Will Hague Ask Prescott About His Foreign Backers?
Last week Prescott sent out this press release -
John Prescott MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, today called on David Cameron to publish details of all Conservative Party loans.
John Prescott MP said: "Following Labour's decision in the interests of transparency to publish the full list of names and amounts of all the loans received, we call on David Cameron to match his words on openness with actions by publishing details of all the Tories' loans."
Well perhaps Prescott should first tell us who financed the John Prescott Campaign Research Trust in the 1990s?
According to David Osler, Harry Sophoclides, a Greek-Cypriot millionaire was one backer of the secret trust. Guido, and perhaps William Hague, want to know who else made anonymous donations to the trust? Did they too receive honours when Prescott became Deputy PM? (Besides the parliamentary pass accreditation he organised for Mr Sophoclides' lobbyist son.)
According to David Osler, Harry Sophoclides, a Greek-Cypriot millionaire was one backer of the secret trust. Guido, and perhaps William Hague, want to know who else made anonymous donations to the trust? Did they too receive honours when Prescott became Deputy PM? (Besides the parliamentary pass accreditation he organised for Mr Sophoclides' lobbyist son.)
12 comments:
Nice one Guido.
Could you be the first blogger to be mentioned on PMQs? Or did the thought never cross your mind?
This http://www.tcn-cy.freeuk.com/Tcn31.htm link talks a bit more about Prescott and Greek Cypriots.
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Yes, the Labour Party is spinning hard to pass the oprobrium on to the Tories by questioning the Tories' use of loans. But the use of loans, declared or not, isn't really the question, is it. Whether the Tories (or any other part) took loans is irrelevant.
The real question is whether honours were given as a result of those loans. And this is only in the gift of the government, i.e., Labour. The Labour Party, in all its calls for the Conservatives to reveal their own loans, is simply being disengenous.
Another of Prescott's current researchers is a Greek Cypriot, Christos Karaolis. Probably family friends of Sophoclides
Robert Englund is barking up the wrong tree. The Tories most certainly should reveal their loans, especially if they want to have a go at Labour for the same. And Mr Englund surely knows, even if the press ignores the fact, that all parties nominate for honours, not just Labour.
Captain Stupid: that article is likely to be spun slightly - the rhetoric from both sides in Cyprus needs to be heavily filtered.
*However*, that photo is frankly astonishing: he appears to be putting Labour's name to one particular side in the conflict. It's not that long ago that Greek-Cypriot terrorists were murdering British troops, and there he is sharing a platform with them, and appraently putting Labour's name to their campaign.
Nice letter in today's Telegraph
D-Day for Blair
Sir - I do wish Tony Blair would announce the date on which he intends to step down as Prime Minister. I am planning a holiday and I would hate to be out of the country and miss the celebrations.
John Drewery, Lowestoft, Suffolk
I was mentioned in PMQs back in the 90s in a question to the PM. It was not that big a thrill let me tell you.
Nojags Neil says that by sharing a platform with the Greek Cypriots, Prescott is "putting Labour's name to their campaign."
Is this the campaign which aims to see a solution to the Cyprus problem and is one to which every British Government since the invasion in 1974 has subscribed?
Britain is a Guarantor power of the Republic of Cyprus. The international community(with the single exception of Turkey) condemns in absolute terms the illegal occupation by Turkish troops of over a third of Cyprus since the violent invasion. Only Turkey recognises the self-proclaimed "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus".
So if Nojags Neil thinks that the Government should be looking to remain neutral - and that Prezza has broken rank - he is completely at odds with international law, numerous UN resolutions and, for that matter, all right minded people with a sense of justice.
I'm not going to get into a debate about Cyprus here: Guido doesn't like that kind of thing. Yes, of course, The Greeks are angels, and the Turks are savages: they'll slit your throats, rape your daughters, etc, etc. Give me a break, I've heard it all a thousand times. I suppose Eoka, Eoka-B, Nicos Samson, enosis... are all just made-up by Turkish propagandists, are they?
Britain has a treaty obligation to safeguard the territorial integrity and independence of Cyprus, so it's hardly a surprise that the Deputy PM opposes the occupation of a third of that country by what is supposed to be another of the guarantor powers.
That said, alot of GCs are cheesed off with the government as it backed the EU peace plan and then told the Greek Cypriots to whistle for it when they rejected it in a referendum.
This government's policy on Cyprus is effectively the same as its predecessors and the Tories' (ask Theresa Villiers).
Remember that Mrs Tony Blair is acting on behalf of British owners who are selling their property in N Cyprus which is being contested by the original Greek owner and her costs are being underwritten by the Northern Turkish "Gubment". The Cyprus Government will not pay the costs of the complainant whose family land was stolen.
Well covered in Cyprus News for several months but not in UK media.
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