Every Little Endorsement Helps :
Another Company Endorsed for Hain's Fundraiser
Hain's chief fundraiser is the sleazy lobbyist Steve Morgan. His biggest client is Tesco, so is it any surprise that Hain was pictured promoting Tesco? No. This is the third identified corporate endorsement with cash links to Hain. (Picture Financial Services and Cuddy both got Hain's endorsements, he got their cash). Morgan gave £5,000 of his in part Tesco derived earnings to Hain's campaign. Which Morgan then forgot to declare...
The press release sent out by the DWP was headlined "Every Little Helps". The somewhat thin justification for his civil service department doing corporate PR slogans for Tesco was that they had employed previously unemployed workers. The evidence is that Peter is always willing to help out with PR for donors...
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Guido:
When was the last time you posted so late on a Saturday night?
Dost thou smell blood, perchance?
It's remiss of Hain not to list the ultimate donor in his declaration. The idea that Morgan (or for that matter Mendelsohn) would pay Hain out of their own pocket is laughable.
I know that Labour is not the workers' party but they're surely not reinstating a feudal pay-to-work system.
PS - Is this what Hain meant by a modern campaign?
he is surely fucked.
being a minister of the crown should be such an honour, you'd crawl over broken glass to never incur a conflict of interest.
mr hain, did you know that steve morgan was a consultant to tesco? if so, when?
we employ him, we have a right to know the answers. we are taxpayers AND voters.
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Hain makes out that the "Local Employment Partnership" got these unemployed Welshies their jobs.
So Tesco had nothing to do with it, then. Wanker.
Who was that character in Mad magazine - Alfred E. Neuman wasn't it. Sounds a bit like Phain is trying to emulate him.
Anyone noticed how the Orange One's presence casts a sinister shadow across the checkout girl's head?
I have to admit that the savvy of the companies involved says a lot about their shallowness.
Do they seriously think they would make more money with Hain's endorsement?
What planks.
Don't ecpect him to resign, I believe the only thing a New Labour Minister resigns over,
Is if they are caught buggering one of the Queens Corgi's over her desk.
Even then they would claim 'it was an administrative error.'
These fuckers truly have no shame.
W.W.
Who will deliver us from this sleaze-steeped government!
FINITO HAIN
to follow Wendy
then goes Harriet
where does that leave Brown
what a mess !!!!!!
john major's mob were in playground compared to this
What level of crime now warrants a minister's resignation? Genocide? I assume that division bells are being installed in Wormwood Scrubs and arrangements are being made for Labour MPs to vote from their cells.
The time is getting close when we need to take to the streets and have a proper old fashioned riot to remove this lot. If they have no respect for the law, why should we?
What is he doing to that poor woman behind the carrier bag? It looks painful (for her).
I'm a mite concerned what the shopping bags are hiding. Is that a smile or a resigned grimace on the checkout girl's face?
It could be argued Morgan is effectively an undeclared agent of Tesco. In addition, a hidden/forgotten donation to Hain's campaign seems to have resulted in a ringing endorsement of the firm via the DWP.
People should be calling for him to step down not just as a minister, but as an MP as well.
he then went onto to use his nulabour club card , apparently you take it to any pr group such as catalyst , and you go and do some work for one of there clients and you get cash.
whats even better is that you are on gov time and getting paid by the tax payer as well.
when interviewed streetwise toon army fan said "whey ai man its bloody marvelous is nu labour club card , ya can make moor cash in a day than working at the checkout for a year, i wany oner thase"
when hains dept was asked how a member of the public could join nu labour club card scheme , he was told that his poverty may cause offence to there members , and that he could not apply until he had lifted himself out of his debt ridden council shit hole and knew who his masters were in the polit bureau
Please let me know when Tesco start to sell Tyres and Diesel in a Handy BBQ pack or will the Law strike before this Orange (and I don't mean Proddy) bastard goes on a Picnic.
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I think Guido is posting so late because he knows what George Osborne's been up to. Naughty boy. Looks for all the world like a nasty case of Tory sleave. Oh dearie me. Resignation anyone?
So Tesco employs from amongst the ranks of the unemployed, eh? And there I was thinking that they had corporate head-hunters who went and poached the best check-out staff from Sainsbury and M&S.
Still, after the next election,if the person swiping your groceries has a suspicious Orange Glow, it won't all have been in vain, Hain!
Hain claims that he's been cleared of any conflict of interest concerning his role as cabinet minister.
How can this be so?
I read in the Mail that he's not only advertising for Tesco's but plugging them in the Commons.
If Tesco's gives Morgan money and Morgan then gives that money to Hain, Tecos's is giving the money to Hain aren't they?
Normally I think they call this money laundering.
J'accuse you corrupt lying cunt.
The visit of Mr. Hain to the Tesco store went unnoticed by most of the population of Maesteg. In fact the Mail story is probably the first time that it has been mentioned in any media outlet. It certainly wasn't mentioned by the local rag or BBC Wales. In fact what would be interesting is to find out what Mr. Morgan charged Tesco for getting Mr. Hain to the store . The visit was Hain doing a favour for Morgan not Hain publicising Tesco because they had somehow indirectly given money to his failed campaign. It also isn't true that there was a great deal of local opposition to the store as suggested by the Mail. The only councillor who opposed the store is a valleys idiot in his 80s. He still believes that Keir Hardie is the leader of the Labour party. This is a non story and it is just an attempt by the Mail to keep up the pressure because nothing more has come out. Let's get on with te really importsnt issues such as will the Ospreys win the Heinekin Cup after their stunning victory over Gloucester last night. As everyone in Welsh rugby knows The secret of the victory was the team talk given by Peter Hain before the game.
The Tesco store isn't that successful . Most of the jobs are part time and there are strong rumours that the store is laying off people. On most days it is like the Marie Celeste of retail virtually empty with just 4 on the checkouts. It's a great place to get cheap food as they are having to throw so much out. Last week steak was going for under 2quid and duck breats were down from £7 to £2. I really can't compete with Aldis in the town which is booming.
ww 1232am - is this a hint for plod to dust the corgi pack for prints?
Still sitting in the office eagerly awaiting the Friday competition, I thought you'd be interested to know that.
Do Tesco sell whitewash?
Anyone know who TM Communications are? They lobbed £1500 into Pensioner's pot. Knowing Pensioner's propensity for doing a lot for a little from his benefactors, I am curious.
Maesteg must be one of those strange places where posh people shop at Tesco. It's a funny old world.
O/T, but still very much on message for this lying amoral Government: Get Carter.
"GORDON BROWN’S most senior aide has been accused of deceiving thousands of shareholders during his former business career, according to court documents.
Stephen Carter, who was last week appointed the prime minister’s chief of strategy and principal adviser, is said in the documents to have told a fellow executive who feared he had misled shareholders: “What I tell them is nine-tenths bullshit and one-tenth selected facts.” "
He should get on very well with Peter Hain.
I was last in the Valleys in the 1970's and then it was such a fucking awful wasteland it would have provoked TS Eliot to shoot himself. I can't imagine that a further 30 years of Labour hegemony have done them much good. It's sad to see that today the crowning achievement of 11 years of state education is to say "Do you need help with your packing?"
Aldi is brilliant. Loadsa stuff you don't find anywhere else, like "Carlsborg" lager but it's OK and dead cheap. And they have amazingly cheap tools.
Best of all, the checkout queues move like Schumacher. No stupid girl cooing "Would you like any help wiv your packin atorll innit", no old biddies trying to wrap each cornflake in a plastic bag (they charge for them), no tightwads arguing over the balance of their Christmas Club savings. They just slam the gear through the barcode machine and up comes the total - debit card or cash only.
Downside: Frequented by chavs and loud single mothers with oikish children.
Upside: Poles shop there, who are at least well mannered and feature some very nice totty.
There's a great photo for your next caption competition here Guido, a drunken Gay Gordon Brown with his arm around odious, professional arse-licker Piers Morgan, looking as if he's just about to kiss him. Yeeuch!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=507953&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true#StartComments
Dai Parkhouse
You may be right to attribute the Ospreys'result to NuLab but not to the agency of Hain.
Pestilence and flood have been a defining feature of the supreme leader's reign and the key to the Ospreys' victory was the appalling weather which enabled the excellence of James Hook's boot to determine the result (aided by Alan Lewis, a ref of mediocre talent to say the least).
interesting that the Tesco he goes to is in the Ogmore constituency, which just happens to be the seat of Huw Irranca-Davies, his junior minister at the Wales Office.
Huw Irranca must have been at his visit, as the local MP. So PH endorses Tesco, does Morgan a favour, and gives his ministerial crony a local photo-op all at the same time...
Elsewhere in the forest, Gordon Brown has apparently decided on compulsory organ donations.
Presumably Hain's bits and pieces will be sent via the PPF.
Hopefully, quite soon.
Whilst we are agonizing over the fate of Agent Orange, the UK's economy has, according to the FT, just been overtaken by France in the World League Table for the first time since 1999. Well done Broon, you're a fucking genius. I'm voting for Sarko, "le lapin Duracell" as the French call him.
"Tango for Tesco"
Matthew D'Ancona in the Telegraph is worth a look: "It does not help the Work and Pensions Secretary that he has the slightly slippery countenance of a Chislehurst car dealer facing receivership"
Reports in to-days press allege that some of Hain's "aides" told him to resign and are on verge of quitting. It can't be long now before the "perma-tanned" one "exchanges "Dear Gordon" "Dear Peter" letters although it'll probably take at least 5 days to work out the text if his much-delayed "non-statement" of yesterday is anything to go by
cameron did ok in front of marr who seemed to take a much stronger line on questioning rigour this week, unlike last weeks gordon broon love fest.
tried to trip cameron up a couple of times but he did well to explain osbourne was different to hain.
jim knight on sky, might as well have given him a bottle of san miguel , sat on red sofa like modern lounge dweller , trying to look cool. adam boulton put him straight , and schools annoucement wont come into effect until 2015 , so is somthing 7 yrs into the future an announcement or is it mystic meg politics .
thankyou kevin maguire for pointing out phains per head spending at £23.23, i dont know why you feel so generous??
as to further investigations on phain anyone know of Paul Myners he used to work for phone co orange , hains appointed him somewhere , the more you look into this better it gets , theres loads of stuff , spending at welsh office doesnt seem too bad , but there seems to be lots of media spending not broken down.
every little helps eh peter every little helps !!
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Cassandra,
Lewis, along with Roland, both guaranteed to subtly give oponents of English club's a leg up.
His failure to stop the truck and trailer type blocking round the fringes, and his inability to see the frequent holding back offences and then to penalise Glaws for doing something about it, were the main contributing factors in Ospreys winning.
Any Tesco shareholders about ? Trust you'll take the time to write to the company's Director of Corporate Governence, asking for an immediate public statement disassociating the company from Morgan / Hain.
I've asked before but still want to know whether the head of the Taffia gets two salaries. One for Sec of State for Wales and t'other for Minister for Works and Pensions. I've heard of Two Jags but do we now have Two Jobs with Two Wads?
Just watched Anderew Marr's interviewing of
Cameron is interviewing was very strong today.
Excellent to watch .
Shame that Marr does not use these strong
methods against Brown.
I miss Brian Waldren he was some interviwer, Premier League v3rd Division.
To Red Despot Spotter 11.10. Is it this Paul Myners who were asking about - Non Executive Director of M&S and have you got something?
Non-Executive Director : Paul Myners
Appointed in April 2002. He is a leading figure in the City of London following a successful career in investment management and has long played a part in public life leading to his most recent report to the Government on institutional investment. His current directorships include Chairman of Guardian Media Group, Non-Executive Director of mm02 and his most recent appointment to the Board of the Bank of New York. He is a City Disputes Panellist, a member of the Financial Reporting Council and Chairman of the Lloyds' of London Investment Committee. Paul is also a Trustee of the Royal Academy, A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Chairman designate of the Tate St Ives.Age 54.
Addendum to mine of 11.48am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Myners
There's an entry in here about an appointment in August to a new National PENSIONS Savings Scheme called Personal Accounts.
Marr tried to come the strongman with Cameron today, but Cameron swatted him on each occssion leaving marr pathetically looking for another line of attack. He failed miserably and Brown will tweak his balls this afternoon as a result
Is this Paul Myners the one with the photograph of a rocking horse?
Dear me, I dread to think what's going on behind the carrier bags... a rodent could choke on his 'finest' cottage pie (It has real cottages in it, y'know).
"I may wipe my arse with this hand, but it's the same one I write my cheques with, so just keep smiling."
"Would you like me to wiggle?"
The only reason Hain is still there is that he has something on Brown. Otherwise any half decent political operative would have made Hain the scapegoat for the whole Donergate affair - Offer Hain up as a sacrifical Lamb to get the Press off his back. Alas the photos Hain holds on El Gordo must be pretty bad for him to be clinging on this long....
The girl in that photo looks like someone I've seen around Parliament. But I don't think she's Labour.
Ok so who's a pretty consultant then? Look who gets to work in 3 camps... central govt, local planning, and the big T. Who approved them for the OGC?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/nov/02/supermarkets
Go for it Giudo. They can run but they can't hide... You da man!
In 2003:
Mr Hain was challenged after Tesco relocated 350 jobs to Bangalore, India by Labour's Julie Morgan (Cardiff N) who said it would mean 230 less jobs at Tesco House in her constituency. He said such movements were "facts of life" in the global economy but added: "We are creating new jobs just as globalising pressures reduce the number of jobs in certain sectors."
Mais bien sure - chaque petite chose ..
http://www.morganallenmoore.com/Clients.asp
Now here's a surprise:
"This page is currently being updated"
Otherwise BLANK.
Bet the office shredder is busy!
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