoffrey G Brooking says:

    They’re just picking up in opposition from where they left off in government Young Neo Guido.

    Better get used to opposition so long as our Red Ed is around though.

    Especially if today’s woeful PMQs display from Red Ed is anything to go by.
    :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

  21. 49
    Rat's arse says:

    There once was a man called Jack Straw
    Whose Father refused to fight in the war

    Anyone care to finish it off…………I’m not eloquent/clever enough (sorry!).

  22. 55
    Inflation at the BBC says:

    Sky says 2,000 protestors the BBC says 10,000

  23. 71
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! (Episode six, the Umpire strikes back) also in Cunt3DHDTV says:
  24. 90
    Bazz says:

    I thought it was the voters that elected an MP for their area, who in turn are supposed to have that MP represent their interests, not that of some Trade Union or Company. So the question is : should declared interests, be shown on the ballot paper when voting and does the failure to do so, affect my Human Right to be able to make an informed judgement when voting.
    Declared interests are only declared after the MP has been elected.

    • 103
      The Paragnostic says:

      Perhaps the ballot paper should show a “sponsored by” line alongside the candidate’s name and party affiliation.

      Although in some cases the list might be a bit long…

  25. 108
    Dave II says:

    Is she one of the 80 GMB sponsored MPs. Or is she yet another sleazy Labour MP, if so how many more: all of them.

    • 111
      Dave II says:

      Seems that another MP has got the wind up (Mrs Jack Dromey-Harman) and declared union earnings that they seem to have forgot for over a year.

  26. 109
    Strictly Fuck Off says:

    Kate Green is corrupt and should resign.

  27. 110
    Laurie Penny says:

    Agghh – more fucking rapists. They’re everywhere.



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