Following on from this, a quick update to say that Brown is still not registered with an Electoral Commission as a regulated donee. Also, according his entry on the Register of Members' Interests he's had nothing to declare since November 2005.A little bird tells me that design cost of the website was paid for on delivery, and that it cost somewhere between £10,000 and £30,000. He's also been traveling all round the country as part of his leadership hustings tour, that will costing money too (or perhaps the taxpayer is paying for it?).
Either way, for a man that says he wants to gain people's trust, he seems to be being rather secretive about his funding sources. Maybe they're off balance sheet PFIs?
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Dominic Lawson's article in yesterday's Independent seems to suggest that Gordimmo has not changed his spots since becoming "PM Elect".
So on with the sleaze & spin.
Good work Dizzy keep on exposing this imposter/chalatan/liar etc for what he is
If Brown's absolutely dire website cost between £10,000 and £30,000, then the rest of us are all in the wrong business...
We can be sure the £10,000-£30,000 (a wide range, like a very rough flier taken by someone on the basis of market pc figure) didn't include a decent camera for his Flickr gallery ...
But on the funding question - all may be revealled or not. There is a figure below which donations don't have to be reported at all, and another under which the donors do not have to be identified.
And if frugal Gordon is funding the whole thing himself - which isn't a bad idea for a definite shoo in PM to avoid any dizzy fingers pointing at him - then I'm not sure he'd have to report that?
There is a space on parliamentary expenses returns to say how much the candidate puts in themsleves - always interesting to see - but that wouldn't be used for this.
Let's be honest he may have done his site himself too and those kind of petty donations don't often make it into returns.
I am still waiting for the Electoral commission to answer my query on whether they have analysed GE returns to see where the discrepancies lie in terms of print cost, post cost, phone cost, committee rooms cost etc.
A can of worms I'll be bound.
£30,000 for a website? Where does the money actually go?
Kin L £30,000!!
Where am I going wrong doing websites as freebies?
Can't imagine Silverfish bragging about this one though, it is absolutely dire. Looks like waste ground now that it is no longer needed. So much for Brown's first promise to listen and respond.
Perhaps the money came from the same source as his office funding in 1994/7; i.e Geoffrey Robinson who got it in turn from his toy boy antics towards the octogenerian widow of the Jaguar importer in Belgium, who GR got to as a result of the his ludicrous appointment by the Industrial Reorganaisation Corp (of beloved socialist memory) to run Jaguar Cars. Has he got his licence back after being at the wheel of such a machine while inebriated?
Brown's kids did the website for a nursery project? In Dazzle and wordpad?
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