Beckett Replies to Guido with Statement
Guido has received this official statement from Margaret Beckett in reply to his letter of this morning:
Guido says that is simply not good enough, what is she hiding?"The trust to which the letter refers was a blind trust set up while in Opposition in accordance with the then rules of the House of Commons and approved by the House authorities. It dried up and was closed down many years ago. The Secretary of State is not prepared to make any further comment on this matter"Sent to Guido, via Ed Mitchell, SpAd to Rt Hon. Margaret Beckett MP.
- Who were the donors?
- How much did they give?
- Were any donors foreign?
- Who were the trustees?
- Why the secrecy?
- Did Lord Levy set up or raise funds for the trust?
- How many donors to the secret Margaret Beckett Research and Administration Trust subsequently got honours?
Time for Ms Beckett to come clean, as she herself wrote to David Cameron "failure to do so would seriously compromise your party's credibility".
20 comments:
Beckett dried up - uughhh.
Guido your name will be on the list for transportation to a Blunkett Camp for "re-education" once the Enabling Act passes into law..............
You will be furnished with a bent PIN so you become an Unperson in the New Era.
Remember how they finished off Dr David Kelly............
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,643967,00.html
In 1952 the New York Post alleged that Richard Nixon was being maintained in a style well beyond the means of an American Senator by backhanders from a Californian business cartel. Every word was true, but Nixon drowned the controversy with a lachrymose television performance. He had accepted gifts, he sighed. One present to his wife and children was a Spaniel called Checkers, 'and you know, the kids, like all kids, loved the dog. And I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we are going to keep it.'
or
"I'm a pretty straight sort of guy...."
as early as 1998. The willingness of Millbank to hire out Ministers as escorts for Enron executives at party conferences, and to comply with their demands to change energy policy, would have said all their was to say about the moral emptiness of what was once the Labour movement even if Enron had stayed solvent.
The few laws which limit influence-peddling aren't enforced. It has been illegal to sell honours since 1925. The Labour Research Department calculated that 50% of peerages for 'services to industry' went to executives from the 6.2% of firms which had funded the Tories between 1979 and 1992. (The chance of this being coincidence was one in 10 to the power of 133.) The police didn't once make inquiries.
New Labour claims that all is well now because an 'independent' board oversees the honours system. Still, you can't help wondering what Ralph Hodge, the former head of Enron Europe, did to deserve his elevation to the rank of Commander of the British Empire in 2001.
Keep pressing, Guido!
It is not for her to declae the matter closed. She who lives in a glass house should not have thrown stones elsewhere if she wanted to close down her ownepsiode.
This gov't is all for drawing a line under things. It is time to stop them getting away with crime.
make 'em squirm, Guido!
Don't think this "I don't wish to discuss it" statement is quite sufficient. Wasn't it this Government who wished to abolish the right of silence in criminal cases? "No comment" doesn't quite cut it when being asked pertinent questions about cash donations one appears to have received.
Mrs. B. wants the Conservatives to come clean - now's her chance to set an example.............
If she doesn't of course........why she's said it herself!
She uses the fact she was in the opposition at the time, does she not appreciate that the Tories are the opposition at the moment?
All this from the Government that was going to be 'Whiter than White'
Its no good pointing fingers at the Tories - Exactly who is in power and changed the rules to hide 'loans'?
Guido - This is priceless
Where have the anonymng posters about how the spotlight has turned on the tories gone?
How many Labour supporters knew of the close Enron involvement? not many I bet - how that will be spun into being just as much Cameron's fault as Bliar's will be something to see
Keep digging!
[Time for Ms Beckett to come clean, as she herself wrote to David Cameron "failure to do so would seriously compromise your party's credibility".]
How can you compromise something that's shot to hell already?
Still, keep up the pressure on the bastards.
RM
"Time for Ms Beckett to come clean, as she herself wrote to David Cameron "failure to do so would seriously compromise your party's credibility"."
How can you compromise something that's shot to hell already?
Still, keep up the pressure on the bastards.
RM
Guido- this is excellent stuff. Keep going. How dare those lying conniving bastards wag their bent moralising fingers at others.
(And what if you do end up getting hauled away for re-education at Camp Blunkett? You're expendable)
Absolutely. Fair play Guido. Do these numskulls not realise how hypocritical they're being if they continue to try to lampoon Cameron?
Agreed. Disgusting hypocracy on a staggering scale.
Guido Fawkes is knocking the media into fifth position...
If the trust was set approved by the House of Commons authorities there must surely be a record of who set it up and of the names of the trustees at least. Does the FOIA apply to the Commons records? If not there must be a friendly HoC researcher who could dig around.
Great stuff. Keep going, Guido! (Mind you I'm still enough of a sista to think it's hilarious that bloody Mellorofant and Paxo think Margaret is ugly- see previous thread- pot, kettle, pot, kettle etc)
Barbara - even funnier when you think how Alan Clarke described her in his diaries - sexy little miss horseface (10 April 1975)
I wonder what he would make of her now....
Guido, you got her bang to rights - as Prolix said above, she has given the Conservatives and Lib Dems a get out of jail free card with her statement, and has sunk her own lineof attack.... what really pisses me off is how the press have been hijacked this last weekend to spout this shite ad nauseum, to try and invoke memories of Tory Sleaze (which we know it is not, Dave is simply trying to do the right thing and give peopel the right to the privacy they werepromised)...
they forget that when "scandal" about any party in opposition breaks, it tends to be diminished in importance exponentially in the public eye by the popularity of the Government of the Day multiplied by the shit sticking to the government fan at the time
Why is it, though, that the Conservatives always get sunk by sex scandals and weak leaders, whilst the Labour Party tend to get sunk by unions and money..... you'd think the latter of the two in each case should be the other way round by rights, surely....
Flogging a dead horse Guido?
Sticking my neck out, maybe La Beckett doesn't want to hold up her supporters to ridicule for the absurdity of backing her for the leadership. All the more reason to keep the pressure on.
And Barbara, I'm with you on Mellor.
Excellent work Guido.
Like many others, this seems far better than the coverage available in the papers ... although I'll bet someone will snatch your research as their own on the Street of Shame ...
You are quoted by the Times and Evening Standard. I hope they stand you a decent drink the next time they see you.
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