http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8...-ministers.html

 

Business leaders to be given hotline to ministers

The bosses of some of the biggest companies in Britain, including BP, Shell and Jaguar Land Rover, are to be given hotlines to ministers to boost the economy.

 

Six ministers, including Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, will act as the main point of contact for the executives.

 

The top 50 firms operating in the UK will be offered the telephone numbers which will span the responsibilities of three departments.

 

The move is expected to be announced by the Government soon.

 

It is intended both to ensure that good ideas are not stymied by red tape and that policy concerns can be aired directly to those in charge.

 

However, it will open the door to potential criticism that the scheme will give scope for direct lobbying or favouritism towards the firms included

 

Mr Cable can expect calls from the chief executives of the oil and gas industry, including Shell, BP and British Gas.

 

The other ministers who are understood to have agreed to participate include David Willetts, the Universities and Science Minister, who will be the contact for the life science industry; Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, who will talk to technology leaders; Mark Prisk, the Business and Enterprise Minister, who will deal with car makers such as the Indian-owned Jaguar Land Rover, Toyota and General Motors as well as aerospace firms; while Lord Sassoon, the Commercial Secretary to the Treasury, will also play a role which is yet to be defined.

 

The final minister is Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint, the Trade and Investment Minister, who generated the idea for the “strategic relations” scheme.

 

He will act as the liaison for General Electric.

 

Before he was elevated to the peerage, he was the chairman and chief executive of HSBC.

 

A spokeswoman for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said: “For strategically useful firms, it’s helpful for them to have a single point of contact in government but this is in the very early stages.”

 

A spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change said: “This programme would complement existing relationships between ministers and business. It does not necessarily follow that the best minister to lead on a company would be one who was most vulnerable to lobbying from that company.”

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"This is the MP hotline, please enter your debit or credit card details, followed by the hash key....."

"To Bribe an MP with a brown envelope stuffed full of cash - Press 1"

"To offer an MP a non-executive directorship on the board - Press 2"

"To talk to an MP about avoiding taxes - Press 3"

"To talk to an MP about getting juicy government contracts - Press 4"

 

Behold, blatant, unabashed, shameless corruption....

 

 

This is not in the least bit surprising the Tory party and there LibDem lapdogs will never change and those with money will always be the only priority. How many of these ministers sit on the boards of these companies already or once they leave Parliament will get cushy jobs joining these Companies. It reminds me of those Community leaders, Youth Group Workers and Church leaders who all claimed that they had been trying to arrange meeting with Ministers and David Cameron since he got into power to discuss issues around disaffected youth, family breakdown and a lack of oppurtunities in poorer communities and not one was granted a meeting. I think Rupert Murdoch set the ball rolling with how easily he clicked his fingers and Tory ministers came running to meet and greet him.

 

http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2011/07/26/...es-ministerial-

I kinda know that it was ever thus, and there was certainly plenty of dirt surrounding Blair (who is now a cheerleader for J P Morgan in Libya by the way guys....), but I think that since the Tories got in, it's all becoming more and more blatant.....

"This is the MP hotline, please enter your debit or credit card details, followed by the hash key....."

"To Bribe an MP with a brown envelope stuffed full of cash - Press 1"

"To offer an MP a non-executive directorship on the board - Press 2"

"To talk to an MP about avoiding taxes - Press 3"

"To talk to an MP about getting juicy government contracts - Press 4"

 

Behold, blatant, unabashed, shameless corruption....

 

I know it's sadly deadly serious, but you did make me laugh! I wonder what the muzak will be

 

ABBA - The Winner Takes It All alternated with Money, Money, Money ?

"This is the MP hotline, please enter your debit or credit card details, followed by the hash key....."

"To Bribe an MP with a brown envelope stuffed full of cash - Press 1"

"To offer an MP a non-executive directorship on the board - Press 2"

"To talk to an MP about avoiding taxes - Press 3"

"To talk to an MP about getting juicy government contracts - Press 4"

 

Behold, blatant, unabashed, shameless corruption....

 

I know it's sadly deadly serious, but you did make me laugh! I wonder what the muzak will be

 

ABBA - The Winner Takes It All alternated with Money, Money, Money ?

 

I thought I'd use a bit of humour to make the point this time (seeing as how some people seem to object to me being "aggressive") :lol:

 

But, whose to say that this couldn't actually happen...? Corruption now seems to be so endemic in out political system, I think MPs may as well just be honest about it....

 

For the Muzak, I was thinking more Pink Floyd's "Money" (mainly for the line "I'm alright Jack/Get your hands off my stack")