Comments on Guy Fawkes' blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy: Will Benn Divest from UBM?

GORDON RATTLED !!!!!!!

2008-04-30T12:12:00.000+01:00

GORDON RATTLED !!!!!!!

Douglas Alexander and Harriet Har-person looking m...

2008-04-30T12:07:00.000+01:00

Douglas Alexander and Harriet Har-person looking miserable at PMQ's - Priceless..

Vince Cable really has lost it since enjoying his ...

2008-04-29T22:43:00.000+01:00

Vince Cable really has lost it since enjoying his purple patch as stand-in leader. Why the hell would anyone in their right mind condemn UBM for moving its tax domicile? Capital is mobile so it is bound to gravitate towards countries with competitive tax regimes. Indeed, any director that failed to consider such a move would be failing in their fiduciary duties and could face a shareholder law suit.

hese family polical firms need to be weeded out - ...

2008-04-29T22:36:00.000+01:00

hese family polical firms need to be weeded out - off the top of my head I can think of the Benns, Balls, Alexanders, Kinnocks, Watsons - anyone care to add to the list?

I'll add to that list... "are all a bunch of cunts..."

ive just been sent labour party election broadcast...

2008-04-29T21:40:00.000+01:00

ive just been sent labour party election broadcast now titled "brown stares out of the train window "
harmen "i came into politics to??"

jaqui smith "i was teacher and kids need??"

gordon was travelling on one of branstons trains.

it was dull almost enough to make you sleep and lose the will to live, if after 10 years browns vision is this (whatever it was its so un memorable).
nothing on economy , europe , brtishness it was about as universal as you could get .

nothing going on here only dull goverment and mps !! the red despot spotter disagrees there is quite a lot going on here , namely wasteing money and kids dying of mental moral corruption .

look upon your success of government mr brown , it might be nice in the westminster bunker , but its right mess everywhere else

Can't see why he should sell, is the stock market ...

2008-04-29T20:09:00.000+01:00

Can't see why he should sell, is the stock market only put on earth for the use of Conservatives? It would be helpful that Benns Junior and Senior fessed up to their tastes for capitalism though.

Please could anyone explain to me the YouTube vide...

2008-04-29T19:23:00.000+01:00

Please could anyone explain to me the YouTube video that is to the right of the blog?

In it a nice young man vaguely resembling Nick Clegg appears to have a chat with Margaret Hodge and then goes off to visit an old woman in a cell. WTF? Is the old woman a Conservative voter that they have incarcerated during the local elections?

The millionair new socialists/communists, take fro...

2008-04-29T19:22:00.000+01:00

The millionair new socialists/communists, take from the poor - give to the rich!

corrupt career polititians -

cunts!

GuidoDo you have any stories that would concern Ei...

2008-04-29T19:11:00.000+01:00

Guido
Do you have any stories that would concern Either Benn or any other ministers "Divesting" themselves whilst in a public office?
Come on DARLING , you know you want to tell us all (+:

Off topic:"Bean is sending 600 more troops to Koso...

2008-04-29T19:06:00.000+01:00

Off topic:

"Bean is sending 600 more troops to Kosovo."

Exactly when are we going to leave the Balkans? Round about the same time we leave Iraq or Afganistan??

clochoderic:- Johnson?

2008-04-29T18:58:00.000+01:00

clochoderic:

- Johnson?

Benn faces deputy leadership disasterBy Toby Helm,...

2008-04-29T18:52:00.000+01:00

Benn faces deputy leadership disaster

By Toby Helm, Chief Political Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:27am BST 14/05/2007

Mr Benn faced a new setback yesterday with revelations in the
Sunday Telegraph that he holds shares worth £233,559
in a firm which has a contract with his government department.
The shares in media and business information company UBM
were passed down to him from his grandmother and his father.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/14/nbenn14.xml

Rex - you forget that Benn Snr would otherwise be ...

2008-04-29T18:49:00.000+01:00

Rex - you forget that Benn Snr would otherwise be Viscount Stansgate if he had not renounced his title in the 60's to enter the Commons. That would make Hilary next in line. They are knobs to a man.

On the subjest of big business.The Telegraph today...

2008-04-29T18:44:00.000+01:00

On the subjest of big business.
The Telegraph today chose to lead by printing an OFT Press Release >

"About 100 leading household brands, including PG Tips, Coca-Cola and Aquafresh, are at the centre of an investigation into allegations of price-fixing, The Daily Telegraph can disclose."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/29/nprice329.xml

Which follows on from and is linked to last weeks disclosure of a similar investigation into the leading Supermarkets ( usual suspects ) for " price fixing ".

What a pathetic and obvious smokescreen issued by the administration, trying to divert attention from its own failings by trying to blame Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever and Andrex's US owner Kimberly-Clark for reported rises in our weekly shopping bills. Poor deluded consumer we.

To cap this it goes on to quote one John Bridgeman, a former OFT director general.
""There is no smoke without fire... The OFT is not going to go big on this unless it has something to go on."
Oh really ? And what happened to the idea of being innocent until being proven guilty ?
This 'former DG ' clearly believes that to be accused is to be guilty. Just like the Nazis-Stassi c*n*s he is spawned from.

Thank you for your time; not a supermarket owner nor shareholder nor even a customer; I prefer crap from convenience stores.

anon @5:46Yes, Churchill Mark III wasn't as good a...

2008-04-29T18:25:00.000+01:00

anon @5:46

Yes, Churchill Mark III wasn't as good as Churchill Mark II - who understood in the 1930s where the real enemy lay - nor of course Chuchill Mark I - way back in Victoria's reign.

I think Sir W. helped win a war - which is more than can be said for others you mention.

What do you mean "divest from" UBM?I understand th...

2008-04-29T18:12:00.000+01:00

What do you mean "divest from" UBM?

I understand that selling assets is now referred to as "diversifying into".

second generation cashier second rate defra minist...

2008-04-29T17:53:00.000+01:00

second generation cashier
second rate defra minister (ask anyone at the cattle markets)

me thinks economically it will difficult , no chance of corporate tax cuts , so better for them to get share holder value and move .
although ireland doesnt vote for lisbon could be fun .

ive got my front side seat for labours scorched earth attack on boris , sounds more like a barbie to me .

bring it on milliband i say , bring it on

clochoderic said... "These family polical firms ne...

2008-04-29T17:46:00.000+01:00

clochoderic said...
"These family polical firms need to be weeded out - off the top of my head I can think of the Benns, Balls, Alexanders, Kinnocks, Watsons - anyone care to add to the list?"

CHURCHILL

Simone is Right said... "...what sort of a father ...

2008-04-29T17:45:00.000+01:00

Simone is Right said...
"...what sort of a father would give him a girl's name anyway?"

Hilary used to be a more popular name for boys than for girls.

Guido, you overlooked the obvious choice Et tu Bru...

2008-04-29T17:35:00.000+01:00

Guido, you overlooked the obvious choice Et tu Brutus Benn ???

Let Vinny C show Rockin Gordo how to dance his way out of that...

Great story, Guido..

2008-04-29T17:34:00.000+01:00

Great story, Guido..

Well, given the Benn family publishing business (o...

2008-04-29T17:26:00.000+01:00

Well, given the Benn family publishing business (one of the Empire's biggest in the first half of the 20th century) has been held in trust in the Caribbean for decades, it's not much of an embarrassment that a public company he holds shares in but doesn't control is moving offshore.

That he's in any way involved with UBM, the creation of currency-speculator-turned-communications -magnate, Clive Hollick, very much a luvvie for New Labour, might be more of an embarrassment given his own posturing towards the Left (which secretly venerates toffs and despises new money).

Sound like snotty is keeping the Army busy again,o...

2008-04-29T17:25:00.000+01:00

Sound like snotty is keeping the Army busy again,off to Kosovo .
Does he think of the Army like our gold reserves? they are lying about doing nothing he considers useful so get em working/dying or is he so paranoid now he wants them all out the country?

These family polical firms need to be weeded out -...

2008-04-29T17:13:00.000+01:00

These family polical firms need to be weeded out - off the top of my head I can think of the Benns, Balls, Alexanders, Kinnocks, Watsons - anyone care to add to the list?

Pa for course - if my recollection is right commy ...

2008-04-29T16:54:00.000+01:00

Pa for course - if my recollection is right commy daddy Benn was responsible for financing Concorde, an exclusive plane, paid for by the tax payer so the rich could travel in style at a discount.

A Scargill