Friday Caption Contest (Sith Edition)
This is a picture taken at a closed meeting held by the "non-political", tax subsidised, "public educational charity", the Smith Institute. In the middle is Wilf Stevenson, the institute's director, on the left of him is James Purnell, Minister for Creative Industries. On the right of Wilf is Eric Nicoli, Chairman of EMI group, a business regulated by the Minister. Around the table are industry lobbyists and vested interests.At the meeting, according to a transcript obtained by Guido, Eric Nicoli told Wilf "We have the problem that the political agenda is, on average, about two years out in terms of the time horizon because of elections and so on, yet we are here trying to develop something for the longer term. So I agree, not least because prime ministers and chancellors seem to last a bit longer than the average minister, that we should go after them and be relentless in our pursuit of our objectives.
Wilf, who says the institute is non-political and "has no direct relationship with Gordon Brown", told Eric at the meeting "What you are going to say will have a great impact on the government's thinking".
EMI then paid £29,375 to the New Statesman, owned by Geoffrey Robinson, the former paymaster general. The Gordon Brown backing New Statesman rents office space to the Smith Institue at below market rates. EMI has also made undisclosed*, but substantial donations to the The Smith Institute. Nor is this the only Smith Institute/New Statesman event organised by Konrad Caulkett and sponsored by EMI over the last two years.
The Smith Institute held a seminar on copyright reform at No. 11 just before Gordon's big PBR speech last week. It was a happy affair. Later, in his PBR speech Gordon went outside his usual brief to announce reform of copyright legislation.So co-conspirators, what was Eric Nicoli really saying to the Smith Institute meeting?
*Neither EMI or the Smith Institute were willing to make a comment.
84 comments:
Eric "How much will it cost to get Gordon to change policy?"
Wilf "Cash or invoice?"
Guido have you got copyright clearance for that picture?
good one Guido - make it stick this time....still thirsting for blood here...
Champagne anyone?
Good work.
Where is the £29,375 payment by EMI recorded, and what is it ostensibly for, i.e. how plausibly denial is this ?
Not the same Eric Nicoli who signed that letter organised by the Labour Party, which appeared in the FT backing Tony Blair on 25th April 2005?
I wonder how much EMI would have had to pay out for copyright on old Cliff Richard CDs....and the other aging artists as well....the wonders of working with a well lubricated political system...greasy bastards...
bloddy ell, is there no end to New Labour spin/deception - there'e Princess Diana, looking as fit as a fiddle, on the left hand side of that table.
Is this a meeting of the UK government’s Creative Industries Forum on Intellectual Property?
And didn't EMI pay for 'Capitalising on the UK's creativity' fringe event at Labour Conference in 2005 and wasn't Wilf Stevenson the chair of that meeting on Monday 26th September, which Eric Nicoli also attended?
will new labour be sued for breach of copyright when they stole that lad's 10 year old university thesis, for their dodgy dossier for going to war in Iraq?
New Labour smells, really badly.
How the fuck can anybody find a laugh out of that photo?
Funny how the New Statesman then spun it....
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/pdf/creativitysupp2005.pdf
And perhaps where Guido got the photo from.....
Caption: "As I said, these slabs of cocaine were 'donated'. Take your pick ... only one each".
We'll leave the name on the cheque blank so you can put Gordon or the Sith down.
Caption: "Tweleve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Sith edition? Is Lord Vader now behind all these shenanagins?!
Did you perhaps mean Smith Edition or Sixth edition?
Didn't Sir Sith Richard also lobby our tremendously honourable prime minister on a similar matter?
And then coincidentally lend the Munsters his Bajan holiday villa?
Didn't get valued for money as Brown screwed the recording industry on copyright.
"Thank you all for coming, and welcome to Wannsee..."
Pedant - regular readers know Darth Brown is plotting to take over the galaxy.
Nicoli: "Welcome to Day 2 of the briefing, for Operation His Master's Voice. Apologies are sent from 'Nipper', who, unfortunately, can't be with us today - that's GB, for those who've just joined us ..."
Eric: "Gordon will be with us shortly, he's just letting Konrad have a ride on his rocking horse."
the correct answer is of course
'WHERE IS GUIDO ?'
GUIDO IS UNDER THE TABLE IN THIS PICTURE HANGING HIS HEAD IN SHAME AT THE THOUGHT THAT IT WAS HE WHO POSTED
- posibly after a few drinks too many -
A blog on here in praise of nick robinson
Nicoli: "This is music to my ears"
Selfson: Why don't I have an invite to Guido and Iain Dale's drinks tonight?
Construction of Gordon's Death Star is nearly complete...
Nicoli "So Gordon likes a bung. How do we arrange it"
Wilf "For fucks sake man what do you think the Smith Institute is, some bleeding research charity.Make cheque payable to SI and after a two step tango its a good as Gordons"
Arbroath smokies anyone?
Gordon Brown believes his approach to organised crime the most effective.
tapestry
ERIC NICOLI (For it is he)
"Ker-ching!"
CLIFF RICHARD "How much for a peerage?"
Guido,
all this investigative jornalism crap is terribly dull. You reminded us as recently as yesterday that this site is intended for malicious gossip, not policy. Please stick to that.
Wasn't Nicoli a Biscuit Man who has not been able to sell EMI to anyone for years and years..........?
EMI
No wonder he needs NuLab - he probably hopes it will be socialised and acquired by the BBC
Sir, your Death Star is ready, but we haven't sorted out Tax Credits yet.
Hang on ! Does this mean if I want Government policy changing on something I just Bung the Smith Institute a few quid and they get Gordy to do it?
This could be very useful - who do I contact?
Too proud to go for the obvious on the caption comp, Guido?
your link is the smith institue rent office space at a below market rate.
so what.
A)they're a charity as you say.
B)That doesn't constitue a donation.
why not look at the midlands industrial Council's donations to the tories for the past 2 decades.
oh, you wont will you, coz yopur cameron's catamite.
This stinks to high heaven. If the Smith Institute is a charity what charitable work do they do?
What is going on when an obvious political body can claim charitable status?
that New Statesman link has at least one gem
"(Lord) Matthew Evans 'When I worked at Faber, we published a book called Creative Britain which was pilloried. If you
look at the back it includes many statistics. They were made up by me and the copy editor at Faber to get the
book published. How can you identify an important area which you want government to support when there are
no statistics?'"
Yup nulabour dork was making things up before he became a Lord.
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/pdf/creativitysupp2005.pdf
"OK, that's 3 custard creams, 4 hobnobs and 8 lines of coke please."
The blackboard gives a clear illustration of SithGordon's plans to finance individual government appointed social monitors for each UK household, superintending eating and sexual practices, child rearing, educational attainment, carbon waste management and gender equality issues,
When was this taken? Shaun Woodward is now Minsiter for CI. James Purnell has moved to Minister of State for Pensions Reform in the Department of Work and Pensions.
...and do I hear 800, 800, 800, 850 on my left, 900, any advances on 900, so that's SOLD to the man in the brown hat for 900, the Earldom of Rockingham under Horse..
Something just occured to me, these fuckers are proposing that schools (private) lose their charitable status whilst Gordons Homunculus catemite Balls can pick up a swift 100k from this political slush fund that enjoys charitable status.
What an emetic.
Caption
"Most assuredly, I say to you, one of you will betray him . . . It is he to whom I shall give a piece of bread when I have dipped it.."
Here's what went on at the TOP SECRET meeting which went unreported at the time
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,29390-2466670,00.html
From Telegraph "Brown denies all knowledge of loans affair"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/15/ubrown115.xml
"We understand that neither Wilf Stevenson or Sir Ronald have ever made loans to the Labour Party. Neither of them had made any donations to Mr Brown’s political office," the statement said.
"And in respect of the Smith Institute, set up in memory of his friend, the late John Smith, Mr Brown welcomes and encourages the work they do and their contribution to the intellectual and policy debate of the country but Mr Brown has no financial nor any formal relationship with them."
Anyway on a lighter note does anyone play rugby? cos ipswich is short of a few hookers.
'Suicide is painless' [MASH version of the Leonardo Last Supper]
The spotlight is now on Brown and tonights furious denials from the old poof are laughable.
He is not going to bluff his way out of this one.
Chairperson: "Comrades, I beg to move a motion that we send for beer and sandwiches"
Chorus: "FUCK OFF! This is the modern Labour party. It's Cristal and langoustines or we're off to Granita and you can stuff your Meeting to Approve Ed Balls as Consultant Emeritus."
We have had too many long term Prime Ministers since 1979. Thatcher, Major and Blair all stayed on too long.
I hope Brown does not become a fourth long term (more than one Parliament) Prime Minister.
What we really need is a series of Parliaments without a single party majority. After a generation of minority governments and shifting coalitions hopefully the Imperial Prime Ministership will be well and truly cut down to its proper size.
Minority Parliaments also have the advantage of restoring the House of Commons to its primacy in the political system. A Prime Minister with no assured majority, facing the constant risk of defeat, would have to be more responsive to public and parliamentary opinion than one who is almost unchallengeable in the House of Commons.
Above all else politics would be more interesting than the sterile wasteland think tanks and ministers occupy today.
I think they are all as fucked as I am trying to come up with a pithy caption for this image!
Guido - must try much harder next week.
just been on sky news old sleazy levy gets questioned again cos blair ratted him out.loyal or what eh?
stroppycow
Of course, if this site was properly run in the socialist way we'd all be able to simply self-select generous taxpayer-funded Guido shirts. Vote Gordy I say!
Tuscan Tony 7:41
Mmmmmmm might need to think VERY hard about that one.
...... on the other hand - is Broon swearing on a stack of bibles he has never, ever, (honestly) owned a fucking rocking horse!
stroppycow said...
...... on the other hand - is Broon swearing on a stack of bibles he has never, ever, (honestly) owned a fucking rocking horse!
The photos say different ;-)
Blair is trying his utmost to drop Levy in it, but isn't he playing with fire?
You would think that, being a lawyer, Tony would know that lying to PC Plod is not a wise thing to do (not when there's evidence to the contrary anyway)
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13557209,00.html
The Times claims Lord Levy's testimony was contradicted by Tony Blair, who allegedly said he did not have "full knowledge" of secret loans to the Labour Party.
Lord Levy had claimed in a written statement that Mr Blair knew about his dealings with lenders.
He will now come under intense pressure to explain how and when he told Mr Blair about the loans, and any subsequent knowledge of nominations for peerages.
If he provides evidence of conversations with the Prime Minister, Mr Blair could be interviewed again as a potential suspect under caution.
Sources said that Mr Blair told Scotland Yard detectives that he was unaware of certain details of specific nominations for peerages, who was lending money to Labour, and in what capacity.
Lord Levy is expected to be interviewed again in the new year, while other key figures may also face further questions.
Gordon demands Guido be brought before him.... frozen in carbonite
Do not worry Lord GoldSITH is one of ours
I hope wee Angus fae Barra got an invite to your party Guido, christmas would have been so dull this year without his little bit of mischief!
Soon we will unleash songs for Gordon on our new sith label :
Van Morrison - Dweller on the Threshold
The Beatles - Old Brown shoo-in
David Bowie - The Man who sold the Gold (nicked from Idle)
yes or other 'acts of God' (as have blighted the unfortunate matt carter and lord levy)
Whoops,posted in wrong place I was referring to the speculation that Blair's cosy 'chat' was recorded and the likelihood that any record will not be long for this world
There's more revelations about sleazy Brown in tomorrow's Sunday papers.
My money's on John "Mr Clean" Reid for PM.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/16/nbrown216.xml
QUESTIONS RAISED OVER CHANCELLOR'S TWO ALLIES
"Mr Stevenson also said that the Smith Institute holds a large number of its 29 seminars a year at 11 Downing Street, and is based in offices on the same floor as the London offices of the New Statesman, which is owned by Geoffrey Robinson, the former Paymaster General.
The think-tank is now being investigated by the Charity Commission. Trustees, including the Archbishop of York and the author Baroness Rendell, are due to be questioned next week."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/16/nbrown216.xml
QUESTIONS RAISED OVER CHANCELLOR'S TWO ALLIES
"Mr Stevenson also said that the Smith Institute holds a large number of its 29 seminars a year at 11 Downing Street, and is based in offices on the same floor as the London offices of the New Statesman, which is owned by Geoffrey Robinson, the former Paymaster General.
The think-tank is now being investigated by the Charity Commission. Trustees, including the Archbishop of York and the author Baroness Rendell, are due to be questioned next week."
Anonymous 09:45
The photos say different.
Publish and be damned!!
I'm a dweller on the threshold
And I'm waiting at the door
And I'm standing in the darkness
I don't want to wait no more
if you take a look at a few more think tanks/charities, you will probably find out the same thing happens. a big sum for a meeting with a minister organised by the middletank.
If Levy goes down he's determined to take Blair with him and if Blair goes down he's determined to take Brown with him.
Delicious!
By then, I had learned in westiminster that Gordon Brown knew all about the secret loans affair. I learned this at breakfast from my morning paper when I read:
GORDON BROWN DENIES ALL KNOWLEDGE OF LOANS AFFAIR
(aplogies to Joseph Heller)
Gordon's Girl 'Red" Dawn strikes again:
Major IT error at the Revenue:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/moneybox/6184519.stm
"Hundreds of thousands of people have been wrongly told they have a tax records gap that may cut their pension."
Brown to Wilf - "Give Balls a Sith job pending his election as MP, he needs about £100k to tide him over. Diageo and EMI would like to slip me a 'research bung'for services to be rendered so use this to finance Ed. #11 free for you to use, check with Sue."
Whats wrong with that. Loyalty has its rewards. Just a form of Nectar.
12.51pm You say Baronees Rendell is to investigate the think-tank - does this mean that Inspector Wexford is on the case?
I think the photo caption contest would work better if you stuck a picture of Hercules Poirot in at the head of the table. He could be saying: "This is one of those "Murder on the Orient Express" cases - you are all guilty.
Guido, credit where it is due, I was wrong about this. I thought the fact the story here is complex would mean that El Gordo wouldn't be rumbled. The fact that it is on the front page of the Saturday Telegraph tells us a different story.
Although cynic that I am, I think Peter 'Mandy' Mandelson and Michael 'Lord' Levy may between them have helped massage it into the main stream press.
Tomorrow's Mail on Sunday 'leak' [yeah, right..] suggests a 'shock and awe' campaign is underway to unseat the rider at the head of the field for the Labour leadership...
Guido the censor. What a tosser!
Caption: Guido's on to us Gentlemen, to the reichschancellery bunker and don't forget your cyanide!
Caption: I have provided you all with cyanide capsules, if Gordon decides to give a speech please do not hesitate to use them, it will be merciful release.
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There is no doubt about it, Guido Fawkes is blog of the year. His mischievous mix of gossip and insight has moved recently into major league as he has exposed sleaze and hypocrisy in high places. If you are not a regular reader, maybe you should be. It is usually informative and always entertaining. With his exposé of cash for honours, complete with the embarrassing details, plus the shenanigans of John Prescott, he has the government reeling on the ropes, if not down on the canvas. He has in effect taken on the role of official opposition, which is fine for the Conservatives because it leaves them free to rebuild their brand and prepare to take over. Political and media figures devour his blog every day, and it's easy to see why. It's compulsive reading.
The picture is oddly reminiscent of the last supper.
Woman on Left : "Our next table is an aircaft carrier."
Lackey behind column in background: "Do I have time to get popcorn before the movie starts?"
hit it Bialystock ! Prisoners of love , blue skies above....
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