The Fink Spots Shrum Hand
Tomorrow's Times will highlight the input of Bob Shrum into Gordon's conference speech. It turns out to have been a formulaic re-hash of old Shrum speeches. Danny Finkelstein spotted the similarity this afternoon and the paper has since confirmed it to be the case. Shrum is understood to have been given a desk in Downing Street.
Guido need hardly remind readers that Bob Shrum was paid by Gordon's think-tank, the Smith Institute, to advise him on political strategy. It was documentary evidence of that blatantly illegal activity (provided by Guido) which triggered the ongoing Charity Commission investigation. Ed Balls also berthed at the Smith Institute between leaving his job as a Treasury SpAd and becoming an MP - he was paid a little short of £100,000 for writing a couple of pamphlets.
With the transfer also of Konrad Caulkett from the Smith Institute to Downing Street as well, it is abundantly clear that the Smith Institute has served its purpose - preparing the ground for the Brown premiership. All unlawfully subsidised by the taxpayer...
Guido need hardly remind readers that Bob Shrum was paid by Gordon's think-tank, the Smith Institute, to advise him on political strategy. It was documentary evidence of that blatantly illegal activity (provided by Guido) which triggered the ongoing Charity Commission investigation. Ed Balls also berthed at the Smith Institute between leaving his job as a Treasury SpAd and becoming an MP - he was paid a little short of £100,000 for writing a couple of pamphlets.With the transfer also of Konrad Caulkett from the Smith Institute to Downing Street as well, it is abundantly clear that the Smith Institute has served its purpose - preparing the ground for the Brown premiership. All unlawfully subsidised by the taxpayer...
21 comments:
Embarrassing and clumsy of Brown. Did he imagine he'd really get away with such blatant plagiarism?
This is wonderful news.
Just about every (Democrat) candidate coached by Schrum recently has lost :)
Look on the bright side - Brown might go the way of Al Gore and John 'reporting for duty' Kerry...
duff and gruff - have a squiz at the 'compare and contrast' Blair and Brown table in the current Private Eye if you have a chance. V. Funny,.
Didn't IDS pay his fat wife £100,000 for sending out his xmas cards? Well I say he paid her, that was us tax payers who paid her. Guido we don't need aninvestigation into that, we just need you to get the money off od IDS or the fucking Tories!
Lying, thieving Nu-Liebour scum. Where is Inspector Knacker to look into this illegal use of taxpayers' funds? All looking forward to the Gay Gordo sponsored pension packages I suppose, or stifling dissent. Cunts.
IDS's wife wasn't fat. She was a right sexy piece, dirty looking to. Used to wonder how IDS did it.
Plenty of ammo for Cameron to use against Brown. Let's hope he does so.
And le's hope the rest of the Shadow Cabinet (with the honourable exception of the excellent Chris Grayling) come out of hiding and start doing some bloody work at last.
oh dear
spoke to one old labour supporter , says he doesnt know what nu labour stand for anymore , thought milliband was on drugs.
thought the best bit was gordons party conference movie.
when i asked if in gordons fairer society if 100,200 people want a vote on the eu (daily telegraph) it would be fairer society if he gave us one ( a referendum that is) he sort of stared at his pint and said not in my day , would anyone go back on there word .
problem now is if he changes his mind and gives us one (a rferendum that is) hell make millband look like the new tea boy on the international scene.
cant wait for next installment
thanks
pig farmer
Honestly, I would have thought you'd be thrilled. Bob Shrum has a twenty-five-year track record at the national level.
For losing.
Not a lezzie, then, Zoomraker? Thought you only could get stiffies for Lezzies?
Good work, Guido
Personally, - I don’t mind how often my boys do the same old stuff again – specially when they’re creaky old geezers just getting it on with a new gal, - and in public too! YeeHa, - he got my juices flowing, - but he’d better learn some new tricks pretty soon. There’s bits of me he didn’t touch - and they’re just aching for attention . . . ! Wonder if Dave can reach them with his STICK OF ROCK next week? Or did the bastard say he wouldn’t have it?
Well thats ok then now all Mr Brown has to do is convince me that the theft of a large chunk of my private pension is worth a vote.
Also why i can't get a local NHS dentist to sort out my choppers and why i'm scared to go into town a night while fat coppers are sitting on their fat arses in cars provided by overtaxed pensioners
Didn't McStalin have private dentistry work done recently, and than spun the story that pressure of work meant that he couldn't wait to for an appointment with an NHS dentist.
That's a shame. I was hoping to read that Gordon was under the influence (as most of the above commenters seem to be) of organically-grown hallucinogenic fungi.
Still, it will allow us the occasional good headline when Shrum is fired by Brown, namely 'Not much Shrum in Brown's life for him'
As well as the plagirisms from (failed) US politicos, I'm losing count of the Tory ideas recently adopted by Brown (eg, review taxation of private equity, review right of self-defence, and many more). If he really believes in all these ideas, shouldn't Gordo apply to defect to the Conservatives?
What exactly does Bob Shrum do for the British Government? It seems to me that he's doing nothing for the Government other than working as a general election strategist and political speechwriter, both of which are Party functions not Government functions.
Another case of Sleeze wins out.
Never mind cash for honours, when are the police going to investigate?
samson - Don't be silly, why should the police investigate the Labour government? If the "powers that be" can block the prosecution over the cash for honours affair what is the point in investigating any other matters.
The absolute priority for any incoming Conservative administration must be to restore the independence of the Civil Service and to ensure that Party and political appointments and positions remain outside government.
This is probably even more important than cutting wasteful spending and taxes, overturning some of the more damaging legislation rushed through by the current bunch of Nu-Liebour incompetents or resolving the constitutional mess left from ten years of random, un-thought-out meddling which could have been better undertaken by poorly trained, drunk monkeys than members of this government.
Only by restoring the independence of the civil service can we return to a "British" form of government where the public can begin to trust public officials again without the disbelief inherent in spin doctors and political hacks residing in central government roles like old style, Soviet Commissars.
Nu-Liebour....New Pravda
yes i agree the more i look at it somthing is not free and democratic about the way our country is being run , if you look at all the problems somthing is seriously wrong in what used to be known as a free society.
its the polit bureau. all we need is rhe stasi and quite a few of this gov cabinet will feel quite at home .
thanks
pig farmer
Post a Comment