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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Tories Pressing Hard on Smith Institute

Chris Grayling has today written to the Charity Commission's Head of Compliance demanding a full investigation under Section 8 of the Charities Act.

Mark Francois last week tabled yet another Written Parliamentary Question (WPQ) which is still unanswered
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what remuneration was received for the use of 11 Downing Street from the Smith Institute or SI Events Ltd for its seminar on positional goods held on 21st September 2006.
Keith Simpson has been told to expect an answer to his questions "by the end of this week".

A co-conspirator emails to say he has been told by Oliver Letwin that George Osborne "has been doing a good deal of work on this Smith Institute connection, and will be ensuring that it is brought fully to public attention."* Hmm, the bandwagon went that way...

*Guido knows that Osborne's researcher is boasting to journalists that he is behind the exposing of the Sith, perhaps he repeats to them what he reads here?

58 comments:

Kronos said...

Ooohh! be still my beating heart

Anonymous said...

It would be nice to see some progress on this issue. All this **** in the media about Casinos and NuLabour finance gives new meaning to the old term: "Betting" "Levy" "Bored".

Chuck Unsworth said...

Osborne needs to get a new (and more sensible) researcher. Clearly the current one is not up to the job. Especially if he spends his time boasting to journos.

Anonymous said...

meanwhile ooop in t' North, Hazel 'chipmunk' Blears is giving to six million people in the Manchester City-region an invitation to poker.

How many takers, one wonders?

fingerscrossed said...

Guido

400 years ago today eh, oh if only it happened again... if only.

*day dreams with a smile*

Anonymous said...

Looks like the next Nulab scandal will be taking off shortly.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=432664&in_page_id=1770

Anonymous said...

Well if repeating what he read here worked for Crick, why not for Osborne's researcher...?

marquee mark said...

Re latest Nulab scandal:

Its prospects are not so much Sun King as sinking....

When will this useless shower get the message and admit that playing at student politics doesn't remotely give you any experience on how to run a country. So just go, for crying out loud. They are hanging around like a fart in a space suit...

Anonymous said...

Dear Tetchy of Westminster,

can you explain why you have not been granted a lobby pass yet? Could it be to do with the need to supply suitable references and your police record?

LOL

marquee mark said...

anonymong 1.31,

Tetchy of Westminster is away doing important work for the War Effort, so on his behalf would you please just FUCK OFF YOU CUNT. We are not interested in your LOL wankiness.

Guido Fawkes Esq. said...

Dear Mong,

No. It is because Guido has not filled out the forms. As for the police record Guido has two drunk and disorderly offences. Which makes him fully qualified to join the lobby.

machiavelli said...

I am slightly confused over this lobby pass briefing? I didn't think anyone had been arrested for doing the flyers for the M25 Orbital raves...?

Anyway, I'm sure criminal convictions are no bar to access to Downing Street nowadays...

Peter Hitchens said...

Mr Fawkes were you wearing pants when arrested?
I have only heard two of your anecdotes and they both involved you ending up trouserless in a foreign country.
Any of that malarkey over here and you could be on the nonce list, that or a PPC for the Lib Dems.

Anonymous said...

Here we are drowning in New Labour sleaze and corruption and hardly a peep from Her Majesty's Official Opposition.

I'm glad Chris Grayling has got involved, when he gets his teeth into something he doesn't let go until he gets results.

But as for Cameron, Osborne, Hague and co: get your fingers out boys FFS!

Remember Mandy and Ali Campbell back in the mid-nineties.? They crucified you on sleaze even though it was miniscule compared to today's antics from Blair and Brown.

Don't sit back watching and waiting. Start digging, start attacking, rip these lying, corrupt bastards apart like a piranha in a tank full of goldfish.

The nation expects.

Mr Gisoad said...

Guido has two drunk and disorderly offences. Which makes him fully qualified to join the lobby.

yes, but only just. Ideally, you'd need three D&Ds, a B&E, a couple of assaults (pref one aggravated) and an illegal phonetapping. Or is that Cabinet Ministers?

Anonymous said...

Guido, you have made your point. But you need to let this one go one. Trust me, Gordon is not taking this lying down. Retribution is being planned as we speak. If he has to remove the charity status of the perfectly legal Smith Institute due to your mendacity, then all the public schools will lose their tax advantages also. Others have been brought back to work to see what they can plant on you. You need to see the bigger picture here.

A cessation of hostilities will save you a lot of problems later on - so stop, before you reach the point of no return. Believe me, it's for your sake.

Julian said...

Guido knows that Osborne's researcher is boasting to journalists that he is behind the exposing of the Sith, perhaps he repeats to them what he reads here?

Its almost worth planting some nonsensical invention just to see whether Osbourne suddenly takes Brown up on it or not.

As for the 1:08 mong's comment, please don't make suggestions about who want to give Hazel Blears a poke. Some of us are eating lunch at that hour of the day and would prefer not to have to visualise the poor, crime and grime-ridden denizens of East Manchester being forced by electric prod to line up and have carnal knowledge of the Dark Clown across one of her blackjack tables.

Anonymous said...

"If he has to remove the charity status of the perfectly legal Smith Institute due to your mendacity, then all the public schools will lose their tax advantages also."

Can't you just nail Harrow? All the others are blameless.

Julian said...


A cessation of hostilities will save you a lot of problems later on - so stop, before you reach the point of no return. Believe me, it's for your sake.


Nice to see Millbank is back to its usual form of baseless threats and empty promises, but why would you be so concerned about Mr Fawkes Sake? I thought he preferred Margaux?

Cardinal Puff said...

Oi! Leave Harrow out of this. I've got two sons to educate and they're never going to get in anywhere else.

mark williams said...

What's all this tosh about removing chjaritable status from public schools? Cabinet ministers have often said privately that removing charitable status from public schools would simply cause them to close, freeing up plenty of cash for the more affluent middle classes, pushing the cost of educating 8% of the population back to the government and lowering average academic performance.

Penfold said...

Exposure, exposure, exposure.

Keep going Guido and don't subscribe to all this intimidation shit.


Anyway if you are topped a la Russkie, we will hold your memory dear. And perhaps Knacker of the Yard will enquire as to your demise. Remember its always the cover-up that gets them.

Anonymous said...

Guido you aren't the first person to probe into Brown's inner circle - and you probably won't be the last.

Geo's Autistci Cat said...

2:28pm "If he has to remove the charity status of the perfectly legal Smith Institute due to your mendacity, then all the public schools will lose their tax advantages ...."

Dear Senor Guido

It's your Veracity, not your Mendacity, that el Gordo fears

Monsieur Le A Chat

Chad said...

Well with Steve Hilton's girlfriend and Iain Dale as trustees, and run by Tory Mayoral candidate and close Cameron friend Nick Boles, I'm sure Policy Exchange will stand up to the same level of scrutiny...

New and Blue are as bad as each other.

Peter Hitchens said...

anon2;28
Gordon is not taking this lying down.
Fuck Gordon and the rocking Horse he rode in on !
That one eyed nappy wearing pansy is as dead in the water as Blair is, they are co-joined, when Blair goes Gordon will go. he is an impotent fucked up shitbag loathed by everybody.
I would cheerfully drown Blair in a bucket of shit but he is ten times the man that Brown is.
I hope the fucker commits suicide when he has the crown snatched from his revolting chewed fingers, probably by Hillary Benn.

Peter Hitchens said...

PS
Guido ,if you are bumped off can I have your moped?

Guido Fawkes Esq. said...

No, some fucker nicked it.

Am on a push-bike, it is good for the environment blah blah blah. As if...

Anonymous said...

"If he has to remove the charity status of the perfectly legal Smith Institute due to your mendacity, then all the public schools will lose their tax advantages also."

Does anyone think the state schools could cope with an influx of 20,000 extra kids?

They have a hard enough job keeping teachers as it is, if the pupils start asking questions and expecting to be taught the whole system will collapse.

Cassandra said...

is the 2.28pm post an inspired posting from the anti-Gordon faction? On superficial inspection it looks like a personal threat from a brooding vengeful man who would be prepared to plant evidence to try to distract from his own guilt. That wouldn't look very good to the electorate if given suitable publicity so I conjecture it must be a post from the Blairite camp (or any other ferrets who may be pitching in in hope of sprinting down the outside).

Geezer said...

wMopeds last no more than about 2 minutes in London!!

Thieving pykies, usually just chuck them in the back of a van and get to work on them later.

Anonymous said...

cassandra - surely you are not mooting the involvement of Alistair 'Fuck Gilligan' Campbell, or 'Randy Mandy' Mandelson ? I would have thought they would be busy with other things these days, but one never knows..

By the way, what happened to those 'Blairite Outriders' Stephen Byers and Alan 'Family Man' Milburn ???

Perhaps they can no longer 'outride' if they have also had the misfortune of having their mopeds stolen...Ho Hum.

G Eagle Esq said...

Dear Guido

We hope you're not bumped off

but if you expire, while being crushed by a hyper-large Tax Return or trying to deliver it to a Tax Office that's not on strike

can I and allbloodytaken have a Co-Conspirator's T-shirt

GE

mutleythedog said...

"A cessation of hostilities will save you a lot of problems later on - so stop, before you reach the point of no return. Believe me, it's for your sake."

Blimey - someones tired! Can I suggest avoiding going for short walks in the woods and committing suicide in an impossible way and after you are dead moving your body?

mutleythedog said...

.... and I wouldn't want to get you into trouble by making baseless allegations about Gordon McBroon

mongoose said...

Mr Fawkes, when the cunts start threatening you, you know that they are shitting themselves. Fuck em!

PS I expect JHL stole your moped.

Anonymous said...

.... and I wouldn't want you to get into trouble by making well-founded allegations against Gordon

Anonymous said...

Are Norma Levy and the noble lord related by any chance?

Julian said...

jailhouselawyer wouldn't need to steal his moped now. I expect he's on a retainer from Levy, Turner and Co, teaching them how to roll their own, pick soap up off the floor without exposing themselves to sexually frustrated bankrobbers, smuggle cash and pills in very private places and how to make their weekly HMP allowance stretch to more than a half ounce of Golden Virginia and a packet of HobNobs.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
.... and I wouldn't want you to get into trouble by making well-founded allegations against Gordon

I suspect we're going to hear many well-founded allegations against Gordon in the weeks and months ahead.

It's all coming to a head now with an end-of-an-era feel about it.

Blair, Brown and the rest of em are all dead in the water.

Anonymous said...

Dear Tetchy,

If you are qualified for a lobby pass, why don't you carry out your promise to get one?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
....Trust me, Gordon is not taking this lying down....

He usually takes it bent over the back of an armchair from what I heard, the mincing Scotch faggot.

Guido Fawkes Esq. said...

That is for me to know and you to ponder.

Anonymous said...

Surely an influx of rugby playing sodomites from the public schools would instil a little discipline in the state school sector?

bt said...

Hey, Guido!
If that dire warning is real, you could end up as an historical footnote along with Vince Foster!

Fame beckons.
Go for it!

no longer anonymous said...

Come on Cameron you big nancy boy, take the gloves off and convince us that you want to make this government suffer as much as we do. Attend to Brown with a nailgun and I'll never suggest that you're a softie ever again.

bing crosby's stunt double said...

Ref the 2.28 - Guido, if anyone guns you down from a speeding stolen moped, I will throw bricks through Gordon's window.

Aye, and thousands after me. I'm Spartacus. Wibble.

PS avoiding taking long walks in woods etc etc. Good observation. Keep clear of (i) defence contractors (ii) Italian bankers too.

Geo's Autistci Cat said...

4:38pm Anon "Dear Tetchy, If you are qualified for a lobby pass, why don't you carry out your promise to get one?"

4:41pm Guido "That is for me to know and you to ponder"

I don't recall Senor Guido rashly promising to get a lobby pass, but our most reliable & incisive informants has discovered to us why Guido does not have a lobby pass :

1:41 PM Guido "... It is because Guido has not filled out the forms ..."

G A Chat

Peter Hitchens said...

As the legal representative of Mr John Hirst AKA Jail House lawyer
I would just like to say that all these accusations levelled at him are completely unfounded.
Just because a man chooses to beat an elderly lady to death with a hatchet doesn't necessarily mean that he is also likely to be guilty of "twocking" a moped, indeed if past events are anything to go by my client Mr Hirst prefers to call the police and hand himself in after a murder rather than making a dash for freedom on a souped up sewing machine.
You have been warned.

The Scoffer said...

"Guido knows that Osborne's researcher is boasting to journalists that he is behind the exposing of the Sith, perhaps he repeats to them what he reads here?"

Perhaps he was the chap who first alerted you to the dodgy dealings in a comment here about four months ago?

Guido Fawkes Esq. said...

Nope.

backwoodsman said...

nonymong 2.28 really is a classic worth preserving, probably written by the same bbc staffer who sends me those letters about the all seeing detector vans 'n stuff.
You'd have thought they might have picked up the pulse of this board by now !

Anonymous said...

backwoodsman - ah, yes, but wouldn't you like to get your paws on that technology that allows you to check that girls have their underwear in order as they amble down Oxford Street ? Although hardly necessary in the case of Sadie Frost...

Anonymous said...

Hmm..good point about Sadie Frost, but is what she was doing really that different from those hideous 'leggings' contraptions which thankfully appear to have gone out of fashion ?

just1 said...

Hey Quido how many bloggers do you know who uses mendacity

audio geek said...

"Mendacity" is a free audio sampling program which inexplicably converts your AAC file at random into one of 287 songs by Max Bygraves, Engelbert Humperdinck or Vince Hill. Your original data are destroyed.

I don't know of any bloggers who might need, still less use, this software.

mongoose said...

PH "As the legal representative of Mr John Hirst AKA Jail House lawyer I would just like to say that all these accusations levelled at him are completely unfounded."

I take it back. Some other scumbag must have nicked it. There'd be nowhere to carry his hatchet on a scooter.

Anonymous said...

Brilliant scoop, Guido. Osborne can make all the claims he wants, but the blogosphere knows who opened this can of worms. Guido for PM!


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