The Chinese don't arrest whistleblowers, they treat them. An idea for Jacqui? Printing the truth is such a "dirty trick" isn't it? Peter is very keen to rehabilitate himself and to that end is peddling another myth: that he was cleared. He wasn't cleared, he just was not prosecuted. Not proven guilty is not the same as innocent. David Hencke expressed surprise yesterday that no one could be held responsible for undeclared donations totalling £100,000, half of which came from the mysterious Progressive Policies Forum. Phil Taylor, the former Hain SpAd who quit working for Hain after Guido exposed him working on the leadership campaign at the taxpayer's expense, had a revealing Facebook exchange last week which deserves wider circulation:
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2008
Exclusive : Tribune Mystery Buyer is a Capitalist
Kevin McGrath, coyly described in the press release as "a Labour activist", is the mystery purchaser of 51% of the failing but venerable socialist newspaper Tribune for £1. The former parliamentary candidate and multi-millionaire property fund manager is behind the purchase of the venerable paper for £1. These socialists are really no good at business. Guido would have given them twice as much for the shares...A New Approach to Whistleblowers
The Resurrection of Saint Hain
There was an absolutely nauseating revision of history by Hain himself in the Guardian immediately after the decision not to prosecute was announced. In it he made the preposterous claim that"... when, to my horror, I discovered the problem, I went straight to the commission, and also told the media. There was no exposure by tabloid or political opponents. It was me who outed me ..."
Hold on a second Peter, didn't you tell the press last April:"I have felt since February last year and throughout the course of my deputy leadership campaign and its aftermath that I was increasingly the victim of scapegoating and dirty tricks. Someone has persistently been sending material designed to discredit me to the right wing Guido Fawkes website. Some of the material has also been sent to the Western Mail.... There has been a concerted attempt to get the Guido Fawkes website to run damaging stories about the campaign."
Guido knew his accounts were fishy as early as May 2007 and revealed on the morning of Dec 3, 2007 details of an undeclared donation, Guido contacted Hain's SpAd Joe Carberry with the details, later that afternoonHain went to the Electoral Commission.
So when Hain says there was no exposure by opponents and he outed himself he is not only being untruthful, he is contradicting himself. If Guido and the Guardian'sown David Hencke, hadn't been digging relentlessly I very much doubt Hain would have come clean.
Sleazy lobbyist Steve Morgan is desperately trying to put the blame on Phil Taylor for unreported donations that arrived after he had quit the campign. If Hain couldn't be charged as the regulated donee, surely Steve Morgan, who took over as campaign manager after Phil Taylor resigned, should be held responsible. His office collected the cheques and he was the campaign manager.
Hain is already trying to portray himself as an innocent victim of his underlings incompetence, despite legally the buck stopping with him. He clearly needs someone he can trust and rely on in his personal office. Just as well he "employs" his 80 year-old mother at the taxpayer's expense to look after his interests, such a shame she never actually visits his office...Zimbabwe is One Big Death Camp
There is no available remedy under international law. The Americans have had some success with offering multi-million dollar rewards - they found Uday Saddam Hussein in that way and dealt him justice the same day.Perhaps a humanitarian minded African billionaire might be that way inclined, failing that, what is Ross Perot doing nowadays?MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2008
4 Votes In It
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Harold Evans in the Guardian this morning defends Hain on the grounds that "everyone does it". The "it" being late declaration or non-declaration of donations. Tell that to a judge.
That "what if" discussion as to whether assassinating Hitler in 1940 would have saved the jews seems to be relevant to contemporary Zimbabwe. The country has become a giant death camp, a hungry bedraggled populace and thousands dying in the streets from cholera.
If the LibDems had actually got their act together tonight, one opposition MP told Guido, the government would have lost. UKIP's Bob Spink was seen voting with the government...
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