Comments on Guy Fawkes' blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy: +++ BBC NEWS HAIN "THERE ARE MORE DONATIONS" +++

Those SpAds in fullLink Description HereJoe Carber...

2007-12-04T12:22:00.000Z

Those SpAds in full
Link Description Here
Joe Carberry, Paul Richards and the other recipients of up to £102,918

SpAds: Number 10 has published details of the £5.9...

2007-12-04T11:51:00.000Z

SpAds: Number 10 has published details of the £5.9m cost of ministerial special advisers.

There were some 68 advisers in post as at 22 November, leading to an average cost to the taxpayer per adviser of £86,764.

Some 21 advisers were in the pay band up to £52,122 and 19 in the band covering £50,286 to £66,708.

And 27 special advisers were paid between £64,056 and £99,450, while one adviser who works for Lords leader Baroness Ashton of Upholland was paid in the top band of £85,680 to £102,918.
www.dodonline.co.uk/?showPage=article&id=3762

Anon 11.28,My reading of The Act is this: The mone...

2007-12-04T11:45:00.000Z

Anon 11.28,

My reading of The Act is this: The money would stand a chance of being forfeit if the donor is impermissible or unidentifiable.(Note: donor, not the donation.)

Neither appears to be the case. At the very least the donations in the names of Kidd, Ruddick etc could be returned to them, or direct to Abrahams. Abrahams himself must be a permissible donor as he donated to Hilary Benn's deputy campaign.

Even if an offence has been committed in the making and in the accepting of the undeclared agent donations, that doesn't appear to make the donations themselves impermissible.(As the act only cares about permissibility with respect to the donor.) Might be enough to consider them as proceeds of crime though...

Not entirely clear from Network Rail 2007 Accounts...

2007-12-04T11:28:00.001Z

Not entirely clear from Network Rail 2007 Accounts if Progress had received anything.

There doesn't seem to be a detailed breakdown of charitable donations - unless it is tucked away in the Notes to the Accounts and the search facility has overlooked them.

tartwatch - please don't help reinforce the lie, e...

2007-12-04T11:28:00.000Z

tartwatch - please don't help reinforce the lie, even unwittingly.

The law is quite clear, if this is an impermissable donation IT CANNOT BE REPAID, despite what all the NuLab fuckwits are saying. IT IS FORFEIT (so eventually the Treasury gets it anyway)

All this talk about repaying by the criminal classes is not based on their ignorance. It is spin to try and trivialise what they have done "Oops sorry we've made a mistake (or actual one of our lowly minions have) we'll give it back" sounds much more comforting than "We've broken the law and will have to pay the fine which is to give up the cash and face possible imprisonment too"

GarethSounds right to me. Thanks very much.

2007-12-04T11:13:00.000Z

Gareth

Sounds right to me. Thanks very much.

Anyone know if 1 David Abrahams has been repaid hi...

2007-12-04T11:12:00.001Z

Anyone know if
1 David Abrahams has been repaid his £670,000.00 plus by Rocking Gordo, and
2 Ms Harperson has repaid the 5,000 donation.

10.56Imagine my disappointment when I visited the ...

2007-12-04T11:12:00.000Z

10.56

Imagine my disappointment when I visited the progress site and found nothing on the ethics of book keeping or political donations. My dismay was greater when I found little on breaking rules not laws.

Progress Ltd, who the Electoral Commission registe...

2007-12-04T10:56:00.000Z

Progress Ltd, who the Electoral Commission register of donees has as being at 83 Victoria Street.

Wouldn't be these chumps would it?

There isn't a Progress Ltd listed by Companies Hou...

2007-12-04T10:52:00.000Z

There isn't a Progress Ltd listed by Companies House, but there is this, and it's listed as "9132 - Political organisations"

Name & Registered Office:
PROGRESS LIMITED
29-30 FITZROY SQUARE
LONDON
W1T 6LQ
Company No. 03109611

Status: Active
Date of Incorporation: 03/10/1995

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Company Type: PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Nature of Business (SIC(03)):
9132 - Political organisations

Accounting Reference Date: 30/09
Last Accounts Made Up To: 30/09/2006 (SMALL)
Next Accounts Due: 30/07/2008
Last Return Made Up To: 03/10/2007
Next Return Due: 31/10/2008

Previous Names:
Date of change Previous Name
20/11/1995 PREMIUMUNIT LIMITED

Good point. Found them:Name & Registered Office:PR...

2007-12-04T10:48:00.000Z

Good point. Found them:

Name & Registered Office:
PROGRESS LIMITED
29-30 FITZROY SQUARE
LONDON
W1T 6LQ
Company No. 03109611

Status: Active
Date of Incorporation: 03/10/1995

Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Nature of Business (SIC(03)):
9132 - Political organisations
Accounting Reference Date: 30/09
Last Accounts Made Up To: 30/09/2006 (SMALL)
Next Accounts Due: 30/07/2008
Last Return Made Up To: 03/10/2007
Next Return Due: 31/10/2008
Previous Names:
Date of change Previous Name
20/11/1995 PREMIUMUNIT LIMITED

Electoral Commission definitely has it as 'Progres...

2007-12-04T10:32:00.000Z

Electoral Commission definitely has it as 'Progress Ltd'.

Why would a software/IT company be a 'regulated donee'under PPERA 2000?

I picked it up as I was rooting around for Jon Mendelsohn. Its principal donor has been Lord Sainsbury.

Sorry wrong one!!!Name & Registered Office:PROGRES...

2007-12-04T10:12:00.000Z

Sorry wrong one!!!

Name & Registered Office:
PROGRESSION LIMITED
26 EASTLANDS ROAD
BIRMINGHAM
WEST MIDLANDS B13 9RG
Company No. 02247925

Status: Active
Date of Incorporation: 25/04/1988

Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: Private Limited Company
Nature of Business (SIC(03)):
7220 - Software consultancy & supply
Accounting Reference Date: 31/03
Last Accounts Made Up To: 31/03/2006 (TOTAL EXEMPTION SMALL)
Next Accounts Due: 31/01/2008
Last Return Made Up To: 12/06/2007
Next Return Due: 10/07/2008
Last Members List: 12/06/2007
Previous Names:
No previous name information has been recorded over the last 20 years.
Branch Details
There are no branches associated with this company.
Oversea Company Info
There are no Oversea Details associated with this company.

This assist? Dissolved Co. 'Limited' not 'Ltd' but...

2007-12-04T10:10:00.000Z

This assist? Dissolved Co. 'Limited' not 'Ltd' but probably the same

Name & Registered Office:
PROGRESSIO LIMITED
18 BURNSIDE ROAD
BROUGHTON ASTLEY
LEICESTER
LEICESTERSHIRE LE9 6UD
Company No. 04948583

Status: Dissolved 24/04/2007
Date of Incorporation: 30/10/2003

Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: Private Limited Company
Nature of Business (SIC(03)):
7414 - Business & management consultancy
Accounting Reference Date: 31/10
Last Accounts Made Up To: 31/10/2005 (TOTAL EXEMPTION SMALL)
Next Accounts Due: 31/08/2007
Last Return Made Up To: 30/10/2005
Next Return Due: 27/11/2006
Last Members List: 30/10/2005
Previous Names:
No previous name information has been recorded over the last 20 years.
Branch Details
There are no branches associated with this company.
Oversea Company Info
There are no Oversea Details associated with this company.

Can anyone thrown any light on a 'Regulated Donee'...

2007-12-04T09:48:00.000Z

Can anyone thrown any light on a 'Regulated Donee' called Progress Ltd. which has received £ 957,173.16 since 2001 from the likes of Jon Mendelsohn, Lord Sainsbury, Pfizer, Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, Pharmacia Ltd and Sir Frank Lowe? What is its relationship to Labour and why should Network Rail be donating to it? Why do two Drug companies seem to like it so much?

Well done guido!You really are back on form!

2007-12-04T09:29:00.000Z

Well done guido!

You really are back on form!

Normally your self congratulation irritates me - b...

2007-12-04T09:05:00.000Z

Normally your self congratulation irritates me - but not today. Good work fella

Ah, the special orange one doesn't take the heat t...

2007-12-04T08:36:00.000Z

Ah, the special orange one doesn't take the heat too well - he squealed like a stuck pig when the boys from the Banwen Miners Hunt got him run to ground in his constituency house. Wanted plod to call in the SAS ! Plod suggested he try talking to them, them being constituents, and him being a man of the people and all that !

I'm beginning to think this one:1. Hain fundraises...

2007-12-04T08:14:00.000Z

I'm beginning to think this one:

1. Hain fundraises for his deputy campaign;

2. Registers money as he spends it so that;

3. He can use anything not registered as donations for the election campaign.

4. Gorgon calls off the election.

Guido, THANK YOU!

2007-12-04T08:09:00.000Z

Guido, THANK YOU!

Did Mendelsohn force Phain into registering the £5...

2007-12-04T07:39:00.000Z

Did Mendelsohn force Phain into registering the £5000.00 contribution to avoid being Abrahamised? Why were the other donations not registered with Mendelsohn's donation?.

You are too modest Guido. You published his £ 88k ...

2007-12-04T07:30:00.000Z

You are too modest Guido. You published his £ 88k deputy leadership election budget some months ago.

Methinks that there are quite a number of donors to these Nulab twats, who do not want to be demonised like David Abrahams and are insisting that Phain and his ilk regularise the registration of their election funding .

You are showing up the so called quality papers and the Brown Broadcasting Corporation for the lap dogs they are , buying into these cheap tarts.

Yay, the Orange One is marmalade. On Brown toast.P...

2007-12-04T01:49:00.000Z

Yay, the Orange One is marmalade. On Brown toast.

PS Glad somone was there with a camera when Hain discovered Guido had pissed in his plonk....

Brown if you sack fascist Hain now and banish him ...

2007-12-04T01:48:00.000Z

Brown if you sack fascist Hain now and banish him from the Labour party forever we may ease off the pressure just a little bit!

sounds like a good deal to me - who needs the lying orange one anyway?

About Harperson's £5000 from Kidd. Wouldn't that b...

2007-12-04T00:11:00.000Z

About Harperson's £5000 from Kidd. Wouldn't that be funny if it turned out that it was the self same cheque that Gordo didn't cash and they were just distributing the donated cash among themselves...