The Time Traveller's Strife (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Tory Totty Liz Truss made the news recently by not disclosing her affair with a senior politician. Who's Mark Field anyway? Cameron Cutie Liz hardly kept the affair secret, it was announced in the press at the time, I read about it in The Guardian 3 years ago. So the real story is that she faced de-selection over not making a statement about a story in the national press three years ago. Hardly her...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Conservative leader can chat about biscuits with the women on Mumsnet, but he may not be their cup of tea on policy What a difference a political generation makes. In 1997, Tony Blair and New Labour capitalised on and came to embody the gender and generational shifts sweeping Britain best symbolised by the iconic photograph of the PM surrounded by New Labour's army of 101 MPs, alongside skilful...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The news that Elizabeth Truss has kept her selection is a positive result for women’s rights and common sense. Why the South West Norfolk Conservative Party felt that Truss should have disclosed such a personal matter as an affair in a selection process is quite outstanding. Why is it that Mark Field, the MP she had the [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
• Vote came after revelation of affair with Tory MP Mark Field • Truss is on David Cameron's A-list of would-be candidates A Conservative general election candidate tonight avoided being deselected because of a row about an extra-marital affair. Members of the South West Norfolk Conservative Association met in Swaffham to decide to keep Elizabeth Truss as their candidate. The meeting was...
Musings from Medway (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Back of the head 'confidence' in Truss from Etonian Dave If anyone wants to challenge the notion that Tory Party members are a bit peculiar, you only have to take a quick look at the handling of Elizabeth Truss, the Parliamentary candidate in South West Norfolk. Elizabeth Trust (oops, Truss) was selected by South West Norfolk several months ago but failed to reveal that she had a prior sex life. Now...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Tory faced being dropped as candidate for southwest Norfolk after admitting affair with married MP Mark Field.
Dick Puddlecote (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The reaction in the West to a former prostitute . The employers of a research scientist who unmasked herself as a call girl turned bestselling author are standing by her, saying that her past had nothing to do with her present job . After much digging by journalists and fans it emerged that Belle de Jour is Brooke Magnanti, a petite, blonde thirtysomething who works as a specialist in developmental...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Members of the South West Norfolk Conservative Association decide to keep Liz Truss as their election candidate, despite concern over an affair with Tory MP Mark Field.
Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Jeremy is presenting tonight, and here is what is coming up: Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to mount a robust defence of Britain's strategy in Afghanistan in his speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet tonight by warning that al-Qaeda is the biggest danger to UK national security. But is the greater threat to be found on the streets of Britain rather than on the plains and mountains of Afghanistan?...
Malcolm Clarke Labour (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Elizabeth Truss, the Conservative PPC for the South West Norfolk Conservative will face being deselected tonight in a 400 member meeting over her suitability to be held tonight. She says the affair with Tory MP Mark Field is "water under the bridge" as far as her and her husband are concerned. (One does feel for him in all of this). It does not bother me either way whether she is deselected...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Members of South West Norfolk Conservative Association will today decide whether to deselect election candidate who failed to inform them she had an affair four years ago Conservative activists will meet today to decide whether to deselect their general election candidate in a row over her extra-marital affair. The meeting at the Assembly Rooms in Swaffham, Norfolk was called after members of the...
carrolltrust | 13/11/2009
Slaughter and May partners Glen James Simon Hall and Lucy Wylde are explicity "named" as the Gerald Carroll Carroll Foundation Trust lawyers in compelling criminal evidence dossiers containing forged HM Land Registry Gerald Carroll legal conveyance documentation HM Government DTI Companies House forged and falsified Carroll Trust Corporations share certificates and HM Ministry of Defence
Liberal Bureaucracy (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Gosh, our local Tories do know how to have a good time! Whilst in South West Norfolk, the local Conservative Association has imploded over the question of Liz Truss's affair with Mark Field, somewhat closer to home, the final shortlist for the 27 November open primary for my neighbouring constituency of Central Suffolk and North Ipswich has sparked off a more basic but no less intriguing dispute....
Dare to Know (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
News of the inaugural meeting of a new All Party Parliamentary Group on Home Education has reached us via Graham Stuart's Twitter. We are not sure of all of the names of those on the group, but believe it includes the following: Conservative Graham Stuart (Chair) Michael Gove Mark Field Oliver Heald Andrew Selous Anne Milton Graham Brady Alistair Burt Stephen Crabb Robert Goodwill Julie Kirkbride Peter...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Norfolk activists will decide whether candidate can contest seat in next election on 16 November The Conservative candidate embroiled in controversy following her affair with a Tory MP will find out whether she will still be allowed to stand at the next general election in just under two weeks. South West Norfolk Conservative Association will vote on 16 November on whether to deselect Elizabeth Truss...
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carrolltrust | 13/11/2009
Slaughter and May partners Glen James Simon Hall and Lucy Wylde are explicity "named" as the Gerald Carroll Carroll Foundation Trust lawyers in compelling criminal evidence dossiers containing forged HM Land Registry Gerald Carroll legal conveyance documentation HM Government DTI Companies House forged and falsified Carroll Trust Corporations share certificates and HM Ministry of Defence Carroll Trust
carrolltrust | 30/10/2009
FBI "live feeds" Washington DC field office Gerald Carroll Trust named International Offshore Crime Syndicate Goodman Derrick LLP Ian Montrose trust partner resident London UK Haslers Accountants Loughton Essex UK Jon O'Shea tax partner resident Essex UK M J Chappell resident Safron Walden Essex UK Nassau Bahamas A R Clark resident Gibraltar Spain Richard Bray & Co. resident London UK Wendy Luscombe
carrolltrust | 29/10/2009
FBI "live feeds" Washington DC field office Gerald Carroll Trust named International Offshore Crime Syndicate Goodman Derrick LLP Ian Montrose trust partner resident London UK Haslers Accountants Loughton Essex UK Jon O'Shea tax partner resident Essex UK M J Chappell resident Safron Walden Essex UK Nassau Bahamas A R Clark resident Gibraltar Spain Richard Bray & Co. resident London UK Wendy Luscombe
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