According to this morning's Sunday Times the Minister for Thai Affairs(1), Stephen Ladyboy(2), and the prison's minister, Gerry Sutcliffe have been named by lobbyists on tape as directly help their business through the leaking of sensitive information.An undercover reporter had been working at the firm Golden Arrow Communications where th allegation surfaced. Allegedly Sutcliffe has offered his Whitehall Diary to the lobbyist, whilst Ladyboy is alleged to have leaked information about road charging.
Former Labour MP, Ivan Hendersoon, who now works at Golden Arrow is on tape saying, “He [Sutcliffe] is saying to us, ‘Come on, you use me’. That is what Gerry is actually saying . . . ‘I am there to be used. I want to help you. Use me’.”
Of Ladyboy he said, “Every time I e-mail him, he comes right back . . . He says ‘Ivan, this is what the score is’. He has never turned me down yet. He has gone over the top really. It is a bit dodgy sometimes.”
Personally none of this surprise me very much. This Government has by far and away been one of the most sleaziest this country has ever had. What's most annoying is that whenever it has these scandals it goes for the "let's draw a line and move forward" rubbish and pretends nothing has actually happened.
(1) He's really the Transport Minister.
(2) He's actually called Ladyman but I am puerile.
3 comments:
Ladyboy's running of roads policy is a mass of contradictions. Further investigation into his behaviour is advisable.
Dizzy - no, if you keep a clear head (hard on a Sunday morning, I know), the Sunday Times story looks really really feeble. Two months of a reporter's time spent on a serious undercover investigation and all they could come up with is some throwaway comment about Lydd Airport? Where the hell is Lydd Airport anyway?
If these two ministers really were passing on valuable stuff the ST would have found it after two months with access to the company's computers and files. But there's no information here worth selling to anyone. So where's the scandal?
SJ
you're just me pretending not to be. Tim says so.
Seriously though, I think scandal is one of culture that this sort of lobbyist back scrathing is common place. Plus "It is a bit dodgy sometimes."
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