2005 November 21 - Guy Fawkes' blog

Monday, November 21, 2005

Lord Drayson of Dodgy Donations

Guido is pleased to remind readers that Labour’s biggest donor of 2004, and coincidentally subsequently enobled, Lord Drayson is the subject of a television special tonight. The Irresistible Rise of Tony’s Crony: A Money Programme Special. BBC TWO at 10pm on Monday 21 November.

Labour sleaze : its John Major time all over again. Previous posts.

Early Christmas Presents from Cameron

Apparently Cameron has promised Bill Cash and Daniel Hannan that Tory MEPs will be out of the EPP by the end of Cameron’s first week as leader. If wet Europhile Tory MEPs want to make an issue of it – all the better – a fight with them will be a pleasure. A move that will undermine UKIP to the point of extinction and pacify a right-wing base that is a little nervous about where Cameron is going to take them. The talk is that David Davis will be offered defence.

UPDATE : from a blog reading source “overheard a senior Tory MEP discussing Cameron’s decision to leave the EPP. He said that they will most likely rebel against the plan and tell Cameron there are other, more important fights for him to fight. It was said that it is wrong to appease the Eurosceptic likes of Bill Cash.”

I’m A Davis Campaigner…

Guido was at a wonk-fest dinner Saturday night (the after dinner speaker was an amusing Stephen Pollard), talk around the table was how wonks from big-government Demos to the tax-cutting Reform were going to re-align themselves towards Cameron. On the right, pictures of Davis were being deleted from their websites, former Davis campaign volunteers had found pressing commitments back at the office, ideological pontoon bridges were being rapidly erected towards Cameron.

So many MPs have publicly dumped their support for Davis its embarrassing, although entirely in keeping with Tory tradition. One case intrigues Guido: who was the Davis campaign team MP who told Denis MacShane in Brussels when asked why he wasn’t back in Westminster campaigning for Basher, that “there was no point in flogging a dead horse”? (A tale recounted gleefully to Andrew Marr).