Fourth Company Endorsed by Hain Got
£1m from Welsh Assembly Government
When Peter Hain is eventually reshuffled away or forced out of office he can just continue his career in advertising making those celebrity endorsements; "St Tropez, for a perma-tan, will last longer than my career..."Here is a fourth corporate endorsement, he praised a firm as a "modern, dynamic company" which he wanted to see go "from strength to strength" in the run up to their stock market floatation. It is handy for a Cardiff based spin firm doing government relations if the Welsh Secretary himself gives you a boost despite the obvious conflict of interest. Very reassuring to potential investors...
Freshwater UK plc, which even more handily also got a £1m investment from the Welsh Assembly Government development arm, had coincidentally paid £10,000 for a table at a Labour fundraiser four days prior that ringing endorsement. Peter Hain was seated at the Freshwater table at the event, which was also attended by John Underwood, Freshwater's business development director and Hain's campaign treasurer. It was Underwood who set up the faux think tank as well to channel money to Hain4Labour. Yet another amazing coincidence in the Hain saga...
The London Evening Standard has been trying to get hold of Hain4Labour's campaign manager, the increasingly elusive Morgan the Organ. Morgan Allen Moore's vice-chairman Richard Moore told the Standard that the fake think tank matter sharing a registered office with them was "purely coincidental". "The only connection between Morgan Allen Moore and the Progressive Policies Forum is that we have the same registered address with a firm of London solicitors."
Too many coincidences to be believable.
Too many coincidences to be believable.
59 comments:
Guido
Inevitably, one of Freshwaters clients is The Celtic Manor Resort.
Reading what they have done for this particularly client, they say that they have "leveraged interest in the owner on a very selective basis". WTF does that mean?
Speaking as a Welshman, who thought devolution was a 'good idea' as it might bring back some local control away from the shysters at Westminster I am appalled at the way the WAG can piss away zillions of pounds of other people's money.
They spent over a HUNDRED MILLION on the Welsh Millennium Centre which is losing money hand over fist. Kerching !! There, there, we'll just write off your THIRTEEN MILLION pound overdraft.
If the now seemingly redundant job of Welsh Secretary means anything in a post-devolution world it means that there should be some oversight of the way these fuckers piss money away like it is going out of fash, while pensioners are unable to pay their council tax.
Mind you, the word 'oversight' may well mean something very different to Permatan Peter Hain...
Keep digging Mr F, I am sure there are more corrupt goings on chez Hain.
If nothing else, please ensure that the WAG doesn't get any more 'law making powers' - they really have not shown that they deserve them, or would use them responsibly...
Look at what happened in Scotland and Ireland - a ridiculous 'Dutch Auction' to see who could throw most dosh at Donald Trump to build a golf course or three...
I ran a business in Wales once.
It would be nice if Hain danced on the gallows long enough to allow a little light in among the intricate tendrils of the taffia.
Lots of amusement to come from that direction hopefully.
I keep thinking of all those redeployed miners poking laboriously at their Blackberries -while they get re-trained as government spin doctors.
Priceless.
Blimey!! Its all getting very weird, but I think I have lost track of it.. you need to publish a summary. Or something.
Very much off topic I know but I thought those who expressed their kind support when I shared some experiences as a cancer patient in the comments under the
'Brown gets Carter' post on 7/1/08 might be interested to know that this morning an envelope full of NHS internal documents concerning my case turned up, addressed to me. I've just spent an hour on the phone trying to establish exactly which department of the labyrinthine health service they were supposed to be headed for and how I can reunite them with their rightful recipient.
At this point I really do wish our politicians would spend rather less time on massaging their own careers and a little more time on making this country run with just a faint semblance of order.
End rant.
Hain is obviously incompetent... at hiding the sleaze which no doubt inhabits many Cabinet Cupboards.
OT:
LABOUR GIVE AWAY £1 BILLION EU REBATE
Click Here.
Of course, as widely reported by the Beeb...
Fucking BASTARDS! I AM BLOODY FURIOUS!
"Allen Moore's vice-chairman Richard Moore"
Chairman of Vice, surely?
Unbelievably, I had a lady from the DWP on the phone this AM, asking me as a business owner to answer a questionaire. 'It will only take 20 minutes to half an hour' and will show us how we can help your business with staff training.'
I pointed out that all she had to do to help me, was shoot gordon brown and reduce the paye burden. 'Yes', she replied, 'thats what everyone has told me'.
Breaking News: BA plane crash lands just 500 yards from PM; only 3 minor injuries; PM last seen running down A30 with shit flying from his nappy.
There is a definite odour of ordure, combined with a high piscine air where ever Hain goes.
Can we deport him back to South Africa?, he would feel right at home with some of the ANC boyo's.
There was a chap called Peter Hain,
Who seems to have a tiny brain.
His boss it was who let slip this,
That Peter Hain was on the piss.
"Not so" said Pete, in a snit,
"I was just an incompetent twit."
Guido, would you PLEASE keep a special eye out for Leninslime and his dodgy dealings.
I realise he is of more interest to those of us in the south-east, but make no mistake: This man is dangerous. He is the embodiment of all that's disgusting about New Labour. The whole rotten system wrapped up in a single turd-shaped organism.
Cunning, vain, deceitful, opinionated, scheming, bombastic, toadying, racist (yes, very much so in a mirror-image sense), self-important, in love with power, cliquish, recklessly extravagant with other people's money and slightly mad. And he's in charge of the capital.
With a little more acting ability, Leninspart would make the perfect Bond villain. Pair him up with the obnoxious Grasper and you've got a whole movie.
Watch him, Guido...
I see the jinx Brown as even managed to fuck up heathrow when trying to leave the country. shame they missed his plane!
The sad thing is Hain seems to be getting away with it - not much seems to be getting through to the MSM anyway. When does the EC report & will it be a whitewash, I wonder??
Oh, and a voice like a chav's moped.
Again I have to apologise for going off topic, but then again, maybe not.
I have just been informed that the person who originated the paperwork I have in my possession has, after two hours of enquiries, been established as not at her desk today. Apparently the absence of one cog in the mighty NHS machine causes the entire mechanism to grind to a halt. Myself and my thriving tumour will await her return, whenever she deems it appropriate to return to her employment.
I can't help wondering if cases like this are not within the bailiwick of the previously mentioned Minister for Incompetence (1/16 09:25) and wonder if any of you knowledgeable people might know the address of this busy department?
I am confused.
Is it a
'fake think tank'
or a
'fake thin tan'?
Who were THE guests at the Freshwater table for the Blair/Brown dinner in July 2007 apart from Pensioner?????
Where is'John Underwood, THE vendor of his private company AND goodwill connections to Freshwater ?????
and
Guess which Ministers are choking back the laughter at Blinkered Brown's Pensioner cock up???
Flight BA036 from Beijing "crash lands" at Heathrow.
Gordon Brown cought up in delays at Heathrow for HIS trip to Beijing.
What's the turnround time for Boeing 777's to Beijing at Heathrow?
Reports that Nappy sales at Heathrow airport have risen sharply.
Shadow chancellor George Osborne will face a parliamentary investigation over his failure to fully declare £500,000 in donations
Resign or be sacked mmmmhhhh interesting
Brown hopes his visit to China will result in different headlines.
The usual circus of political correspondents, in the same plane, very very cosy..Private chats on the flights to and from China. Get them all back on board.
Sorry. The Opposition in this country and that means us all, have got to get our act in order. We cannot trust the newspapers or Browns Broadcasting Corporation or even News at Ten!! to inform the truth to the people.
How can we defeat this lousy and incompetent government??
brings a whole new meaning to networking!!
i thought "ringing" endorsements were the territory of branston or mandleson.
now gordons on the runway at heathrow ready to see his vision of all the talents in bejing , then BA flight returning from bejing crashes on runway (my sympathies to the injured) , pestilence, flood , bankruptcy, lost personal info .
one wonders how god must be viewing this PM.
when will mr hain respond to mr graylings questions i wonder , when does mr lyons tell mr hain and us ??
we await at the ready !!
Errr...so Labour minister for Wales sees £ 1m of taxpayers money arrive safely in company's X's coffers. Shortly afterwards company X pays a 1% tithe to Labour Party. In Italy they call that a tangento. In Wales, they presumably call it a tangerine-to, in homage to their Secretary of State.
"St. Tropez is not endorsed or sponsored by any celebrities and does not authorize any statements, express or implied, that any celebrity uses, endorses or sponsors its products."
It doesn't actually say 'please no, not that bastard Hain', but they have put the notice in big letters on the top of the press section, so somebody keeps asking them.
....
Dear Mr July 23
Wishing you all the best but you are strongly advised to photocopy everything and hang on to the copy as that way you stand a chance of being able to have some notes with you. If you send them back, you may never see them again. Based on associates' experience, you are lucky if you've got your own notes in your hands, so treat it as an unexpected advantage.
Morgan is probably in a tent in the Brecon Beacons somewhere on his tenth bottle of whisky.
Unbelievable coincidence
# 1 Hain 'unexpectedly' appeared as a guest host in July 2007 for the Freshwater PLC £10,000 table , when the arse had fallen out of his campaign finances
and
# 2 Hain sings the praises of Welsh Freshwater PLC in July 2007 prior to their AIM flotation allegedly " at the request(?????) of the Stock Exchange"
and
# 3 Pigs fly ( not many people know that.)
SAY NO TO PROSTITUTION
PS re flying pig..
I see Gordo has taken flight out of the country....
a lot of truth in these old sayings!!
SAY NO TO PROSTITUTION.
Statement just in from Tango of Neath....
I regret I am not in a position to have a frank and friendly discussion about my exciting future ministerial career with the Prime Minister as he has gone abroad and I am going shopping in Tescos for Kimberley Bling.
Is there not a tang of financial cordite in the air, when a Minister of the Crown blatantly puffs a PLC, Freshwater on the brink of raising substantial investor funds from the general public. I cannot recollect a similar intervention by a serving Cabinet Minister in the case of an imminent flotation of a company on the Stock Exchange. Especially when one of the beneficiary directors Mr John Underwood is already or about to be intimately involved with the said Minister's distressed campaign finances.
I am financially naive, and I would be interested in the views of Guido's more fiscally astute contributors.
It seems to me that there is a sequence of events here which may interest the appropriate financial regulatory authority and/or the parliamentary commissioners office to seek further information. Again.
Just seen a hilarious attack on GF on the chase me ladies, I'm in the cavalry blog. The author signs off as Fawkes is evil. Hain is a her.
qwerty, 2:39 said, "...to fully declare".
To declare fully, surely?
Brun(Tone of old of course) wants to head-off terrorism by spreading the 'marvels' of democracy. Perhaps a good example would be to dismiss the perma-tan one to show that dogy dealings are not tolerated here. Also he could hold that referendum on the EU Constitution to show that there IS a democracy here.
June/July 23 - first of all, hope your treatment works well, secondly - get on to the PALS team at your hospital and tell them exactly what happened; your notes could have ended up anywhere, and without them case conferences could be wasted, and your treatment delayed.
If you don't get satisfaction, go to your MP quickly.
Good luck.
Ms Jaqui Smith (what a silly name for a Cabinet Minister) has just been on Broon/Bliar Broadcasting Company saying that we are not a 'broken CUNTry'. Now I know why that word is used so much on this blog.
And why weren't the tanks rolling in to Heathrow today a la Reid when the plane crashed?
That would be "fully to declare"
Anonymous 12:53 PM said...
"Speaking as a Welshman, who thought devolution was a 'good idea' as it might bring back some local control away from the shysters at Westminster"
...SUCKER!
am i missing somthing here , i had thought russia was still trying to be soviet.
turns out they may be more freedom lovers than i thought.
guess who is head of the british council , none other than neil kinnock , guess who is the manager of the st petersburg office , none other than neil kinnocks son .
so am i to understand that we have been exporting marxism to a country that ran it to its course and found it wanting.
nice when you can get your son top jobs, wonder what he did before , is the tax payer funding him??
milliband has decided to take the high ground , and doesnt want to cause to much of a spat , nothing to do with him looking like junior under sectary then when he sounds all tuff .
all rise for "the tufty club"
sorry mr putin i take it all back , if this lot are trying to show you how to run a country i would decline too.we are now shure they are crap also.
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The Indie's got more on one of Hain's backers:
The diamond dealer whose donations have proved awkward for both parties
The international diamond merchant Willie Nagel – one of the key backers of Peter Hain's campaign for the Labour deputy leadership – was embroiled in a political funding controversy a decade ago that involved his links to the former prime minister John Major. The businessman, who gave Mr Hain's campaign a £35,000 interest-free loan on top of a £5,000 donation, was embroiled in a row after donating £20,000 to Mr Major's constituency association. The Independent revealed in 1997 that Mr Nagel had tried to interest the Prime Minister in an unmanned aircraft developed by Israel, despite the fact there was an embargo on Israeli equipment at the time. Mr Nagel, 83, whose diamond-trading business has offices in Antwerp, Bangkok, Mumbai, New York and Tel Aviv, had offered sponsorship for two local party events after the Conservatives' 1992 election victory. He wrote to Mr Major suggesting he pass on details of the unmanned aircraft project to the relevant government department.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article3345167.ece
Has the Gay Goblin flown to China in a last ditch attempt to flog Northern Crock?
We should be told.
Off topic Hain (sorry), but on topic Taff's your uncle in New Labour's Mission to the World!
This British Council outfit, under the commissarship of the not at all nepotistic big Kinnock and baby Kinnock, has clearly been straining itself to come top of the league tables for teaching picaninni to wear clothes. But if they were hoping to receive a “Beacon to the World” award from Snotgobbler’s own grubby hands, they may be disappointed.
has gordon gone to china to get tips on organ harvesting best practise. while he's there he could also have his nappy surgically removed. new nappy nurse sarah.
There are too many bad minded people around. Personally, I believe in coincidences. How can it not be a coincidence that "Giz a job" Tony lands a cracker of a job the same week his new employer lands a cracker of a deal?
Kinnock pere et fils - it's just the family business. Ditto Benn (how does someone call his sprog Hilary -and have you seen his comedy eyebrows, my kids and think it's a hoot).
Government is the family business for these gits.
iola - I prefer to refer to the repulsive Kinnochios as boar and piglet. They sup at the same taxpayers' trough.
Perhaps it is merely one of the coincidences to which the rock refers, that the piglet, not to mention the sow, boards the same gravy train as the old boar each time.
Nice work if you can get it, all thanks to socialism, and lifting the poor out of poverty - huzzah!
Nero fiddles while Rome burns......
Gay Gordo however, racks up the airmiles on a junket to China.
FFS, we have a totally corrupt cabinet, we are about to have to nationalise a bank as a result of the governments failings, we have just signed away £100bn to the spongers of Europe, we have unemployment at the highest level for about thirty years, and where is Mcavity?
Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
And when you reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!
You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air -
But I tell you once and once again, Macavity's not there!
see what I mean? There are just too many bad minded people around!
But now that you mention it (45Govt), is there such a thing as a hat trick of coincidences? London, Brussels, Moscow ! Doesn't quite have the ring to it - London, Paris and Rome sounds a lot better ;o)
Notwithstanding all of the current controversies that Peter Hain finds himself embroiled has anyone bothered to dig into Hain's murky past in South Africa where he was allegedly involved in a terrorist plot to bomb Joburg's main railway station in the 1980's and was forced to leave the country. Might be worth looking into.....
I like this better than Macavity, but it needs work...
I've been going out with a boy
His name is Edie
But last night he said to me
when we were watching telly
(this is what he said)
he said listen John I love you
But there's this bloke I fancy
I dont want to two time you
So its the end for you and me
Who's this bloke I asked her
goooooordon he replied
Not THAT poof I said in dismay
yes but he's no poof he cried - he's more a man than you'll ever be
Here we go, two three four
I was so upset that I cried all the way to the chip shop
When I came out there was Gordon standing at the bus stop
And guess who was with him
Yeah Edie- and they were both laughing at me
oh, he is cruel and heartless
to pack me for Gordon
Just cos he's better looking than me
just cos he's cool and trendy
but I know hes a moron, Gordon is a moron
Gordon is a moron, gordon is a moron
With apologoes and acknowledgement to Jilted John aka Graham Felows
I like this better than Macavity, but it needs work...
I've been going out with a boy
His name is Edie
But last night he said to me
when we were watching telly
(this is what he said)
he said listen John I love you
But there's this bloke I fancy
I dont want to two time you
So its the end for you and me
Who's this bloke I asked her
goooooordon he replied
Not THAT poof I said in dismay
yes but he's no poof he cried - he's more a man than you'll ever be
Here we go, two three four
I was so upset that I cried all the way to the chip shop
When I came out there was Gordon standing at the bus stop
And guess who was with him
Yeah Edie- and they were both laughing at me
oh, he is cruel and heartless
to pack me for Gordon
Just cos he's better looking than me
just cos he's cool and trendy
but I know hes a moron, Gordon is a moron
Gordon is a moron, gordon is a moron
With apologoes and acknowledgement to Jilted John aka Graham Felows
Yes, I'm living in China and I could smell Brown approaching. Thought I'd seen the last of him but he'll be swanning around here, trying to act like a statesman. Got some ludicrous scheme in the works so the whole world can learn english online! I'm sure that with involve offloading numerous copies of his best selling booK "Courage"!I was wondering if he's after funds to prop up Northern Rock. Branson's on the plane as well I hear.
Alas, for Bottler Broon he is INTRINSICALLY connected to Pensioner Phain in the matter of donations for their leadership campaign. Lord Alexander Sandy Leitch (Brown) and Wallace Dobbin(Pensioner) form a "golden thread" to the pair of bunling ministers.
PS I hope exMacavity has reimbursed sandy for the unused portion of Leitch's £5k in respect of the leadership election that never was.
And, I hope Willie Nagel is having a good holiday spending the "immediate" £25000 loan repayment he has received from Tango Man. Like Willie I take the Cabinet Minister at his word.
"The Hain defence" i.e. "I'm not very good with rules and regulations" has not so far worked for this woman being prosecuted in Welshpool.
(The Hain Defence appears at the bottom of the article)
Baroness Janet Cohen, non exec director of Freshwater plc....
Tesco donations via PPF to Hain....
anyone see a pattern emerging here?
Also John Underwood, director of communications for the Labour Party, is on the board.
However, it's Baroness Cohen's credentials that are so impeccable:
"non-executive director of the London Stock Exchange (since 2001) and a former BBC Governor (1994 – 1999). She is also chairman of Inviseo Media Holdings Limited and a non-executive director of Management Consulting Group plc. A life peer since 2000, Baroness Cohen chairs Sub Committee A of the European Union Committee, which deals with EU financial matters, and sits on the Tax Law Rewrite Committee."
Talk about well connected.
Another endorsement:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm080107/debtext/80107-0002.htm
Mr. Hain: We have only just started, but only last Wednesday I met a company with the Prime Minister in Marylebone jobcentre that recruited 147 people when it opened a retail business. Those people came straight off benefit as a result of the local employment partnership. I have talked to Tesco, which is opening new stores around the country, and is doing exactly the same thing. It sees a win-win situation: employers can get people straight off benefit, and British benefit claimants take up British jobs to become British workers. It is win-win for society, and it is win-win for employers as well, as partnerships have proved to be extremely popular in filling job vacancies. There are about 660,000 job vacancies in Britain, and we want people to come off benefit to fill them. Local employment partnerships will help us to achieve that.
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