How to Tell If Tony Wright Has Been Nobbled
Today is the first hearing of the Public Administration Select Committee into "Propriety and Honours: Lessons Learned". At 3.00 pm oral evidence will be taken from: AC John Yates, Metropolitan Police, Carmen Dowd, Head of Special Crime Division, CPS and David Perry QC.This is only the first hearing, we are told there will be others.
Tony Wright chairs the committee and is being criticised for selecting the terms of reference to avoid investigating the actual allegations. He no doubt would argue that was the job of the police.
However, if at a subsequent hearing he does not call Lord Levy to answer questions, you can safely assume he has been nobbled. Arguably Blair and Ruth Turner should also be called to explain themselves.
Guido has also seen a copy of a letter sent to Tony Wright by a witness making specific allegations about being offered honours in return for donations to the Labour party. The letter specifies who made the offer, the figures discussed, as well as naming the Labour party operators involved when they were introduced to Tony Blair. The witness states in the letter that they are bemused at the lack of a prosecution. The witness also states in their letter to Tony Wright (copied to all members of the Committee) that they are willing to testify to the Committee. If that witness is not called Tony Wright has been nobbled.
To the hundreds who have pledged publicly (and privately) to financially support a private prosecution and have been wondering what has been going on, rest assured preparations have been made, legal soundings have been taken and we are waiting to see what comes out of these hearings.
You will also remember that after the dropping by the CPS of the case, the briefings in the papers by "friends" of Levy and Ruth Turner that they would be taking legal action against those who made the accusations. Nobody has received a writ. They have gone very quiet.
47 comments:
Nobbled or ennobled? You chose, Tony.
Cash for honours was too serious to be properly investigated, either by the police or that twat Wright. Dodgy P.M.'s come and go, but the system goes on. In a way, that makes sense.
Guido, I'm not as close to this as you are, but doesn't the fact that Yates' preference of having the thing heard 'in camera' to allow the widest possible discussion in front of the 'Select Committee' and allow people's tongues to be loosened, suggest that the whole thing has already effectively been nobbled ???
I also seem to recall that rather unusually, none of the arrested suspects had DNA swabs taken, a rouitine procedure ofr almost all other poor arrested saps. I wonder why not?
Word verify - phonnn
Whatever can it mean?
You can watch it live via this link
http://news.sky.com/skynews/livenewsevents
City bodies i hear, have got m'learned friends to gag Yates. It has been indicated that if he names names and evidence in open committee, then those individuals will seek to take legal action under Human Rights Legislation.
Somehow i don't see Tony Wright being a hero and upholding decency.
Just switched on. Yates said "We were treated like a political problem".
penfold can't he say what he likes? parliamentary privilege and all that? or does that only apply to members?
Tony Wright, Paul Flynn and Gordon Prentice are getting in a bit of Nulab revenge here against a copper who was doing his job but happened to embarrass these charlatans. This hearing is a sham and we have no hope of seeing a kicking in public for Levy or Turner.
Believe it or not, Guido, the chair of PASC doesn't work for you and he does not operate at your behest.
You may want to see the case which you don't appear to be able to get into court tried before a Commons select committee: but the proper place for a trial is in the courts, with judge, jury and rules of evidence, not in the helter-skelter of the committee corridor.
Oh, and by the way, proceedings in Parliament may not be "questioned or impeached" in any place outside Parliament: so you won't be able to use any evidence presented to PASC as part of a court case, should you eventually muster a case for the courtroom.
Wright and friends are acting like defendants (as they might well have been one day) as well as judges and jury.
Hands up who here thinks Flynn and Prentice are New Labour?!?
Both are renowned for being of pretty independent mind.
This sounds like the kind of nudge nudge wink wink I'm in the know stuff that was so comprehensively proved to be bollocks last time.
There is an easier solution.
It relates to the 'commerical loan' from the union's bank.
They loaned a huge percentage of their capital. Such a large percentage that I believe the regulators actually said it needed to be repaid fast. Loaning more than 10% of a banks capital to any borrower isn't commercial, let along one with dodgy finances. Not surprisingly, it was the first loan repaid.
Since it wasn't a commerical loan, it should have been declared, and yet it wasn't.
Given that it is this loan that Blair and co are relying on to say that all the other loans were at a commerical rate, having this loan declared non-commericial brings the whole house cards down.
1. They weren't declared.
2. Blair new about the loans.
3. A declaration about the non-commerical nature of the Union loan means it should have been declared. That gets the treasurer.
4. The knock on is then that all the other loans should have been declared.
5. Blair didn't report them, and admits to the knowledge.
6. Not telling the treasurer means its an offence, and he's bang to rights because of his admissions already.
Then not only do all the loans have to be repaid, but a fine equal to their size also has to be paid to the exchequer.
Nick
I do hope you're not making a living as a lawyer because that analysis is so full of holes that it puts many cheeses to shame.
Better luck next time.
His spelling isn't up to much either. What does commerical mean? I rather suspect Nick's a pretty commerical fellow and is having a laugh.
We had our fun while the investigation was live. Now it's dead it's the turn of New Labour to gloat. Shrug your shoulders and forget it; it's over.
Higher than usual quota of nulab astro turfers, clearly concerned that this one is going to run and run.
Adam Bolton just said the session was rather inconclusive, characterized by crying over spilt milk.
Bolton is right. I think given the smear against Tony Blair in his final days Mr Yates rather got an easy ride today in the commons. If anything he seemed to accept the premise that something wrong was done.
And how, fucktards, do you explain that donating to the Labour party increases your chances of a peerage 6 000 times?
Something wrong WAS done, Dave, you pillock. By Nu-Liebour and Tony Bliar in offering peerages as direct compensation for loans made to the Liebour party showing their complete disregard for the law of the land and basic honesty and morals. Simple.
The only difference is that now, having rigged the police investigation and CPS decision, the scum who currently make up our government are trying to pin blame on the policeman who ran the investigation in order to further cover their dirty trails.
That's strange, the number of comments on this blog post is decreasing!
My comments have disappeared.
Paul - it looks like someone has hacked your site and removed posts that don't agree with your views just to make you look insecure!
Quick call Google and get the IP address traced..
Regards,
Tom
Tony Wright's wig was made in China
For Gawdsake Guido doncha geddit?
Of course Blair, Levy, Turner and Powell (whatever happened to my snail porridge you welching rat?) had to be allowed to wriggle off the hook. They're your allies now, the hammerhead in the offensive against Brown.
Brown would be the principal beneficiary if the heat was turned up on Blair and co.
So, if you want to see smug 'Daz' cross the threshold of No 10 next May you better call you dogs off...
Spookbuster
cool beans. will you be taking legal action against the Conservative party as well?
I think Anon (7:12 PM) is right on the money.
Has it not occured to anybody that this was a means to remove Blair and get 'King Brown into number 10:
-The original accusations came from the SNP-who have some links to Scottish Nu Lab ('King Browns fiefdom)
-The BBC was well briefed on what was going on by the Brownite camp scuppering any investigation
-The accusations were aimed at Tony's cronies and nobody else
-The mungrel hard left was howling about 'corruption'-egged on by the Brownites
-Every piece of spin relating to Tony came from the Brownite camp.
The point of the matter is the Blairites want 'King Brown out-if we piss 'em off and they might just remain in the ZaNuNuLab camp.
A big problem if we face a Fib Dem surge....
Don't forget the contribution made by Cmd Jack Dromey, squarely dropping Blair in the shit by saying, as party treasurer, that he had no knowledge of the loans. I well remember Dromey's participation in the odious Grunwick dispute (1977). He sported an identikit Hard-Left black leather jacket in those days. And to whom is he shackled in matrimony but Harriet Harman, newly anointed Deputy Leader of the Labour Party -- whose accession to this exalted position was greeted with some surprise and cries of "Fix!" by the cognoscenti.
Anon. 7:12, do you have more?
youve got to admitt that a missable snp mp having the right info is unlikely.
i think it was part of broones masterplan to get in , it coincides well with build ups to shift blair.
first we had that pre 97 meal on powersharing features, and jaqui smith leased to stop complete meltdown.
whilst blair probebly did what many before have done including when it was legal , never the less it was done very badly i mean he did reward complete unworthies for cash.
there was all that pressure on third term which tony said he would do , then this case started hotting up and then more about "when will gordo be pm"
yeah it looks good to me but its because the source is so remote from who would really know.
definite shit stab from gordo and the evil tufty club.
thanks
red despot spotter
Thomas Gordon & Dennis
From Anon 7.12
Yes there's more. Blair's removal was arranged by the 'Foreign Office crowd' (ex spooks who currently fill senior civil service positions) and his executioner was a certain Jonathon Powell (remember the dodgy email system?) his former Chief of Staff and former Secretary to the Cabinet (for some time he held both posts concurrently against the protestations of Lord Butler - the 'dark forces' got round this through an 'Order in Council').
When Guido put up an avatar on here of a cuffed Powell being frogmarched to the nick I wagered him lunch at the Fat Duck that this could never happen. He's been avoiding me ever since.
I hereby authorise either of you fine upstanding gentleman to deputise for me.
PS It's going to be a very discontented winter for Gordo - with lots of 'spontaneous' strikes (Thames House had an excellent dry run recently with the POA). The Olympic budget will blow up too and the Pirbright cover up will be exposed.
Expect vote of no confidence to be tabled early spring. Brown will either resign or be forced to go to the country.
It will be Daz by at least 50.
Spookbuster
Spookbuster,
Just because you offer a wager does not mean Guido accepted. On that basis my wager is that tomorrow the sun will rise and the stakes are your house.
Incidentally, put your name in the box, rather than at the bottom.
Spookbuster, it all fits together with absurd neatness. The Stalinist repression of other candidates, Miliband's reward, and all that. The only good thing to be said about it is that Blair is no longer able to inflict such vast damage on the UK. Not that Brown is any better; he might well be worse.
Even the badgers are feeling the results. Despite the scientific evidence they are to be sacrificed in appeasement to beef & dairy farmers for the Pirbright fiasco.
I think you are right about a no confidence vote. I might nip down to Coral's and place a few quid on a March election.
As for Herr Blumenthal & his blowtorch, I'm afraid you're on your own there. Eating with headphones on is not my thing.
C'mon Guiders, whats the story on long delayed(permanent?) Blair resignation honours list?????????????????????????????????????????????????
No resignation honours from Blair - confirmed a few weeks ago. Too tainted, apparently.
Dennis and Friends
"Not that Brown is any better; he might well be worse."
Indeed 'King Broon is already turning into the Callaghan nightmare.
The Sith himself was behind the coup-I have no doubt about that. That m'learned friend GF was sniffing around might explain why he got sucked into it from Al Beeb stooge Nicko Robinson (I think) then got a kicking at the hands of Comrade White (who is another Brownite).
A Tory blog-corruption-leading to Blair. All too good to be true looking back at it.
Then the case is kicked out because of 'media leaks'.
I think that the seeds were also planted way back in the lead up to the Iraq War-think about it could Old Man Mingers and drunken Kennedy known that the 'intelligence' was 'flimsy' unless they were briefed from the very top (It was pressure from them to release the JIC dossier in the first place)? What ever your views on Iraq is irrelevant but the narration was designed to place the ‘trust’ issue right the heart of the political debate.
Campbell/Brown friendship anybody? And what was Broon’s selling pitch to the voters?
And where was ‘King Broon when Blair was being burnt at the stake?
We now have a PM who has no mandate, selling us down the river on so many different things, policy wonks getting put into high places,etc,etc,etc.
GF-Take a look at the Maperly/HMRC tender and the connection with McAlpine and Crapita.Also take a peek at Lyons and why he got that Job at BBC Trust.
You'll find that this has 'King Broons finger prints all over it.
ALL IN ALL A VERY BRITISH COUP
Tuscan Tony said..Word verify - phonnn
Spelling errors, "rouitine" "ofr".
Whatever can it mean?
You're crap at spelling.
Anonymous said...
C'mon Guiders, whats the story on long delayed(permanent?) Blair resignation honours list
If you ain't had the letter yet, you ain't goin' to get one.
Thomas Gordon said...
Dennis and Friends
Lost me Tom when you used the "Broon" funny, and a wee bit too long I feel Thomas. Short and funny is the order of the day here Tommy, and you fall into the long and wearisome.
Dennis said...Stalinist repression
Always a good opener that Dennis, but from then on downhill, still nice pic. mum must be proud.
mitch said...
We had our fun while the investigation was live. Now it's dead it's the turn of New Labour to gloat.
We are the champions of the world.
Guido Fawkes Esq. said. Incidentally, put your name in the box, rather than at the bottom.
Brutal put down Guido, but then that's why you're the man.
Anon. 11:32, I was a breech birth -- they had to use laundry tongs.
You are Emily Thornberry and I claim my £5.
Dennis,
Even the badgers are feeling the results. Despite the scientific evidence they are to be sacrificed in appeasement to beef & dairy farmers for the Pirbright fiasco.
Can you grant me sanctity?
Dennis,
Even the badgers are feeling the results. Despite the scientific evidence they are to be sacrificed in appeasement to beef & dairy farmers for the Pirbright fiasco.
Can you grant me sanctity?
If you mean "sanctuary", I'm sorry, the belfry at Notre Dame is already full. You have my sympathy. Expect a hissing noise at the entrance to your set very soon.
Dennis said...
If you mean "sanctuary",
Nasty little twerp.
I did mean sanctuary.I'm justifiably humiliated. I'll just go and wait then.
Anonmong
"Short and funny is the order of the day here Tommy, and you fall into the long and wearisome."
Fuck me-another Brown Astroturfer
who hide behind 'anon'
Short enough for you cunt?
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