Dear All
It seems that MP for hire, Stephen Byers has voluntarily referred himself to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner.
Byers said;
“I am confident that (Mr Lyon) will confirm that I have complied with the MPs’ code of conduct and have fully disclosed my outside interests.”
How is it ethical to charge £5,000 a day as an MP to get law changed for the personal benefit of others commercially?
I would say highly unethical given the position that an MP occupies.
Byers was approached and secretly filmed by investigators for Channel 4's Dispatches and The Sunday Times, pretending to be executives from a fictitious American lobbying firm to see if they can be bought for cash.
Byers boasted that he was a political "cab for hire" who had secured secret deals with ministers.
Two Ministers named are Lord Mandelson and Lord Adonis.
Mandelson is alleged to have got regulations on food labelling amended after he intervened on behalf of the Tesco supermarket firm.
Adonis is alleged to have taken part in a secret deal with Byers over the termination of National Express's rail franchise contract.
And the Labour Government has dismissed calls for an investigation and would even address the allegations properly.
Now, the ‘Labour Party for Hire’ is in the public domain, Byers has issued a statement saying he exaggerated his influence and that he had "never lobbied ministers on behalf of commercial interests".
So, he lied about Adonis and Mandelson being involved in secret deals?
Is this not reason for an independent investigation?
Gordon Brown spokesman said that Brown was was “satisfied” that there had been no impropriety on the part of ministers in the transport and business departments.
How is that achieved with an investigation?
The Labour Government really stinks to high heaven from the head down.
The General Election can’t come soon enough.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
It seems that MP for hire, Stephen Byers has voluntarily referred himself to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner.
Byers said;
“I am confident that (Mr Lyon) will confirm that I have complied with the MPs’ code of conduct and have fully disclosed my outside interests.”
How is it ethical to charge £5,000 a day as an MP to get law changed for the personal benefit of others commercially?
I would say highly unethical given the position that an MP occupies.
Byers was approached and secretly filmed by investigators for Channel 4's Dispatches and The Sunday Times, pretending to be executives from a fictitious American lobbying firm to see if they can be bought for cash.
Byers boasted that he was a political "cab for hire" who had secured secret deals with ministers.
Two Ministers named are Lord Mandelson and Lord Adonis.
Mandelson is alleged to have got regulations on food labelling amended after he intervened on behalf of the Tesco supermarket firm.
Adonis is alleged to have taken part in a secret deal with Byers over the termination of National Express's rail franchise contract.
And the Labour Government has dismissed calls for an investigation and would even address the allegations properly.
Now, the ‘Labour Party for Hire’ is in the public domain, Byers has issued a statement saying he exaggerated his influence and that he had "never lobbied ministers on behalf of commercial interests".
So, he lied about Adonis and Mandelson being involved in secret deals?
Is this not reason for an independent investigation?
Gordon Brown spokesman said that Brown was was “satisfied” that there had been no impropriety on the part of ministers in the transport and business departments.
How is that achieved with an investigation?
The Labour Government really stinks to high heaven from the head down.
The General Election can’t come soon enough.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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