Lebedev Links Lost Bryant Shad Cab Role
Labour Unease at Billionaire Buddies
When Chris Bryant took his column at the Indy back in September, we wrote:
“Coincidentally Chris is a friend of Lebedev’s son Evgeny and was at a recent dinner party with the oligarch’s offspring. Evgeny “speaks regularly” to Chris Blackhurst, no doubt about the weather…”
When we pointed out yesterday that Bryant was not declaring an interest when speaking on Russian matters, despite the £14,000 he has got so far in this deal, we seem to have struck a nerve. Hardly a surprise when Labour insiders have already expressed concern. One described it to Guido as “an extraordinarily close relationship to a newspaper proprietor, if you look at anything he says about anyone else.” The loss making Indy is entirely subsidised financially by the Russian oligarch.
One theory in Labour circles is that the reason Bryant missed out on a Shadow Cabinet position was because of the Lebedev-Moscow connection. Those that work with him point out he is articulate and capable, and anyone who has had the pleasure of being attacked by Bryant would not question his campaigning skills. He was widely tipped for the top team in the October 2011 Shadow Cabinet reshuffle, yet mysteriously – a month after signing up for the Indy’s Moscow gold – he remains out in the cold.
Tom Watson’s influence has grown under Ed Miliband’s weak leadership, for instance Watson keeps a tight grip on vital areas such as candidate selection. It is no secret that there is no love lost between him and Bryant and it’s said ”they never really got on”, despite their work on the phone hacking scandal. Bryant refused to answer our questions when we put it directly to him earlier that Watson has expressed concern about the Lebedev connection directly to him. Curiouser and curiouser…
UPDATE: Bryant has got in touch to deny any pressure from Watson. Guido has sent follow up questions…
But i thought they were united against MURRRRRRRDOCHHHH. maybe Tom didnt like Chris calling for the mirror to be invesigated?
Is Lebedev junior a gayer?
He’s screemingly Gay.
When Dave makes homosexual marriage the law. Maybe he and Chris will tie the knot.
http://luckycrackers.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
The left are riddled with them
Alan Duncan?
Folks, I jest KNOW thsi is true about Comrade Bryant — Alex Jones and David Ike said so, so there!
Is Cameron planning to make gay marriage compulsory then?
I think you mean when he makes it legal rather than the law.
No , what I said first. The Law
I am The Law. And I recommend Blue Light Global Solutions for all your law enforcement needs. Coming soon to a murder investigation near you.
It will be the law.
Trust me.
I’m surprised they don’t get on – they are both twats of the highest order.
Any suggestion of improper behaviour by myself is wholely untrue.
My only concern and ambition is to serve my constituents back in Powey Powyis or whatever it is called. Any insinuation that I have not acted with the highest regard for openess and honesty in public life at all times, is an affront to my husbands name and I repudiate it vigorously.
I’m just thankful we can only see your head.
I dread to think what you’re wearing.
Twatty certainly keeps a grip on MY vital areas, – ducky.
‘Grimypants’ wasn’t in the ‘Forces of Hell’ cabal, was he ?
twatson’s power is growing under militwit’s weak leadership and labour is slowly going down the plughole.
good it couldn’t be happening to a ‘nicer’ bunch of people !
as for chrisbryant – well I’m not anti-gay but I think someone who professed christian principles and then splashed photo’s of himself in his knickers all over the web is a fairly contemptuous piece of horsedung.
Oh dear, have Piggy Watson and Underpants Bryant fallen out of love now that the Leveson milking oppertunities have died down?
What a shame.
Can’t say i’m surprised panties Bryant has this particular skeleton rattling in his closet.
So if Bryant is in bed with a newspaper owner should he not declkare this?
Nonsense Rupert. There are somethings one should declare and others one should not. For example, I never declared my true relationship with Russia nor did I declare that I was shagging one of their young citizens for 4 years. Boaz.
I hate to say it but I agree with Watson on this one
The oligarchs have done enough damage already by buying UK passports and creating a new virginity after having pillaged Russia
Any MP taking their cash should be suspect (like their solicitors)
Have the Mirror turned on Ed?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/in-his-18-months-as-leader-ed-milibands-754967
You can’t polish a nerd.
I’ve always thought ‘nerd’ and ‘geek’ too modern for Ed. He comes from an old fashioned leftie royalty background (uni teachers) and ‘twerp’ is a more appropriate word.
I totally agree. The titles nerd and geek are for clever people, who know about org-mode and gauge transformations. They are not for politicians or media people, who are to a man (or woman) thick and stupid.
Agreed Nerds and Geeks are innovative and creative. They have been resposible fr brilliant scientific and technological advances and are a key component to our progress.
Miliband is just an arse.
You might like to check out this Miliband family portrait. It will answer the question as to what to call him.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61QTQP6R9ZL.jpg
The boy with dandruff, an ill fitting uniform and greasy hair, so pointless that he wasn’nt even worthy of bullying
pillock or wazzock springs to mind
DUEMA has its work cut out.
Don’t underestimate Ed Milliband
I strongly doubt it’s possible.
Maguire was on Radio 5 Labour yesterday after PMQ’s and he said Ed had missed a great opportunity – he didn’t mince his words. So he is being openly critical now.
It could just be that Bryant is rubbish. He comes across as vain and pompous.
Still £14,000? I wonder if the people in his constituency know he’s so wealthy whilst they’re so poor.
I hope he uses an offshore company and sets himself up as a charity to hide this wealth.
The offices of Chris Bryant and Barry the lorry driver not for profit organisation should be sufficient to avoid paying a penny.
Income -£14,000
staffing costs- Tax-20% – £7,000 x 2 {under taxable limit}
NI costs 11.5%- £0. Self employed
Employers NI costs 12.5% – £0 – self employed
Expenses – paper..ink..printer ..laptop. research materials – £5,000
No tax payable.
Its great Chris. Gordon and i don’t pay a penny and we’re getting paid sums a banker would be envious of.
Does it get paid to a Company he owns a la Red ‘Pay your taxes’ Ken?
Maybe fatso watson could end up as the one ousts millitwat, now that could end up with the labour con artists in the HoC being down to single figures
Normally chris fires back over twitter, it seems he has done this via mail or DM this time.
Looks like this has further to run.
Re your reference to Daily Mirror “Ed is rubbish” article…
Has Toilets Maguire turned his coat ?
I thought it was Thuggie Whelan, Toilets Maguire, Teamster-Unite trade union and various other unsavoury Labour power brokers who got Ed Milliband elected Leader …
International Men’s Day falls on 19 November
Sounds like a bum bandit convention…
And that wIll improve my life how exactly ?
It won’t. you aren’t international enough.
Meanwhile in another part of the Dead Tree Press
Serious allegations and threats concerning Murdoch’s people
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-07/news-corp-evidence-of-obstruction-mounts-amid-james-murdoch-s-resignation.html
They have been destroying thousands of e mails for months now, as well
Did they use the industrial shredder Tony B£iar’s staff used to destroy his expenses ?
You can’t destroy emails. During their passge through the Internet, they are copied so many times by so many servers it’s impossible to keep track.
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Went for a walk. it was quite windy. Luckily I had a scarf.
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Who is this woman? Do I know her from somewhere? Is she the one who called me a bigot?
do us a favour and hang yourself with it – no on second thoughts hang that miserable piece of shit of a hubby with it – then kill yourself
thanks !!
I know we live in strange times, but how can a man who photographed himself in his underpants , and placed photo online in an attempt to meet other homos. for casual sex, ever be considered for a cabinet post ? It should have been the end of his career, perhaps even an invitation to sit in a room with only a bottle of whisky and a revolver for company . Has the Labour party any standards ?
“Has the Labour party any standards ?”
You are such a hoot!
Nope no standards at all. Excepting low standards that is.
But is seems that it is one rule for gayers and another rule for the rest. If Bryant had done exactly the same but this time advertised for casual sex with women he would no lo0nger be an MP.
To be fair it was good enough for The Church of England
No. No standards at all.
The bottom of the barrel has been scraped so many times, there’s no bottom left.
I’ll be the judge of that.
Similarly, the end of Handycock’s career should have been reached years ago. His exploits with Angel and the string of ‘sexy texts’, his recent ‘teen-fondling’ admissions, the four-year affair with Katya, the blood-curdling stories which came back from his trips to Rumania, the well-documented affairs with his staff and activists – all on top of those earlier tales of under-age sex (never proved bcause the girl refused to testify). He must be enjoying the protection of his LibDem party bosses because of his generous donations to the party and doubtless the protection of the brotherhood as has so often been suggested in these columns.
He gives me the horn
Death to Billy
I saw him first, now bugger off you mincing queen, he’s all mine.
Theres no need for that. Considering that the Daleks were sometimes done by the same man that did Zippy and George- the voice for, I mean- they sometimes did sound like they were exterminating for the other team.
That ‘Chat with Russian Women’ ad you are running is a bit of an improvement on your normal Grannie dating sites
But the advertising is targated at the cookies on your pute.
In that case the ads are disappointingly tame
Is he auditioning for a part in ”Carry on up the Wapping’
What a nasty piece of work he is. The grease drips from him.
Is Gordon Brown a Rangers Director?
Is Brown a Rangers supporter – who believed him that he was a fan of Raith Rovers?
But if it hadn’t been for Brown’s mad tax regime, Rangers wouldn’t be in the shit.
Well, that’s Rangers down the toilet then. They might as well all go home.
Tom Watson doesn’t like Chris Bryant. Why, I am starting to like Chris. Just a little bit, but it’s a start.
For anyone Tom “Self-Serving” Watson does not like cannot be all bad…
They are not mutually exclusive, you can, like me, loath the pair of them.
True. But I know people who live in Watson’s constituency. He’s an even worse MP than people think.
We know why Bryant and Watson don’t get on well– Bryant’s just a tad too “Independent,” you might say, for Mr Control-Freak Make-Sure-You-Run-It-Past-Ol’-B!lly-Bunter-First Watson. Heaven forbid MP’s should have a personality and wish to be “celebrity politicos.” Can’t have that; Tommy Boy controls the message and the messenger where Labour policies are concerned, it’s his remit as Deputy Leader in charge of campaigns. It’s why he’s a Shadow(y) sorta-Minister instead of a Front Bencher, so he can sit on his committee overseeing the media, which he will admit himself (and did so to Guido, awhile back). By doing that, he guarantees that he won’t be continually shown to be the fat prat who either lacks a sense of irony for his mouthings or flat-out doesn’t care. (Despite that caution on his part, he still manages to look the fool often enough that Guido et al can have more fun with him than a human being should be allowed; remember Watson’s Tweets when his car wasn’t ready for him?) Bryant is Geronimo, who can’t stay on the reservation, and that’s why Watson has the fish-eye for him; the media, which Watson wants to control, might want to report on Bryant, whom Watson can’t control, and this gets under Tommy Boy’s skin (and boy, there’s a whole lotta skin to get under, in his case!)
So this Ruskki is paying Bryants “rent”
To be fair, it is a good tune.
Look at me in my undies!
“I’d love a good long f**k”. (Yes, I really did say that.
http://eotp.org/2008/07/17/131-chris-bryant-m-p/
The Underpants Bummer
what a fucking excuse for an mp total fucking gobshite!
I see Ken has been tore a new one by a Lamber member (seen elsewhere) ouch.
http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2012/03/08/an-open-letter-to-ken-livingstone/
Bit rough on paal McCartney.
Bugger. I nearly forgot to automod myself.
I also dated him:
(2011) Agent for New Labour’s Chris Bryant M.P. Stephen Carnell -JAILED FOR SERIOUS CHILD POROGRAGHRAHY: http://eotp.org/2011/11/25/2011-agent-for-new-labours-chris-bryant-m-p-stephen-carnell-jailed-for-serious-child-porograghrahy/
I’m finally getting dressed.
Arrived…..Godot!
Guido- do we know if he has paid full Tax on this 14k or has he set up a private company as most Labour colleagues Brown, Dave Biy Miliband etc etc
Why is an obviously starving young woman being paraded around Leicester in front of cheering crowds at the moment. For Gods sake give her a feed.
?????
the clue is in leicester.
probably look like a spot on a domino
Take her down Belgrave Road for a Balti. Ma’am
One way or another the greedy Bryant gets money out of the newspapers.
What have labour got to say about Bryant and Ken Livingstone. Labour’s latest ploy as seen in PMQ’s is to select individual cases re Ed Miliband and Joan Ruddock. So let’s know what labour think about Bryant and Livingstone.
Ed Miliband doesn’t get it Mr.Speaker, he doesn’t know the answer. The public do Miliband!
Why is my comment awaiting moderation (2:48). Fucking shit useless Guido.
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Schoolboy error. its guido’s vegophobia.
Je pense, c’est une blague.
Why doesn’t this Hunt do the honourable thing and give the money to a deserving cause.
How about the Yorkshire Regiment Benevolent Fund.
Honourable? He’s Labour and wouldn’t even recognize the word.
Russia is a wonderful country to live in and Putin is a man that loves his countrymen. Now, where can I collect my £14000?
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Been thinking about women all of today. And how lovely they are.
Then someone reminded me it was international women’s day! So now , I even have an excuse!
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Is it me or is Tom Watson acting more and more like a mobster, throwing his weight around like a political Tony Soprano with designer glasses.
With this bunch of bloated idiots and uphill gardeners, Labour will not get in for another decade at least.
There’s quite a lot of weight to throw once the momentum sets in.
Its physics Jim, but not as we know it.
Now that you mention it, there is a SLIGHT resemblance…though Don Tommaso of the Midlands Watson Crime Family has a bit more hair on top.
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/still/the_taking_of_pelham_123_27.jpg
“A strategy for Britain’s long term security and prosperity is at the heart of the government’s approach to foreign policy,” according to a government spokesman.
Oh dear. And everybody here’s too preoccupied that this bloke Bryant might be somewhat of the pants persuasion to moot what calamity that reassuring gobbledegook might boil down to when viewed from a Dave perspective.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17295461
has he actualy gone on a yacht yet?
Lebedev came to my pajama party where I showed him my underwear collection while posing in front of a mirror…
It’s a fair point I suppose. If Bumface ever did anything that might benefit Britain no doubt he would declare an interest too.
The inbred nepotistic cabal that rules the Labour Party have a dicky fit because this guy writes for a paper that nobody reads, owned by someone nobody has heard of.
In the real world we can’t understand why a creep that posts pictures of himself in his underpants on the internet is still in politics.
I used to know Evgeny around the turn of the millenium when he lived in Knightsbridge and it’s a surprise that he has got any money left, the amount of heroin and coke he used to do.
So who is playing mother and who is playing father?
Are Chris and Evgeny bum chums?