Government Consultation to Examine Union Lobbying
The much awaited government consultation paper on the statutory registration of lobbyists will be released on Friday morning. Even if it recommends putting cowbells on these spinmeisters, it wouldn’t stop them…
Guido hears that there will be one section of it that Labour MPs will find particularly uncomfortable. The consultation will include scrutiny of the relationship between politicians and trade unionists, with an eye to making political union officials and liaison officers sign the register. Apparently Canada will be used as a model, unions were forced to register there.
Given the amount of money floating between the unions and Labour, as well as their presumption that they will be consulted before any big decision made by the party, the move seems like a no-brainer. Unions lobby for their vested interests and pay to play. Just take a look at the recent Cash for Votes scandal that saw countless Labour MPs take cheques in election season and do their paymaster’s legislating for the rest of the parliament. Given that millions of taxpayer pounds are channelled to the unions every year, we should know who is being paid to meet the politicians who hand out the cash.
I’ll see your Union Modernisation Fund and raise you an Ashcroft.
The pass through of public money to Labour via the unions comes close to money laundering. That is far worse than Ashcroft.
Q. What have do Lord Sugar, J.K. Rowling and you have in common?
A. All are contributors to the Labour Party (in your case, through the Union Modernisation Fund money laundering scam, and maybe through direct union contributions as well).
Did someone mention money laundering?
I insist you do not mention the IMF in such things. Now down to business, you imbecile British will give me a further £19 billion to *save* the Euro. Your clown le@ders Cameron, Clegg and Osborne all agree this is a fantastic investment and the taxes your children wil pay as a result, a price worth paying.
As usual your pathetic government can make noises about terms and conditions, these conditions are as follows:
1: We agree to pay whatever is demanded.
2: We agree to call these payments “loans”.
3: We may grumble a little for public consumption.
4: Although we call them “loans” they will never be repaid.
5: We stand resolutely, bazooka in hand, to save the Euro.
*save* The word save does not imply anything of the sort, it is merely a disguise for pissing taxpayers money into a corrupt financial black hole.
For your information Madame On’Guard: saving the Euro is an imperative so that interest rates remain VERY low in ALL Euroland countries. This way they will continue to have the great fortune to buy our wonderful Audis, Merc, Beamers an VWs with cheap borrowed money.
It also means that under no circumstances will our ECB be used as a Big Bazooka. We remember 1923 when we had to wheel our precious Deutsche Marks in wheel barrows.
If Ashcroft gave the same money to labour, compared to union money (well, our money laundered though unions) it’d barely make diff.
These MPs should be shot in front of their families.
I think your wife has similar feelings Jezza
Go away, and lets have some serious debate for once
Should MPs be shot in the front, or the back, of the head?
Neither. They should be tied across the mouth of a cannon and blown into vapour.
I still favour shooting in the face.
“Guido hears that there will be one section of it that Labour MPs will find particularly uncomfortable. The consultation will include scrutiny of the relationship between politicians and trade unionists, with an eye to making political union officials and liaison officers sign the register.”
We know a song about that don’t we, pop-pickers?
Rubbish
I have had a very fine dinner this evening rounded off with a few drinks and some interesting conversation. I now get into bed, switch on my laptop amd read that the government intends to do what? Recover the stolen millions? Arrest the fraudsters? Bar the greedy pigs from public office? Apparently not. They will make someone feel ‘uncomfortable’. What a let down.
I’ll have you know I write these strongly worded letters and I don’t come cheap.
The whole political system needs looking at, Liebore and union leaders, lobbyists the likes of Werritty and his relationship to Fox, at a guess those are only the tips of the icebergs, when lobbyists cosy up to politicians, palms greased, millions and billions of pounds involved making those who employ lobbyists very rich, it has happened through out time, how it could be sorted out, I don’t know, all I know is what polilicos, lobbyists and lobbyists want is secrecy about what they are doing, so the thing is to try and do away with the secrecy element for starters and those that contravene that are severely punished. The thing also high-lighted by by the Werritty-Fox affair where even non accredited lobbyists suddenly appear where ever a minister goes it being a complete suprise to both of them, hmmmm! That was certainly a good spot by someone and blogged by Guido.
Lemmy was such a nice young boy, dear. He used to cut my grass.
Frightfully off-topic, Elsie. Well done for still drawing breath, though.
It’s the fucking thick, lazy ni**ers
Get stronger elastic and you’ll find they stop falling down. I buy mine from Millett’s as they do XXXXL in a range of denier.
I av neva been part of the union movement
ow eva
see me gyrate and vote pour moi as madam Le President
xxx
Look, unless she has gone on to do pron I think we are scraping the barrel here.
No, if we were scraping the bottom of the barrel she’d have gone on to do Tron.
Has anyone got this Alice’s number, i’ve really got the hots for her? Teddy bear on it’s way darling.
All sweet so far, NightBot?
E x .Anon x .
No worries, E. Try sleeping baby. We all love you really.
I don’t listen to the BBC anymore, I get all my news from reputable sources.
http://english.pravda.ru/
How times have changed.
with the feeding frenzy that the bbbc and sky have had on this cruise ship going down, it is worth looking elsewhere for news.
RT russia today, will instead show you
– how many american warships are lying just off of iran (much closer than any cuban missiles)
– how many iranian scientists the amiricans have assassinated so far this year
– famine in africa
and so on
what i want to know is how all america’s oil got to be under the middle east?
oh and the demise of the ecu.
Sorry that should have been yuro
What I want to know is why they didn’t/don’t just exterminate the Saudis and take it off them properly.
If they’d done that 30 or 40 years ago we’d never have had any of this Islamic unpleasantness because the fuckers would have had no cash with which to get all jumped up about their ‘special’ status.
A missed opportunity.
As failings go, it’s right up there with failing to nuke Russia in 1946.
Can I introduce your readers to the NHS computerised Online medical diagnosis system. It’s cost tax payers £20 Billion and has taken over 15 yrs to develop.
Although not perfect, testers say that in tests against foreign doctors who do not know any English, patients found it’s diagnoses more accurate and interactions less frustrating.
To operate the system just start off by saying I have XXX can you advise me or something like that.
http://cleverbot.com
Never mind all that union corruption bollocks, what we need is a full and frank public consultation into the surveillance by fake rocks scandal.
If the Commies running our Parliament were getting James Bond to drop these things all over Russia, just how many “innocent” rocks have we had snooping on us here at home, eh?
Next, I suppose they’ll be passing this off as a misplaced ad for a resurrected Goon Show!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16614209
I now get into bed, switch on my laptop amd read that the government intends to do what? Recover the stolen millions? Arrest the fraudsters? Bar the greedy pigs from public office? Apparently not. They will make someone feel ‘uncomfortable’. What a let down.
I wouldn’t use cowbells, it would be leper bells on one inch rope just long enough to stretch to a lamp post.
Perhaps Parliament should produce a menu of what you get for your cash so that the whole business can be brought under the Sale of Goods Act.
Governments so frequently fail to perform it would be nice to see someone getting value for money.
The legalised modern day “MAFIA”, otherwise known as unions.
Always have been and always will be, the “enemy within”.
Just anther group of people living off the state and never having “EARNED” revenue in their lives.
As a member of an unaffiliated trade union i hope the Tories end the links between unions and the labour party.
The labour party wants union cash but hates unions. That’s why they did nothing to overturn thatchers anti-strike laws. That’s why they encouraged full time union officials whose real purpose is to prevent worker militancy and democracy.
Labour should change their name to ‘Tories II’ and end the charade. They’re the ‘left’ wing of Capital in Parliament, always have been, always will be.
I’m not sure either the Conservatives or Labour deserve to cling on to their respective names. Labour wouldn’t know a day’s Labour if their lives depended on it, it’s most definitely the Parasite Party, the Party for the feckless benefit-claiming filth.
The Conservatives? A Party that pisses-away £12billion every year on foreign aid, £13 billion on EU membership and enthusiastically proposes wasting £33billion on a railway no-one wants or needs (and which increased taxes to pay for a lot of this shit) is definitely not Conservative. I can’t think of a good name for it, though. “Cuntservative” probably fits the bill.
Both defend the status quo, i.e. a system by which 500 or so people claim to ‘represent’ 70 million people.
They’re all the same.
About time. Unions siphon money from taxpayers with “modernisation funds” and controlling stooge MPs in parliament.
Anyone got a list of Labour MPs union donations, to whom and how much. Is there also a list of question labour MPs have asked on behalf of their union paymasters.
It’s amazing how 5 or 6 union leaders can control what labour says and does! Ignore what puppet Miliband said the other day, he will soon be put back in his place. Serwotka et al will send the boys round.
Labour / unions the anti democracy coalition.
Sewotka’s union is not affiliated to Labour. Neither is the RMT.
Both however are right- wing unions by historical standards.
Regarding the arrest and charging of the alleged murderer of the Kolars in Birmingham did the UK authorities know that a Rimvydas Liorancas (born 1974) is listed in a Lithuanian document from May 2011 as being wanted for non-payment of child maintenance? Lithuania is an EU member so what would stop this information being available in the UK. Could he have been picked up earlier? What’s the betting he was already known to the police here anyway. I’m sure the Birmingham police are looking after him well.
http://kaveikiavaldzia.lt/docs/2011/05/31/58755
This “future fair for all” that Ed Miliband likes to expouse, does it apply to his brother David? The mahority of labour party members voted for him to be leader.
Not a very fair future for David Miliband.
“mahority”? Oh no, I must have some Spanish ancestry!
Mahority? Didn’t Sherlock Holmes push him off the Reichenbach Falls?
Brazil/: 6th largest economy in the world………….. Why are we still sending Foreign Aid ?