Liam Fox

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:23 am

Agreed.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:11 pm

Sir Gus O'Donnell keeping strangely quiet. And not saying why he's being quiet:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011 ... g-werritty

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"Adam Werritty was also present at a meeting between Mr Howarth and a representative of IRG Ltd regarding information that could be useful to the department relating to Iraq. The discussion centred on the economic and political landscape in Iraq," Hammond said in a parliamentary answer on Monday.

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There are more than 30 companies and organisations that use the initials IRG. A spokesman for the Cabinet Office said O'Donnell knew the identity of the IRG in question but would not release the information to the public. The Cabinet Office declined to explain why the true identity of IRG was being kept secret

So official meeting about the fairly important subject of Iraq. Yet we're not allowed to know exactly which company it was attending.

Inspires confidence, doesn't it?

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2011 1:23 am

I don't know if this has already been announced, because it's so unsurprising

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/2 ... tive-party

So some people donate to the Tories to help them get elected. They then pay for a bloke to go around the world with the Defence Secretary, who pretends he's part of the official party.

But look, he's the real scandal!

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Labour outstripped the Tories in party fundraising over the summer by nearly 30%, the official figures show.

Donations totalled £3,529,270 for the opposition compared with the Conservatives' £2,744,618.

Almost 90% of the Labour total, £3,138,443, came from the unions.

Lady Warsi, the Conservative co-chairman, said: "The unions swung Ed Miliband's election as leader and it's now clear that Labour is becoming even more reliant on the unions to keep the party afloat.

"Ed Miliband should stop being weak and condemn the strikes, but his reliance on the biggest vested interest in British politics today shows clearly why he won't."

The Tories got a merely 42% from the City. They'll be reforming that like lightning, won't they.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2011 1:27 am

Well, FUCK Sayeeda Warsi and her boilerplate Tory shite.

I'm fucking DELIGHTED that the trade union movement has donated so much by way of funding to Labour.

Nothing fucking wrong with it - it's as things should be.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2011 1:35 am

It's incredible how people, when you mention Lord Ashcroft, say "what about Labour and the unions?"

Talking of Ashcroft:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... viser.html

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A source close to Lord Ashcroft, a leading Tory donor, said he planned to publish evidence to back his claims “within days”.

That's about 130 days so far.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2011 1:44 am

Ah this is Ashcroft, responding within days. By watering down allegations.

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Mr Baldwin denied to his new boss that he had commissioned a private investigator to target me. But he has not denied that the Times commissioned Mr Singfield. Nor has he denied that he worked with the private investigator. Nor that he was responsible for handling the unlawfully acquired material.

So he's not saying Tom Baldwin commissioned the investigator. It was The Times. And Baldwin merely handled illegally acquired material.

Which happens every time there's a government leak.

You'd think this was some crap spouted to take the heat off Coulson, wouldn't you?

Killer Whale · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2011 10:50 am

Bloody hell. The unions started the Labour Party. It's their party. Why shouldn't they fund it?

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2011 10:55 am

Because they're all communists intent on destroying this once great nation of ours and as such should not be allowed to have any say as they aren't people like us and only we, the Mail reading majority, should be allowed to decide what is best for this country, not some filthy worker communists who are all in cahoots with the EU, the Russians and Al Qaeda and should all be hanged for treason unlike us who know whats best and no-one will convince us otherwise.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:17 am

If I were you, I'd put my head down again, you dodgy fuck. Because we haven't forgotten.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012 ... ign-unions

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Fox, who was forced to resign last October, is helping to lead a rightwing group that wants to prevent union officers who are also nurses and teachers from carrying out union duties in work time. It also aims to evict unions from branch offices located in hospitals and schools.

How about carrying out favours to your mate in work time? Then giving bullshit answers to questions in Parliament. And spouting the passive "boundaries became blurred" stuff as though it were nothing to do with you.

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3837

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

If I were you, I'd put my head down again, you dodgy fuck. Because we haven't forgotten.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012 ... ign-unions

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Fox, who was forced to resign last October, is helping to lead a rightwing group that wants to prevent union officers who are also nurses and teachers from carrying out union duties in work time. It also aims to evict unions from branch offices located in hospitals and schools.

How about carrying out favours to your mate in work time? Then giving bullshit answers to questions. And spouting the passive "boundaries became blurred" stuff as though it were nothing to do with you.

Ain't nothin' gonna get him back in favour quicker than a bit of union-bashing.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:44 am

But that would be paramount to accusing him of cynical demagoguery... Oh...

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3837

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

But that would be paramount to accusing him of cynical demagoguery... Oh...

Yes, it IS unlike him isn't it?

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:56 am

It won't work. He's still too toxic to be out in front on this campaign.

Look at the other nobodies too. I reckon they asked David Davis and he couldn't be bothered.

new puritan · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:49 am

This sickening scumbag has resurfaced from the depths - it would appear he wants more of the plebs to be sacked. Getting rid of corrupt, failing cabinet ministers is a bit too difficult for my liking, so I have some sympathy there. And adding to job insecurity at a time when the economy is teetering on the brink of recession certainly sounds like a winner to me.

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-s ... rights-fox

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There are two key passages in his article. The first reignites last year's debate on workers' rights:

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To restore Britain's competitiveness we must begin by deregulating the labour market. Political objections must be overridden. It is too difficult to hire and fire and too expensive to take on new employees. It is intellectually unsustainable to believe that workplace rights should remain untouchable while output and employment are clearly cyclical.

The second -- perhaps the most newsworthy, given that we are just a month away from the Budget on 21 March -- argues for deeper, faster spending cuts:

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There is a strong argument for further public spending reductions, not to fund a faster reduction in the deficit, but to reduce taxes on employment. Although the coalition agreement may require the chancellor to raise personal tax allowances (which should be paid for with spending restraint not new taxes) he should use the proceeds of spending reductions to cut employers' national insurance contributions across the board. If that is deemed impossible, he should consider targeting such tax cuts on the employment of 16 to 24-year-olds, making them more attractive to employers.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:28 pm

Beat me to it. I guess he didn't notice the corporation tax cut before. How did that go? I love the "intellectually" he says. He can't imagine the affect shitting youself about your job has.

Employers' NI has always seemed an odd one to me, mind.

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