The problem: The Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches program have caught ex Labour ministers out offering to sell their influence over other Labour ministers. They cite examples of where policies have been changed thanks to such bought influence. One ex Labour minister even describes himself as a taxi for sale. The boasts rely on undue influence over serving ministers. This story will soo...
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ManInAShed on 21st Mar 2010 (via atoryblog.blogspot.com)
A House of Lords committee says the BBC should sell a stake in its commercial arm, BBC Worldwide.
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BBCPolitics on 25th Jan 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Today the Government published details of its sell off plans. Gordon Brown's "car boot" sale includes: the Tote, the Dartford Crossing, URENCO (Uranium Enrichment), High Speed 1, British Waterways and much more. And further assets are now earmarked - including...
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CentreRight on 7th Dec 2009 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
Illinois politics is legendarily corrupt. But even by the state’s high standards, the charge sheet against the current governor, Rod Blagojevich, is impressive. Blagojevich was, so it is alleged, trying to sell the Senate seat that Obama’s election had left vacant. If that wasn’t enough, Blagojevich was apparently attempting to shake down the president-elect. The sale of the Sena...
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Spectator on 10th Dec 2008 (via spectator.co.uk)
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"How can the American people trust the policies of a man who can't sell his house? Isn't that like hiring a personal trainer that's morbidly obsese?" The Daily Show's John Oliver panics about one man's failed attempt to sell a...
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CommentCentral on 4th Aug 2009 (via timesonline.typepad.com)
George Osborne will use his Mansion House speech tonight to, in the words of one source, "fire the starting gun" on the sale of Northern Rock. Robert Peston, who had the story first, reports that "The chancellor hopes that the sale of Northern Rock will send a powerful signal that the banking industry is on a path back to more normal conditions, following the crisis of three ...
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Spectator on 15th Jun 2011 (via spectator.co.uk)
Fewer people in Scotland will be forced to sell their homes if their partner dies without leaving a will under planned legal changes.
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BBCPolitics on 11th Dec 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
Of course if they didn’t keep it secret from us - the people who pay the bills - there wouldn’t be anything to sell. So release the receipts now… UPDATE : Newsnight just flashed a trailer for a claim that the receipts are being offered to newspapers for £300,000 - uncensored.
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GuidoFawkes on 30th Mar 2009 (via order-order.com)
The US is due to announce an arms sale to Saudi Arabia that could total more than $60bn, the biggest such transaction in history
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FT on 20th Oct 2010 (via ft.com)
The proposal by Gordon Brown to sell off state assets is welcome because it involves divesting government of responsibilities it shouldn't have. But that, as Chris Dillow points out in an excellent post, is not why sale is being contemplated....
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CommentCentral on 13th Oct 2009 (via timesonline.typepad.com)
The IMF is going to sell the gold that Brown sold to them to provide the funds to bail out UK because of its sale of gold at rock bottom price.
