LibDems Ask "Did Abrahams Illegally Finance Sedgefield By-Election?"
Defeated Sedgefield LibDem candidate Greg Stone has written to Phil Wilson MP, the Labour victor in Blair's old constituency, demanding an explanation for his campaign's funding.
As you will be aware, there has been considerable recent media coverage of illegitimate donations made to the Labour Party by Mr David Abrahams. Both the local press and the national press are reporting that donations totalling £62,000 were made by Mr Abrahams via his associates Mr Ruddick and Mrs Kidd to the Labour Party on the day the Sedgefield by-election was declared.
The LibDems have also made an official complaint to the Electoral Commission. It is noticeable that Abrahams was given a front-row seat at Sedgefield when Blair retired. Front row seats don't come cheap...
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No update on the BBC yet. Maybe they're still checking their sources...
i.e. working out how the f*ck to spin this for Brown
I have no doubt that Peter Watt is going to start singing like a canary soon if things carry on like this. He isn't going to meekly accept the role of sacrificial victim that Brown and his crew are lining up for him.
And why should he? Peter was only acting under orders from higher up.
Those now desperately trying to pin all the blame on him should ponder on the fact that he can take down others all the way to the top should self-defence force him to do so.
this scandal is so much bigger than i ever thought.
blood on the floor
Which is presumably why HH is still there - no explanation why Brown at his Press Conference said she had issued as statement which didn't actually appear until 4 hours later.
Mr and Mrs Dromey would have plenty to say between them.
HAPPY XMAS HH HMP
I'd suggest Mr Watt avoids taking a stroll in the woods for a while.
My hands are shaky and my knees are weak
I cant seem to stand on my own two feet
Who do you thank when you have such luck?
You bastards!
I'm all shook up
Mm mm mm, uhhh, yeah yeah!
so can Labour actual afford to return all these bungs, oops meant donations? How much are we up to now? must be close to £750k?
O wot a tangled ... etc.
Brown will not be happy that Mendy is suing the Evening Standard as this will keep it all very much in the public mind. Clearly the goats don't much fancy being sacrificed any more. It will also mean the police will be involved so not a smart move, eh!
Oh, Straw has announced another enquiry, quelle surprise. And how much are these enquiries going to cost the taxpayer - the Levy one and the De Menezes one racked up several million between them and Gordon has at least 4 on the go....
stephen said...
so can Labour actual afford to return all these bungs, oops meant donations? How much are we up to now? must be close to £750k?
Maybe another massive loan from the Co-operative Bank.As a customer I e-mailed them at the time of the last one asking exactly what collateral New Labour have in case of default,if they have an answer to that they chose not to share it.
legal action to be taken against the Standard
Guido all this conspiracy crap is great,but these toerags have the paintbrush and bucket of whitewash ready,they have a tame police senior management after PC PCBlair mr diversity himself got away with topping that Brazilian ,the scandal that you should be going on about is McBroon and his mafia signing us into slavery with the EU on the 19th December.
12.50
Paxman stated twice on Newsnight a couple of nights ago that Labour have paid back the £650,000.
I don't know if he was deliberately lying or whether he was simply speaking through his arse but the fact is they haven't paid back a penny yet and I doubt they ever will pay the lot back.
out of control - seriously? who by?
anon 12.54
LOL that's the most desperate line yet from a Brownite troll.
You guys really are shitting yourselves aren't you!!
Who are the other people on that front row in Sedgefield?
It’s becoming perfectly plain that this is all a CIA fronted, Mossad directed, Jewish conspiracy milked by canny Scottish friends of Dorothy hoping to retire on savings invested via Northern Rock in sub-prime mortgagees stupid enough to vote for them.
I seem to remember the last lot ran to a similar formula but with Arab money, arms and oil dealers, Essex girls, adulterers, philanderers and jobs in companies they’d privatised.
Why so surprised? This is a democracy, innit?
What I want to know is who I can pay £25,000 to get a piece of the Olympic action, gain a few contracts for painting multi-coloured lines all over the roads, removing them, re-painting them, and doing the same with bumps, speed cushions, cycle paths, paving etc etc. There’s money there and I ain’t getting it. Maybe if I put my money in the Rock they’ll give me a couple of landing slots on the new third runway?
Perhaps now’s the time to invest in a Tory wannabe MP in a marginal?
Can't the donors convert their gifts into loans?
anon 1:01 - ok, point taken. But there IS sleaze here in spades. Just because the buggers don't get nobbled for it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
where is the news of action against the evening standard coming from?
Brown really is a nasty, bullying little faggot:
"Disturbing reports have emerged that Gordon Brown is rude to his secretaries — or garden girls, as they are known inside Downing Street. He is said to shout at them abusively. On one occasion he is reported to have impatiently turfed one of the girls out of her chair and sat down to use the keyboard himself.
All recent prime ministers — Thatcher, Major, Blair — were loved by the garden girls. All recent prime ministers from time to time endured problems. Only Gordon Brown has vented his frustration on secretaries, who can never answer back or speak for themselves. In the end this intemperate and regrettable conduct may cause him as much damage as Mr Abrahams."
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/the-week/376916/part_2/at-the-heart-of-the-labour-funding-scandal-is-the-moral-collapse-of-a-oncegreat-party.thtml
stephen 1.07
Jon Pienaar on radio 5 just said Mendelsohn is to sue the Evening Standard over their claims that he put the leadership, and a deputy leadership, campaign in touch with dodgy donor Abrahams.
Now taking bets on Brown going to ground. Bet he'll be down in the bunker for days.
btw, is anyone running the country at the moment? trickiest economic times for a while... anyone keeping us off the rocks?
aha... ministers running around protecting themselves from party problems... dereliction of duty... another offence!
Harry Redknapp seems to be hinting at his press conference that he was only arrested because of his high profile, which of course hits the headlines and gets Brown's troubles out of the spotlight. He alleged that the police turned up at his house accompanied by reporters from the tabloids.
This also coincides with Rachel Nikkels alleged murderer being arrested by the Met yesterday even though they've known about him for months, and police in the north west raiding over a hundred houses in a publicity stunt with Jacqui Smith supposedly over illegal gun sales though nobody appears to have been arrested for that specific offence.
Are certain police forces being used to stage high profile arrests and raids to grab the headlines away from the Labour donations scandal?
You sad load of tory tarts, Labour to win the next election by a landslide, Cameron to disappear up his own indignant blue, red, green or whatever colour his arse his today!
Astroturfing alert -
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=3864&edition=1&ttl=20071129133216
They're not even subtle are they?
Corruption 1.27 p.m.
Yep!!
So when labour give the money back, who will they give it back to??? Will it be David Abrahams directly or will it be Ray Ruddick, Janet Kidd , Janet Dunn and John McCarthy? If its the latter what do you think the chances are that David Abrahams will get his money back. Pretty slim I'd say
Mendelsohn is to sue the Evening Standard over their claims
Excellent! There's nowhere like Court to air one's dirty laundry... Didn't Neil Hamilton do well when he tried!
anon 1:21 asked:
"is anyone running the country at the moment?"
Don't you remember we were repeatedly told in October that Brown was 'getting on with the job'? Why do you need to ask - are these assurances not enough?
I'll huff & I'll puff....
I can see the cartoons already of a piggy Harriet in a straw house with a big bad wolf (Yates of the Yard please !!!) outside the door
hehehehe
Given Abrahams reported enthusiasm for funding of political parties by the taxpayer - couldn't his present activities be seen as a way of softening up the public
The government must be rattled. High profile drug raids across the UK. You only ever see pictures of doors being
kicked in by plod when NuLab are in the shit.
Are we seeing the usual tactics of delay and prevarication until they hope it all goes away with the next big news story? There are already signs that the Sudanese teddy bear is
fulfilling that function very nicely.
Doesn't matter how many other stories come up.
This one has got legs, and has plenty more to come out.
I bet the Sunday papers will be full of it
The amount of news management to get Brown's growing troubles off the headlines surpasses anything even Campbell and Mandelson achievd.
Brown really is more dishonest, manipulative, and scheming then even Blair ever was.
The truth will out though and Brown will drown in lies, sleaze, and corruption.
ed,
What you will find is that he has says he will sue.
That doesn't mean that he will.
If he is really frightened then he may well issue a writ (but that costs real money so I doubt he will).
Even if he does that it doesn't mean it will go to court as he will drop it prior to it getting there.
anon 2.02 the MoS has the big one which could sink Brown so I hear.
O/T but important as they're trying to sneak this one out: a redesign of the Union Jack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,,2217980,00.html
Just how much does Labour hate this country?!
Evening Standard was running the line.
Was the teddy bear named through a third-party?
Adam Boulton: "this whole affair is getting more toxic by the second. Innuendos, smears and potentially fatal allegations are flying. Most serious of all, for Mr Brown is that various Labour party factions seem to be fighting amongst themselves"
Brown out by the Spring?
So now many of you seem to have worked out who is really behind the highly complete and complex buggering up of our otherwise great country.
Now some of you silly fools might to start to work out WHY they would want to do such a thing, and why they would want to invest countless BILLIONS of pounds making it happen over a long period?
If you think its just so they can make a few more pointless Billions then THINK AGAIN. Because you are barking up the wrong tree YET AGAIN.
These people don't want more pointless Billions they want something far more important and valuable then just money. They want to own YOU, your free will and control the entire world we all inhabit.
Destroying the British economy and the peoples confidence in the system is part of the plan, and it is working very well right now.
This can all be traced back to the untimely and unexpected deaths of Diana, Smith, Cook and Kelly. Preceded by the political assassination of Major and HIS government.
All five of these people are far more closely connected then may seem obvious, but connected they very much are.
No politician that want to live long enough to see retirement will stand up to the infinite power of big money.
Who's ultimate agenda may or may not be to your personal liking and interests.
But please understand. It has far more to do with communism socialism and fascism then it does to free market capitalism or British libertarian conservatism. The former and the later may have been largely invented by these and long term financed by these people.
But for these chaps freedom of the individual was always just an unfortunate by-product, that one day "will have to be dealt with, one way or another."
The another way is THIS WAY and the right time is THIS TIME.
Otherwise IMHO you lot still would not have the slightest idea any thing very bad/clever was happening at all.
From tonight’s Evening Standard:
Brown fundraiser in donors cover-up urged minister to use third-party donations eight months ago
Last updated at 11:06am on 29th November 2007
Gordon Brown’s chief fundraiser advocated the use of unlawful third parties for donations, it emerged today.
In a potentially explosive revelation, it’s been reported that Jon Mendelsohn suggested that at least one Labour deputy leadership campaign should use a “network” of people to cover up the real identities of donors.
He was facing huge pressure to quit today as a senior member of one Cabinet minister’s campaign team claimed that Mr Mendelsohn rang them more than eight months ago and arranged a meeting to provide “help” with funding.
Mr Mendelsohn admitted yesterday that he had known that businessman David Abrahams had been using intermediaries to make more than £650,000 in secret payments to Labour.
Mr Mendelsohn claimed in a statement that he had been told the arrangement was legal but he “was unhappy with the arrangement whereby donations were taken through a third party” and decided that it was “unacceptable”.
He said: “I was very concerned that these arrangements did not meet the strict transparency test that I wished to see in place.”
A police investigation, which the Tories are also pushing for, would cripple Mr Brown’s leadership.
But amid increasing calls for a criminal investigation, the Standard has learned that Mr Mendelsohn himself raised the idea of keeping donors’ names secret - a practice which the Prime Minister this week said was “unlawful”.
Mr Mendelsohn was still working for FD-LLM, the lobbying firm he co-founded in 1997, when he approached the deputy Labour leadership campaign earlier this year.
The 40-year-old told at least one party worker that he would soon be “back at the centre of things” in the Labour party - as a key player on Mr Brown’s leadership campaign.
A former chairman of Labour Friends of Israel, he was later one of just 21 donors considered close enough to Mr Brown to donate cash to his campaign, handing over £5,000 of his own money.
But as the deputy race was heating up this spring, the cash for honours affair was also at its height and ministers were struggling to find funds.
A figure on one of the deputy campaigns told the Standard: “We were approached by Mendelsohn. He rang up to say he had ways of supporting people. He said he was close to Gordon and was going to help with his leadership campaign.
“We discussed things but it became clear early on what he was talking about.”
“He said there were people who want to make donations but they can’t be in the public domain.
“He said he could facilitate moving money around through a network of other peopleî. He said ‘don’t worry, there’s nothing dodgy about it’.
“I ran a mile and said ‘thanks but no thanks’.”
likewise you could ask greg how much of the £3million, the electoral commission have told the lib dems to return, was spent by the lib dems at the sedgefield byelection.
of course, as of yet, not one penny of that £3million has been returned to the over 50 times convicted fraudster.
i do love a bit of liberal demotwat hubris.
Police investigation by end of the day??
They are just waiting for Yates and his team to get all their pencils sharpened.
Mendelson now has to resign and face arrest if this is correct.
He claimed yesterday that he didn't learn of the illegal arangements for Abrahams donations until this September but now it seems he was fully involved in it eight months ago.
How much did Brown know.
That Standard report, if true, damns Mendelsohn as a liar and a fraud.
He claimed he learnt of the illegal Abrahams arrangements in September but the Standard place him fully in the frame 8 months ago.
Now, how much did Brown know?
Abrahams sitting on the front row in Sedgefield turns to the woman on his left and says "I like these leaving parties - hope we can have another one soon"
Will Abraham(s) be sacrificed on the altar of political expediency with his confrere's, Mendelsohn, Harman and Watt.
Or will the Archamgel save them....
Tune in for next weeks exciting episode of Pass the Ticking Parcel.
Fact: Sedgfield clp has not filed accounts with the Electoral Commission in any of the four years since the inception of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.
Fact: Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath clp has not filed accounts with the Electoral Commission in any of the four years since the inception of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.
Atlas shrugged
Thank you!
At last someone who actually knows what's going on!
Keep posting!
Does this mean that there will have to be a new by-election in Sedgefield? Which would mean a new mp. I wonder if a certain T. Blair is available.
He could stand for leader just as Brown is being carted off to the cop shop.
I wonder if Abrahams aka Martin has persuaded any other dupes to stand as cover for his shady businesses or donations. Or what other aliases he has hidden behind. I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that's he's known to the police.
Labour in Scotland, best part of England, is in the shit also. Even BBC Propaganda 24 service could, just now, no longer ignore what the Glasgow Herald and others were saying yesterday. That Dougie's sister Wendy Satchmo' Alexander, BrownLabour's leader in Scotland, solicited and took a bent donation from an offshore tax exile for a leadership contest that didn't exist.
Surely they're all fucked now. Even if those nasty moslems whip the arse off a whole schoolful of teachers.
ps please stop using my childrens names as word verification. ziyrlwvzk is my eldest. Pronounce Joe
10 years ago I was an unpaid Election Agent for Local Government cnadidates. I recall that the law required you to name the source of the funds supporting your campaign on the Election Returns. You had to set up a separate bank account separate from the local party and as agent you were legally accountable for all receipts and expenditure.
If money was used to fund the By Election through 3rd parties, then I would think that the Sedgefield agent and candidate are in breach of electoral law.
Columba livia said...
I wonder if Abrahams aka Martin has persuaded any other dupes to stand as cover for his shady businesses or donations.
I wished he'd used me. For sure when the Gay Gordon returned the donation, it wouldn't be going any further onwards upon reaching my bank account.
I like "Viagra Vince" Cable he is so switched on,plug into my socket any time...
I liked Vince's response too, hammy darling. Shame no-one seems to have taken much notice of his radioactive follow-up: "Creating chaos out of order rather than order out of chaos". Real classy.
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