PINKIE MITCHELL, short listed! **UPDATE** Now selected

tasprin wrote:The Conservative Party has obviously lost the plot. How can they even consider Clarence Mitchell as a suitable candidate for Brighton and Hove? Not only is he a media manipulator who decides what the public can or cannot read, widely known to be economical with the truth, and he was personally hired by Andy Coulson to be his right hand man in the Conservative election campaign of 2010. Those reasons alone should tell the Tories that Mitchell is not a suitable person to represent constituents - how can voters be expected to have any trust or confidence in him. This is Mitchell's second bid as PPC, the first was his home town of Bath, (2009/2010) where he failed to get selected.

tasprin wrote:What happens if Clarence Mitchell is selected? Will he carry on representing the McCanns, as well as his constituents? Will he contine to ensure the McCanns receive preferential treatment - from the Prime Minister down - over and above anything his Brighton constituents could ever, ever hope for? Wouldn't that be a conflict of interests? If another child goes missing will he chuck in his job as MP to act as the parents spokesman, beg for money in brown envelopes and do his famous TV impersonation of a police officer?

View-from-Ireland wrote:So the Tories have selected somebody closely associated with a former labour PM? 

Strange.

View-from-Ireland wrote:So the Tories have selected somebody closely associated with a former labour PM? 

Strange.

View-from-Ireland wrote:So the Tories have selected somebody closely associated with a former Labour PM? 

Strange.

jeanmonroe wrote:Spokesman for a now convicted benefits cheat!
Fiona MacKeown stole over £51,000.
Mitchell said, BEFORE she was convicted of benefit fraud, he would help this 'poor' lady.
So i'd say Mitchell must have known that this woman was a fraudster, who was defrauding the benefits system, yet he still helped her to try to evade justice, imo.

If the 'opposition' don't use these facts in the 2015 general election local 'debates' then they deserve to lose!

I will be writing to Lucas to ask her to make the voter population aware of this man's appalling past record of helping convicted fraudsters, Halligan and MacKeown.

jeanmonroe wrote:

tasprin wrote:The Conservative Party has obviously lost the plot. How can they even consider Clarence Mitchell as a suitable candidate for Brighton and Hove? Not only is he a media manipulator who decides what the public can or cannot read, widely known to be economical with the truth, and he was personally hired by Andy Coulson to be his right hand man in the Conservative election campaign of 2010. Those reasons alone should tell the Tories that Mitchell is not a suitable person to represent constituents - how can voters be expected to have any trust or confidence in him. This is Mitchell's second bid as PPC, the first was his home town of Bath, (2009/2010) where he failed to get selected.

Personally i'd like him to get the nomination!
He would then have to answer in PUBLIC questions he has so studiously avoided in answering.
Like, how much money did you deplete the Madeleine Fund by and personally benefit from?
How many handicapped kiddies and OAP's 'donations' to the Fund ended up in YOURs and Lawyers pockets?
Why did your employers, the McCanns, lie about the shutters being 'jemmied'
WHY did you give up an £80.000 a year job to work for the McCanns when Madeleine could of turned up, or be found, the next day?
Etc, etc.



"Personally i'd like him to get the nomination"

Yes I would ike that too

View-from-Ireland wrote:So the Tories have selected somebody closely associated with a former labour PM? 

Strange.

Role in information

The Ministry of Truth is involved with news media, entertainment, the fine arts and educational books. Its purpose is to rewrite history to change the facts to fit McCann doctrine for propaganda effect. For example, if Big Pinkie makes a prediction that turns out to be wrong, the employees of the Ministry of Truth go back and rewrite the prediction so that any prediction Big Pinkie previously made is accurate.
(A good recent example is the statement about the absence of watches of mobile phones amongst a group.)
This is the "how" of the Ministry of Truth's existence. The deeper reason for its existence is to maintain the illusion that the McCanns are absolute. They cannot ever seem to change its mind (if, for instance, they perform one of their constant changes regarding the facts during the investigation) or make a mistake (making a grossly misjudged statement), for that would imply weakness and to maintain power the McCanns must seem eternally right and strong.
Big Pinkie started his work before being selected to lead Minitrue. His work deleting video evidence and persuading people not to alter their statements, and giving quotations which are incapable of being falsified are legend. The classic "There are explanations for everything the police may, or may not, find" is a text book example of NewSpeak.

Tony Bennett wrote:I don't think that this morning's Brighton Argus report re Clarence Mitchell has been posted yet on this thread.

It's not exactly hagiographic...indeed the Brighton Argus seems well briefed about Mitchell in a way that suggests that 'there may be trouble ahead'.

Unless, that is, the man whose full-time paid job - at the taxpayer's expense be it noted - was 'to control what comes out in the media' also has the power to control what comes out in the Brighton Argus...

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Madeleine McCann's family spokesman picked to take on Caroline Lucas

Brighton Argus 26 July 2012

8:47am Friday 26th July 2013 in News By Bill Gardner.

Madeleine McCann's family spokesman has been picked as the Conservative candidate for the Brighton Pavilion constituency.

Clarence Mitchell, who has acted as the spokesman for the family of [the] missing youngster for six years, will take on Britain’s first Green MP Caroline Lucas at the next general election.

Before his move into public relations, Mr Mitchell was a reporter for BBC News covering the Soham murders, the Fred West killings and the death of Princess Diana.

He also worked as director of the Government’s Media Monitoring Unit, controlling the flow of information to newspapers.

After being seconded by the Foreign Office to help the McCanns, Mr Mitchell resigned his government post after one month to become the family’s full-time spokesman.

He also works for PR firm Burson-Marsteller, “advising clients over engagement with both the British Government and the Conservative Party”.

But Mr Mitchell himself is no stranger to the headlines.

When he was a presenter on BBC News 24, he fell asleep during a night shift, forcing a producer to stand in for him at short notice.

And in 2008, he was involved in a row with Portuguese police who accused him of “lying with as many teeth as he has in his mouth” after McCann family statements were leaked to the media.

At the time, Mr Mitchell accused police of masterminding the leak to overshadow the visit.

Mr Mitchell battled solicitor John-Paul Floru and marketing communications specialist Michelle Lowe to be selected for the Brighton Pavilion seat, currently held by Green MP Caroline Lucas.

Councillor Ann Norman, who chaired the selection meeting, said: "We are very pleased to have Clarence as the Conservative candidate as he is ideally placed and qualified to take the Brighton Pavilion Parliamentary seat back into Conservative hands as that is where it truly belongs."
 
The election is expected to be held in May 2015.

20 comments to Former BBC royal correspondent shortlisted by Brighton Pavilion Conservatives
Natasha Newland
July 25, 2013 at 10.29 am
If this man is selected there is no way on earth that I would vote Tory again. I would have to check if he told me it was night or day

Russell Jones
July 25, 2013 at 10.49 am
Oh please, not another PR consultant. We already have a former PR consultant, David Cameron, serving as Prime Minister and look where that’s got us. Why would we choose another candidate who’s been professionally trained in the art of deceit? Haven’t we all had enough of that?

Mike
July 25, 2013 at 1.24 pm
Could you ask Mr Mitchell how much money he has personally received from ‘Madeleines Fund’ the fund set up to only be used exclusively for searching for Madeleine.
Not to line his pockets with.
I know he has had at least £30,000 but i would like to know exactly how much, in total, he has taken out of the fund personally.
Donations to Madeleines ‘fund’ given by handicapped kiddies should have been used for the ‘search’ for Madeleine and not going into Mr Mitchells pocket!
How much has he received from the ‘fund’?

Mike
July 25, 2013 at 1.43 pm
On September 20th, 2007, Clarence Mitchell was interviewed on Radio Live in New Zealand. Hear the interview at this link: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] – See more at: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Near the end of the interview Clarence says this: I’d stress as well that the money that people have donated from around the world is only being spent on that campaign and Kate and Gerry’s legal costs and media management in the shape of me that’s all coming from the financial benefactors who are contributing quite separately so that anybody who has given money to help find Madeleine need have no fear that their money is being spent on lawyers fees or anything like that. –
This statement is quite clear. “No money will be spent on lawyer’s fees or anything like that.”After reviewing the money spent on lawyers in the Madeleine Fund accounts, it is quite obvious that Mitchell’s statement is a bare faced lie. –
Do the people of Brighton really WANT this Mr Mitchell as a prospective candidate?

Dr Shira Silverman
July 25, 2013 at 1.44 pm
“I was the Director of the Government’s Media Monitoring Unit. Their work and their function is to control what gets printed in the press.” You REALLY want this as your MP?

Perdo Silver
July 25, 2013 at 2.35 pm
Well given his 6 year spinathon for the” Nu Labour mates of Gordon Bro Broon ” Mccanns and their abduction fairytail, I would suggest you have a really hard think about letting this viper near your neck

E Upshott-Bagley
July 25, 2013 at 2.36 pm
Oh dear, oh very dear.
Not a good move by the Cons I fear.

Brian Rooster
July 25, 2013 at 3.01 pm
The Tories just lost my vote. This guy is more tricky than a bag of monkeys and specialises in tragedy journalism. Check him out on Wikipedia before you vote.

Nicholas C
July 25, 2013 at 7.24 pm
Does this mean that the McCann case will now be put on the back-burner, or will he “keep it in the family” by hiring one of he good doctors as his PA and spokesperson? Or will his manifesto include wanting to move his chums into Number 10?

cherry
July 25, 2013 at 8.29 pm
This was the man who advised the public to put money into an envelope and send to K & G! Where on earth is the accountability in that!

This was the man who when interviewed on Talk Sport by James Whale, failed to correct James who was referring to the Fund as a charity which it is not. Mr. Mitchell should have corrected James on this account but failed to do so, thereby leaving members of the public who were listening thinking it was a charity. As their spokesman Mr. Mitchell should have corrected this immediately.

Mike
July 25, 2013 at 9.04 pm
Mitchell was working with Andy Coulson right up to when Coulson was disgraced and who has since been charged with perverting the course of justice and is also charged with perjury in Scotland.Mitchell right by his side.
Mitchell declared himself spokesman for Fiona MacKeown who has since been charged and convicted of benefit fraud.
She stole over £51,000!
But Mitchell was right there speaking up for her.
WAKE UP PEOPLE OF BRIGHTON!
Clarance Mitchell is friends with benefit cheats and fraudsters.
Metodo3 in Spain and convicted fraudster Kevin Halligen in UK.
Do you really want this man to represent you?
I didn’t think so!

Call Me Tony
July 25, 2013 at 9.30 pm
Is this the same man as the former Labour Government ‘Media Manager’ who in 2007 was sent to Portugal to help the McCanns, and advised them to be careful what they said on their mobile phones as he had heard possibly journalists listened in….how come a former BBC man and Government Spin Doctor was not called before Leveson to explain that? Too much dirty laundry….as a Tory I say avoid this man!! All public comments will have to be cleared by Carter Ruck making any meaningful debate detrimental to the Party.

Beeb Fader
July 25, 2013 at 9.49 pm
In terms of character, morals, and ethics Clarence Mitchell is perfect for the Tory party.
Gerry McCann for PM !

J Potter
July 25, 2013 at 10.12 pm
In his evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, Padraic Flanagan, a Daily Express reporter, wrote:

“…the convention was that, although unidentified specifical!y in the article, Mr Mitchell would at times, and on his request, be referred to as a ’friend close to the McCanns’ or ’a family spokesman’ when our quotes were attributed. ”

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It was under that pseudonym that, in November 2007, Mr Mitchell placed with the UK press false stories generated by the McCanns’ private detectives, Metodo3, the sole objective of which were to implicate Robert Murat and his then girlfriend in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

This was shameless and libelous behaviour by Mr Mitchell, who was aided and abetted by a pathetic press.

But I guess that makes him perfect material as a potential Tory candidate.

Paul C.
July 25, 2013 at 11.40 pm
Why do the obsessive. anti McCann conspiracy lunatics always descend on anything even vaguely related to the subject to spit their bile? On every occasion it has been demonstrated that they are organising these trolling activities behind the scenes to make it look as if there are large numbers of them. There are not. They are the same people using many different names.

Last night these people trolled the Justgiving page of Gerry McCann, even going as far as making token donations in order to post their tired and outdated claims about this couple and their associates.

The truth is that Clarence Mitchell represented the McCann Couple at a traumatic time in their lives and did so in an extremely professional manner. He has since then stood by the couple in their search for missing Madeleine.

And as for the disgraceful abuse and trolling from the Anti-McCanns, the reality is that they believe no-one tells the truth unless it is Goncalo Amaral the lead Portuguese investigator who was dismissed from the case after six months for his incompetent behaviour and who was later convicted of covering up torture in another missing child case in Portugal.

These anti McCann obsessives don’t listen to people like DCI Redwood who was categorical in his statement that the McCanns and their friends are not suspects or persons of interest. These rather dim lunatics believe their online amateur research means they know better than Scotland Yard Detectives and better than the Attorney General of Portugal who was explicit in stating that there is no evidence of any crime committed by the McCanns.

By once again trolling this page as they do every single page where any associate of the McCanns is mentioned they are demonstrating their obsession. I really do pity their families.

Weiss
July 26, 2013 at 4.41 am
New low for Tory party, just when you think they can’t go any lower. Ludicrous.

Carla
July 26, 2013 at 7.41 am
Director of the Government’s Media Monitoring Unit, eh? That sounds like a healthy set-up in a supposed democracy. Next it will be ‘Director of Overseas Gulag Operations’.

Brian Rooster
July 26, 2013 at 8.15 am
Mitchell has done the damage to any political career by virtue to his past actions, Mccanns or not, I don’t think he has the confidence of voting public. People are wary.

Natasha Newland
July 26, 2013 at 9.47 am
Perhaps Mr Redwood could give an explanation for the finds of two highly professional British Police Dogs, their alerts have never been explained. No matter what anyone thinks of the parents in this case, that is something that I for one would dearly love to know. But that does not alter the fact that many believe Mr Mitchell is not trustworthy and as such should not become an MP.

Perdo Silver
July 26, 2013 at 11.23 am
Paul C dismissal on Mitchels spin on behalf of the Mccanns shows his true motivation,to spin on behalf of the Mccanns

There are over 2300 Facebook users who do not support the Mccanns lies and spin manly due to the simple truth that their “abduction “claim has no basis in fact.

Because they do not believe the Mccanns they are labeled Trolls ,typical of the propaganda techniques of the National Socialist party in Germany before WW2

If people believe ,quite rightly that the Mccanns are guilty of child neglect and they are lying why should adults be silenced by a tribe of people profiting on their daughters misfortune and their culpability and covered up by a media monitoring unit guru ,no doubt putting their tuppance worth in here too as they have so successfully done for the last 6 years .

Sadly for them when Dr Amaral wins his libel case ,the one the mccanns were so desperate to make “go away” the flood gates will be open and the truth will come out ,the truth of the lie

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No Fate Worse Than De'Ath wrote:Some familiar names there -  Brian Rooster!

That arch troll Pedro Silver won't be pleased to see that someone using the name Perdo Silver is making anti-McCann fairy tale posts.