Letters From A Tory (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
Dear Den Dover, At long last, you have been given the punishment that you should deserved five months ago. Giles Chichester, John Purvis, Sir Robert Atkins and yourself are crooked and disloyal in the extreme, as I pointed out when I wrote to you all back in June 2008. Now that it has been established by the [...]
Telegraph Blogs : Guests (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Question: When is a conflict of interest not really a conflict of interest? Answer: When you are a Euro-MP (of course). Giles Chichester is in the clear The European Parliament has apologised to Giles Chichester and agreed with him that his...
The Why of the World (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Various politicians were caught up in the clutch of stories about alleged abuse or misuse or their allowances earlier in the year. We are still waiting to discover the result of the investigation into Conservative Party chairman, Caroline Spelman , but I hear there is good news for Giles Chichester, who ...
Ruscombe Green (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
It is only weeks since we heard about Giles Chichester, Tory MEP for the SW tarnishing EU politics - now we hear that one of the other SW Tory MEP's, Caroline Jackson, is in the spotlight. She is apparently getting paid £6,000 a year for advising disposal and recycling company Shanks on how to comply with EU legislation. Meanwhile Jackson has been one of the MEPs charged with drawing up a new EU
British Blogs (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
posted by Cptn Advocate of nuclear power, Giles Chichester MEP, has been invited by the Industry Forum to give the keynote address at their Meeting on Climate Change at the Chemical Industries Association in London today. Giles, who oft remarks on how nuclear is the environmentally cleanest and best positioned to be the energy of choice now, is a member of the EU Temporary Committee on Climate Change...
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
The BBC are obsessed with sleaze, so long as it is Tory sleaze, any excuse and off they go. The Caroline Spelman story is the lead on Newsnight again, that's the 10 year old story. Other headline Tory sleaze stories recently have been: Derek Conway and his son, Giles Chichester and the Wintertons. Meanwhile try and spot stories about the far more serious allegations against Ed "Gordon's Brain" Balls...
British Blogs (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
posted by Cptn We got in touch with South West MEP Giles Chichester last week. With shadow frontbencher David Davis falling on Britannia’s sword of justice forged in the fire of a magma crater (of course we mean Magna Carter) over the issue of 48 days detention, we wondered where that left the Tory European Parliamentarian and his expenses. Take it away Giles: “I have used my family company as a service...
Ceri Radford (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
Giles Chichester's father may have made it around the world without mishap, but his son has now sunk beneath the waves, and in land-locked Brussels too. The younger Chichester has just resigned as leader of the Tory MEPs after
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
There is a lot of fuss being made over the "dodgy" expenses of Conservative MEPs that have been revealed recently, and rightly so as the antics of Giles Chichester and others are reprehensible. However I have read little on the BBC about how this information has come into the open and why we are unlikely to learn of any "naughtiness" that has been undertaken by Labour or Liberal Democrat MEPS. Open...
PoliticalHackUK (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
With the news of a formal investigation into Nannygate, despite the age of the story, how long can Caroline Spelman hang on as Conservative chair? When the last senior Tory resigned, Davey C commented : Giles Chichester is right to stand down as leader of our MEPs to prepare a full explanation of how his office is funded.... Just as I expect our MPs to adhere to the highest standards, so must our MEPs...The...
BillCarmichael (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Giles Chichester, David Cameron’s sleazebuster-in-chief in Brussels, has been forced to step down from the leadership of Tory MEPs after admitting breaking expenses rules and funnelling £445,000 of taxpayers’ cash into his family firm. His response? “Whoops a daisy - I made a mistake.” They just don’t get it do they? They haven’t the foggiest idea why their behaviour makes people so angry. They are...
James Barlow (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Following on from my previous post , at our recent Association Management meeting, I proposed that the Bristol & South Gloucestershire Conservative Association should we petition the membership on removing Giles Chichester from our party list for the South West Region seat in the European Parliament, and that we collectively write to David Cameron urging him to request Ms Spelman's resignation from...
Conservative Party Reptile (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Rather a lot of Tory MPs and MEPs have hit the headlines over various 'irregularities' over their expenses in the last few days. From Giles Chichester to Caroline Spelman, a spate of stories has sprung up - every day seems to bring another one. Some of these look more serious than others - I find it a little hard to get all that worked up over Spelman's using expenses to pay a nanny who also
Peter Black AM (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Very helpfully today's Observer has provided a cut-out-and-keep guide to Conservative scandals, past and present. Including Neil Hamilton, Jonathan Aiken and Jeffrey Archer, the piece adds the names of Michael Trend, Derek Conway, Giles Chichester and Den Dover. It really does sound like David Cameron has his hands full. The unknown quantity at this point is what impact these latest scandals will have...
James Barlow (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
I was planning to write about Recycling this weekend, in response to an excellent comment from reader Elisabeth, but circumstances require that I discuss a different subject. Giles Chichester MEP has recently resigned as leader of the Conservative MEPs in the European Parliament, due to a breach of the parliamentary rules on handling his allowances. He used a company of which he was a director to...
