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"Cash for questions: new row over Scottish lord’s £30k deal"

"The Sunday Herald has established that around half the parliamentary questions tabled by Lord Moonie, a close friend of prime minister Gordon Brown, relate to areas of commercial interest to US-based Northrop Grumman Corporation."

"Moonie is employed by Americium Developments (Edinburgh) Ltd, which Henderson runs with Glenrothes businessman Richard Nawrot. The company, which is overdue filing its accounts at Companies House, had only £1371 in the bank in January 2007. It claimed assets of £2,123,409, of which £2.1m was attributed to a "holistic concept for the delivery of complex public and private facilities", priced by the directors."

"The Sunday Herald can also reveal the closeness of Moonie's links to Gordon Brown and Chancellor Alistair Darling. The peer, who entered the Lords after making way for Brown to be the Labour candidate in Kirkcaldy during boundary changes, bought Brown's flat in Kennington, south London. He allowed Darling to move into the property as his co-tenant between 2003 and 2006, according to the electoral roll." ...

http://tinyurl.com/cc3243

Hmmm...This story could get BIG...VERY BIG.

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"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) ... http://bigeye.com/foolisholdman.htm

"Lord Foulkes faces probe over legal consultancy"

http://tinyurl.com/chkt5h

About time...long overdue

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"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) ... http://bigeye.com/foolisholdman.htm

"Any news of the return of the donation to the Lib Dems of £2.4 Mn. from Michael Brown, 42, of Templewood Avenue, Hampstead, to help fund their 2005 election campaign , who was alleged to have stolen a total of $11,348,003 (£7,092,501) from Charles Martin Edwards and three of transferring criminal property in the same overall amount."...

http://tinyurl.com/cnfo9h

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"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) ... http://bigeye.com/foolisholdman.htm

“The police will not investigate allegations against four members of the House of Lords accused of being willing to change laws in exchange for cash”…

http://tinyurl.com/cwm9gp

We are the government and we can do anything we want…We are above the law.

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"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) ... http://bigeye.com/foolisholdman.htm

"The hospitality enjoyed by top civil servants - including meals, trips to the opera, tennis and cricket matches - has been revealed for the first time"

"The most prolific entertainers included oil giants such as Shell and BP, financial and advisory firm KPMG, and banks such Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche. Newspapers and the BBC also featured heavily in the 90-page list."

"Failed banks HBOS and Royal Bank of Scotland found the money to host key Whitehall figures, as the government prepared to bail them out with billions of pounds in public funds."

"RBS took Gordon Brown's top foreign policy adviser, Sir Nigel Sheinwald - now ambassador to the US - to lunch last January. In February they dined Home Office permanent secretary David Normington, and in May stood lunch for Foreign Office mandarin Sir Peter Ricketts."...

http://tinyurl.com/d6g6pa

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"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) ... http://bigeye.com/foolisholdman.htm

"I hope these measures will act as a deterrent to unlawful activity - and send a clear message to organised criminals that there is no room in this industry for those who want to use taxi firms as a front for their illegal activities."...

http://tinyurl.com/cmwefd

It`s a pity that it doesn`t also apply to the house of commons and the house of lords.

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"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) ... http://bigeye.com/foolisholdman.htm

Sunday, February 22, 2009

"Lord Ashcroft and more of his dodgy dosh helps fund the Conservative Party local constituencies - Electoral Commission sniffing about."...

http://tinyurl.com/c75kjt


Saturday, February 21, 2009

"O'Bomber picks his big fund raiser for the London Emassy - to the Victor the spoils"...

http://tinyurl.com/am4veb

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"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) ... http://bigeye.com/foolisholdman.htm

February 25, 2009

One Law for New Labour

Texting death crash peer jailed for 12 weeks and banned for one year

http://tinyurl.com/bxgh79


Texting death crash woman jailed for 21 months and banned for three years

http://tinyurl.com/c3lwr5

Note that in neither case is it true - contrary to propaganda - that the texting was several minutes before the crash. In the case of the woman, the prosecution is appealing because the sentence was too lenient!...

http://tinyurl.com/bql7bg

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"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) ... http://bigeye.com/foolisholdman.htm

April 18 2009

"Labour to investigate MP’s complaints over selection"

"Labour is to investigate an MP's claims of "irregularities" in a high-profile selection contest that includes the daughter of a key New Labour figure among candidates."...

http://tinyurl.com/d46zgk

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"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) ... http://bigeye.com/foolisholdman.htm

Too bad Alice Mahon waited this long to face the truth about New Labour. She had enough clues more than 10 years ago, when Blair spouted the Educationx3 mantra and pledged no tuition fees (sic). Still, better late than never. Maybe she'll encourage the others.