Rawnsley Doesn’t Want to Work for Ashcroft
Andrew Rawnsley has resigned as editor-in-chief of PoliticsHome:
I became Editor-in-Chief on the basis that PoliticsHome was dedicated to being a non-partisan site clearly independent of any party both editorially and financially. It was essential for users of the site that they could feel absolute confidence in the political independence of PoliticsHome. I do not believe that can be compatible with being under the ownership of the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party.
Rawnsley has his reputation to think of, but the proof will be in the pudding. Politicshome has been hitherto a utility that doesn’t originate commentary. The official announcement that Lord Ashcroft has taken a 57% stake in ConservativeHome and PoliticsHome is here. Though none of the parties is commenting, Guido understands that it was a six-figure sum £1.3 million that changed hands. Which is a fairly good price for a media publishing operation without a penny of revenue.
Incidentally Lord Ashcroft, since you appear to be on a buying spree, Guido won’t sell for less than seven eight figures…
this will have the nieghbours talking
can someone take the trash out ?
Ashcroft already owns the Tory Party, so what difference will a few web sites make?
Give me a tinkle.
so, let’s get this straight: the tax evading bastard aschroft wishes to influence politics in Britain even though he is a tax evading piece of shit who pays not a penny into the pot.
and I don’t wish to gloat but when the site was launched I said it was a propagandist creation and I have been proved right.
perhaps if c’unts like murdoch and ashcroft buy up all the political sites they will be able to realize their dream of strangling the life out of democracy.
they better hurry up because both those scum bastard old men will soon be dead themselves.
good one!
tat; I am not disputing your analysis of Ashcroft but it does lead to the obvious question of what it says about those who are willing to work with him. Presumably we should all withdraw support for Dopey Dave and Snow White Osborne for associating with the shit? That leaves a choice of Broon (pass the sickbag), Clegg (ho-hum), Windbag Farrago (trougher extraordinaire at Strasbourg) and Dick Sniffin (lock up the choirboys). It is a conundrum.
On the evidence, he probably pays more tax than you tat.
I personally think Ashcroft wants to make a country worth coming back to.
Fuck me you’re naive, AC1. Go and have a look at the history of banking in Belize, or the downfall of Tyco if you want to learn a bit more about Ashcroft’s idealsim.
here come the crackheads!
ashcroft is a tax evading c’unt, no ifs no buts.
he has had the opportunity to do the right thing and keep his word but the lying tax evade would rather rip the country off than do the right thing.
he is a liar and a tax evader and is certainly not fit to be a lord.
lord of the liars perhaps but no more than that.
he is a dishonest man as are those who defend the tax evading piece of lying shit.
innit.
anticitizen is a warmonger aplogist so I am sure the tax evading ashcroft will be grateful for his support.
birds of a feather and all that.
Good luck to him for minimising his tax bill.
I try all the time. People like tat don’t have
tax bills so don’t care.
“Bitterly, bitterly sorry…..” that I’ve been caught…
TAKE HER DOWN! not…
anonospaz,
you are an ignorant c’unt.
the tax evader ashcroft has not minimised his contribution because it is
IMPOSSIBLE TO MINIMISE FUCK ALL INNIT!
you fuckwit.
you see there’s the problem right there: the tories are inherently dishonest.
it is not their fault ofcourse, they are largely made up from the upper classes which and are therefore mainly inbreds that is why they are so thick and deceitful.
perhaps the tories are the missing link in which case the TORY SCUM must be stamped out so they do not regress the gene pool.
Ashcroft’s a c’unt
He’s an embarrassment to any serious Party because of his blatant tax avoidance and shameless politics of the chequebook.
You think Mandy is a disgusting corporate parasite ? Ashcroft is cut from the same cloth and would sell the Tories to the highest bidder every time. If he is still doing this when Cameron is in power expect a scandal or two within months.
“every whore has a price “
learn some sports history
what is the point of you?
ah yes, you are attempting to poison this place because it is so successful.
raise your game or leave.
thankyou.
Tat you repulsive little turd, how much longer do you intend to pollute this place with your meaningless drivel?
if you do not like it here fuck off.
Why are you quoting the Osborne family motto?
We’ve established what you are now we are only negotiating!!!
I bid in excess of eight figures Girls Aloud, Spice Girls and the England cricket team.
£10,325.89?
$205,000 and Guido’s worth $375,000 apparently……
“Guido won’t sell for less than seven figures…” refers to the owner’s asking price in Turkish Lire.
The rate the pound is falling a seven figure sum will soon just about buy you a cup of coffee
1 UK pound = 2.4 Turkish Lira, do keep up.
If you have integrity, you don’t sell it cheap.
I think that one went over your raggedy head.
He’ll get splinters in his ………
Has he got one?
Guido
you would sell your own mother for £10
You can part ex her against mine if you like.
And Ashcroft money is paying for an agency to distribute leaflets in Hammersmith and Fulham (among others) which employs illegal immigrants, but he can easily afford the £5,000 fine so that’s all right then.
Does Ashcroft own the agency?
No.He owns the Tories.
We’re talking about employment law. What are you talking about?
Ashcroft is a good lad
there is not benefit is placing negative comments about him here.
oh yes there fucking is troll.
ashcroft said he would pay tax in this country if he was made a lord.
he was made a lord but still does not pay tax in this country.
that means ashcroft is a lying c’unt dunnit?
yes it fucking does: ashcroft is a liar and he is the main funder of the tory party.
say it all really. the tories cannot be trusted.
ashcroft and the tories are untrustworthy, a bunch of dodgy c’unts.
most people in this country would be worse off if the tories win a majority in the next parliament.
DON’T GET MUGGED BY HOUSING BENEFIT CHEATS LIKE DAVE AND GIDEON THEY ARE WANKERS
VOTE INDEPENDENT – WE ARE PRO LESBIAN
WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR FUCKS SAKE?
Thank you “Chris” (or should we call you “Andy”?)
You’re only upset because you are going to lose your job next year…..
I think I bought several packs of fags from a shop which employs illegal immigrants.
Shall I turn myself in? I feel ashamed.
Are you sure you’re not Fondlebum, Anonymous @2:41 pm.
I know you like fags but several at a time sounds like an orgy.
Does the agency to which you refer also provide us with the Attorney General, CH?
‘… the proof will be in the pudding.’
I’m getting fed up with what I assume is this Americanism – the proverb goes ‘The proof of the pudding is in the eating’.
Think about it – ‘the proof will be in the pudding’ is meaningless really, isn’t it?
Could be like a shiny sixpence in a Christmas pud.
Guido-balls?
An irrelevant quote – Eric Pickles has already eaten all the puddings in the Tory larder.
And Prezza’s scoffed all the pies in the newlabour larder.
true. perhaps we could lock them both in a room with one meal and leave them to fight for it – it could be the next great thing in reality tv (and I should explain for the benefit of Osborne that tv in this case stands for television).
7 – Relax, Cato St.: the Americans have never been very good at English Idioms – too many Germanic Immigrants, probably. They’re not very good at Prepositions either (‘lose out’ v. ‘lose’; ‘met up with’ v. ‘meet’; ’spoke to’ v. ’spoke with’), and Nouns are not their strong point (Lift-Elevator/Braces-Suspenders/Property-Real Estate…….). They can be – and often are – quite charming people: but, shall we say, slightly lacking in ‘tournure du monde’…
My pet hate: “visit with”, when they mean they are, or have been, meeting someone.
Visit, with Fred, to see George, perhaps?
However Rich And Mark can be had for a packet of smoky bacon crisps.
full or empty packet of crisps?
Man – when you’ smoke’ what I hav’, you don’ bother whether it’s full, or bacon, empty, or…(giggle) ’smoky’!
If’t turns you on, Man – do it! Whoa!
You are an expensive pair,smoky bacon crisps wow,how about an offer of half a pack of stale salted crisps.
That can’t be kosher.
Good old Ashers. Gave Lady Waad and me a spiffing time in his Belize hideaway. Not sure about important blogs and websites being owned by people who are really British but claim to belong to some other jurisdiction, though!
They live in a fairy tale
Somewhere too far for us to find
Forgotten the taste and smell
Of the world that they left behind
Envious?
Would you take the Ashcroft shilling.
Of course you would if an Irishman I know is right.
Regards,
Tom
Oh Watson
f u c k o f f
I like Politics Home but its always struck me as being a left wing site that was trying very hard to be politically balanced but not quite managing it.
Same as Rawnsley, actually. I’m glad he’s gone…
Me too the toadying Blairite bastard!
“He is also the author of the award-winning book, Servants of the People which is an account of the early years of New Labour in government”
The fact that he can misrepresent the new labour farce as being in any way a “servant” of the people shows how utterly misguided and wrong this Rawnsley bloke is.
Labour treat the public as THEIR servants and are trying their best to make the public their slaves.
Andrew Rawnsley, good fucking riddance you vacuous, toffee-nosed, git.
That is a very good assessment. I commented in a not dissimilar way myself (here I think) some months ago, and was informed by others of the origins or the then-current main duo of Rawnsley and Assinder.
It did explain an awful lot about why the PHI site took the stances it did and gave particular slants to stories.
It might not become perfect with Ashcroft’s involvement, but it has to be hoped that it will become a whole lot straighter than it has tended to be so far.
Yup that sounds like the modern conservative party to me.
I dunnoo. I’ve always liked Rawnsley and whilst he’s been quite involved as a commentator of new Liebour, well, they were the gummint innit? I genuinely can’t think of a better hack in the business at the moment for putting administrations within their historical context. I don’t think he shills and frankly, Michael Prick (no relation) should be booted off Newsnight immediately – now he is one impoverished little runt.
WARNING – I do believe there is a case of political correctness gone mad right here on this very site. Twice now I have posted congratulating the BBC on once again promoting its annual W0gan in Greed ahead of tedious PM U turns and corrupt attorney generals, and twice the message got stuck in the moderation queue. The Eagle eyed will spot what I have tried to do this time, so lets see what nanny says now.
kiddies in need??
Yes, you’re quite right. Using the word “and” immediately after a comma is simply not cricket!
… but Oxford usage allows a comma after ‘and’.
I think you mean, before and.
I’m glad Rawnsley is going, I can start reading it again
“Rawnsley has his reputation to think of…”
Ha ha ha
Ashcroft. There’s another one. Hides behind a mountain of shell companies registered in Belize from which he fleeces investors and taxpayers in the UK. String this fucker up with the rest.
1. Is he forcing people to invest with him?
2. What money is he taking from taxpayers, or is refusing to be extorted by the state now theft in your warped little world-view?
Work it out for yourself. Ashcroft is successful hence he must be a lowlife. Unlike our dear Glenys and Neil who have toiled without reward for the public good.
I think you will find that there are numerous issues concerning Ashcroft which are murky, from his tax status in the UK to his DEA files in the USA to whether his political contributions infringe the law to his relations with the political parties in Belize. I am not claiming to know the truth but there are serious questions. And of course Wanda and Windbag are bent – is the Pope catholic?
I should have added; if it looks like a dung heap and smells like one then it probably is one.
ACO you’re an ignorant fucker. I was a shareholder in one of the companies this little shit took-over. It was a sound company with a legible balance sheet and R&A. Ashcroft split it into umpteen different spin-offs all registered to an address in Belize City which turned out to be an accommodation agency – a dead letter box. These spin-offs never paid a penny in dividends and their finances now are anyone’s guess. I was robbed by this piece of shit. Legally, maybe, but robbed nevertheless. The pile of share certificates are worth about as much as your insight.
It’s called asset stripping. I bet he sold the best bits for loadsa money and left the rest to rot.
Good business.
you are an idiot.
you probably waste more tax payers money than ashcroft
for example
how much mental health services budget is consumed keeping you on the road.
Fuck you too, pal. I’m not even UK resident these days; haven’t been for years.
I’m sure with Ld Ashcroft’s money it will not prove too difficult to find another Editor in Chief.
I do wonder whether PoliticsHome needs an EinC. How many readers do they get? I bet Guido gets more.
guidos site fuckin rocks
Define “reader”.
Under normal educational standards I would have said ‘ it is someone who can read.’
Unfortunately under this labour government the numbers of people who are not literate have risen. So therefore I am sure this labour government has redefined the meaning of the verb to read. I suspect their standard may be set at something like – ‘a person is literate if they can follow the dialogue in Eastenders’ or something like that.
I’m rather a fan of Emmerdale meself.
20% of the world population can only read one book i.e. the bible or quran but are deemed ‘literate’
I believe the standard for literacy at Eton is the ability to read Daddy’s will.
Who cares?
Seconded.
What he means by this ” independent of any party both editorially and financially” is it ok to be left leaning but not right.
Oh dear, 1400 jobs on the line, and I do not mean production line since this happened. The Jonah effect is kicking in again.
Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, toured the Ellesmere Port factory ahead of his speech to the TUC last week, saying: “We are putting our faith in the future of Ellesmere Port, we are putting our faith in the future of the new model (Vauxhall) Astra that is about to appear.”
Oh dear, those workers are FOOKED!
More often than not you see the word “Dis” before Astra.
Rawnsley is very clearly a Labour supporter, as anyone who has read any of his articles in the Guardian will have figured out. He can’t stomach the Tories so this is hardly a surprise.
He’s just another one of the left wing breed who infest the media. The BBC is crawling with them, pretending to be impartial, but applying a left wing filter to every report.
Bet he walks into a beeb or guardian job, as his chance of getting employed in the real world have drastically taken a dive over a cliff.
A friend of mine who works in the job centres, says he can’t wait for these lefties to come in next year to sit in the dole que with their p45. A few ‘adminstrative errors’ will be happening to them from people wanting payback.
Rawnsley’s obviously a Labour man but in fairness I thought his old Radio programme the Westminster Hour was much better balanced than(for example)anything Marr would report on the same story for the television(faint praise,I know….).
Ashcroft owns the Tories and the Unions own Labour.
So what?
Both parties deserve to be voter nuked at the next GE – Labour for destroying Britains prosperity and the Tories for not laying a glove on the worst – Government – ever.
Yes indeeeeedy do.
OFF TOPIC BUT VERY GOOD NEWS!
The Irish NO vote on the EU constitution is in the lead now by 59% to 41% in the largest poll to date carried out by a pollster who predicted the last result correctly!
So why is the MSM so silent now, the euro(trash)news poll earlier found a two thirds YES vote Vs one third NO….so much for fake polls eh?
So despite or perhaps because of the huge propaganda campaign by the three biggest parties and visits,promises and threats by the eurotrash commissars the Irish voter is saying a big FUCK YOU to the EUSSR?
Oooh happy days eh? Cameron must be praising the lovely Paddies, NO campaigners and Sin Fein to the heavens.
If the vote is fair and not rigged and it turns out to be another NO will the eurotrash filth order the Irish to vote again?
I can imagine that midget Sarkozy standing on his soap box darkly muttering of “consequences”!
I wonder if the BBC will publish the poll?
Ooooops hat tip to EUREFERENDUM!
You can see the ramblings of the EU bots on various different media websites proclaiming;
‘we don’t need the UK, everyone thinks your a bunch of lazy drunks and chavs, If you leave the EU your standards of living will plummet.’ etc. etc.
Their scared the house of cards will come down once UK leaves others will jump ship too and all the money will dry up.
“I wonder if the BBC will publish the poll?” – I’m just guessing here erm…NO.
Good on ‘em.
Sing “Blair For EU president” from the Irish rooftops…
I will not celebrate until and unless the ACTUAL poll has a similar result. Keep pressing our Irish friends to vote no, as they will only be imposing Blair upon themselves if they don’t!
Cameron will be sweating cobs if it looks as though the Irish will tell the commies to swivel again.
Is anybody here pixilated enough to believe that he’ll ever give us a referendum?
albacore,
david cameron must understand this: if he does not give us a referendum we will have his head on a spike.
no joke.
it is his choice.
not a very good time to be a toff, people are in no mood for their constitution and democracy being destroyed by a toff millionaire c’unts like david cameron.
we have just been fucked up the arse by the bankers and we will not stand by and watch as our democracy is raped by an upper class twat like david cameron.
note to dave: your head on a spike or a referendum, your call.
I am rather hoping you will opt for the spike option you thieving c’unt.
Have they counted the postal votes yet?
Please correct me if I am wrong, but doesn’t Lord Ashcroft own an airline which is used by MP’s from all sides?
Guido, just a thought whilst you mention, purely as an aside (I think..), what figure it would take for you to sell your wildly successful site and which, of course, is no one else’s damn business….
HOWEVER, imo the world has been driven to ruin by extremely popular; highly successful, ethical and principled concerns selling out to rich and ambitious ‘types’ who don’t have the best interests of humanity at heart…
just sayin…
Hmmm, why am I being modded for actually being nice for once – tra la!
Or is it just a ’spot check’??
Don’t feed the twa…I mean troll.
The Bog trotters may just save us again.
Like the Kiwis , Diggers and Canucks they always turn up for a fight when some foreign Hoons are trying to wipe us out.
Unlike the Yanks they also turn up on time.
What is the airfare from Sydney to Brussels?
Gets Cameron out of a hole (unlike me)
I think that you will find that the diminutive is “PEAT”
A small sod that burns really well
Standing ovation! Your masterpiece clearly merits the double-posting you so modestly accorded it at 71 and 73.
Perhaps it continues thus?
O I’d rather be a Billy but my mum was too darn silly
Called me Abdul. I could kick her up her stairs
I say Guido old bean. Standards seem to be slipping somewhat. Do you let just anyone into this blog thing of yours old chap.
In my day this wouldn’t have been allowed – we would have sent the servants round to give the oaf a damn good thrashing.
This “Yassi” character is obviously almost certainly just another of the (generally paid-for) Labour trolls, just as David Dee, Hazel Tree, Quietzapple and others have been shown to be in the pay of the Labour Party to troll on large-readership sites with comment facilities.
That’s why what they post is such obvious garbage; yet they alone appear to be incapable of realising how ridiculous they make themselves.
On Usenet it was (and still is) so easy just to killfile all the garbage…
Depends on what you view as good causes doesnt it, free bags of fertilizer for the taliban/cash for hamas weapons buyers wouldnt be my idea of charity, I would prefer he sent money to British forces charities… oh yes, thats right he does give thousands to the British armed forces charities so he is aces in my book.
Perhaps you dislike him for that reason?
At least Ashcroft has picked a winning side unlike yourself eh?
Three cheers for Lord Ashcroft and may he live a long and happy life exposing the socialist filth for the vermin they truly are.
Who wants to finance a loser party with a loser for a leader apart from the TUC of course, the newlbour conference will be a sad joke to witness, the rats are deserting the sinking ship in droves now!
See yah around newslavelabour, dont call us we wont be calling you.
70 Please disregard 75, below: he is too young to know what might have happened to us all in 1940, too ignorant to know that EVERY State needs an Army (and Navy, and Air Force) – even, and most especially, the Communist ones – too invincibly stupid to know that calling someone a ‘moron’, without due cause, is as irrational as disliking you for the same ’cause’.
Cassie sweetie – it ill behoves a Tory to criticise anyone for financing a loser party and loser leader given the record of the Fetus, Deadman-Stiff and the Undead. It is simply the latest turn of the circle. Now if you had criticised them for funding the Scots you could have had a point – the Tories haven’t been able to do that in years.
will someone take the trash out !!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll buy the whole pub a pint of Guinness if the irish save our skins from the EU.
I’ll be bankrupt afterwards with the price of Guinness these days, but thems the breaks.
think of the look on gordons face if they vote no , Priceless
McMental always looks as if he is sucking on a pig turd just before showing us those fucking shite veneers (that dont match the rest of his teeth ) then pretends to smile for 2 seconds
Did Blair allow the Hoon into power for a fucking laugh?
Jaw droppingly good. 81
That won’t go very far. I’d buy them a pint *each*, meself :-)
maybe hes tight ?
They’ll find a way to make it a “yes” vote, somehow. It’s in their interests.
Just say no.
With his money I doubt he gives a fuck.
98th or 99th 0r 100th
I pay more UK tax than that bastard millionaire Ashcroft and I’m more fucking broke than Ulrika Johnson’s hymen.
I don’t care if he has bought Dave and his fags. Arrest the prick and stick him in the pokey with Scotland.
Why do you bother reading it then?….stoooopid.
He came in to the kitchen.
Then I shot him through the head. Dead.
I know the law on murder and understand that. Nevertheless what I did was ” a technical breach of the law” which sounds much better than “I murdered him in cold blood”
Yours for a mug
Attorney General
What an absolute piece of crap she is
Never mind Ashcroft, look this exercise in self promotion. Selfless, moi?
Look at me
I hope the Paddies shaft his chances of becoming King of Europe. Once there’s no chance of that Foyboy can pull the plug on Brown, we can consign him to History and begin the long and demanding haul required to turning this country into something we can have pride in.
Tackling climate change, indeed! Ye canna change the laws of physics, cap’n!
He makes my skin crawl.
If Prezza takes the pie, Blair takes the biscuit!
Grinning Ape for Hire. Fucking useless but impresses the Yanks.
Are the Yanks that stupid?
Rawnsley’s departure might have been more impressive if he’d stuck around and could demonstrate that the much-vaunted independence had been lost.
Instead it looks like a childish ‘I don’t like cabbage’ having never eaten it.
Pillock !.
£10,000.99 – There’s your seven figures Guido !!
I’ll bid £11k
That’s 2 figures and a letter.
I’ve got 25,000 Euros – They are all yours Guido
How about 1 million dollars…Zimbabwean of course :-)
“Lord Sugar conned by dodgy builders in Mayfair deal”
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23747038-details/Lord+Sugar+conned+by+dodgy+builders+in+Mayfair+deal/article.do
That’ll teach him…it’s always bad luck being mates with Gordon McDoom
Never mind about that. How did Sugar get the contracts for three such large constructions in the first place?
Guido….over to you.
In all my years in business I’ve never come across such ineptitude.
Sugar – you’re fired
I’ve been out of the construction industry for many a year but the practice decried here was common, and was not about fraud.
Completing tenders is an expensive process, and an unnecessary one if you are too busy to do the job. Rather than decline to tender, firms would consult their competitors for a cover price and go in over it, knowing they would not get the job, but avoiding the chance of being deselected from the tendering list which declining to tender might bring.
Complete bollocks. But I once spoke fluent bollocks when I was a sales manager.
So then the construction companies share the contracts out amongst themselves – one for you, one for me – without competing and you have a fraudulent cartel.
In an ideal world a firm which was too busy would be able to reply;
“Our current workload necessitates that we decline the offer to tender on this contract, but please keep us on the list”
I presume that the public bodies insisted on getting tenders so that they could award their contract “fairly” to their friends.
It takes two to Tango.
I agree, but nonetheless some firms would, in the past, rather submit a high cover price than risk future exclusion.
I don’t know why Anon153 is getting her knickers in a twist, I’m just telling her it was a common practice for a purpose and am not claiming there was no fraud in the construction industry.
Sir Billy, that could happen, but is not what I am describing. I am not saying that it doesn’t happen.
Look you bastards, I try and be helpful and all I get is abuse. Now I know how Gordon feels.
Rawnsley’s a posturing tart – end of
I’ve got 20,000 Euros – they are yours Guido
Guido give us a song , Guido Guido give us a song
Quick Fawkes ive hear news another PM vid has been released “pm message to rochadale” for world peace day ahhh bless , note the bit where the sports minister says he wants to stop bullying ! certifcate sick bag
being as attorney general has now made the two tier law system work , could it be prema facia for non payment of congestion charge on a tecnhicality
Yes
Ah, well – but on the other hand, maybe no. Bejabers.
Why is ‘PoliticsHome’ garnished with a Greek letter ‘F’?
Why do the monkeys who design these things think it’s CleverToLeaveOutSpacesBetweenWords?
The new troll technique is to be as offensive as possible to regular posters in the hope that they will desert the site for labour lost.
I am as offensive as possible to people but I am not a troll.
I am independent.
so you better not have been talking about top boy moley or I will have to give you a good fucking hiding.
watch your mouth moley.
Looks as if the care in the community programme has failed again.
I am my own cousin
Just regards to your cousin from China Fook Yu.
Have you got lost and not found the Red Rag site?
Only a million Guido?
But he’d have to employ you the site is nothing without its originator.
Disgusting.
£10M, that’s more like it.
Rimmer is a hologram!
plotting some kind of internet raid on the conservative party website:
http://www.tinychat.com/btards?n=1keshisafaggot
Guido…
I’d be interested in a piece by yourself on why you wouldn’t give up control of this site.
Clearly if Ashcroft wanted a good return on his money he would have put it in a real investment – if Ashcroft wanted to help political blogging he could have *given* the money to the sites – the only reason to buy a majority slice is for editorial/political control… (OK, no emails, faxes or anything traceable in writing, but everyone will be ‘aware’ of what is required of them… nudge, nudge, wink, wink…).
A site like this needs only an owner/moderator and the public – what can a ‘money man’ or anyone else add?
“You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.” Max Beerbohm
’nuff said.
I’ll go for 4 figures
[...] the wake of his huge triumph at YouGov. Then he agreed to accept an ‘investment’ of an alleged £1.3 million from Michael Ashcroft, the controversial Deputy Chairman of the Conservative [...]
rawnsley,a tax and spend old fashioned bloke,who has had his day for a generation.
he will just go mad and bleat on about labour in 2001 in 20 years time when the tories have built this country back up again.
all very sad.