LibDem’s All Time Biggest Donor Arrested
Vince Cable once attacked the “pin-striped Scargills” of banking, adding for good measure that the LibDems didn’t rely on friends in the City for funding. No, not any more.
The biggest donor in the history of the Liberal Democrat Party was one pin-striped Michael Brown, who gave them £2.4 million for a front-row seat sipping champagne next to Charlie Kennedy. He turned out to be a pin-striped thief and was charged with money laundering, fraud and theft before he went on the run. He has been arrested in the Dominican Republic…
Does this mean that the Lib dems are as skint as Labour?
Where’s that ‘Old Faker’ Cable when you need him?
Perhaps he will resign in disgust…
‘I have a nuclear option’.
No you fucking haven’t you useless cΰnt .
When is Huhne going to join him?? What on earth is the useless CPS doing?? It cannot be in the interests of natural justice to prolong this any longer. Charge him and get on with it.
I have an unclear option.
Good man
He’s got some balls.
I am billy thge parrott! SQUARK!
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A friend in need is a pest.
Lets hope so.
Probably more skint.
After the next General Election, completely bust.
No we are not skint, I and my ‘boys’ in Portsmouth are seeing to that. We are the 3rd biggest donors to the Lib Dem Party. The Electoral commission found that the Party had done no wrong in accepting Michael Brown’s donations. Just as they did about mine. Excellent public sector Regulator cover up as usual.
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/audit_trail_of_political_donatio#outgoing-101315
Boaz
Not skint in Portsmouth either. Curious that the Lib Dems are so flush with cash for campaigning when just a few ‘ordinary Councillors’ have managed to make such generous donations to their local party. Just to highlight what comes up in that FOI link above… ‘None of the Councillors has a job other than being a Councillor, and many of them have not stated that they are Councillors when they make the donations. … some, who have made multiple donations have done it with their names configured in different ways i.e. Mr Mike Hancock, Mr M T Hancock MP, Cllr Mike Hancock MP (total £9582.00), the same goes for Mr Vernon-Jackson, Leader of the Council (total £7346.34) and Councillor Terry Hall, former Lord Mayor (total £9786.81)’. Nearly £27,000 altogether. Wow.
We cannot put the names of the real donors down as people would recognise them as local drug dealers who launder their money through property development, facilitated by moi. I trust this puts all your minds at ease. Anyway as you can see the Electoral commission are not there to find fault but not to find fault. Boaz.
Just anotner c unt who tried to guess what fuckng train wagon to jump on and got it wrong.
Poor Vince….Wrong again!
Like Mr Jack Dromey of the Labour Party I was mislead over the finances of our Party.
My own business credentials as you know are impeccable, and I have a vast knowledge of the private sector. As such in my understanding, the sourcing of funding for our Party should be easy.
Nice one Cable
The Cons and Liebore groups have have also had their neerdowells some of them did jug probably not with the common riff-raff, it is not limited to one party or ever has been, that is why there should be more openness with the conections between politicos and party donors, neither want full disclosure.
Oh and guido, Ed milibands latest interview
hhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahha
heheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh
Couldn’t even get matching cushions – which could have protected his botty.
Not waving but drowning…..
I took the trouble to read the article. If it’s true ( and bear in mind it’s in the Gurneyad, so fairly unlikely ) then Milibandwagon Minor suffers from Brownian delusions of epic proportions.
Milliband was brain washed by his Father , that much is clear.
The Fury.
It can be very hard for dependant sons to not be influenced by their fathers, especially if they are of the extreme variety, its the same for the Cons for example if call me Dave’s father had been a manual worker (say a miner or a steelworker) would Dave have been a Con, a lot of the reformists in Victorian times were very wealthy sons of wealthy fathers, they saw that things were wrong and tried to right them, many were Tories or Liberals.
I also do onions, ketchup and double fremch fries with that after 11.00am
What a fuckin’ mong!
That’s why the Libdems want taxpayers to fund political parties. Not many Michael Browns available.
The Cons and Liebore have plenty of those souces of income
Gotcha!
It just shows how venal and two faced these Lib Dems can be. The prospect of Vince Cable being hoisted by his own petard is delectable.
sorry and all that but venal and two faced is what most politicians have proved themselves to be over the last few years.
Nell that is why there should be more openess the parties do not want it, they do it in the name of their members trying to tar their own people
When Jamaica becomes a republic does it mean that Diane Abbott loses her British passport and the right to be a British MP?
Let`s hope so.
Finally we agree on something Ed.
It means they can legitamately call themselves a “banana republic”.
Is it coz I’s bent?
By that measure should Gideon be an MP and cabinet minister, he is part of the Irish ascendency, one of the PIIGS countries. As Guido points out quite often Eire
is a foreign country not part of the UK.
Aren’t there seven billion reasons why the Irish Free State is part of Britain once again?
it is the hypocrisy of politicians which makes them so awful
particularly the labour ones…
the SDP/libs are just a load of career academics…”we are right”
Oh get lost Huhne, you and your little lib friends are about to get the kicking that youve gone short of. If Cameron had any b*lls he`d end the coalition, call an immediate election, and let you f*cking rats drown. I cant wait to see it happen, dregs of the middle class left.
Apparently, Camoron changed the law so he can’t call an early election. Even if we all acknowledge that the coalition is utterly shit, we’re stuck with it until 2015.
Not if a vote of no confidence is taken and succeeds (and is not rescinded within 14 days) (unlikely), or a motion to call elections before 2015 passes with more than a two-thirds majority. 2015 is an outside limit as it always was before the Fixed Term Act of 2011; i.e. the Parliament would always have to be dissolved within five years bar anything like a World War. The difference is that Cameron would have to be damned sure lucky to get a two thirds majority; he couldn’t get a two thirds majority that Tuesday follows Monday. Party discipline would of course obtain; HE wouldn’t call an election if he thought there would be any defection, and Labour wouldn’t LET him call an election if they thought they were under the cosh in terms of retaining the seats they already have, let alone being able to flip any. So 2015 is in practical as well as statutory “terms,” if you will, the date of the next election. But predictions are always going to be tricky, said the American baseball manager Yogi Berra, since they’re always about the future.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/14/enacted
Labour will go big on this, with the help of the BBC and all the usual suspects. They needed this, Weds big relaunch was sunk by the racist outbursts of Diane Abbott. She even had another go today. She knows she’s safe, this is her way of proving she’s untouchable.
Well i certainly wouldnt touch her.
Any of you seen The Iron Lady yet? Watched it today and it’s about as uncritical a biopic you can get. It actually comes close to hagiography.
Oh good, I love to see lefties foaming at the mouth with righteous indignation. Pure entertainment.
So it should be, you mug.
Hagi hagi hagi. Out out out!
My version is all about mental dementia.
You can’t believe anything he’ll say when giving evidence.
Yeah, just like Huhne.
Given Ed’s twitter fuckup, a good thing Bob Holness didn’t host Countdown. (I can’t claim credit for that joke. Read it online).
C*untdown was hosted by Richard Blackley.
But he looks so wholesome
This of course is how you finance political parties.
labour has the unions who expect blind loyalty from militwit in return for their members cash, not necessarily voluntarily donated by their members.
the libdems have got embarrassingly caught by a fraudster and the tories are teetering on the same brink that bliar did , giving honours to people who give them money.
What’s the alternative if it isn’t to have the taxpayer fund their activities? hmmm?!
They`re not getting a penny out of me.
Yep they can go fuck themselves unless we have referenda on everything.
And for those who say we live in a parliamentary democracy, I say “Not if we don’t fucking want to”.
They are already getting your money. As opposition party Labour will trouser £5.1 million in taxpayer’s donations (called short money) to finance their political activities.
ask voters why they would want a bunch of politicians, who do not represent their interests, to take money off of you to promote themselves?
its like asking a gorgeous woman, do you want sex on the sofa or sex in bed? dont be surprised if you get a slap
I can’t see a way out that’s palatable Nell that’s for sure. It’s either the smell of corruption hanging over politics………or we pay them directly.
The second option, however unpalatable, is probably the lesser of two evils. The tories would still favour business and self reliance. The socialists, the unions, a big state and loads of debt. It’s in their DNA
plus les choses pourraient changer, plus ils resteront les mêmes
+++laugh+++
I was just thinking that maybe there’s a Third Way? Although I can’t imagine what it could be. Perhaps we should ask bliar!!
Blairs third way was take the money and run.
There still not getting a penny out of me.
So we end up topping up party bribes from rich sods? No way.
The alternative is to make the fuckers work for their money. Come on entertain us you c unts !
No. The alternative is to do away completely with the party system and just have say 150 totally independent MPs who would be paid say 50k a year to do the job. Only travel expenses twixt Westminster and constituences allowed.
+1 and their home in the constituency should be a council flat, which they have to give up on failure to win re-election.
And election by random selection. A totally random selection of citizens couldn’t possibly be more venal than the bunch of cunts we have now.
Strict 5 year terms, and payment based on the number of laws they repeal rather than pass – no expenses and no lobbying allowed.
Guido
DUEMA is now under threat from the traitors, I urge you to call a urgent meeting and get “Operation Fightback”up and running, the rebels are on the move, they are dangerous.
We must save Ed!
Time for re-launch number 521, Comrades !
Go fuck yourself you huhne
No. Get rid of the ridiculous Militwit, replace him with (this is where my plan starts to fall apart) someone within Labour who isn’t a complete cretin, and the Cons will be forced to up their game by ditching the loathsome traitor Cameron and replacing him with (this is where my plan completely falls apart) someone who isn’t pro-EU filth.
Best to go for middle ground Tess.
Don’t get rid of militwit he’s doing a great job destroying the remnants of labour that gordon left behind.
Hold your breath and hang on to cameron. He might just ditch the libdems, who are drowning slowly & painfully and call an election in which he promjses us a referendum on our membership of the eu.
The best PM’s are the one’s like Mrs T who boldly seize the moment, take the river at flood and all that!!
We can but hope.
The brother David is waiting humbly for the call. At the moment he is restoring the fortunes of Sunderland Football Club (no mean feat) and will happily do the same for the tatters of UK plc.
Brother David? Are you suffering from terminal amnesia?
Fucking brilliant it could take years to gey him out of the Dominican Republic. Pack the suntan oil and the bathers boys. The sunny Caribbean here we come !!
Thanks to recent advances in forensic accountancy, tell us what you want to prove and we’ll invent a test to prove him guilty. Kerching!
No no no it were his wife what done it.
“money laundering, fraud and theft” could well be the corporate motto of most in the banking fraternity (what does it sound like in latin?). Did he never manage to get a knighthood out of it, wot not even an OBE ?.
‘laundering pecunia, furtum, fraudem’…
Thanks, just need the heraldic device to go with it, Black Horse rampant… no that’s already been done, err, a boulder being rolled over a cliff (better leave Barclays Bank out of it).
Ask Mr Lakelander who is excellent at that sort of thing.
In the nominative case, ablutio pecuniae, fraus, furtum. It would be better in the ablative, so that it meant ‘By money laundering, fraud, theft’, and with -que after the last word to mean ‘and’. That would be ablutione pecuniae, fraude, furtoque. Mottos ought to be short, and just the last two, fraude furtoque, have a good alliterative ring: ‘By fraud and theft’.
A bit of a fiery debate going on at the Imdb message board for The Iron Lady. One thread is “Should have been called The Woman who saved Britain”, another is “Should have been called The Woman who ruined Britain”.
Saved Britain??!! *I* saved the world!!
Before bankrupting Britain and going into hiding in Scotland.
Fancy lunch tomorrow, Gordon ?
Good idea. You can each compare then how much money you’ve both made since the financial collapse that you both engineered.
gordon apparently made £1.7million last year over and above his mp salary, expenses, office expenses and 24 hour round the clock security officers – totalling somewhere around £500k. Yes and its peanuts I know compared to bliars carry ons.
How much have you managed to coax out of the international community this last 12 months fred?
But those security officers are for our protection. Imagine if The Man Who Saved The World brought his local beach down south
Well let’s face it there’ll never be a movie about bliar that provokes a debate about whether he saved Britain or not.
The only debates that will rage about bliar will be how many people he killed in his illegal wars and how many £millions he made out of it all afterwards.
I can assure anyone who is any doubt that she saved Britain and also the East European countries.
Labour was the party of the Unions and ban the bomb. Before Maggie came to power the ordinary citizen did not hold shares and had to wait years to get a phone line and a Union could even call a national strike without balloting its members first.
The country was in a total mess and I mean TOTAL MESS. For Labour to say otherwise is disgusting. One thing I respect Tony Blair for is that he Respects Maggie and I think even Gordon does.
Always wondered why BBC stopped showing and making ‘The Rock n Roll Years’, constant reshowing of Labour misery, with a ‘groovey sound track’ and then Tory good times was too much uncommon purpose.
I can assure anyone who is any doubt that she saved Britain and also the East Europe an countries.
Labour was the party of the Unions and ban the bomb. Before Maggie came to power the ordinary citizen did not hold shares and had to wait years to get a phone line and a Union could even call a national strike without balloting its members first.
The country was in a total mess and I mean TOTAL MESS. For Labour to say otherwise is disgusting. One thing I respect Tony Blair for is that he Respects Maggie and I think even Gordon does.
Red Robbo @ British Leyland. Say no more. I rest my case your honour.
The rest of the World used to called this Country the Sick Man of Europe.
Thatcher changed ALL that.
It was painful but, as ever, it was the Labour ‘governments’ of Wilson & Callaghan that had earned us that sobriquet.
Yes indeed and Scargill!! Let’s not forget him!!
and mcgarky – but only his mum understood anything he said
Very true sir, very true. I am increasingly getting fed up with the BBC re-writing history. This country was a basket case before Maggie came to power and yes we were the sick man of Europe. Labour and the unions had all but done for us.
How the BBC can deny that, makes me totally sick.
If we are really going to be a free nation it’s time to get rid of our marxist state tv and radio.
I feel absolutely sure it will fetch a reasonable sum for the taxpayer sold on the international market. The biased news programme is worthless of course -no respectable tv company would want it.
But it’s drama section and its natural history programmes, notwithstanding attenborough’s last debacle to agw, would fetch a handsome sum.
I couldn’t even get buried.
just heard again on the bbc that admiral nelson was a black man – it was a diane abbot interview
BBC re-writing history – no, no, no
Well to be honest I did not find it painful at all, just enlightening and en powering. Good times
Forgot to put the link. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1007029/board/
They’re going to make a film about Ed Miliband’s bid to become our next Prime Minister.
The working title is Mission Impossible 5.
Are they going to call it cain and abel?
coin & obel?
a remake of ‘Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?’ perhaps.
Can’t get that quality of music in Britain.
No, it’ll co-star Diane Abbott and be a remake of Dumb And Dumber.
“DUEMA fightback Guardian i/v: “I took on Murdoch”, “hard wire fairness into economy”, “no vacuum”. Whooosh #SaveEd guyfawk.es/wkqoG0″
This comment says everything that needs to be said about militwit!!
Roll up ! Roll up ! Come ‘n’ get yer soundbites ‘ere ! Roll up ! Roll up !
Sadly that’s what labour is reduced to – soundbites!
Heads up. Ed’s spinner Chris Leslie is on Newsnight shortly to defend his boss!
He’ll have to spin faster than the Large Hadron Collider to spin Red Ed out of the soft Brown and smelly.
You cab just smell an election in June. Go for it Cameron!
can not cab.
Cab ? Cab ? They never stop for me !
She needs to follow the example of boris and get a bike!!
It’ll do her the world of good!! And save us the poor old put upon taxpayer a fortune!!
Fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go around
Yep, a night of passion with the likes of Fatbott, swe ating and wheezing their way through ten minutes of sex ( if they could last that long without stuffing their gobs with more curried goat ) before they conk out and snore the rest of the night away, is an experience I can live without thanks.
Kirsty Wark telling Chris Leslie on Newsnight that Labour don’t have a credible plan.
A fleeting, dream-like glimmer of having an impartial uniquely-funded-with-menaces state broadcaster.
Wark asking Leslie how much Labour would reduce deficit by and he keeps dodging the question.
Say what you like about the bbc but Kirsty Wark is tearing Labour’s Chris Leslie apart.
How come you missed 71?
A wet tissue is not all that difficult to tear apart
That taxpayer funding idea is the way the politicos will try and get it, on the basis it is the lesser of two evils. A few practicalities to iron out though:
People forming a new party to get their hands on some cash
Funding going to all and sundry including those slightly more “edgy” ones with the the non-PC views – not sue how the BBC and Guardian will welcome that one…
How much to give? enough for a few leaflets and an annual conference, or enough for a professional bunch of managers to move in?
Would all other donations be banned?
How to value people giving their time instead of money?
I’m only asking……..
Sorry to tell you this but there aren’t any easy answers.
So, let’s get this right: you can’t trust the swine
And you have to bribe them to stay in line
Well, I’d call that blackmail (if we still can)
No wonder the country’s gone down the pan
The very idea that voters must pay
The ponces to shaft them every which way
On top of salaries and expenses
Would offend even a moron’s senses
I’ve already posted this above (see discussion above 149), but I think it is worth a repeeeet for those who missed it. On reflection I think I might increase the proposed salaries to say 75k.
“No. The alternative is to do away completely with the party system and just have say 150 totally independent MPs who would be paid say 50k a year to do the job. Only travel expenses twixt Westminster and constituences allowed.”
why would you put up salaries when there people queuing up to become mps. a good reason to reduce mp salaries. get real you lot.
What are Silicone implants?
Ed Balls and Ed Miliband.
Racist !! Oh, I thought you said silly cuuns…
So why if a woman goes to a private plastic sugeon to get her tits done up, why does she want me to pay to put it right when it all goes pear shaped?
Not that I dislike pear shaped tits.
They are victims of evil racist white men, nearly everyone is a victim of evil racist white men and they must be made to pay for all their racist evil do you see? 99% of all victims everywhere on the planet are victims of white men, these criminals must be destroyed but first worked and taxed into penury. White men, what crimes have they not committed against everyone?
So why if a woman goes to a private plastic sugeon to get her tits done up, why does she want me to pay to put it right when it all goes pe@r shaped?
Not that I dislike pe@r shaped tits.
I fail to see how ordinary Joe Jamaican will be even slightly better off if his head of state is a politician and not the Queen.
You Whities just divide and rule.
Never mind ordinary Jamaicans. This means that privileged Jamaicans can’t be honoured with Knighthoods, OBEs, MBEs and so on. What will become of my kids?
They’re being privately educated in France aren’t they?
Diane Abbot says he’sa racist as well !
She says Usain Bolt is as well.
Behind scenes Making of The Iron Lady film on More4 now.
This DUEMA thingy doesn’t seem to be having any effect. http://bit.ly/Azs6C2
Thankfully, the Liebour party don’t do
Edicideregicide“Liberal Democrats’ biggest donor arrested in the Caribbean”
Can you extradite a man for crass stupidity?
Only if there is a bilateral treaty (and he’s not American)
Caption Contest.
Ed practices for walk on part as silicone implants removal man
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/06/article-2083355-0E22202600000578-829_468x326.jpg
Probably as a kid he watched Soupy Sales, and it rubbed off.
http://s11.allstarpics.net/images/orig/z/2/z2dixx83h9e6h3ex.jpg
The Lib Dems should return the Michael Brown money voluntarily, otherwise it should be confiscated under the Proceeds of Crime Act and returned to the people from whom it was stolen and Vince Cable should be made to share a cell with Chris Hoon.
When I saw the headline: “Brown, missing fraudster arrested” for one split second I thought…
And with a bit of luck have to service the same daddy too
Headline in Standard = “Fraudster Brown Arrested”
Just for a moment…
Did you tweet that from your Tuscany villa whilst sipping on champagne Polly?
Gaze at THIS, ya Twit ya:
Using ‘forensic’ (= having to do with a law court) to mean ‘precise’ is a good indication that the writer’s hand is moving while her brain is in neutral. It’s one of those meaningless buzzwords like ‘synergy’ or ‘vibrant’ that alert you to the fact that you are being showered with crap.
I think the presence of “Polly Toynbee” at the beginning of the tweet (twat, twot, twaddle?) is an ample guarantee of the proposition that you are in close proximity to a veritable Vesuvius of verbal vacuity, never mind a shower of shit.
comments si reef butt facts are scared
The best Polly can hope for is that Ed Miliband introduces a Balanced Transitional Contingency Paradigm, or perhaps just fucks off, instead.
You mean Ed’s policy should be based on our old potter’s wheel interlude ?
I met that fellow some 60 years ago. He used to work in a shed somewhere near Guildford as I recall. I still have the pic, taken around 1951, somewhere in a box in the attic. Clever fellow he was.
BTCP? Sounds like a medicine or toilet cleaner.
Goodnight.
More LibCon sleaze
More tripe from Jimmy, Tripe Butcher to Labour Royalty.
what about Mrs Duffy ?
Anyone have a photo of Diane riding a bike? She’d save taxi fares.
We don’t want to frighten the kids.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083412/New-EU-deal-freeze-Britain-France-Germany-gang-single-market.html
Grab popcorn
Dont worry Billy dasterdly EU is trying all sorts of wrestle holds and pox prmises if we dont comply , only 5 and bit months to tough it out before , wouldnt touch it with barge poll situation is obvious election winner
So where’s our referendum then?
Apparently he defrauded the man united chairman , mmmm not be having that lib dem conference at Gmex then …….
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My God. It is a Good Morning Now
Arrested for giving 2.4m to lib/dems.
Arrested and sectioned, weaving willow baskets for a while.
Or one might say ,
“The biggest donut in the history of the Labour Party was one pin-headed Gordon Brown, who gave away 395 tons of the nation’s gold for a front-row seat picking his nose next to Tony Blair. He turned out to be a pin-headed thief and should have been charged with money laundering, fraud and theft before he went on the run. He has not been arrested in the Dominican Republic…”
You had to remind us of the cretinous Caledonian cyclops, didn’t you. My New Year’s resolution not to think of that useless cunt and the damage he did to our country is now broken.
I hope you’re proud of yourself.
Today, I shall sit on my potty and count plops with my abacus.
The sad thing is, think what a honest person running a British manufacturing business could have done with 2.4 million.
Is he being extradited or rescued ?
Chalk stripes, surely?
Whatever they are, he scrubs up really well and could be mistaken for a Tory donor. As he’s not Asian or apparently a pal of Blair, I deduce, Watson, that he isn’t Labour Party Donor material.
I am, however, very surprised that he isn’t tucked up safely in the comfort of the House of Lords among the other criminal “Ermine Vermin”. Cable and Clegg aren’t really on top of this corruption lark, and have a really steep learning curve to match the exploits of the other two Parties.
So Vince is right. Good of you to point it out.
This crook could join the coalition he’d be more at home there with the treacherous Lib Dem hypocrites and other millionaires in the party.