January 30, 2008
And now it’s someone from Labour: again
Thanks to the Guido Fawkes blog for pointing out that Lord Hoyle is up in front of a Lords disciplinary committee today.
The Guardian first broke the story that money changed hands between Lord Hoyle (formerly Doug Hoyle, a Labour whip) and Michael Wood, a former RAF officer now working for arms companies. A meeting subsequently took place between Lord Drayson - defence minister - and Mr Wood, although accounts differ as to how this was arranged. That was in June 2005
Unfortunately today’s meeting in the Lords (of the interests sub-committee of the privileges committee) is behind closed doors. No doubt we’ll hear more in a few weeks.
links to Guido Fawkes and Guardian would help and very much appreciated. We’ll come back don’t be paranoid.
Posted by: Jill Khan | January 31st, 2008 at 8:06 am | Report this commentFrank Field called Conway and embezzler on Wednesday. Hoyle seems to have been accused of doing something that is (a) allowed but (b) should be registered.
In the last six years alone Conway family members and a partner have had more than a third of million.
Bless Guido for remembering Hoyle. But shame on Guido Fawkes and others for trying to make an equivalence between what Field calls embezzlement and failures or delays in registering apparently bona fide fees and donations.
Conway is one on his own - at the moment - in terms of scale and sin both.
I tend to call Guido “GuF”. He is a naive, hateful, unprofessional gossip. He doesn’t break stories. More like breaks wind.
Posted by: Chris Paul | February 2nd, 2008 at 10:51 pm | Report this comment