In tribute to the Minister, who laid down his friends for his job only for it to backfire, and his bungling sidekick Adam Werritty, here's AC/DC's 'Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap'.
Pick up the phone, I'm always home/huh, huh, huh, huh, huh
Call me anytime/huh, huh, huh
Just ring: three-six-two-four-three-six, hey
I lead a life of crime
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap
Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap
You got problems in your life of love/huh, huh, huh, huh
You got a broken heart/huh, huh, huh
He's double-dealin' with your best friend/huh, huh, huh, huh, huh
That's when the teardrops start FELLA, well-uh/huh, huh, huh
Pick up the phone, I'm here alone/huh, huh, huh, huh, huh
Or make a social call/huh, huh, huh, huh
Come right in, forget about him
We'll have ourselves a ball, eh
It's time you made a stand/huh, huh, huh, huh
For a fee, I'm happy to be
Your back door man, hey
Concrete shoes
Cyanide
T.N.T
Done dirt cheap
Ooo, neckties
Contracts
High voltage
Done dirt cheap, eah
Dirty deeds, do anything you want me to, done dirt cheap
Dirty deeds, dirty deeds, dirty deeds, done dirt cheap
Showing posts with label adam werritty. Show all posts
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Friday, 14 October 2011
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Meet Liam Fox's new special advisor
Like Adam Werritty, I've got a business card to prove it:
You can get one too: click here.
and here's the Wordle version of Foxy's statement to the House of Commons:
Monday, 10 October 2011
Our turn to eat
I don't know if you've been following the Liam Fox story, but in case you haven't, the Secretary of State for Defence is accused of giving private advantage to his best man and former flatmate, Adam Werritty. When Fox was shadow Health secretary, Werritty was on the board of a health firm. When Fox moved to Defence, Werritty found a defence firm directorship: and Fox was a shareholder (which looks dubious enough).
Werritty ran Atlantic Bridge - a 'charity' which was recently disbanded when the Charity Commission decided it was just a dodgy political front (directors: Fox, Chancellor Osborne, the Education Secretary Michael Gove…) - from Fox's office, and it now seems like taxpayers' money was used to fund Werrity.
I expected this kind of thing to pop up pretty quickly. You have to understand the Tories - and to some extent their near-identical counterparts in New Labour. The Tories think that they're the natural party of government, and they believe that what's good for business is good for the country. Because they're a monetary and class élite, they don't have the self-doubt that - for example - Ernie Bevin or Atlee would have had. They aren't answerable to anyone. If they do it, it must be right. Their tribe gets its turn to eat: there are no moral qualms about this stuff - that's a liberal trait. It's just how business is done. They don't perceive wheeler-dealers as flies buzzing around the government cow as a pest, because that's just how business is done. Perhaps the aristocratic Tories like Macmillan wouldn't have behaved like this, because they distrusted the world of commerce, but the City Tories believe in jockeying for personal advantage: corruption is an alien term for them.
30 years ago, someone in Fox's position would have resigned at the first whiff of scandal to retain his and the government's honour. Those days are over.
Werritty ran Atlantic Bridge - a 'charity' which was recently disbanded when the Charity Commission decided it was just a dodgy political front (directors: Fox, Chancellor Osborne, the Education Secretary Michael Gove…) - from Fox's office, and it now seems like taxpayers' money was used to fund Werrity.
I expected this kind of thing to pop up pretty quickly. You have to understand the Tories - and to some extent their near-identical counterparts in New Labour. The Tories think that they're the natural party of government, and they believe that what's good for business is good for the country. Because they're a monetary and class élite, they don't have the self-doubt that - for example - Ernie Bevin or Atlee would have had. They aren't answerable to anyone. If they do it, it must be right. Their tribe gets its turn to eat: there are no moral qualms about this stuff - that's a liberal trait. It's just how business is done. They don't perceive wheeler-dealers as flies buzzing around the government cow as a pest, because that's just how business is done. Perhaps the aristocratic Tories like Macmillan wouldn't have behaved like this, because they distrusted the world of commerce, but the City Tories believe in jockeying for personal advantage: corruption is an alien term for them.
30 years ago, someone in Fox's position would have resigned at the first whiff of scandal to retain his and the government's honour. Those days are over.
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