Burnham Sponsoring Commons Pass for Health Lobbyist
Shadow Health Secretary ”Owes” Lobbyist £20,000
Guido had to chuckle the other day when he saw Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham press releasing “our NHS is not for sale”. Not only did Burnham play a vital role in the ongoing privatisation of the NHS, but closer to home he’s not averse to taking a little private-sector cash. He has been up to his neck in putting amendments down to legislation on behalf of his donors and now this whole attack line is about to look even sillier…
Guido likes to keep an eye on the Register of Members’ Interests, in particular the interests of members’ staff and the passholders they sponsor. Burnham has given a pass to one Mr Kevin Lee, a former Labour Party staffer linked to the Shadow Health Secretary in the past. Lee was the pro-bono Campaign Director for Burnham’s abortive Labour leadership bid in 2010. Coincidentally Lee “loaned“ the campaign £21,000 and spoke publicly on its behalf. They are close friends…
Kevin Lee is also the Managing Director of Lee Communications and Public Affairs Ltd - which he set up in August 2009 – just one month after Andy Burnham became Health Secretary. This is where it starts getting a little murky; Lee Communications have multiple NHS clients such as the Southwark, Trafford and North East Essex Primary Care Trusts as well as the East of England Strategic Health Authority for good measure. Lucky boy…
Rather foolishly Lee is all over the internet boasting about his connections to Burnham. Apparently he’s a master of “liais[ing] with senior politics at all levels of government… arrangement of client meetings with government Ministers”. Apparently he has “contacts” to help “engage politicians” and “influence key decision-makers”. And those contacts are in his pocket – Guido understands Burnham’s leadership loans have not yet been repaid.
Firstly why has a lobbyist got a parliamentary pass, in direct conflict with rules? Why was it only given to him recently?
Secondly, what on earth is the Shadow Health Secretary doing giving a lobbyist, with health clients, unfettered access to the parliamentary estate?
Is he an adviser or aide, or is this just Burnham’s way of repaying the loans? Even if the money had been repaid, the pass is still a massive breach of protocol.
Dodgy credentials, a close relationship, along with the suspicious lobbying firm with a similar brief to the politician? It all smells a bit… Werritty.
Now if that isint a conflict of intrest then i dont know what is?
Clarkson him!
Oh for god’s sake. This is what goes on in politics all the time. It is called networking, and accepting kickbacks is part of the process, particularly as you don’t have to declare them for tax purposes. Leave us all alone to get on with our businesses.
Not long now
6 and a quarter inches is fairly average, madam.
OMG !! U’r sooo course , babe !!!
SC x .
I would suggest that 6″ is quite exceptional for a cat
Well, it is 6″ *and* NOT 6″.
I thought that Burnham boasted about 7 inches, according to Guido.
Is Burnham married? Is he playing bury the sausage with said Lee?
I is always ready 4 u , hun x .
U knows that !!!!
Kisses SC xx .
Got Schrödinger’s !!!!!!!!!!!!
Can’t u feels nuthin , hun ??
(Why can’t men never finds these darned things ????)
SC x .
Well the whole site is about misbehavin , darlin x .
Did u see my piccies ???
SC x .
This video reminds me of my Reg, dear: same mannerisms but his tail was slightly shorter.
This is the screwiest website I was ever in…
So when are the old bill feeling his collar? These troughers still haven’t learn’t!!
Do not worry about such trivia as Union and Labour Party corruption. I will be running your Parliament soon and these peasants will be shot.
Chop off ‘is knob, the knob. Same old labour same old lies !
” It all smells a bit… Werritty.” Does that mean in the old phrase “They are just good friends”
Y’know, for a ‘communications specialist’ Kevin Lee’s website is absolutely shit.
Time for a Clarkson ?
“Communication expert” means he knows how to send an email and even use twitter as he is a twat.
What do you expect from people who cannot even spell let alone speak English?
The c u n t can’t drive TB1 to save his life. Lady Penelope takes it up the arse so things aren’t all bad on this island, I suppose.
Jesus said “Come forth”
But i came fifth and won a teapot !
You been reading Bertrand Russell then, Frankie?
He’s been reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance again.
Huge respect to Robert Pirsig but it is not quite the same as An Enquiry into Meaning and Truth really, is it?
The Fat Slags from Viz are very existential.
You could learn a hell of a lot more about life from a fat slag than reading randy Russell any fucking day.
Is that a falsifiable hypothesis, Mr Popper?
Or just anecdotal experience?
I think Burnham’s problem is that he’s just a bit thick – a lot of MPs have something about them even if you disagree with what they say – Andy comes across as nice enough but just completely out of his depth
Know what you mean. He reminds me of Norman Wisdom, only I hesitate to use the word wisdom in a sentence describing Andy B.
But surely shouting “Grim Dyke” in the PLP would cause confusion?
(OK – I know it was Grimsdale, but couldn’t resist).
Eye-liner don’t come cheap.
Diesel?
I thought the plebs shop lifted Boots own brand?
Hmm, could this possibly contradict the new Bribery Act?
What would that be then, Bribery has now been officially sanctioned by an act of Parliament in case anybody was still in doubt about it?.
Look over there!!! Liam Fox!!
Look over there!! Two pieces of paper. One saying “All the money is gone”, and another one is totally blank.
Given these facts, how anyone can vote for them is a matter which perplexes the nations’s finest intellects. The habit of tribal loyalty is the prime suspect. Tribe ahead of fact.
Hmmm. Doesn’t that sound awfully like Fox and Werrity?!!
It does. I expect the Grauniad will be right on the case.
No shit Sherlock. Open and shut.
I believe Mr Milib*nd is coming down with a cold unfortunately, and might be forced to be absent for PMQs on Wednesday. He hopes a colleague will further keep putting this government to the sword by continuing the extremely important points concerning those nasty J. Clarkson comments.
Introducing he’ll make you laugh (makes Guido laugh anyway) the one and only and give a warm welcome to ….. Eddy Balls!!!!!!!!!
It’ll probably be Harpy Hatesmen – she is deputy Gauleiter at the moment…
Ooooohhhh. I do hope it’s something much worse than that.
He could get as much a 2 weeks in the slammer for this…
And promotion to the House of Lords.
Inflation proof pension is the clincher though.
…with pension intact, and all the other trappings that go with it.
Justice, my arse.
As long as the C U N T has the environmental credit card taken away from his grubby paws, the rest is trivial.
Dodgy my arse this is nearly bloody criminal.
Ug, or is it Kevin, Lee states that he is ‘Campaign Director at Andy Burnham MP’ on his linkedin page.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-lee/b/a35/a4
Burnham – burn him!
I wonder if his ancestors wereVillage arsonists?
I wonder if Burnham would come to High Dunsinane?
What with Labour donors supporting Miliband with blood money >> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2069715/Miliband-tycoons-21m-profit-Swiss-home-sold-daughter-dictator-boiled-enemies.html
and Burham selling passes for loans, you’d think the media would be all over this like Fox/werrity wouldn’t you!!
Thought not!
Boulton, Sopel, Vine, Paxman, BBC and SKY – YOU USELESS TWUNTS!!!
Does the phrase ‘useful idiot’ mean nothing to you?
Obviously we would be covering this but all our reporters are hiding in bushes in Edinburgh waiting to photograph 2 pandas having a shag!
This is totally untrue.
We always have a London back-up team to support the unions and the Labour party for when they eventually have something important to say.
While the panda story is front line Scottish news our Today team are working hand in glove with the Guardian and the LSE defending out left wing principles and principals.
Note our analysis of the recent riots blaming the police for everything even though our fellow travellers were in charge of them at the time.
Fantastic! Burntham is one of the more odious and slimy of the Labour frontbench. This is popcorn worthy fun. This is the kind of thing that keeps me coming back to this site. I hope Cameron mentions this at pmqs on Wed.
Cameron can bring it up all he wants and doubtless give Ned another PMQ pasting but it won’t matter a jot because the BBC on their 6 o’clock and 9 o’clock news will, if it shows anything, show Ned asking some stupid question to the cheers of the Labour benches and then cut off Cameron’s reply.
They might allude to it six or eight sub-directories into their online content so they can argue they covered it ‘across the range of their output’ but that will be about it.
The Murdoch press is effectively shackled because any expose by them will be batted back by the Labour apologists as merely ‘revenge’ from News International and the Independent and Grauniad are only interested in T*ry misdeeds.
This will be unhappened. It is already unhappened.
Landsley you say? Right, that’ll be first item on 6 o’clock news and big feature on Newsnight. Start ringing around for people to come on to disagree with NHS privatisation.
Oh, wait – it was Burnham?
Oh well, nothing to see here. Move along now.
Doesn’t this illustrate one thing?
Money grubbing cuts right across party lines. The whole act is just a chimera.
Oh My Lord, has she and gordon issued their press release about impending visit to pandas and been out there yet for their photo op?
The Curse of the Manse will be upon the Pandas. They won’t see Christmas.
There won’t be any baby pandas if Gordon goes to see them……
They are waiting for Carla and Nicholas to make it a foursome. Or a sixsome if you count de bears.
Yeah, they’re a drain on our taxes and all they produce is sh*t.
Know anyone other hero’s like that, Sarah?
How can you sleep with that man after the destruction he has wrought upon the yet unborn British taxpayers?
谁是布朗阳光呢？从这里浓情蜜意让他走，我永远也不会得到硬！
Sorry mon we only do Deep Fried Mars Bars here. Have ye tried the Sum Yung Guy takeaway? He might ha’ some of those beansprouts. Ye ken?
Sorry my old fruit we only do jellied eels down here in ingerland and did I tell you my old man was a dustman, cor blimey, lets do some buggery !
LONDON IS NOT INGERLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a silly nipple, she forgot to put the magic word in…. ‘Scotland’.
A couple of rug-munching pandas FFS! I though they made do with bamboo!
And at £600,00 per year for ten years eh?
Clever capitalists those Chinese.
But who is paying the bill to freeze the balls off of a couple of bears?
Well, well its those nice English folks again.
So Mischa B is voted off and yet again the race card is dealt. Well here’s 3 names to mull over. JLS, Leona Lewis,Alexandra Burke.All success stories.
Mischa wasn’t voted off because of her skin colour,she was voted off because she was nothing more than a nasty vindictive bully,which by the way she admitted to.
And don’t give me all that shit that people deserve a second chance.She hadn’t changed a bit since her school days,and all that cutesy smiling when the judges were giving their comments wasn’t fooling anybody.
Once a bully,always a bully..and the public don’t like bullies.
Especially black ones.
Could you give us some constituencies please. I don’t recognise any of these.
That and her dodgy hairdo’s
Is this really cutting-edge TV?
I’m rapidly losing the will to live.
I doubt it probably is just another very boring program to fill in air time
Bring back Frankie Goo-Gootz. I would consider it a personal favor, if you catch my drift.
Good grief – so that’s what you have been doing all this time, dumbing down!
“he’s not adverse” – I think the word is “averse”.
Laughable pollytwaddle. Well she’d know all about leisure , precious little about real work though.
Champagne socialism espouses little work and plenty of leisure courtesy of the taxpayer. Let’s hope they start rioting in Italy and burn down her Tuscan villa.
We will show the Italians how its done
Hope so, might have a parliament for England soon.
You are the antithesis of Skidelsky’s theory.
These lefty vermin are beyond parody
FFS.
Why dont you give away your possessions to the poor & volunteer to pay 99% of your income to the taxman you venal old harpy?
Surely a rich toff such as your self has at least one home to give away to support your espoused values?
Because then she would not be one of the 1%
This is so wrong in so many ways. She does not mention the production of wealth. The common reward of labour and enterprise.
What does she know about work?
#occupy_tuscany
Underproduces leisure?
And yet when there’s 1,000,000 18 – 25 year olds unemployed all she does is bitch about it. Make your mind up Polly.
It’s socialist governments that over-produce work and under-produce leisure.
I could work a three day week or retire early if I didn’t have your tax-bill like a millstone around my neck.
Patricia Hewitt – she was a Labour Health Secretary engaged in substantial “networking”.
I wonder what she is doing now?…………………………
Whatever it is , it’ll be generously lining her pockets. Labour are so good at that!
George Galloway stated thta 18 of 22 ministers were millionaires. Some are Lib-Dems. Anyone know how many Labour ministers were millionaires or married to a millionaire?
We havent got time to cover this story as we are spending all our time on interviewing ‘ordinary’ hard working members of the public who have to choose between eating or heating, on account of savage Tory cuts
Instead of giving pensioners a load of cash for heating this winter, stop forcing them to pay TV tax.
Ha! An absolute belter of a policy. Abolish the TV tax for those of pensionable age.
How can the BBC/Grauniad justify charging old folk 150 quid a year for a bit of TV companionship. Money they could spend on heating instead.
It’s a vote-winner I tell you.
You have my cast iron guarantee that this will be in our manifesto.
However, applicants will need verification of their age by their Granny.
+100
In Paris:
Merkel and Sarkozy tell the assembled press that they intend to have new treaty negotiations starting in March 2012 that will substantially alter the european union and create a massive voting bloc of 17. They propose that only 85% of members need to ratify for treaty to be effective and that any country that does not wish to comply can effectively no longer be expected to be consulted on major decisions regarding the Single Market and Transactional Taxes which they suggest may be brought in by Qualified Majority voting thus avoiding the national veto of any particular nationIt is now time for nations to decide if they’re on the train or not but either way the train is leaving with them on board or not.On Friday those attending will be presented with the requirements of the Franco_German Alliance….there will be no room for dissent
In London:
Cameron tells assembled press that there is unlikely to be a treaty change effecting any but the 17 members of the eurozone or a new treaty.He further states that under his leadership the UK will ensure that their national interests are protected and that he will tell his partners so on Friday of this week.He also confirms that there is no requirement for referendum
“The train leaving Bahnsteig Eins in 4 months will be calling at Belsen, Auschwitz and Berchtesgarten. Passengers not for Berchtesgarten should join the rear portion of the train, where extra straw has been provided.”
Is there ANY politician in this country who is straight, honest and has good selfless intent with integrity. Just one will do??????
They really are a bunch of self-serving money grabbing tossers. The lowest of the lowest of all the professions. I would spit on each and every one of them.
Nigle Farage.
David Davis?
Why do ” Southwark, Trafford and North East Essex Primary Care Trusts as well as the East of England Strategic Health Authority” need to employ, at taxpayers expense, a public affairs and communications specialist?
Why should any organisation funded by the taxpayer employ parliamentary lobbyists?
The PSNI have a whole team of these bullshitters
The Taxpayers’ Alliance has published research which showed that last year councils spent £5 million on 141 jobs for political advisers, £6 million on 183 European officer posts, and £10 million on 350 climate change officer roles. See
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8332107/War-on-thousands-of-local-borough-council-non-jobs.html
Oh bugger, I wrote ‘Еurореаn’. This is so childish. Trying again:
Τhе Τаxрауеrs’ Аllіаnсе hаs рublіshеd rеsеаrсh whісh shоwеd thаt lаst уеаr соunсіls sреnt £5 mіllіоn оn 141 јоbs fоr роlіtісаl аdνіsеrs, £6 mіllіоn оn 183 Еurореаn оffісеr роsts, аnd £10 mіllіоn оn 350 сlіmаtе сhаngе оffісеr rоlеs. Sее:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8332107/War-on-thousands-of-local-borough-council-non-jobs.html
I still love you because I created you. Now get off your arse and do some work!
Time for a Clarkson?
A B-BBC spokesperson
We are very disappointed that this story is about a good, honest politician (labour) and not a wicked Conservative, as the ‘privatisation’ of the NHS is a very important meme to the labourunionsbbc axis.
As many viewers and listeners to our propaganda know, we constantly use it as a scare story against the evil Tories.
Had this one featured a member of the coalition we would be doing a whole expose on it, as it is we won’t be running it.
Pay up now.
That’s all.
Early day motion 2504
Print version
JEREMY CLARKSON
Session: 2010-12
Date tabled: 01.12.2011
Primary sponsor: Turner, Karl
Sponsors:
That this House condemns the disgraceful and disgusting remarks made by Jeremy Clarkson on the BBC; notes that his comments have been criticised by thousands of licence payers, hon. Members and unions; believes that his remarks were inflammatory and have left workers and their children shocked and upset; further believes that high profile TV presenters have influence on their audience and should act with responsibility at all times; calls on the Government to give a full response; and urges the BBC Director General to commence disciplinary proceedings.
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/early-day-motions/edms-by-number/
Jeremy Clarkson: 21,000 complained about his comments yet 40 million agreed with him. Karl Turner must be one big piece of politically correct shit – unless of course he’s being ironic!
Mr. Clarkson does not have to open his mouth to prove himself a twot, dear. Look to the hairdo and the dress non-sense to find a useless journalist struggling to find it’s raison d’être.
Oh the precious darlings of the left – cowering workers in their homes waiting to be shot. Ridiculous. Grow up.
Anyway, as we saw the strike was a monumental failure so only a small percentage of militant unionists would have been shot in front of their families at worst.
I hope the BBC does lose Clarkson. He belongs in the private sector.
As the BBC needs no audience due to “the unique way in which it is funded”, I am sure the loss of 350 million viewers a week will go completely un-noticed.
some say Karl Turner is a just a front for the fat fucking trougher Lard Presclott and that he eats more sandwiches than Paddington Bear
Crikey, she must be one hell of a frustrated old woman – she even moved into position for the dog!
The first thing she did after that experience was to take the dog down to the vet to have its nails clipped.
Yes, I could have done a better job there, come to think of it.
Surely, Andy ” don’t-do-London-dinner-parties-me ” Burnham, northern class warrior to the roots of his eyelashes, would’nt…………would he ?
Yes of course, he’s just another Labour sleazeball.
What are you waiting for Billy
Ewan, ow abart a kwik stiffy darhlin, as i get all orny finking off yoo.
Sorries to cat an all that jizz.
X
Is Burnham wearing make up?
Is he a gayer?
Looks to me like he’s had his eyeliner tattooed on – like Jacko.
What’s with Burnham and the Louise Mensch Maschine !! TEE Hee!
Do not anger Labour! We have Harrow(den)ing ways to deal with our enemies that will make you run for the Hills.
what a fiathco, a complete fiathco, need an urgent question to the house, he should be fired, sacked, whaaa whaa whaaa……..
Will Cammers have the backbone for this vitally important fight. Or is it just smoke to obscure the Europe situation ?
See Billy post 76
Burnham’s sleaze is almost irrelevant – as Health Secretary he expedited the Mid Staffordshire Health Authority being granted full trust status – despite warning signs that it was a death-camp.
Burnham is a useless @rse.
The Cockalition has doubled the budget for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies to more than £80m after David Cameron saw the plans…Oh dear.
An extra £40 million so that Dave can claim that all the volunteers taking part in the opening ceremony is evidence of the Big Society ( shhhhhhhh ) at work…. errr with a £41 million extra price tag…. spanner
Labour were so desperate for any vanity project, they just cooked the books from the start. Labour burdened UK with this massive cost.
I remember the budget for the Olympic Games being done on the back of a fag packet not once, but three times by that stupid woman minister Jowells, her with the dodgy husband.
MK is as always disingeneous as the problem is in security as it always has been.
Even the USA are supposedly sending 300 security personnel over. What’s the betting that there is too little hotel space.
Sociology A Level Question:
By the time Lemarr was 18 he was in prison on rape and assault charges. He already spent 5 years in Juvenile Detention for mugging and Drive-By shootings.
What colour is Lemarr?
a fiver for his arse
leave it to me, I will get the panda pregnant
Another £15 million quid down the drain then.
“………..like many other boys in Scotland, football was Mr Brown’s passion. A keen Raith Rovers supporter from childhood, he earned pocket money by selling programmes for the team. He also produced a newspaper with his brothers, which they sold for charity……..”
Bringing bricks to replace alcohol to parties?
Book him Danno – on 5 counts
Hypocrisy
Breach of standards
Breach of parliamentary protocol
Corruption
Privatising the NHS
This is just run of the mill MP corruption what about Dave Cast of Iron and he’s perfidious statement that the new EU Treaty would not trigger a referendum? He is truly Blair’s Heir the end of the nation state has begun in earnest our political class no longer need it as it does not serve their interests.
Brown was a crazed buffoon with anger issues but Dave is more sinister he has warped himself in the Union Jack whilst in reality he despises the Union and seeks to remove more powers to the EU without the slightest intention of letting the electorate vote on this major issue.
Warped – the best typo this year!
30 years’ political experience???
The bloke looks to be in his late 30s or early 40s – presumably he considers his days as a spotty teenager to count as “political experience”.
What a muppet.
Another opportunist scumbag treating the Mother of Parliaments like a whore.