The Sunday Times and Channel 4 have yet again discovered former Labour cabinet ministers willing to be hired out like discounted hookers in a going out of business poundland brothel sale.
Naturally there's a Scottish connection, naturally it's the MP for East Kilbride, yes, come on down Adam Ingram and claim your seat at the table marked 'fill your boots'.
If you remember it was Gorgeous George who first riled Mr Adams when he announced that Mr Adams was a former apprentice bigot in an ethnic flute band. Adams lost a suit for defamation and had to pay Galloway's costs.
He entered Parliament as a fresh faced forty year old in 1987 and soon set aside those vile ambitions of social justice and fairness he preached from the pulpit as a NALGO trade union official.
Something more alluring was in the offing.
By 2008 he had collected enough directorships to shame your average Top Trump player, here's a few of his well remunerated directorships.
Non-executive Chairman of SignPoint Secure Ltd.; emergency communications. (£45,001-£50,000)
Non-executive Chairman of Argus Scotland Ltd; design and construction services in the urban environment. (£20,001-£25,000)
Director, International School for Security and Explosives Education (ISSEE) (non-executive). (£10,001-£15,000)
Consultant to Argus Libya UK LLP; design and construction services in the urban environment. (£20,001-£25,000)
Consultant to Electronic Data Systems Ltd (EDS); provision of IT services to public and private sector clients in the UK. (£50,001-£55,000)
All neatly bundled up for payment under the auspices of
Adam Ingram Advisory Limited, set up in May 2008 for invoicing purposes.
This is just priceless and will no doubt help pay the fuel bills for his apparently massive Perthshire mansion.
"Ingram who is standing down as MP for East Kilbride at the election, offered to develop a network of former ministers who could be useful for their contacts in different departments.
“There’s going to be a lot of ex-ministers ... and they then become a point of contact in the political network. ‘Who do you know in that department? Who can you suggest to talk to?’ And that becomes a point of contact. So all of that can be established,” he said.
He was happy to help the reporter meet serving ministers after the election, saying there were strict rules preventing him lobbying while in parliament but he could do so as a “non-MP”.
However, he suggested that the fictional company might wish to target civil servants as “they draw up invitations to tender, they then make all the recommendations, which may not cross the minister’s desk”.
When asked if he still had good contacts with civil servants from his time as a minister, he responded “oh yeah”. The reporter asked: “So you would be able to help us develop our relationship with the ministers and civil servants?” and Ingram replied: “I’d do that, I could work at that, yeah.”
Ingram said he was paid £1,500 a day or £1,000 a meeting by companies. He could already make up to £173,000 a year from outside earnings on top of his £65,000 salary as an MP.
The former defence minister revealed he was employed by two British businesses which are helping to establish a new defence academy in Tripoli for Colonel Gadaffi, the Libyan leader. “Gadaffi wanted a defence academy built, and people I’m with have got very good points of contact with the Libyan regime,” he said.
Adam Ingram MP retire in shame, you flute tootling, money grasping, class traitor.
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I see that The Labour Party is going to put a commitment to build the GAIR into their manifesto.
I wonder how they will fund it?
Maybe with a whip round from their mates at a Red Rose Dinner or a sell a lease back from a Cayman Islands company?
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