Mystery of Missing Clients
The two PR firms involved in donations to Hain's campaign had something very interesting happen when Hain's donor troubles hit the headlines. As you can see from the above screenshots, things started disappearing. Counter-productively for them this intrigued Guido. Morgan Allen Moore's client list disappeared and T M Communications entire website went offline - which is strange for experts in "technology and communications".So Guido started digging around for their client lists. That is how the coincidence between Steve Morgan's client Tesco and Hain's "Every Little Helps" endorsement was uncovered.
TM Communications are not registered lobbyists with the APPC so their client list wasn't on the register. It took some investigative digging to find a client list already in the public domain from their now deleted website. Their clients include Newport Networks, The Professional Golfers Association, and investment group Wesley Clover.Newport Networks was set-up by Welsh billionaire Sir Terry Matthews, who is also the chairman of Wesley Clover and his Celtic Manor Golf Resort will be hosting the PGA Ryder Cup in 2010.
TM Communications say that their £1,500 donation to Hain's campaign was made by them "on behalf of the directors and shareholders". Not Sir Terry, he "doesn't do politics".
47 comments:
Can anyone a bit more clued up on politics than I enlighten me how many days Hain has left according to the old 'Alistair Campbell Rule Of Thumb' ?
He said that if an issue was still on the headlines after x days then the Minister had to go. Was it 11 or 17 days ? And when did this start to go badly wrong for Peter Hain ?
He may already be living on borrowed time by this calculation..
I always thought the "TM" stood for Terry Matthews Communications? Isn't he the owner?
Is Sir Terry patting an invisible Hazel Blears in the pic?
Jess(ica) Morden PPS to Welsh Secretary Pensioner Phain, and former General Secretary of Labour Wales is prominent by her lack of support for her boss.
Maybe she is readying another terminal Ron Davies "frank and friendly meeting" with Pensioner.
His loyalty in difficult circumstances to his apathetic PPS is commendable or is he afraid to sack her!
Hi is certainly on "borrowed" time, if he hasn't settled with Mr Nagel.
Ian Dale Blog
plugging for BBC Newsnight tonight on his blog..
That should get him a few more paper reviews in that graveyard slot.
Wow ...
Why did Tery Matthews throw a measly scrap of £1500 to a person of Pensioners stature and renown. Maybe canny Matthews knows Pensioner is a 'busted flush'.
"…the old Alistair Campbell Rule …"
The problem for Brown is that Campbell isn't around any more. Hain would have been out on his arse before his feet hit the floor (cf Mandelson II). It's a fair measure of Brown's inability to run a government that this tawdry scandal is rumbling on outside while he's busy indoors having 'visions'.
I said that they couldn't do conspiracy!
What a bunch of wankers, thinking that taking down their website would hide their client list. What have they got to hide?
Pathetic!!
Peter Grimes
sir terry did you knowingly give money to hain ?? or was it just for the labour party.
so has morgan been tarting up his own shop front then by giving money to cabinet members unbeknown to the donors , so he can keep chips in the game.
i hear further revelations may be due towards the end of the week in another hain matter , just who was going to get those remploy sites ?? peter
punishing the disabled for nu labours reckless spending and ministerial wealth creation scheme . very nu labour dont you think??
given most carers of the disabled are furious as it is that a vital rehab/social facility is going. even the unions arnt sure if it will be beneficial.
you see what happens when goverments lie and decieve
valley wag wrote
"I always thought the "TM" stood for Terry Matthews Communications? Isn't he the owner?"
Could be! When I came across this guy some years ago he was relating the story of how his first business venture was set up with Mike Copeland (or a name something like that) to import lawnmowers. The name "MITEL" came from "Mike And Terry's Electric Lawnmowers", so he's not averse to using simple names in company titles.
Oooh la la!
Andrew Stallard joined Positif Politics in late November 2006 as a Consultant. An experienced public affairs professional, he previously managed the highly successful Public Affairs programme for Cancer Research UK in Wales, paving the way for the legislation to ban smoking in public places. Prior to that he was a public affairs consultant with Morgan Allen Moore, and managed accounts including major pharmaceuticals, the Welsh fourth channel S4C and Lloyds Pharmacy as well as giving political advice to all Morgan Allen Moore accounts. He has also worked as a researcher in the House of Commons and as a campaigns coordinator for the Labour Party in London and was seconded to Peter Hain MP during the first Welsh Assembly Elections.
Interessante mais non?
Cluesoh se demande: 'Ow can I meet Monsieur Hen? Such a grand fromage!
Peutetre je dois ecrire a Jo Welch
Chief Executive Officer at Morgan Allen Moore
Jo Welch has been working in the field of political consulting and developing relationships between the political and business community for 10 years -most recently as Chief Executive Officer and Senior Consultant for leading Government Affairs Consultancy Morgan Allen Moore, a post held since 2001. Prior to this she established Morgan Allen Moore's Welsh division in 1998 during the run-up to the first National Assembly Elections where she pioneered a specialist Public Affairs service for the new political landscape of Wales.
Before becoming a Government Affairs Consultant, Jo worked for the Wales Labour Party for two years in the run-up to and during the 1997 landmark General Election and the subsequent Welsh Referendum. During this time Jo took a leading role in Labour Party operations in Wales and worked to develop understanding between Welsh Labour and the corporate sector across the UK.
It occurs to me that the reason Brown won't fire Hain is that he is guilty of the same offense.
i.e. Abrahms
Hain knows the dirt.
This is the reason the snot gobbler has disowned him but won't sack him.
Is there anyone connected to nulab that is honest? or at least not completely fuckin crooked?
Ahhhh - or just dirty pictures locked in Tango's safe.
mitch
Er.. Estelle Morris, er..
er.. that's it
Does anyone remember Rhodri Morgan, the Leader of the Welsh Assembly, insulting the Normandy Veterans by refusing to attend the 60th Anniversary of the DDay Landings. He had a more pressing engagement, attending a Golf weekend which was the lead up to the award of the 2010 Ryder Cup to be held at... wait for it Pyke....Celtic Manor Golf Resort which is owned by Sir Tel Mathews.
What a spiders web. This has legs and will run and run until all of these corrupt Labour bastards are run out of office. Tossers the lot of them.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss:
Cleaners attack Brown's £50m NHS deep clean
Gordon Brown's £50 million deep clean of hospitals is in danger of becoming an "empty gesture", cleaning contractors have warned.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/13/eagreens113.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox
I do hope, as the NuLabour collapse and details of their crimes start properly emerging, that there's a trail directly to Levy and Bliar. Debauching British politics was their solitary solid and lasting achievement and they should get the credit that's due to them. The prison cells too, God willing.
Frank Field is an honest man but the rest are just a bunch of champagne socialists from the same mold that Robert MGabe fell out of. Move over Frank, you do not deserve to be associated with this most corrupt of Governments.
Add to list
Kate Hoey
G Dunwoody
Beast Of Bolsover
bedtimetory - do you think our EU masters will extradite Monsieur Le President Bliar? Dream on mon cher.
i used to vote labour - more fool you, but don't forget Kate Hoey, there is two of them to be fair.
All you Clouseau types out there don't forget the second wife, Elizabeth Haywood.
http://www.kmcinternational.co.uk/about_us/consultant_profile.cfm?id=5
She is MD of KMC a big headhunting type outfit(office in Old Park Lane London and Cardiff) and she is a big cheese in Wales by all accounts with lots of connections. Any of those beneficial I couldn't say.
How VERY peculiar. I've just looked at the MAM website on the Wayback machine - which allows you to look at the way websites looked in the past. Enter:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.morganallenmoore.com
If you check the Clients page, it is always invisible, back to May 2006, with a dateline at the top right of ... Monday, January 14, 2008. Now perhaps this is just an anomaly on my computer, or perhaps the frantic re-editing that Guido reports is a total job, fired by a determination to obliterate all incriminating evidence. I think we should be told ...
Morgan Allen Moore's client list is available here:
http://www.matthewbirks.com/2008/01/14/morgan-allen-moore-client-list/
Debt consolodation, Pharmacos and the Welsh Lottery. I wonder why they wanted to take it down...
My word verification code is pimps elbow,
pmpslbw
I've been having a roam around interweb blogs this evening after hard day at mill.
It does appear there's a concerted effort by nulab orientated morons to blog post heavily abusive stuff relating to Hain and trying to tie in Osbourne.
It looks like the kind of concerted campaign that team McCann get's up to, with odd names but the same directed spleen on a range of blogs.
Sure would be interesting to look at the IP addresses this shower of shit are using
Example: Mooo on the Guardian CiF Jackie Ashley response
BTW Guido old chap, never seen so many references to your great works across the web today
www.archive.org gives old versions of Morgan Allen Moore Clients page. But they only listed their clients with logos, which have disappeared. However the names of the missing logos may give clues...
bimta1.JPG
StrykerC.JPG
Tesco.JPG
CocaCola.JPG
MedicalT.JPG
Johnson.JPG
GregoryP.JPG
RSPCA.JPG
BCSC.JPG
Bechtel.JPG
MSD.JPG
LloydsPh.JPG
OrthoBio.JPG
GeneralM.JPG
Oftel.JPG
FILE ARCHIVED ON 20061209085223 AND RETRIEVED FROM THE INTERNET ARCHIVE ON 20080114215431.
In recent published photos of Blair in his new glory of superstatesman superwealthy glitterati-type person, there is a steadily emerging physical resemblance to Levy.
Maybe Peter wants to produce a new edition of his Book ...
http://web.archive.org/web/20070205152305/http://www.peterhain.org/
Political Trials in Britain (1984) - Is law enforcement founded on political decisions?
Peter Hain examines this crucial issue, analysing overtly political cases involving official secrecy, conspiracy, public order, trade unions, Northern Ireland and race relations, and challenging the whole notion of laws as an impartial and technical instrument.
Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 0-7139-1339-8 / 0-14-007935-1
Couple more worthies for the list,Frank Field,Glenda Jackson,
still depressingly short though.
Can't comment on my local MP,last time I heard she was outed as shacking up with someone else's husband,politically she might as well be living in Lapland,probably visits there more than here.
Maybe Peter Hain would be interested in the job at Newcastle United
as a Sunderland supporter this is the Dream Team for sure
MAM's Client page, before removal, kicked off with these prescient words; "Morgan Allen Moore represents Clients across a broad range of sectors, bringing specifically tailored Public Affairs and Media Management expertise to win results. Our Client retention rate of 95 per cent speaks for itself"
Pity about the 5% - because as we all now know, every little helps!
No right thinking Celt would have anything to do with something quite so orange.
Nice to see that the National Assembly of Wales funded such a vital project as Careerwales who so thoughtfully chose TM to provide services.
Less "Robbing Peter to pay Paul" more a "Robbing Peter to pay Terry to Pay Peter on the rebound".
@Aristander of Telmissus
A false suspicion. The date appears due to simple JavaScript code that always prints the current date. Look for "document.write(thedate)" in the page source.
One would have thought that a PR company would have realised that information can't just be deleted from the internet anymore... once it's up it's available forever - it's just a matter of going to the archives.
Trying to change the record in this way will always attract attention - if they were really that smart, they'd have realised that the best course would be to blag it. As it is, all they've done is succeeded in attracting more attention.
As far as I'm aware, Terry Mathews is a Canadian citizen and therefore not entitled to donate money to any party - as found out by the recently guilt soaked Bendy-Wendy Alexander.
Doubtless it would be TM's companies and not himself who were doing the donation
No mention of Hill Huma-Clinton on the client list. Lets hope Maesteg Maggot can afford to pay her for the priviledge of working over her intern-totties.
Possibly Brown's reluctance to act on Hain is that he has a think-tank skeleton in his own cupboard - The Smith Institute. Is the Charities Commission still looking into that one?
One www.archive.org version has links for Morgan Allen Moore Clients in 2005:
http://web.archive.org/web/20051104073104/http://morganallenmoore.com/Clients.asp
Plain businesses mostly, but one is the lottery New Opportunities Fund. Full list, and image name on the link, is:
www.jnj.com logojohn.GIF
www.medtronic.com logomedt.GIF
www.abbott.com logoabbo.GIF
www.lloydspharmacy.com logolloy.GIF
www.strykercorp.com logostry.GIF
www.advamed.org logoadva.GIF
www.abhi.org.uk logoabhi.GIF
www.bsci.com logobost.GIF
www.orthobiotech.com logoorth.GIF
www.bimta.org bimtalo1.GIF
www.charlesworths.co.uk logocha1.GIF
www.tesco.com logotes1.GIF
www.thames-water.com logotha1.GIF
www.nof.org.uk BIGWLSC1.JPG
Ah well!
The Morgan bit in the Grauniad was fun while it ran, but HTF did it take the pillocks all bloody day to correct it?
Don't they read your blog anymore, Guido?
Peter Grimes
The last time their client list was available was Dec, 06.
The list then can be viewed at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20061209085223/http://www.morganallenmoore.com/Clients.asp
Enjoy.
Perhaps we will soon have Last Tango in Resolven" and Mr Hain will bugger off for good!
http://web.archive.org/web/20061209085223/http://www.morganallenmoore.com/Clients.asp
9th Dec 2006
KCI
Aon
FSB
The CocaCola Company
Dimta Approved
Stryker Corporation
Tesco
Cronfa Loteri Fawr big lottery fund
The Medical Technology Group
Gregory Pennington
Johnson & Johnson
RSPCA
BCSC
MSD
Bechtel
Oftel
Ortho Biotech
Lloyds Pharmacy
General Medical council
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Check out http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.morganallenmoore.com/Clients.asp
for previous client lists
The last 4 page impressions namely
Apr 16, 2007 *
Jun 02, 2007
Jun 21, 2007
Jul 03, 2007
All end up with
"Clients
This page is currently being updated"
Me thinks the Bechtel link would be worth following.
What about Google cache?
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