This Morning the Smith Institute Met in No. 11
The arrogance of the Sith is incredible. Despite being warned by the Charity Commission to hold events at politically neutral venues, they held yet another event this morning at No. 11.
A co-conspirator tells Guido
A co-conspirator tells Guido
Alistair Darling was "looking very proprietorial " telling the assembled business executives how it will be in future. Attending were some ministers, no politicians from other parties, but some Labour backbenchers.
With Gordon's future chancellor and only Labour MPs present, seems to Guido to be a little bit political and far from neutral. If you have not yet watched Iain Dale's ten minute documentary on the Smith Institute, click here.
UPDATE : Dizzy has picked-up on the Treasury's John Healey avoiding answering questions about EMI. Wonder why?
UPDATE : Dizzy has picked-up on the Treasury's John Healey avoiding answering questions about EMI. Wonder why?
59 comments:
Pardon my ignorance here, but say the Charity Commission finds this lot guilty of not being neutral, etc. What kind of fall out can we expect from this?
'proprietal'
What does this mean ? Does it relate to 'propriety' ? Or proprietor ?
"Proprietorial" is the word, as any fule no.
hope Mr. Grayling or his ilk has their researcher costing out what sith will owe the tax payer in backpayments for venue rental and nibbles - is the 'entertainment' budget for no 11 available, what proportion of it has been spent on sith events ? let the people know !
I think he means 'priapic' - i.e. looking like a big prick, which would figure :-)
Apparently Gordon likes it that way.
"The chancellor is facing mounting pressure today over his connection with the Smith Institute - a leftwing thinktank whose charitable status has been called into question"
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/backbencher/0,,513903,00.html
For fucks sake the Charity Commission does not need your dossier to remove charitable status from the utter sham that is SITH. My bloody dog could show these sloppy corrupt commissioners the bloody evidence which is there for all to see. Charity Commission get off your biased backsides and do the job you are paid to do. Res ipsa loquitur you indolent Arseholes
Crackers is right Guido - don't let these officials make YOU the issue - it is THEIR job and its is pretty easy as well!
despicable sith 3.33pm:
"The chancellor is facing mounting pressure today..."
use a phrase like that round here, my old china, and you'll have that Mr Hitchens appearing like magic, you mark my words.
Not sure Mr Darling has No 11 quite sewn up yet...
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labourleadership/story/0,,2002850,00.html
Tories call for inquiry into thinktank linked to Brown
It beggers belief ...
What's the deal with the Smith Institute website being in the name of the New Statesman? Is this yet another dodgy business/charity/political connection?
WHOIS Output
How many trees will the BBC and Sky have to plant to correct there carbon emissions ,the amount of electricity used to show the street Birmingham must be humongus
Youre fault Guido
As Elvis might have said;
'A little less conversation,
a little more action..'
didn't see Brown sitting shoulder to shoulder with his chums Blair and Reid at PMQ - has he gone AWOL again?
It costs fifty quid to join. Anyone fancy a bit of infiltration?
Guido please stop revealing any more NuLab sleeze..all of these terror alerts that these revelations seem to precipitate are bad for the nerves.
I `m up for it if you will Croydonian...we can wear spy hats and talk in code.Our call sign will be " Shall we go to a lap dancing club" which I understand is Guido`s usual code for going to a lap dancing club..WHAT WILL MRS GUIDO SAY
I have only just realised why its called the Smith Institute.(shame) I fucking hated John Smith and I was glad.
Odd how his pictish socialist spirit returns , makes you think you must have dione something bad . Can`t imagine what...?
Guido,
Please can you dig up more NuLab sleaze around Feb time. I fancy a Terror Alert at Heathrow should free up some cheaper flights for me and the kids at half term to a sunnier location......
Absent Friend - Broon was in Edinburgh sucking up to Bill Gates.
Come to think about it Brooons PM ship may be short, perhaps he`s getting his selling out in early and often
( thats what I`d do)
I am sure the commissioners will take advice on this from their impartial dvisor Polly Toynbee.
Has anyone else noticed how the entire country has ground to a halt because of the civil servants' strike. I hope to goodness they sort it out soon before ... errrm ... before we learn to get along without them.
I `m hoping the Met go on strike and we can just re route a few traffic wardens and have more coppers on the street for nothing .
Can I vote the FSA as the most useless and expensive waste of air in the cosmos . If they went on strike business would actually run more smoothly AND you save an ID
(NB an ID denoting about £10 billion of wasted money)
PS Has anyone ever ever ever bought one of those stupid conspiritor tee shirts. I mean I may not be cool but there is a limit .
More strikers? For goodness sakes, this isn't the 1970s.
I would willingly turn a blind eye to anybody who decided to initiate rough justice on them with a pickaxe.
John Healey sometimes does the welcome address at SIth seminars - for example he is on record as saying:
I am a last-minute substitute for Gordon Brown, so I would like, on his behalf, to welcome
you all to Number 11 Downing Street. I know, looking around, some of you are quite
regular attenders of Smith Institute seminars, and you will know you get a letter from Wilf
Stevenson before each one explaining that you are invited to Number 11 by kind
permission of the Chancellor. I have to say, this series of seminars in particular is being
held not so much by the kind permission of the Chancellor, but by his absolute insistence
that they take place.
Scottish Gordie was over the border today, but he did give an interview to BBC Scotland.
Brown: Wait for facts on honours probe
But asked if there had been some kind of "cover-up", he told the BBC: "I believe when people see the full facts then they will be satisfied."
*coughs*
"Honestly Mr HMR&C
I really did send the cheque it must be lost , I keep reading about your problems."
Thats those fuckers off my back for a few months
Is this site under attack from hackers? The comments window's regularly fail to open.
At 5:27 PM, welcome to number 11 said...
"I have to say, this series of seminars in particular is being held not so much by the kind permission of the Chancellor, but by his absolute insistence
that they take place."
Wilf Stevenson says they have absolutely nothing to do with the chancellor.
Who is telling porkies?
Guido Fawkes Esq. said...
Who is telling porkies?
That'll be Gordon.
my feedburner is tell me you have no RSS working either.
More interesting material here: http://www.smith-institute.org.uk/transcripts-awaiting/
Note that a Pfizer exec gets to talk to a minister in the DoH (about Pfizer's new products, and their approval by NICE, amongst other things) simply by sponsoring the institute.
Will other ministers listen for payment? Is the going rate available, I'd like to rent one or two.
I don't like EMI. Something to do with being Labour brown-nosers, but I can't remember exactly why. Can somebody remind me?
All of this on the day when, 401 years ago, Guy Fawkes was executed.
Keep on digging!
..off topic, I know, but the Times has just breathlessly announced that:
"Amjad Hussain, a Read Admiral in the Royal Navy, is the highest-ranking Muslim officer in the UK."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2576813,00.html#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=Britain
Is he:
1. an admiral who can read
2. some sort of admiral-trainer for the illiterate ones
3. some type of winged insect
I think we should be told.
Could it be, praguetory, because EMI chucked all their shareholders' money at that mincing embodiment of vanity and vacuousness, "Robbie" Williams?
It's got to be Read Admiral as in winged insects, Tony. Two ranks junior to Admiral of the Flea.
Could some anorak remind me - wasn't John Smith something to do with Monklands, and wasn't there some terrific stink of corruption around them thar parts in the early 90's, and didn't the media decline to publicise it?
...and Gordon Brown giving the introduction at another SIth seminar says
Can I welcome you all, first of all, to No 11 Downing Street for the first in a series of Smith Institute seminars on science. I think
when you look at the distinguished people who are going to be addressing these seminars over the next few weeks – starting with
Sir Chris Evans and David Sainsbury, who have both done so much in their own ways to promote science – you will see that we
regard the Smith Institute discussions as very important in how we prepare for our industrial and commercial future.
We do indeed see how importantly you regard the SIth discussions, Gordon.
This site is being interfered with
Guido, you could send your site logs over to someone of the ilk of spyblog for analysis
A Red Admiral is a butterflyor a senior soviet seaman!
Broon:
'But asked if there had been some kind of "cover-up", he told the BBC: "I believe when people see the full facts then they will be satisfied."'
That is, he and his acolytes will be satisfied if he gets into No. 10 sooner rather than later.
P.S. There is a butterfly called a skipper (Hesperiidae) ...
bloglines is telling me the following re Guido's site.
The feed does not appear to exist. This can be caused by the feed URL being incorrect, or it can be caused by a configuration issue with the server hosting the feed. If this error continues, you should check the feed URL and, if it is wrong, subscribe to the correct URL.
Am having to find you manually.
Winston Churchill once observed that the tradition of the Royal Navy was 'rum, sodomy and the lash'. I have always assumed that a rear admiral would not concern himself with the first or the last of these.
'Am having to find you manually.
8:31 PM '
Oh, Poor diddums !!
yeah right. object most strongly to some oik somewhere trying to interfere with this site, god knows they think they run the sodding country..
It happened to me maybe a dns problem or the servers are busy
tend to think its more specific than that.
dns problems usually flag up lots of blogger sites with problems. this is only on guido's.
his other posts are ok, its only this one being affected.
How cartoonist Beau Bo d'Or saw the second arrest of Lord Levy in connection with perverting the course of justice.
http://www.channel4.com/apps26/blogs/page/newsroom?entry=blair_s_occupation
re: Site problems.
Google's been having a rash of issues with Blogger... apparently they can do a boffo search but aren't all that good at maintaining a hosting service (gmail has routine issues as well). Maybe some larger company could find a way to support them so they can afford to buy servers or bandwidth!
B&B&Co have much more important things to do than hacking this site. Trying to defeat the Met's hack attempts, all that shredding, rewriting and demagnetising hard drives, working on the right property in a no-extradition country, setting up bank accounts... busy, busy, busy! They're much more likely to be setting up DOS/DDOS attacks against their own computers or the Met until they can nuke them, rather than wasting precious time attacking someone else and risking the Filth getting their hands on a working computer.
401 years ago, Guy Fawkes was executed.
He must have a f*cking amazing internet connection!
Isn't the venue itself essentially politically neutral? Harbouring people on both the right (Thatcher) and far right (Blair) down the years? Which RW think tanks have tried to use the place and been knocked back, despite calling in a favour or two, over the SITH period?
There are a lot of worse charities in the world that the CC need to be going after ahead of the SITH. I liked that John Smith. Apart from the comb over he was a cool and principled gent. Why should he not have posthumous access to the odd room booking when he served the party so well?
Same goes for Archer ... except he didn't serve anyone but himself.
Anon 8.31: As an old sea dog, I was always told that the rear admiral's rear was the vice admiral's vice... Hallo sailor!
CP @1250
"..and principled gent."
The possession of principles is neither here nor there.
The NSDAP had a principled objection to jews.
Brown has two guiding principles: your money is owned by the state and the state's money is his. Of course, he knows this is colossally unpopular so transparent subterfuges like the Smith "Institute" are manufactured.
Smith did not have clean hands : check out Monklands (smith's constituency) corruption scandals from the late 80's and early 90's as detailed in multiple editions of Private Eye.
John Smith does make decent beer, is the Sith Institute an off shoot of CAMRA or am I missing something.
Perhaps the next seminar will be home brewing under a Labour government.
They'd probably cock that up as well.
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