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OCT / NOV 2003 |
IT'S A STITCH UP! If there’s any doubt about who’s really running things in this country, here are some of the companies who helped pay for the recent Labour Party conference: BUPA and Superdrug sponsored meetings on health policy.Arriva, the badly performing rail and bus company sponsored a transport meeting. Mobile phone companies sponsored a meeting on speeding up planning decisions (making it easier to build unpopular masts). Sky TV – A meeting on the future of television. Camelot – ‘Is the lottery working properly?’ The Finance and Leasing Association which represents the credit card, car loan and person credit industry paid for a discussion on the growing problem of consumer debt. Barclays Bank, UPS (a parcel firm which would like the Post Office privatised), WHSmith and dodgy food company Nestle were also kind enough to help pay for the conference. Meanwhile Tony Blair has a new helper. Dave Hill, his new ‘communications director’ is involved in a PR company called Chime Communications. Chime and it’s subsidiaries have some big business clients including Tesco, BP and Monsanto. All want to change government policy to help them make more money, or have already done so in recent years. (Info from Private Eye) |
