Thursday, 17 September 2009

What's Pickles fishing for?

Intriguing nugget from in Hansard from yesterday:

[291215]
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what payments Ms Polly Toynbee has received from her Department in the last five years; and for what purposes.

Angela E. Smith: There is no record in the Department’s accounting system of any payments made to Ms Toynbee over the last five years.


[291000]
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what payments (a) the Government Equalities Office and (b) the Equality and Human Rights Commission have made to Ms Polly Toynbee; and for what purposes.

Maria Eagle: The Government Equalities Office and the Equality and Human Rights Commission have made no payments to Polly Toynbee.


Polly on the payroll wouldn't really be a surprise though.

8 comments:

Dick the Prick said...

It's just a matter of time before he hits the right department - is there a ministry of banal gibberish? Ofcourse, the FCO!

Oldrightie
said...

That she might be on the payroll is not the fish sought. It's the what for!

Big Ocean Fish
said...

nice share...keep it up...

regards,
Big Ocean Fish
www.bigoceanfish.com

Alfred T Mahan said...

Badly drafted questions by Pickles - payments to Polly Toynbee SA of Zurich or any similar vehicle would be deniable. If he has reason to suspect a payment, that's the route to go down.

MTPT
said...

Alfred's right - any done a Companies House search? We could pass Pickles a list.

Georges
said...

Could be related to this jolly taken by Polly last April:

https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/18/ghana-economy-imf-polly-toynbee

As part of the official delegation:

https://www.harrietharman.org/ghana-visit

Polly never clarified (in the comments section of the first piece above) who paid for her trip expenses.

Holyrood Patter
said...

anyone see ephraim hardcaslte today?
apprently the department for supreme ballso mandelsonistas, sorry BERR has admitted paying toynboot 2 and a half grand for a speech.
very much +++developing++++

John M Ward
said...

The Croydonian has some

more interesting results
from this line of questioning…

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