How Much Does Gordon's Pollster Charge for a 1-Day Seminar?
Guido has said it before and he'll say it again, the way Gordon Brown's pollster, Deborah Mattinson at Opinion Leader Research, gets contracts is not right.Hidden away in an announcement made quietly on May 4, when all our attention was on the local election results, was the news that OLR had won another government contract to organise a one-day seminar.
£153,484.38 was the price the taxpayer paid OLR for a one-day seminar on the “The Skills Challenge: A Public Debate” in February. That should subsidise a hell of a lot of free polling for Gordon.
21 comments:
Wow! A one-day seminar costing £153K. Do they provide gold-plated loo-seats and caviar for that price?
Any normal person would be sunk by all the claims of incompetence, corruption and whatnot against them by now, but because everyone in the Labour Party and the Media are a bunch of spineless pansies El Gordo still keeps on rolling.
I hope Blair kamikazes him on the way out. Go on Tony! Only you can save us from this beast now. Do one noble thing for your legacy - sink the cyclops!
that is just taking the piss.
Its called 'transfer pricing'.
Brown has lived off immoral earnings before so this arrangement is within his 'moral compas'. Robinson shagged his way to £11m a chunk of which was kept offshore to fund Brown's 'research department' and Friday nights at The Dorchester.
Bow and Scrape your Lord and Master is a fucking crook. A financial Elmer Gantry. Get it.
from OLR's website:
We are particularly strong in the following areas:
Reaching hard-to-access groups - from MPs to Cornish Fishermen to King’s Cross prostitutes
well,
300 people at the QEII conference centre is 12k for room hire say 3k for food and 30k for travel expenses if they paid them. The speakers were Alan Jonson and Gordo so no fees there - at least I hope not. That leaves a cool 110k profit, say 100k after deducting the costs of actually organising it. Not bad work if you can get it.
Anyone know how to find out if the thieving scumbags were paid fees for speaking?
The theiving scumbags are paid. I am one of the poor bloody public who pays for the shower of shit. How many squaddies/firemen/nurses...would 150K pay for?
The numbers add up, as long as there were 3,000 people there - £ 50 an attendee is not excessive. How maany did attend?
sniper 7:02 PM:
Absolutely, and what an utterly disgraceful waste...
we could have mounted the completely pointless invasion of a small impoverished country with that kind of money.
As I am Cornish and Fish.
May I report that OLR has failed to ever "access my group"?
FFS Guido get your Rottweilers onto this SCAM. Nulabour throws public money away as if it were Confetti.
PS. Watch out for that so Called Tory Seb Coe. Now honoured as Lord Coe as some SICK Joke. He was an ABSOLUTE failure as a Conservative MP down here in Truro and Falmouth.
This Twat is the last person who should run the UK Olympics. Be warned it will go Pear Shaped on a massive scale because of him and perhaps a little help from Tessa
three hundred attendees.
Mmmmm, that's a nice cheese plate. Maybe a few grapes as well. Does that slit-mouthed parasite drop them into Gordon's mouth before making off to the bank with the tax payer's loot?
6:24 PM
right, for 153K perhaps they could try accessing jobcentreplus and find out just where the fuck my benefit is
Having skimmed through the report detailing the day's findings, one cannot help but conclude that OLR's pricing is at the Rolls-Royce end of the market. This being the case, one wonders what would have been the market value of the Brown/Cameron 'poll' undertaken gratis by OLR (coincidentally) in February?
Consulting 100 leading 'opinion formers' on the OLR panel would not come cheap - say, for you guv, £50k. So does this mean that OLR 'donated' £50k to Gordon Brown's election campaign? Kinda looks that way don't it?
Must be a rule about that kind of thing. Little surprise that nobody else wants to stand for the leadership - they can't afford to! And this is the British LABOUR party we're talking about here. What has happened to them?
The question is will Nick Robinson, Michael White or Jeremy Paxman be reporting this?
The tories were worse.
I'm sure there's no wrongdoing.
This is all above board.
Perhaps OLR published the proceedings of this "public debate" by transcribing them onto fine vellum which was then bound in leather - hand-tooled of course as befits this outfit.
As far as I'm concerned, this is all good stuff. Why? because it's one further nail in the coffin of socialism, that's why.
10 years on and look where we are - more cameras per person than anywhere in the world, a 'health service' that is anything but, constitutional checks and balances that have lasted a thousand years eradicated, pensions ruined by the million and the imminent dissolution of the union. Well, at least we haven't had the famines and re-education camps - just yet...
Sorry to cheer you up tonemcd, but if you google 'skills challenge' and look down past the entries for various industry prizes, you will find the nasty papers and consultations which indicate that 'skills challenge' translates as 'how can we coerce people to do the jobs we want rather than the jobs the market or their own abilities dictate'. Failure, for example, to go to school when you are old enough to have sex, marry, pay full fare on the bus and, in some instances, die in protection of the Crown, will result in a 2 year spell in the re-education centre for the parents of the truant. My, but that will improve attitudes to Alan Johnson, whom Tone may think of as working class, but I think of as NuLab politician and therefore not-working class.
bhownagree(honest):
the tories were worse.
I'm sure there's no wrongdoing.
This is all above board.
It's good, but it can't replace the real thing. Hurry back, Si -- your comedic skills are sadly missed.
Look the big point is that stealing money in backhanders and payments in kind, is NOT like being on a diet.
Just because nobody sees you eat it, does not mean it is not fattening or that you will not end up overweight one day.
Therefore
Its not the "econemy stupid." It is however the MEDIA led by their chief state subsidised socialist propagandists the BB fucking C.
Does anyone out there think that a Conservative government would get away with this, remembering what happened to an infamous MP from Tatton?
Untill the BBC especially, starts reporting these types of things again like they did all the way up to the general election of 97. These criminals can and will get away with just about anything they bloody well want. And I do mean ANYTHING. From murder to unnessery illfunded wars to plane old boring indemic coruption.
Whats even worse then that, they have know it since the 10th May 1997.
A date that will live in infamy.
Also a massive grave BBC inspired mistake for which my unborn grandchildren will be paying, for the rest of their state controlled repressed lives.
There are no socialists in the present political elite. they are the disciples of Thatcher, milking the system for their rich friends and hangers on...it is how the system works folks!
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