Tim Yeo Made £10,000 From Green Interests In July Alone
£336 an Hour Conflict of Interest for Select Committee Chair
Guido has said before that if you replace the word “green” with “oil” then Tim Yeo’s conflicts of interests would see him facing the sack. The Tory backbencher might be stepping down as chairman of Eco City Vehicles following Guido’s revelations about the company last month, but the latest Register of Members’ Interests reveals the Energy and Climate Change select committee chairman is still raking in the cash from his green investments. To the tune of ten grand a month.
Yeo was paid £4,340 for 12 hours work for AFC Energy in July, pocketing another £5,416 from TMO Renewables – the company who signed a multi-million pound contract with China the day Yeo lobbied for more direct flights to the country. Overall Yeo made £336 an hour from his outside green interests in July, all while serving as chair of the Energy and Climate Change select committee. With No.10 starting to raise concerns how many more jobs will Yeo have to resign from before the questions go away…
The more I hear the less I like about this fucker. And that Gummer bastard.
Get that sunlight out of here !
A mere amateur in my view, guys…………
Mmmm…..a Blair Green Foundation………….now that’s cool to rule, Britannia! There’s money in them there hills!
New Labour, New Money
Same old Tories – trough, trough, trough.
Sanctimony.
Yeo know it’s right…
How about Pickles?
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jDpk7N51b1aeWR8n0MrFE635RFnw?docId=A35607481347390136A00004
Is this one his bruvva?
Could be an interest for other members.
I caught this on Woman’s Hour (in the car). E Coli abounds and kids can’t/don’t wash their hands. Bloody disgrace.
Yeo must be joking.
He gives politicians a bad name!
Correction, an even worse name.
He spends a lot of time doing deals with China, perhaps we should call him Chairman Yeo
..and his little
redgreen book.Not as much time as Fatty Pang……the Tory who made the BBC even more Left Wing!
Is that even possible?
Cross-hairs time.
hune to be banged up ‘real soon now’, crosshairs?
It is likely that the trial judge will be Mr Justice Fulford, who is currently a judge of the International Criminal Court.
Trial to last about two weeks. Should help the figures on here.
Will the Jury be asked to affirm they have not visited the order-order threads concerning Huhne?
Tim Yeo’s conflict of interest is small beer compared with mine. Not only am I an MP but I am the only Councillor with executive responsibility in the UK. In Portsmouth I hold the planning portfolio, which I run entirely for the satisfaction of my boys, so that they can launder their drug profits through property development, this in turn leads to political donations and grateful backhanders such as my villa in Spain. Concerned constituents have complained about this blatant conflict of interest to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner who found that I was doing nothing wrong. So much for the regulation of MP’s! Boaz
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/audit_trail_of_political_donatio#incoming-137471
I have had many complaints of conflict of interest about this MP holding the planning portfolio in Portsmouth at the same time as being an MP and have found that many MP’s have second jobs. The fact that Mike’s constituents cannot complain to their MP about any planning irregularities, because he is hardly likely to investigate himself, I find to be entirely irrelevant. If any more complaints are made about this MP, I will report back after six months, when time has expired for criminal prosecution, that I do not have the powers to investigate. Boaz.
Boaz commissioner.
The sleaze never stops – these people will never stop till we jail them. This will not happen and cynicism will corrode all hope in our ‘democracy’.
Very very dispiriting.
I am afraid that the future tense may be out of place. The rot started with Thatcher, then B£liar, then Broon, now Gideon & Co. Political parties are dead in the water imho.
The rot started with Robert Walpole. He was on the take big time.
What trade to we want with china? They send us as much as they can already, so perhaps it should be about selling them rolls royces and whisky.
So there should be more direct flights from Derbyshire or Scotland.
scotland’s biggest export is not whisky, it is buscuits.
Scotland’s biggest export is people with ambition. It’s greatest untapped ‘resource’ is a bottomless pool of belligerent drunks which it keeps at home. Except for football matches.
I’m of a peculiar demographic that remembers when they used to make cars in scotland. how peculiar.
The French shut it down.
Is it not far more likely that the unions shut it down?
hahahahaaahhaaaa profound irony.
It was a scheme to increase employment. They built the cars up there but the parts suppliers were all still in the midlands so everything had to be hauled up. I heard a story that a shop steward from the midlands went to the factory for a visit and asked “why are you having a ‘go slow’? only to be told that it was the normal working speed.
Rootes group made some interesting cars and some rotters. But ultimately they died because they were an old fashioned, conservative and patrician company, unsuited to the modern world.
And now it looks a lot like we’re going to be saying adieu to Peugeot.
Ha Ha Ha. C’est la vie as they used to say in Ryton, the Midlands car factory that Peugeot closed under the last Labour Government. In fairness Labour’s Secretary of state for Trade and Industry Alan Johnson said at the time that he was “extremely disappointed” so thats alright then.
Pyewjot is doing remarkably well in the far east. I think they have a screwemtogether plant or two in Thailand and/or Malaysia.
Otherwise known as SKD – semi knock down.
Biscwits?
Duerrs……….. marmalade
What a vile little toe rag – or is that language too strong for this blog?
You’re new here, right ?
Made Oi larf!
He is definitely new here – why? because he knows how to spell toe rag correctly.
How much tax has he paid?
20% tax on dividends from his company I would guess. His wife and children, as the most likely shareholders/fellow directors, will probably be receiving dividends taxed at 20% too.
See Ken Livingston for how it all works.
Heading to Birmingham shortly with @Ned_Miliband for the Road Haulage Association Conference. Our RHA are health providors for this country!
Even I can spell provider.
Clever you, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that the RHA members are up to their ears in the predistribution business.
Is it true that his wife took the carbon credits?
No she was actually in the Chairmans seat at the time, she was also wearing a grey wig and driving a windmill powered BMW M5
What happened to Huhne by the way, are the ‘authorities’ hoping we’ll just forget?
No company would allow such a conflict of interest in one of its officers so why does Gov. Uk?
I used to believe the British were above this but Yeo could teach third world dictators a thing or two about duplicity.
Kick him to the curb Cameron. And why are Labour so fucking silent? I’d actually applaud them if they went for this oily bastard.
+1
where are the labs, or are they all in on the scam too?
Bingo!
You have the answer, sir…
” And why are Labour so fucking silent? ”
Pots calling kettles black?
See also: Climate change minister Greg Barker’s thorny relationship with his adviser http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/11/minister-greg-barker-adviser?CMP=twt_gu
England boss Roy Hodgson is more confident that his side will reach the 2014 World Cup following their 1-1 draw with Ukraine.
Reminds me of the headline – usa beat england at football 1-1 . . .
Ukraine? Yeah
I am absolutely disgusted by this.
I think a great big cheque should be winging its way towards the Uk Treasury to pay down the National Debt.
Mr Cameron has had plenty of time too to have gone on telly by now to say how shocked and appalled he is .
That’s great cheddar you make, Yvonne. But my Tesco’s stopped selling it. I suppose you couldn’t afford to pay them for the shelf space.
Cameron will only go on telly to tell us ‘he has full confidence in…..’
Blair did it often enough for Cameron to have latched onto the ‘bright idea’.
Yeo’s favorite song
” The hills are alive with the sound of ££££££s”
If I were a Rich Man (Oh I already am)…
Your dead …right.
Yeo is the personification of what’s wrong with politics. Wonder if he is friends with Chris Huhne?
The shocking thing is, we are no longer shocked.
and I am shocked that I no longer care.
If we’re no longer shocked it’s because we’ve become kind of numb. That’s no reason to tolerate politicians’ crimes.
Difficult to imagine how anyone could be friends with Flash Chris.
Aren’t our politicians awful ? Rife with self-interest and personal power.
They manage to manoeuvre the broadcast and written media in supporting
minority causes and sub-cultures in our society. Whilst demonising huge numbers of concerned Brits for self-evident worries and fears.
What the fuck is wrong with them ?
It’s not them it’s us.
90% of voters have no clue as to who or what they are voting for.
And a similar %age are taught by would be commies.
They are thinking about getting a guard dog to protect Dave. I hope it’s not Battersea Butch, we never really hit it off.
Nah, more likely to be the senile labrador that used to wander round the Latchmere looking for crisps.
Would it not be easier to put a curfew order on Nad and send GS4 around to put an electronic tag on her?
G4S. Is that the company which wants paying in full for the Olympics?
But let her out on November 5. Some one might stick her on a bonfire.
Bah bah bah bah, bah bah bah,
Bah bah bah bah bah.
Ask Paul O’Grady. He’s apparently an expert
The BBC and the Guardian think green crime is not a crime. Zoe Williams said so in her paper review. Tory Ian Dale calling Yeo a Crook, Lefty Zoe Williams calling Yeo a good man.
Our MPs are totally out of control.
Who is responsible for them?
Mr Speaker?????
We MPs need to supplement our income somehow, especially since that unfortunate decision to scrutinize our expenses more closely.
Thankfully I didn’t have to stay away too long and am now comfortably back on the gravy train. Good luck to Tim….up the Greens !
It is of course a pantomime….
http://fenbeagleblog.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/all-a-din/
Jolly good show, just goes to prove that politics hasn’t and cannot be cleaned up.
This man is an immoral profiteer and peculator
I would suggest putting all the nasty industrial/ power generation stuff in one place and leaving the rest of the UK for bunnies and badgers. I propose the Isle of Wight
there was talk some time ago of the euro development being
german industrial
france restaurant
england boutique
ireland national park
We are doing our bit.
Guido I think you are just a little jealous of Yo Yeo and his equivalent hourly pay , it’s a free capitalist market (which you approve of) so thet can pay him hat they like, with of course the proviso that he informs the powers that be of any personal interests he has in the companies he has a interest in that have interest in outcome of the decisions of the committee.
In all the commentary over this that I’ve seen, no one seems to observe that resigning as a director from a company is not really an appropriate resolution of the conflict of issue.
He’s still in charge of the relevant committees and for us to be told that his decision making process can now suddenly be considered impartial is just taking the piss.
The real resolution to Yeo’s conflict of interest should have been the resignation, indeed removal, from the political post and not one of the minor commercial ones.