Clegg SpAd McGrory Reported For Partisan Eastleigh Blunder
The gloves are off. Not only are the LibDems planning on moving the writ today for the Eastleigh by-election, but they have also fired the first real shots of the campaign. Sadly for them, those shots were firmly into their own feet. By using his taxpayer-funded Cabinet Office email address to launch Nick Clegg’s by-election campaign last night, LibDem SpAd James McGrory has found himself in hot water on the first day of this very short campaign. Needless to say the partisan attack has gone down rather badly with his coalition partners. Backbench Tory MP Andrew Bridgen scores an easy goal this morning:
Dear Mr Heywood,
I am writing to ask you to investigate a breach of the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers by James McGrory.
The Code of Conduct for Special Advisers, last updated on June 2010, states:
‘You must not act in a way that is determined by party political considerations, or use official resources for party political purposes’
But in an email from his Cabinet Office account on Wednesday 6 February, Mr McGrory contacted journalists to brief a speech to be delivered by Nick Clegg on Thursday 7 February.
The email was saturated with party political content, centred around the upcoming Eastleigh by-election. Most troubling of all was a series of source quotes, stating:
“This is Nick firing the starting pistol on the Eastleigh by-election.
“It’s a speech that sets out the distinctive approach of the Liberal Democrats in the Coalition Government when it comes to tax.
“This is going to be a very keenly contested by-election and Nick is eager to remind the voters of Eastleigh, as well as the rest of the country, that the Liberal Democrats are cutting taxes for those on low and middle incomes.”
The email went on to offer up Nick Clegg and Simon Hughes for interviews around the Eastleigh campaign.
Given its political nature, Mr McGrory’s email therefore appears to be a clear breach of the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers.
I also note that the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers states that those who hold the post must resign it if they wish to campaign in a by-election.
“if they wish to take part in a General, European or by-election campaign, or to help in a party headquarters or research unit during such a campaign, they must first resign their appointment. If they wish their appointment to carry on during a campaign, they may continue to give assistance to their Minister as before, but they must be careful not to take any active part in the campaign. They should not, for example, take part in public meetings or accompany their Minister to party political engagements which are related to the Election campaign”
Upon the conclusion of your investigation, I would therefore be grateful if you could update me as to whether it would be appropriate for Mr McGrory to resign his position.
Yours sincerely,
Andrew Bridgen MP
Activate Sherlock Heywood…
Aha, the Lib Dems have barely started the campaign and already they’re playing dirty and wasting tax payer’s money with moonlighting public sector workers.
Clegg’s on the run now!
The Liberal democrat Party is made up principally of Benders, Perverts and Crooks and I am certainly not a Bender. Boaz.
Heywood won’t do anything – he can’t find his arse with both hands – what chance of finding wrong doing by a like minded, bleeding heart, sandal wearing, weirdy beardy?
Hope we see you on the stump with us up here in Eastleigh Handy. We need all the help we can get for this by-election.
Such basic stuff – they are proper amateurs – haven’t a clue!
I do hope he put this in the public domain.
Can’t we just hang the LibDems?
The Tories too. And Labour. And that David Nicholson. A communist in charge of the NHS, who’d a-thunk it?
Who appointed him, was it the evil McMad, it was certainly during the reign of terror.
And why is dave standing by him?
Stand by your man. Daisy Cameron is gonna get half of his votes haemoraging to UKIP and we’ll finally get someone with some Balls to sort out this economy.
Bridgen could have put it in fewer words and with more effect.
As for the Lib Dem Spad youngster; anyone resorting to finger wagging has a very grave defect in formulating and delivering effective communication.
Unless he is counting beats to the bar – take that as how it comes.
Resign. Now. If his resignation is not received today then he must be dismissed, and a formal spoken apology given in the House.
Enough is enough.
Surely not? Is there not a Mrs McGrory who could resign instead whilst admitting it was she who dispatched the emails?
I’ve never heard of this McGrory but he sounds incompetent and shifty.
He’ll go far in politics.
Yes indeed have him bathed and sent round to my chambers. I have a new ritual to practice that requires a political virgin.
Classic comment!!
I have still not discovered the difference twixt a High Steward and a Bar Steward.
How can someone who’s obviously a very-recent sixth-former be a spad? FFS, his worldly-wiseness must be very close to zero.
You are the Hyphenator and I claim my £5.
How can someone who’s obviously a very-recent sixth-former be a spad?
He has a nice tight bottom
Spad = souder pipe à derriere
Doh!
What a useless yellow Hunt…… sack ‘im !
Sack him? This is the public sector. He will be warned but will not lose a penny, yet alone his job.
As we saw with the NHS yesterday you can slay thousands of patients and not one person is demoted, yet alone sacked.
Yes, but the NHS Deathcamps were only doing their job, surely?
Freeing-up council houses for immigrants and the ever-growing tide of chavs. By fair means or foul.
At least those in social housing aren’t snobs or liberal fairies who will do anything for their minister. Most people want a chancellor with some Balls, as Ed Balls has.
No but a lot of them are inverted snobs
Let alone not “yet” alone you illiterate – educated under the Liebour reign of terror?
Ed Balls has balls?
I would take issue with that.
Good boy.
I noticed from Cleggs PPB on the box yesterday, that the Libs were responsible for the tax reforms, they gave our money away, not the wicked Tories.
Another Lib/Dem liar?
There is a deep tradition in the LibDemon party that we claim the credit for those things that go right and we shift the blame onto our opponents when things go wrong.
There is also the fact that we also get it wrong in claiming for early successes that later go seriously wrong – like around the time of the next election.
Bwwwaaaaaa, the Limping Dems have broached a protocol, and you mean to say that the Tories would not do the same Giddo, the Limpy Dems have a far smaller operation than the Tories so jobbies have to be shared out, could it be the motive for the “exposure” is the LimpyDems have started the kick off for the byelection and the Tories were not quite ready to play still trying to sort out their preferred candidate. Come on, the Tories are bound to win the byelection are they not, regarding the unpopularity of the Limpy Dems.
All these little toads should be paid by their parties not by the taxpayer. Talk about teenage scribblers! But then when Prime Ministers whether Blair or Cameron don’t know any history (vide abolish The Lord Chancellor or Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty) what hope that their tame twerps would know the rules of conduct?
Glyn old chap all the parties have got these Spad thingies, the Cons have probably got more than any other party a present, it would be interesting to see how many each party has (maybe Giddo could find out, he is a whizz with the stats) as far as I can see these Spad thingies are the percursor to becoming an MP after leaving university, a sort of factory of politically correct beings (depending which party they belong to)
I doubt there is any sanction though. A week from now it will be forgotten and they will be back to abusing their positions again.
I reached 1.43 before realising I had to clear dog crap off the lawn.
Can we have some more on the death camps labour set up under the terror ? Those 1200 murdered in Stafford – were they predominantly ukip supporters ?
It wasn’t premeditated murder , just killing by neglect and bad policy . More Holodomor than Holocaust .
It’s actually called ‘the inevitable destination of socialism’.
Though the likes of Livingstone, rather prefer to pretend that socialism has not failed at every attempt, rather that ‘real’ socialism still has not arrived yet.
Next time it will be better comrade, next time.
That’s exactly the same thing communists have argued to me.
Look, the reathon communitht thtateth have alwayth failed ith becauth I wathn’t in charge of them. With me at the helm, and Ed Ballth (my thecond-choithe chanthellor) at my thide, I, and I alone, will make thothialithm a thuccthethful political thythtem in thith country.
Oh yeth.
It is known as do not strive officiously to keep alive, it has been policy for years, it must frighten any person of over 65 years to go into hospital, old the oldies are usually put together, the sane but frail physically and those physically active and …. Elderly people care has been the cinderella section of the national health service for for too long. It would be interesting for a doctor to add to my comments here.
Give us your money.
Or we’ll kidnap your children and murder your grandparents . Look at Rochdale and Stafford if you don’t believe us .
That was all Thatcher’s fault.
Surely thatcher and burnham ( and that postman ) together ?
No, as far as we are concerned, it is always Thatcher’s fault and hers alone.
Correction: whilst most respected scientists now agree that it’s usually Thatcher’s fault, it can also be the fault of climate-change deniers and anti-EU bigots.
e.g. “Gosh, the price of petrol’s very high, isn’t it?” “Yes, that’s the fault of anti-EU bigots and climate-change deniers. And Thatcher.”
The thing Thatcher did was enable all those care homes to be built, many in the private sector, the idea was to avoid all the ” bed blocking ” by elderly people in hospitals who had no one to look after them 24/7. I know that very often now folks are let out of hospital too early and within a couple of days they are back in hospital.
I’m trying, but I’ve changed hands four times already. I may have to imagine someone else.
“And if you dare donate to UKIP you will never see your children again
Donate what? A bomb would be appropriate.
Do not donate a doughnut?
Do the FibDems have no shame ?
Only a McShame
Why can I hear the Irony Klaxon ??
Please rearrange
A tweet from a man who was busy shagging his secretary when he should have been running the country.
Typical hypocrisy from our political classes
I’m quite glad he was shagging his secratary rather than running the country.
You have a point
And in company time and on company furniture.
Cheap skate and tub of lard
Please retire immediately and start whittling unusual phallic objects.
Strange, he left out the words Ashcroft, Thatcher and toff. Is the man sick or something?
How are your Tax payer funded Mock Tudor Beams Lardy ?
Tell that to Pauline.
And Tracey T and Rosie W
Sorry it’s O/T but after the NHS day of shame in Parliament yesterday the BBC and Guardian are leading with…..Gove U-Turn on GCSEs. The NHS is fourth on the Graun front page under the Headline “Cameron – Dock Pay of Bad Nurses.”
A let-off for Labour’s foul up of the NHS. And where is Burnham? Bloody nowhere!
Not off topic really Doc – no need to nail Burnham yet – loads more to come out – he will be a constant through the further investigations/discussions.
I think it will outweigh his Hillsborough action.
To the lefty media the mass execution of thousands of hospital patients is nothing as compared to a minor uturn by a conservative minister .
Joyce, is it time for your common purpose top up jab? Your comment seemed a touch off beam.
Damn right!
And how many murderers will be tried today?
Arrested, maybe, or given a cut in pay?
Summarily dismissed or sent for re-training?
Put outside on the naughty step while it’s raining?
Why has no one in the NHS or the Labour Party been charged with manslaughter for what is happening in our hospitals.
Ah well, you see, it’s state-condoned killing
And once you take the N H S shilling
It’s worse to overfill your wheelie bin
Than to do some helpless, old patients in
It’s called UKnasia, part of a high-level Labour not-me-gov policy.
We never interview Labour Ministers about their total and serial foul ups.
The Conservative Mr Gove is our target for today and tomorrow ad nauseum.
For the 736th time, it is nauseAm. Illiterate tits.
Yes Doc that would be OK if he docked the pay of miscreant MPS and government minsters
Ah Bless
She’s a political heavyweight.
…requiring a Convoi Exceptionnel
PMQ ?
Pre Meeting Quaffing
She’s heavy.
She ain’t heavy, she’s my mother.
There must be some sarcasm in this Lukes tweet surely?
How could anyone brownnose that arse?
even pinnochio wouldn’t know where to start on that arse
She’s an SSBBW and I’m a chubby chaser…..squash me, dear mistress, and ease my pain!
Sound rigged to me.
BMW FOR SALE. Cherished number plate. Never raced or rallied. New home forces sale.
Does it come with the spunk stained interior, or have you had it cleaned?
Doesnt matter, I don’t believe a word you say.
He used to have a Tryouta Carina
*claps*
I thought it was a Toyota speed Camry
He’s swapping it for a Ford Prison
.. and we are about to enjoy our Fiesta
He shouldn’t have traded in the economist model.
I find with cars at least, its best to have one that goes both ways.
He found the Pryce too high on his Carina and he didn’t like the pictures taken by the Camry.
Odious, useless, traitorous yellow Hunts…..
Seems like ‘Nasty Story’ McGrory has form…..http://order-order.com/2011/10/24/clegg-spad-james-mcgrory-accused-of-leaking-cam-kids-story/
Nick fucking Clegg
Oh dear oh dear, he’s off poncing around making promises.
Someone should leaflet the fucking idiots in Eastleigh and let them know whats really going on. They must live in a peculiar state of euphoria, Chris Huhne sorely missed. WTF are these people on.
Rather than have a by election, we should give the co ordinates of Eastleigh to the North Koreans.
Even worse than using the email address clearly while doing so he was at work as otherwise he wouldn’t have access to it.
SpAds are paid by the public purse. When did we start paying the campaign staff for Nick Clegg?
Years ago – in local government too. Keep that to yourself though.
Careful Big Jane will be after you!
Never mind these Libdum pillocks — Vote UKIP to get Camoron OUT
Vote UKIP – get me
!!
Spot on-UKIP votes will ensure power passing to Miliband Balls & co. Be very afraid!
Tricky call, slow motion catastrophe or certain disintegration.
Under this supposedly Conservative led Government the National Debt is doubling to circa £1.4 trillion.
Camoron has now progressed Same Sex Marriage, which was not in the Conservative Manifesto.
What is the point of a Conservative Government under his leadership? He should be ejected from the Prime Ministership immediately.
If we get the Liebour idiots back, they will complete the ruination of the economy. So be it.
Then we can have a fresh start when Joe Public finally realises that virtually all the ConLibLabbers are corrupt lying incompetents.
The next government, which will be a Labour government (of this there can be no doubt whatsoever), will collapse within 3 years. That’s long enough to the Cons to look a the collapse in their membership, to look at the votes they lost to UKIP, to look a the out-of-touch left-wing europhile well-educated idiot who lead them to disaster and to put two and two together and elect a level-headed Conservative as leader.
Hopefully he or she will spend their 3 years of opposition actually planning to run the country, rather than running around hugging hoodies and huskies, as Cameron did.
If that happens who cares anymore, were halfway down the slope to 3rd world status and sooner Liebour get back and start calling high taxes, investments, the sooner they find out that the note from one of their luntics controlling the banks last time is true, benefits will start to fail and the will find we will be in a civil strife, after that who gives a toss, turn of the light when you leave , that’s if the windmill is turning.
Is there a school which you can attend where they teach you to be completely vile?
At the best schools they teach you how to pretend that you aren’t.
Most schools now do vile. It’s mostly in conjunction with foul and gobbing.
“Liberal Democrats are cutting taxes for those on low and middle incomes.””
Ermmm hasn’t the coalition also given taxbreaks to the super rich as well ?
Or was that just the Tory part of the “Coalition” ?
By “taxbreak”, you of course mean the coalition has reduced the amount of money it’s taking from the rich? It is, after all, their money.
Yes. But, as you will be aware, McMental’s 50pc income tax (a spiteful landmine for the coalition) actually reduced income tax receipts because those who were due to pay it just fucked-off to countries where they’d pay less tax.
“a speech that sets out the distinctive approach of the Liberal Democrats in the Coalition Government when it comes to tax.” – a roundabout way of saying, “we’re going to hike taxes back to 50pc and watch all the rich move abroad where they’ll pay less.”
Insanity: noun, plural in·san·i·ties.
1. the condition of being insane; a derangement of the mind. 2. Liberal Democrat tax policy. Synonyms: dementia, lunacy, madness, craziness, mania, aberration.
What do the following groups have in common, NHS, Police, Politicians, they’re all civil servants, now which groups couldn’t give a toss about the British public’s life or death or even do the jobs they get paid for, yet have hundreds of PR people telling us how great they are, yet at the same time the media shows it’s totally opposite , time to jail these civil servants who fail and time to put the politician’s to shame and jail and all pension’s and bank accounts and houses removed from them, to stop expensive lawyers, make it the moment they become MPs
Simon Hughes available to help at Eastleight – you couldn’t make it up. Simon Hughes is a homosexual who in his first election campaign was up against Peter Tatchel and villified Tatchell in his literature for being “queer”
He has since apologised so thats ok then
The stinking hypocrite, but he is just part of our modern political class
and a libdem.
McGrory! Where’s your tie, boy?
What’s the point of having a Code of Conduct that nobody will ever follow?
Something to aim for (when taking a piss).
Glad to see the real news is passing by how the outfit Im in charge of on £250k a year murdered 3000 people over the years.
I love my job and will not be resigning just to rub it in I got my wife a NHS job on £150k a year. Its a tough job but some Common Purpose person has to do it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2274699/Sir-David-Nicholson-Man-shame-NHS-chief-presided-worst-hospital-scandal-insists-ashamed-of.html?offset=0&max=100#comment-25817161
The whole point of the NHS is to provide secure employment for management on high salaries, benefits and gold plated inflation proofed pensions. Looking after patients is a minor side issue. The rest of the public sector strives to match its achievements.
The NHS is the best in the world.
Fuck the lot of them
The modern NHS is the mutant love child of Blair/Brown/Balls
Are we in the middle of civil war
With opposing factions knee-deep in gore?
Well, no, but the N H S body count
Strangely enough, is that kind of amount
It’s time that a U N Peace-keeping Force
Was sent into our hospitals, of course
N!cholson is actually telling you straight that he does not care:
‘I am not ashamed of being in my job today. Clearly I regret incredibly what happened to those patients.’
Incredible regret = No regrets.
Not ashamed = has no shame.
However, he could not say any different as that would be admitting liability.
- And they have the gall to complain about the patients and families of patients getting litigious.
Time to wake up.
He got a very mild and pathetic “grilling” from the useless but pompous know-it-all Sky news patsy today. Glad I don’t pay the telly tax.
OUT CAMORON OUT CAMORON OUT CAMORON OUT CAMORON OUT
Caption competition:
Clegg: “How many times have you had sex with another person present?”
Do you like Gladiator movies?
James McGrory doesn’t look as though he’s been out of nappies that long.
Never forget these names. These are the managers and executives who let over 1000 patients die.
David Nicholson
Toni Brisby
Helen Moss
Cynthia Bower
And also, never forget these names who also let over 1000 patients die.
Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
Patricia Hewitt
Andy Burnham
Ed Balls
If Jimmy Savile was still alive a Yewtree report would refuse to name him
Don’t be surprised if they’re all Labour.
When we joined the Common Market we hoped wine would be cheaper but never imagined that imm igrants would be free.
U turn if you want to.
LOL……..TORY HQ….Worried ALREADY
Can’t wait for Grayling to remove internet access from prisoners.
…and x-boxes and hot water and gyms and heated bedrooms and steak and chip dinners etc.
Prison should be for punishment not pandering.
Who’d have thunk that, nobody in Britain would have thought how popular we are with immigrants, must be we are so well liked after all that colonisation we did or maybe it’s just the fact that politicians are so free with British taxpayers money, garnering votes from the newcomers, nah must be we are nice people.
The earlier not the latter. Most people here are snobs and benefits are being slashed. We need someone with Balls to get Britain growing and restore something like full employment.
Sorry, Taff, Mrs T is unavailable at the moment.
… no doubt the C4. BBC, Guardian axis will investigate and let us have a full and unbiased account of this tsunami …
Is that wanker old enough to be out of school? Where do they get them from? WTF has he ever done including Cleggy? Not one brain cell between them!
Weren’t you assuring us the other day that partisan hackery by spads was a non issue?
Oh yawn, how many letters accusing each other of things like this do the parties exchange every week? And how many actually lead to anything?
Really, these standard Iain Dale-style routine “we wrote an angry letter” smears are so boring.
Little James’ piece read as if written by a child – but whose child ?