Hain Fundraiser : "Small Problem With Donations"
Guido has been running up his phone bill trying to get hold of Labour fundraisers. Peter Hain's fundraiser, Huw Roberts was kind enough to call back.HR Hello, I couldn't make out your message, who is that?
GF I was calling about your undeclared donations to Peter Hain's campaign
HR Who are you? What are you talking about?
This went on for a bit. During which he claimed to have never met and never even heard of Jon Mendelsohn until this weekend. After some time where he tried to get Guido to tell him what Guido knew, he coughed a confession.
HR There is a small problem with my donation. It is not my fault. He has to declare the donations, not me.
The conversation got a bit confused and fraught at this point, Huw would only concede that he had made a donation, yet despite having held fundraising dinners for Peter Hain, he would not confirm any other donations were undeclared. No donation of any kind is recorded from Huw Roberts...
UPDATE : Have just got off the phone with Joe Carberry, Hain's SpAd, "what you have written on the blog is not true". So is Huw Roberts lying? "I am going to put the phone down" said Carberry. Guido gets through a lot of Hain SpAds per annum, so it is understandable.
49 comments:
Oh to see this orange cunt go down.
He is a blot on the British body politic, and should long ago have put his carcase where his mouth is and gone back to his native South Africa to be a part of the great glorious post-apartheid project. Self-serving gobshite.
Oh dear, Peter. Have you been a naughty boy?
Tango in the soup?
Bloody marvellous!
PS: I'm starting to lose track of just how many scumbags are being nailed at the mo.
Could somebody put up a summary web page or chart?
PPS: Ahhahahahahahahahahahahahaah... etc.
Guido I know you have got a hangover, but Phain in the arse budgeted a NuLab deputy leadership campaign spend of £70k, which given their usual thrifty standards ended up as a real spend of £150k.
A red hot phone bill in prospect for you, and I suspect hot revelations about Phain's laundry bag for your loyal readers.
He was the original SPAD for Ron Badger Davies. He then became a Director of Leighton Andrew's PR outfit which employed Tony Sophoclides, Brotherhood of Cyprus, friend of Prescott and HOC passholder from one of the Midlands Labour MPs.
Leighton Andrews now represents the same patch as Chris Bryant in the Welsh Assembly.
Gosh....they are mixed up!!
He's toast too...
I love the smell of toast in the morning.
I think I've got the answer to the party funding.
Simple really and there is a model in place already.
We fund them and when they have got their degrees and are earning millions...oops no what I mean is when they have have served their time and are making their millions then they pay it all back!
Simple!
A more serious note though... would we have to fund the BNP also?
This is one of those wonderful areas where we can pretty much guarantee that everyone in Nu-Liebour has some form of skeleton in the closet because, let's be honest, filling out paperwork is a pain in the arse and it's not really that important, is it?
After all, Nu-Liebour truly are convinced they're the natural representatives of the British electorate and that it doesn't matter what little corners have to be cut to allow them to keep in with the big picture of "transforming Britain" (into a shithole and third world kleptocracy).
So keep on digging. Hit every single one of the bastards because pretty much nobody on the government benches will be clean on this one and they'll all fall over themselves to keep their own names clean and the smoking guns will be pointing in so many directions there won't be anyone left standing at the end.
Happy Happy, Joy Joy!
The man is obviously a thief. Moreover, he has no taste. Why else would he have stolen Roy Kennedy's jacket?
badger watcher, you are Guido and I claim my fiver.
I see that Persian Mercs and Percs specialist Mahmoud Khayami ( and Mega NuLab donor) threw a (few)£££££££££ in Hazel Blears direction for her pathetic deputy leader campaign according to register of interests.?
45govt,
I posted it from an email from someone too stupid to post it themselves. Stupidly doing it in my own login. Well spotted. No fiver. Don't tell Tim You-Know-Who. It will only set him off again.
Oh dear.
Firstly my appologies to our illustrious host, Guido for once again taking a thread off on a whacky tangent. I promise not to do it again.
Friends tell me that some ire has been directed my way from a blogger called I Spy Strangers - to tell you the truth I daren't look. I made a comment on Saturday night and therein is the clue. Being a normal type chappy I'd just got home from a great evening down the pub with my mates and was, quite naturally, well sloshed when I wrote my submission.
What was I trying to say ? Buggered if I can remember really - it's gradually coming back to me though but as I say - aaargh!
I won't waste anymore of Guido's precious space. I'll do a short post on my blog this evening so visit if you're interested, I Spy.
One thing before I go. That our out-of-touch political establishment has managed to unify and ex Greenham Common campaigner (Lilith) and an ex riot cop (me) says much about how dangerous and how great the rift is between the public and our politicians.
Great job Guido. What a pompous arse he is. Four legs good 2 legs better, lest we forget the and Christmas presents c/o Joe Public. http://tinyurl.com/39qnh7
The Special Orange One in trouble with plod ? Take a few swabs boys and you'll be able to close out that outstanding bank job from his misspent youth.
A few years banged up and then ship the noxious twat back to SA where he belongs.
No apologies are necessary from Electro Kevin.
backwoodsman, I thought Vain was from Zimbabwe?
Check out the picture of the Great Leader on www.labour.org.uk - he definitely has perfected the "orgasmotron" look.
Trouble at t'mill.
Alan Johnson is ripping with Brown for stealing his thunder yet again. Hutton is egging on the cheeky chappie. More damaging leaks for Brown to come?
Hain whooooo hooooo.
Goin down. ha ha
Can we get Straw next puleeeeze.
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As for EK being a bit tiddly when commenting, I am always sloshed and can barely focus on the word varification.
Cheers mateys (brandy 'n coke)
word varification blewwwrr!
Don't worry EK, we gave the twat an absolute twatting and he ran off with his tail between his legs. Seemed that calling him Billy No Mates did for him, plus a stream of my finest insults, assisted by many other posters here.
Indeed, blogs do bring together the strangest of bedfellows do they not? And a good thing. Times are bad and what we have in common clearly outweighs other differences.
All hail Guido and associates for kicking the nuts of this nasty bunch of thugs, ZaNu Labour PF. Now all we need is Drongo Brown led out of No. 10 in a straightjacket or handcuffs.
Or both. A pox on all of them.
Word verification is "svevlzzf". Where's Stanislav when you most need him? Is it Polish for sleaze?
Donations are Labour Party business. I thought SpAds were not allowed to get involved in party political activities during working hours.
'svevlzzf' is Polish for how you feel the next morning when you've had too much slivovic the night before.
I am curious, orange. Could have been a different hue so can scrape it off my shoe.
The fake dyed geezer with half a brian has forgotten the plot. Five grand will buy a heck of a lot of SunKIst these days. Fake tan, fake grin, fake memory.
Rog: PS: I'm starting to lose track of just how many scumbags are being nailed at the mo.
Could somebody put up a summary web page or chart?
Rog is right - we need one of those old Sunday Times style graphics with big arrows all over it.
Great Stuff, Guido. Could we put to becoming Chair for the Committee on Standards in Public Life?
How do Hain and Roberts account for the discrepancy between the amount of donations received and what was actually spent i,e, £70k and £150k? Can't they add up either?
If you have a problem.
If no one else can help,
and if you can find them,
maybe you too can hire the Hain team.
Hannibal - Hello, I couldn't make out your message, who is that?
GF I was calling about your undeclared donations to Peter Hain's campaign
Face - Who are you? What are you talking about?
Mr T - Hey, let me talk to the fool!
phone cuts out ..................
quote from Brown -
"Hain is an evil smarmy cunt the sooner this anti British marxist bastard goes the better"
Hain said,
"i have the perfect solution Gordon BOMB THE SHIT OUT OF IRAN"
Gordon says
"your right its perfect ill just call bush"
FAO Anon 6-06
I am as equally bewindered as yourself - but I spotted a wonderful commentary the other day posted by a certain Hungaro-Tory.
You could do the same a me if you like and play spot the thread bingo - simply down a short for every thread commented on during an evening.
hick hick! Stay Happy!
1. David/Dave Abrahams/Martin aged 53/63 recluse/bigmouth secretive/calls Newsnight live.
2. Ray Ruddick 190k donor to Labour who has never voted in his life and hates all politicians
3. Janet Kidd, secretary and serial donor of other people's money.
4. Janet Dunn - long time Conservative supporter who was registered as a Labour donor to the tune of £25k
5. Peter Watt - Labour's former chairman, most senior party official responsible for ensuring Labour complied with electoral law and regulatory requirements surrounding party donations. Made a terrible oversight. Sacrificed as a scandal firestop last Monday.
6. Jack Straw - incorrectly claimed that Peter Watt was the only person in the Labour Party who knew of the dodgy donations. Incorrectly portrayed 'Dave' Abrahams as a fringe character not well known in Labour circles.
7. Harriet Harman - in receipt of £5,000 from proxy donor Janet Kidd after her successful Deputy leadership campaign had finished. Subsequently proved to have illegally failed to declare loans of £40k related to this campaign.
8. Jon Mendelsohn - Gordon Brown's chief fund-raiser who wrote a hand-written note to Dave Abrahams that was sent on the Saturday when the scandal broke. Also donated £5k to Peter Hain's Deputy Leadership campaign which went unregistered. Now in a furious war of words with Abrahams about his endorsement of the secret donations.
9. Peter Hain - failed to register a donation - see above.
10. Chris Leslie - headed Gordon Brown's leadership campaign and is said by Harriet Harman to have suggested to her to accept money from Janet Kidd.
11. Baroness Jay - warned Hilary Benn off accepting money form Janet Kidd for as yet unexplained reasons
12. Jack Dromey - husband of Harriet Harman and Labour Treasurer - probably complicit in Harriet's illegal loan non-declaration but claims complete concealment in respect of everything else
13. Douglas Alexander - Transport Minister at the time when Abrahams was seeking planning permission.
14. Wendy Alexander - head of Labour in Scotland. Lied about not being aware of an illegal donation. Signed thank you letter caught her out. Desperately apologising and trying to tough it out.
15. Blair and Levy - all stems back to when they were in charge.
16. Lied on Newsnight. Refuted by Abrahams - see above.
17. Gordon Brown - failed to call the police despite known law-breaking. Mantra - "i know nothing"
Admittedly, I haven't been following closely.
Well done Guido - Hain just fessed up on the Beeb
this is on news 24 as I type... nicely broken mr Fawkes
Well done Guido. You've nailed him again: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7125770.stm
The first I knew about any of this was when I saw it on my television set this afternoon.
I forgot to add that, clearly it's something that affects all parties.
ps. My nappy needs changing.
Don't forget to air your opinions on the Beeb...
CLICK HERE to have your say.
""Dangermouse said...
How do Hain and Roberts account for the discrepancy between the amount of donations received and what was actually spent i,e, £70k and £150k? Can't they add up either?""
Ya daft bugger, these are exactly the same maths as they have been using for the UK economy for the last 10 years!
Peter Grimes
Guido, you are a total STAR :-)
a serious question was raised in an earlier post, if government were to decide on the political funding issue, to come from the tax payer, does it mean that the BNP get funded as well? if so i give notice i will not be paying anymore taxes.
Top work. this is why I read this blog!
Anonymous @ 8.07pm,
The last time this was talked about, the plan was to limit the funding to parties with two or more MPs, thereby keeping undesirables out of the cozy scheme and keeping it all in the family.
So, no Respect, UKIP, BNP or independents.
As for not paying taxes because you don't approve of what they are spent on, good luck, you'll need it.
Elby the Berserk said...
Maybe Stanislav has been busy. Spying strangers. As for your finest insults, these will be the ones that go: you are a wanker, or, wanker, or, fuck off you wanker. The absolute elby tour de force is I'll kill you you fucking wanker. This is heady stuff. What fun you and Mr Electric Kettle must have together, you being a six feet six vagrant with a grade C O level in English, and Mr Electric Kettle being so sensitive.
It is obviously hard for you, having to live in hostels, consumed by unfathomable grievance. Unfathomable means very deep Mr Elby. Like what you're not. So deep in fact that you can't measure it. Best thing is go and get the last of the beans and chips before some other resident has them and pop over to Lillith's. She'll probably tell you about her best one hundred Boney M songs and Mr Electric Kettle'll be there bleating about Mrs Electric Kettle and all the little Electric Kettles. How can he choose between them and his blogging mission to the world? If he's not there you'll find him down the Cenotaph, doing some weeping. For the country. (Jesus, you people who speak English as a first language, do you have no shame over this warmed-up shit that you post, these empty cliches hoisted from magazines, this mindless unlettered ignorant targetless ranting. Its no wonder that Hain and Co shit in our faces, if people like you are the opposition, how they must laugh. Down the house of commons: That numbskull Enby, he said wanker again, He said what ? Never, he didn't say wanker did he? Again? Fuck me, Sir Gus, elby saying wanker, time to panic. And the awful thing is that Guido world sparkles with wit and erudition, with righteous anger, with painstaking, investigative citizen journalism and, especially on caption day, excruciatingly sharp one- and two-liners. And then, also, there is you. There are ranters here whose bile spills joyfully off the screen, hot and righteous; others wax bittersweet, sorrowful and lamentatious. And then, also, there is you, shouting wanker like a schoolboy. There is Patriotism outraged, Decency offended, there is incredulity and an urge to vengeance. There is the wry and the imaginative, the fanciful; the scholarly and the eloquent, lampoonery, spite and satire. And then there is you.
I must have missed all those friends of yours who -what was it again? - twatted me off. It will be, though, a long, cold day in Hell before you could string together even a tiny phrase that would ruffle the feathers of the humblest Polish plumber. You should treat this patient reproach as the first step in the education you so sorely missed. Print it up and stick it on the wall. Along with your pictures of Jordan and Kylie Minogue.
If 6here is a tide in the affairs of man I do hope you and yours are not it.
There is one redeeming and darkly amusing feature to all this stupidity and that is the idea of somebody like Mr Electric Kettle having a blog; poor Polish plumber far too modest. And got job to go to anyway.
in response to excaliburs comments about my not paying taxes cos i dont approve what the bnp may spend it on. Sorry my refusal goes deeper than that, i will not fund a nazi party. and if there were any chance whatsoever that the bnp could claim just one penny of taxpayers money to fund their obscene doctrine it would be worth going to prison for.
Like Mendelsohn did for Gord*, Huw Roberts can't be much of a fundraiser if he resorts to dipping into his own pocket.
* The electoral commission's register of donees shows Mendelsohn made a £5k donation to Brown's campaign on 20/06/2007. Why might he have then donated £10k to Progress Ltd on 29/06/2007? His donation sticks out like a sore thumb in a sea of Lord Sainbury ones...
Stanislav, you're a treasure.
You remind me of the time I got into a traffic dispute with a dusky Mediterranean type. Turkish Cypriot?
"English!" he shrieked. "I piss on you!"
Not wishing to be pissed on, I beat a hasty retreat.
Guido, why don't those cunts at the BBC, having gorged themselves on our licence fee payments to produce their third rate online drivel, give you any credit for breaking this story? Nothing, not even a link.
I've said this before, best not fuck with Stanislav.
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