Labour and the Tories are duking it out over non-dom donations. So time for some evidence based blogging:
Since 2001 Ashcroft has given £5,160,915 to the Tories and Labour’s troika of of non-dom donors, Mittal, Cohen and Paul have given £6,734,250. Mittal bought a bit of corporate lobbying for his £4 million. Tony Blair lobbied for Mittal’s business interests when he was still Prime Minister…
Source data from the Electoral Commission.
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Guido chuckled at the following exchange he had with a Tory insider:
Tory: “What’s Labour’s position on the Syria crisis?”
GF: “They say you should be talking to Russia.”
Tory: “Labour have been saying that since 1945.”
Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?
Just a thought.
They are all at it always have been and always will
We’re all at it together.
Which one of Mittal, Cohen and Pa*ul is Tory deputy chairman ?
Guido, don’t forget Sir Michael Ondaatje, another non-dom who is a Labour donor too.
What about the Hinduja brothers and Mincy Mandelson ?
That wasn’t a donation it was a
The media have been all over the Ashcroft case – LBC running a slot on Ferrari’s morning show.
Apart from the frothing liebour activits, most people couldn’t give a hoon so when people like Robinson finally crawl back into the BBC crpyt again we can start focusing on Macavity.
Talking of Macavity…
Guido – have you seen how many times The Prime Mentalist has conveniently found something to do other than PMQs on a Wednesday and how it compares to other PMs?
Trade Unions don’t pay any tax. Should they be allowed to donate?
Set the Charity Commission on them. The unions are just looking to enshrine privilege and better pay and conditions for their members. It’s like private school for adults. Remove their tax-free status.
Oh, the Charity Commissioner is off on a politically motivated investigation of a bullying charity you say? Huh. I was sure we’d find her buzzing around on a politically motivated investigation of some private school.
Just goes to show you.
Of course they should be allowed to donate, after all they do receive funds from the government under the Union Modernisation Fund.
WTF? Unions don’t pay tax? really?
Bastards.
And they talk of non-doms being unpatriotic for not giving over millions which has nothing to do with the UK.
Labour talk of patriotism when they refused to give us a referendum opportunity to defend Britain from being swallowed up by the EU dictatorship.
Labour HATES the UK. Fucking hypocrites.
Trade unions are a convenient cover to clean money. Strip all donor details from money the unions get, then pass on the money to the party as “union” donations. A brilliant scam.
Whereas Lord Paul was appointed Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and appointed to the Privy Council.
Brown is selling public appointments to non-dom donors.
can’t cope with truth – mmmm must be anoither of those not-very-clever Gnu-Lab fuckwits
the truth is they are all corrupt bastards and those here are just pretending one pile of shite smelling as bad as another makes it fine
they are still piles of shite
vote for a corrupt troughing pig at your own risk
Please… don’t insult Gnus. Or Penguins.
stillyagi – have you seen the new Ubuntu distro specially produced for McMental?
Codenamed Obdurate Ostrich, it is inclined to disappear when forced into a kernel panic, which it does at unfortunately regular intervals,
Over the last few weeks I have received telephone calls from all three of the main parties each of which when asked if I support them have received the following reply
1) I worked from the age of 14 until I was 68
2) In that time I have managed to raise a family and buy a house and provide for a reasonable old age pension
3) I am not and never have been on any benefits
4) I am an Englishman and am therefore ignored by your party who have sold my country to Europe
5) My reward for my efforts is that in a few years time if my wife or I require care you will steal my house and or savings regardless of the fact that I have contributed for half a century to the welfare state.
6) However if I were an asylum seeker or illegal immigrant you would look after me on the grounds of human rights. The fact that I am English means that my human rights don’t count.
7) Most of you have quite knowingly abused the expenses system to great personal advantage and avoided prosecution.
8) You are all in my opinion totally devoid of ethics and a disgrace to democracy
Therefore in answer to your question, “FUCK OFF YOU TWATS”
White, male, middle class, independent, hard-working, tax-paying, never a burden on the state, never in trouble with the law, able to think for ourselves, upholders of what is left of our democracy.
Boy, does NuLiebour hate us.
Which one’s a member of the Privy Council?
“Which one of Mittal, Cohen and Paul is Tory deputy chairman ?”
None of them.
Which one of the Labour trio is a Privy Councillor?
And how, precisely, did Lord Paul earn his Privy Councillorship? He has never even served as a junior minister or held any sort of office in British politics.
I can see you aren’t grasping this
they are all tainted and it wouldn’t surprise anyone if Lord Pa*ul bought his peerage like so many other corrupt NewLabour Lords
but most of you are running around like headless chickens screaming about why it’s getting coverage
the other three are barely known outside of Political circles and even inside it are still fairly obscure
Ashcroft though is no minor figure so don’t pretend otherwise
he boasts of his power in the conservative party and has been key in every local election euro election and by-election for many years
central office always regarded this as a possible unexploded bomb with the whole saga running for some ten years in total
call NewLabour hypocrites if it makes you feel better because they are
but this is news because of who Ashcroft is
What is it with ethnics and their attempts at influence buying? Please leave your third world ways at the door when you enter our country!
Evidence based blogging eh Guido, I must look that up in my OED
“Evidence based blogging” eh Guido, I must look that up in the OED
But socialists are allowed to be self righteous about these things because it’s for the greater good.
To wit Jack ‘Holier than thou’ Snore busy farting into the wind yesterday about Ashcroft!
My son is very patriotic….unlike me.
“Sorry officer, I thought she was over the legal age”
and your yellow feather Dad
“Sorry officer, I didn’t know that lady I sold the drugs to was a journalist …
DAD, help get me off this rap will you?”"
Now, now, boys – Straw has enough manifest faults of his own without dragging his relatives into it – you’ll set off the NuLab Gideon attack bots if you continue…
WE ARE THE PARTY OF THE MANY NON-DOM DONORS NOT THE FEW
Kirsty Wark get her ass kicked in last nights Newsnight over BBC bias on the non dom story.
I think her red jacket tells us where her sympathies lie…Having said that, she’s not bad looking, I probably would
Kirsty Warks connections to the Scottish Labour Party are well known up here, in fact she is known to have holidayed with Former Labour First MinisterJack McConnell. Her political bias is in no doubt as far as many Scots are concerned.
New Labour’s non dom hypocrisy.
And just in case you thought the BBC and Newsnight were impartial, this clip should tell you they are not.
Biased they most certainly are. Michael Gove did a good job of pointing this out to KW, although in her case it won’t make a shred of difference. Thankfully the BBC is about to start shrinking, but a couple of radio stations and a chunk of their hugely over-blown website will be but a drop in the ocean. The only way to show these wasters of public money is to significantly reduce the licence fee, thus forcing them to reduce their massive bureacracy and ridiculous salaries. Their current suggestions for slimming down are just window dressing. If we want results then hit them where it hurts – in the billions they rake in every year.
Ah, but there’s the rub – the poison pill in the ‘cuts’ that is the Asian network will ensure that no politician will be prepared to speak out, lest they offend their local postal voting Imams.
Michael Gove lambasted Hague in 2001, in the times, for giving this crook a peerage.
VOTE LABOUR
this, like the bullying will probably work out in labour’s favour somehow.
Like “oh, if wealthy foreigners are still giving cash then they must be not as bad as we thought”
If you hate Britain and British workers VOTE LABOUR.
“Tony Blair lobbied for Mittal’s business interests when he was still Prime Minister…”
Not to mention that Blair did so at the direct expense of British workers.
Blair really was a shit wasn’t he ?
what d’you mean “was”? Blair IS and will ALWAYS be a lying, conniving, fabian elitist shit! Can’t believe he was elected to fuck us over for three terms
Don’t forget he is a war-criminal when he poodled for George Bush
So you are in favour of rich donors then? Not what you said yesterday. Make your mind up.
Nah I love my country so FUCK OFF you Liebour GOON
Issue is who paid what and who got what?
Ashcroft may get something if they win
What did paul get as he owns thew governemtn???
permanent right to remain…
we r all fucked,well not all of us but most of us if you see what i mean.
confess to being v tired today – marching bands outside my window did their South African State Visit final rehearsal at 3am last night
http://twitter.com/SarahBrown10/status/9843034543
the only sensible time to do that final rehearsal is 3am (traffic, pedestrians, etc) and there are not many other local residents to disturb
http://twitter.com/SarahBrown10/status/9843092083
It sounded like all Hell had broken loose.
This kind of crap will stop when she is booted out on 7th May.
Utter Utter rubbish – we have only one interest in you,you thunder thighs ugly cow – that is the eviction of you and the impostor,the nonentity conman in your fraudulent marriage.
Stick your tweets up your arse, you grotty conwoman.
hear hear
Most of us don’t sleep well these days as we have no jobs,dwindling savings,no police to protect us,a ruined education system and no light at the end of the tunnel.
How dare you write such tripe,you useless woman – get lost and take that deranged demon with you.
You really have no idea about PR do you – you lack any empathy,otherwise you would keep your mouth shut and close this pathetic Tweeter account down.
Talk about “let them eat cake” – I hope you eat something a little more toxic than cake.
Horrendous woman – yuk.
I’ll leave the Mcbridean smearing to the scum
I see a Nicolae & Elena Ceauşescu Christmas present coming.
Piss off, Mrs Goebbels
There there Deary, you won’t have to put up with such inconveniences for much longer.
Yup, shes staring divorce proceedings May 7th as her whiff off lavender serves no further purpose.
I hear Gordy loves watching big burly men in uniform blowing each others trumpets…
He really likes big burley men in skirts tossing each others cabers !
like tat did
Poor Sarah !
Did you have to strap our hero down
and give him a piece of leather to bite on
whilst wiping the foam from around his rabid gob ?
There ,There Not Long To Go Now !
tat used to have the same problem when he was reamed by everyone on this blog so he fled crying from this site vowing never to return
You seem very bitter.
Roll a fat one, and let it go.
I leave that sort of thing to druggie twats like tat
You sound like his ex.
Funny how she says “my” rather than “our” window, isn’t it?
Yep she’s given the beard game away. Gordon probably sleeps on the other side of the building.
help
You don’t deserve any help you c*nt.
Want to send your child to a state school now, eh?
Fucking cretinous, socialist dick!
Another cretinous keyboard warrior in Labour HQ
David Cameron from CCHQ behind the sofa says
Has He Gone Yet ?
exactly what Guido said when the sad little troll thick as thieves ran away crying from this blog saying he would never be back
The little gobshite still appears now and again with his grudge against the world homophobe attitude
usually answering his own comments under different names thinking people dont know !
he really is a shitbag !
nah! he’s just a twatty little kid who runs away crying at the first sign of trouble
he also stole posters names and did indeed post multiple times replying to his own posts
but he was always to feeble minded to hide for long
Might be worth asking the Labour donors if they will become resident (like Ashcroft), should Labour win the election.
Also, is anyone else rather puzzled by the furore? Ashcroft pays all his taxes as per HMRC’s requirements, and there is no indication of wrong-doing.
So why the calls for investigations and shrieking?
Labour = hypocritical fuckwits.
The Labour ones are OK … coz they are Labour innit.
Ashcroft is bad coz he is a Tory.
Simples.
You are Michael Crick & I claim my £5.
Ashcroft is an enemy Lord whereas Lord P*aul is a nice ethnic man with the right coloured face. We know nothing about his child labour camps in other places.
No, Rog, bbc = hypocritical fuckwits, nulab = useless fuckwits, get your facts straight.
Mere semantics. The underlying irony is the joint attempt by the nu liebore – Browns Bullshitting Cokeheads axis to procure a breach of confidence in relation to Ashcroft’s tax affairs, having spent all last week crying breach of confidence at a bullying helpline which did not take place. Pig shit for brains.
Labour = doing a better political job than Torys
Labour = doing a better job at conning us, making the country bankrupt, and bleating that it’s the Tories fault all along, sob sob sob.
you will hang yourself one day soon
Driving home last night at 6 pm I thought I heard a party political broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party.It was all about the scandal of the Tory Party/Ashcroft Tax status issue.Then I realized it was the BBC 6 o clock news!!! Maybe I was right first time !!!
i saw the 6 o clock news,exactly the same bbc = labour stooges
I wouldn’t worry. The BBC have forgotten all about Ashcroft today. The only news in Town at the BBC are their programming cuts and dead presenter.
Programming cuts?
Well, one dead presenter’s a start I suppose…
Wrong one. Pity it wasn’t Woss. Or that ginger fuckwit.
I forecast Mandelspin may have had a part in this
TV news also heavily baised, first an item on Ashcroft with no mention of the Labour non-doms. Then a ‘BBC Survey’ on ‘cuts’ by keeping Council Tax to only + 2%.
The BBC 6 o clock Tv news had 7 minutes on Ashcroft – the opening 7 minutes – amount of time spent on the pound dropping due to threat of hung parliament – nil.
The pound isn’t dropping because of the treat of a hung parliemnt, but the threat that Gordo will still be in power for another five years.
3.9% here in the Vale of Glamorgan. That makes 119% since 2000.
And they still can’t empty the damn bins!
File a complaint with the BBC i have !
OK Yoda thanks for the update
Sky is no better. All MSM appear to be infected with the same disease
It’s because Murdoch is a communist
I think you will find Murdoch is yet another NWO Bilderberger.
The BBC are full shitty NWO stooges too. They may give the impression are coming from different camps and have opposing but that’s just a scam to dupe Joe Simpleton there’s a real difference in modern politics.
Adrian Goldberg on TalkSport tried it on last night – got slapped down a treat by most callers so he dropped the subject.
State visit for the man that will do for South Africa what Mugabe has done for Zimbabwe, mark my words!
He will wait until the great Mandella passes on, then he will turn the screw.
He is turning the screw already.
Well done Mr. Hain. No wonder you are keeping as far away from SA as possible.
http://mysasucks.com
Mandela is a white hating communist, not a great man at all. Google it.
Quote: “Nelson Mandela. What a Huhne!” Jerry Sadowitz
We only broadcast the truth, the whole truth and noithing like the truth
I know that Zuma used to open all of his political appearances with a musical rendition of “Lethu Mshini Wami (Bring me my machine gun)”.
Wonder whether he’ll do that party trick at Buck House…
Unbelievable leftie nick Robinson fails yes fails to blog about the chancellor attacking the pm but blogs away about Ashcroft!!!
Go on to his BBC blog…there is a nice questionairre to complete about him and his blog. Of course you need to declare your age, sex and ethnicity first – after all this is the BBC.
They are shameful!
Lying, deceiving, and practising double standards is the right thing to do.
Besides, you think our BBC chums will run with this?
Dream on pikey boy
notice the Guardian doing there usual unbiased comments on Ashcroft like a pack of fucking hyenas ripping to bits a carcass,stopping only to gloat and
laugh.
Dont know why Labour just dont buy the fuckers and call it the Red Rag.ffs
Who gives a shit what they print in the Guardian? They are irredeemable fuckwits who will cheer any Labour idiocy to the rafters. There is no policy too evil or too ill-thought out, no amount of money squandered that could persuade the in-house arseholes to jump ship.
You would think they’d have swung to the Liberals by now. But no. They still want to hang on the coat-tails of a party capable of forming a government. A situation only possible because they (and the BBC) lack the belief that they could engineer a swing to the Liberals.
How could Labour be only 7 points behind after totally destroying the UK economy? It is only the BBC that can achieve this. The BBC trumps all other meeja outlets combined. Relentless 24/7 positive, uncritical reportage of the Maximum Imbecile and his idiot edicts combined with gleeful hatchet jobs on any Tory policy.
If they dedicated the same zeal to the Liberal party then Labour would be third in the polls by now.
7 or 5
Marxist fuckwits, if you please.
Aaaah but the difference between the donors is that the Tory donor is a greedy evil foreigner bent on closing steelworks,throwing British workers on the dole,taking over finacial institutions and extracting government contracts/taxpayers money and generally selling out the interests of the UK for financial gain WHEREAS the labour donors are super patriotic British heroes simply giving money out of patriotic duty to their UK motherland, they wouldnt dream of extracting any benefit from their millions of pounds in donations to the labour party.
couldn’t agree more
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1254697/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Browns-Britain-2015-Queen-fled.html
Slightly O/ T but littlejohn has a scary (I was going to say funny but nothing about brown is funny) view of Britain in 2015 with bullybrown still in power as prime-minister-for-life!
Hysterical and paranoid – now there’s two words that instantly make one think of gordon!!
If You see that photo of Brown in littlejohn’s article
And you are as old as me the the caption
“Magic Our Morris” Would Be Quite Apt !
Because it relates to another retard !
Scary stuff will be interesting to read again in 2015 and see which turned out to be true. Liked the predictions for Vaz and Mandelslime. Less sure about McMental – he’s just too unstable to make predictions for…
Brown will be gone five minutes after the election win, lose or draw. The idea that the mentalist would last another five years is risable, even the comrades hate his guts.
When the hoon realised the game was up there wouldn`t be a Downfall spoof to match it.
The tory’s should start fighting dirty. If they win the Labour louts will be on the street at every opportunity. As they have always done. Students will be bussed into London to fight the cuts/ fight the rise in tax/ fight whatever!
The tories should ask every member and supporter to email -with email addresses etc- every time there is a news report on whatever channel TV or radio which shows bias against the tories. (Believe you me Labour are doing this already from their viewpoint).
All ‘comments’ must be based on fact and not the thoughts of the left wing presenter/correspondent.
Bombarding the newsrooms, demanding a reply, will help the cause!
Did I really hear that labour apologist on Newsnight last night admit to seeing Brown getting angry and shoving people around? So he admitted that Brown was a liar!
You did and so did I. Seems like a form of Stockholm Syndrome is infecting Labour.
And Alan “BullFrog” Johnson has the gaul to stand there
and say
you need to take a real close look at the tories
and see how they are funded
Another Lie-Bore Smear blown out of the water !
Postman Johnson?
I remember one colossal twat who used to post here thought he would be the next Labour PM.
Well,he might be,when they get back in to govt in about 2034.
no, he won’t
I see the ‘Ashcroft remix’ is being peddled again by the labour party and its pet media.
Same old lies peddled by the same hacks like a broken record perhaps not realizing that most people have sussed out the real story.
I suppose the 10 drowning street smear machine (whelan and balls) are peddling this ashcroft rubbish in the hope of keeping the ugly truths about bullybrown in Rawnsley’s book, which was published yesterday, out of the headlines! I notice gordon is not threatening to sue for libel. I wonder why that is?
Meanwhile the polls were the best gordon was going to get at the weekend and yet still he dithers and refuses to call an election. Now today the polls are starting to bounce back in the tories favour just as the pound is falling and there is serious talk of a double dip recession heading our way.
I think a better nickname for him would be battybrown.
Fucking Sky and their communist reporting
Fucking Sky and their NWO Bilderberg reporting.
Of course there is also the slight matter of Lord Paul being a thief
All property is theft.
Yeah my DS got the SP on that one.
Had the whole operation shitcanned by a deskjockey on the seventh floor.
As Mark Twain said, we have the best government money can buy.
Not sure why donations from Trade Unions are OK – they don’t pay tax.
Brown the childish, hate filled, lying, bullying, smearing, maladroit, mentally unstable, spendaholic despot has ducked out of PMQ’s to ensure there is no muddying of the waters, while his henchmen and mortgage defrauding queers ramp this story via the BBC, and their print media allies.
Cameron has got to fight this election realising these people cannot grasp the concept that they shouldn’t be in control of the nation.
So any lie, any smear, any falsehood, any double standard will do as they seek to retain their grip on power.
Brown is an embarrassment and enemy of England and and all hard working, law abiding, tax paying English people.
Granted there aren’t enough of those people left to defeat the Celtic Communist despots, but unless Labour’s majority is smaller than 30, they’ll be in for another five years.
I see communist Murdoch is joining in the reporting with Sky
Red Rupert strikes again!
Leave me out of this please ,Guido
They are all Huhnes.
NEVER have we been so ill served by our elected representatives.
Not one of them ahs an ounce of shame.
Fuck ‘em all.
It’s worth voting Cameron so the BBC/the rest of it can be cracked. Fuck the EU, immigrants, the rest of it. I’ll happily build a stand for my TV out of worthless bundles of million pound notes to watch some twat like Littlejohn having a platform like Glenn Beck/those other Yankee loudmouths over on Sky/’Channel Six – Murdoch Central’.
You fool !!!
When I say ‘Fuck the… immigrants’, I’m not trying to step on your toes.
The Conservative Party are a bunch of shits
The Conservative Party blamed “computer problems” for delays in reporting £635,000 in donations to the Electoral Commission in the last quarter of 2009.
The delay emerged in the latest quarterly report from the Commission, which showed a huge increase in political donations in the last quarter of 2009 as the parties began to gear up for the expected May 6 general election.
The Tories had raised £10m, compared with Labour’s £5m and £1m from the Liberal Democrats.
Detailed and timely reporting of donations and loans to the Commission are key to ensuring the parties keep to rules designed to curb corruption.
Chief executive Peter Wardle said his Commission was “extremely disappointed ” with the very high number, and value, of late reported donations, “especially from the Conservative Party”,
whats wrong with that? Seems more people like donating to a party which will steer the country back onto sane ground rather than one which is currently employing a scorched earth policy of destroying our country. Common sense to me. Mind you – common sense seems to be lacking in people who want another 5 years of this misery.
This is how Lord Ashcroft made his money
The 63-year-old businessman, who made his billion from slot machines, security and contract cleaning, began his journey to the heart of Tory politics when the party was at its lowest ebb.
Slot machines,security and contract cleaning ……..HA! HA!
So do you accept making millions out of Indian child labour is better than contract cleaning fuckwit??
Jealousy will get you nowhere.
Pathetic little socialist. The state owes you nothing. Get fucking busy or fuck off and die.
Martin- all legal activities.
Now tell me where does blood on his hands Blair Pay Tax from his overseas earnings?
What is Browns financial arrangements, his housing expenses and his flat bought from Robert Maxwells defunct Mirror grabbing pensions. hmmm
What about Lord Mandelson, pension fraudster, passport procurer, and traitor
You just don’t get it do you sunshine?
All of them constitute a very large bucket of shit. Red, Blue, or Yellow, they are all the same.
Give it up. Stop spinning; you’ll only get dizzy and be sick.
What about Lord’s Levy and Sugar? Both promoted to their Lordships for their “charitable donations” (to the Labour party).
Lord Sugar??
Oh yeah – he was brought into the government to bravely fight the recession using al his experience and business acumen. It definitely wasn’t a publicity stunt, oh no no no…
This 300 million project to supply 300,000 laptops to chavs (when I can buy one at Curry’s for 350 quid). who’s won the contract to administer that?
Is it too late for me to apply? I reckon I could clear 150-200 million on the deal.
Get a list of 300,000 key addresses in marginal seats from Labour. Give the addresses to UPS. Ten quid each for UPS to deliver them. Buy them in bulk for 250/300 quid apiece.
Fuck me I could clean up. And UPS would be doing all the donkey work.
Perhaps it was Viglen that got the contract – now who owns Viglen – oh yes,the ultimate spiv Sugar.
I remember the utter rubbish he used to make back the the ’70′s and ’80′s – useless rubbish.
the amstrad music systems oh the joy!
crapita, contract is still pending as even crapita haven’t got the infastructure to do this
Crapita? How very dodgy, more brown envelopes dear boy, it`s in our DNA!
What infrastructure? Labour will already have identified 300,000 ‘deserving’ chavs in marginal seats. Just give me the addresses on a DVD and I’ll give the DVD to UPS who will, I’m sure, be delighted to run them around for a tenner each. I’ll buy the fucking things for 300 quid each and make 700 quid each on the deal.
Piece of piss.
Even easier – give the DVD to Amazon and they can source and deliver the fucking things for 350 quid each and I’ll pocket the difference.
This job requires a diskette of names and a staff of ONE for approximately half a days work while I explain to Mr UPS or MR Amazon UK what I want them to do.
Give me the fucking contract. I’ll do it for 200 million.
This was the episode where that scum Maguire spoke only to confirm his name at the beginning and then tried to hide for the rest of the programme,pretending to laugh but really crapping himself in the fear that the others would turn on him and blow him away with a few well chosen words.
Typical bully boy – like to dish it but cannot take it.
So if your posting a piece about Alan sugar
Why a picture of Sid James from Carry on Henry ?
YAK YAK YAK
Guido, why do you say in text that Mittal donated £4m but in your graph you only show about £2m?
That said, I am amazed that the BBC is giving this such precedence, leading with it on every bulletin and on a day when the pound crashed and Chile deployed troops to its streets. They pretend at balance by saying Tories also ‘claim’ that Labour has non-dom donors. Got it? Tory nom-dom = BBC fact. Labour non-dom = Tory claim.
Concentrating on an anti-Tory story on the day the pound crashed (anti-Labour story).
Yeah. Who’d have thought the BBC would do such a thing.
and Sky News
Dunno why, but all the TV stations only seem to be giving Camerons lot a hard time over it.
Because Lord Ashcroft is a lying turd,that’s why.
LORD IN TAX ROW
Michael Ashcroft is changing the name of his flagship bank after long-running rows with the government of his adopted homeland of Belize.
He revealed the Belize Bank will trade under the name British Caribbean Bank in the region after a magistrate last month ordered nearly £4million in disputed taxes be paid back.
In an interview with the Belize City TV channel he owns, Lord Ashcroft said he wanted to diversify away from Belize despite his long association with the Central American tax haven.
Last year Martin Day revealed the bank, which Ashcroft bought in the 1980s, was caught up in another row over missing aid money.
Belize’s government alleged a £5million donation intended for slum housing was diverted into the bank’s accounts to settle the previous administration’s debt. Ashcroft’s aides paid the sum back following a court ruling.
Ashcroft is merely being patriotic by limiting the amount of tax-cash he makes available for Labour to further destroy the UK economy.
I do the same. The less money I give ‘em the less they can use it to fuck me over for more money.
Yesterday BBC were showing ‘Thatcher/Torry’ poll tax riots in London (subliminal message, ‘This is what you get if you vote for them’)
Next up, coming soon is the left wing ‘documentary’ on the miners strike to be shown at a convenient time once the election is called. I wonder if they will have interviewed some of the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire miners who had their houses and property trashed because they dared to work and disobey the peoples commissar Arthur Scargil. What ever happened to that cnut, is he still alive? Probably got a job in Europe.
Not spamming, just late night, early morning.
But this is what you will get. because Labour and the unions are hand in hand. They’re the ones with the wherewithall to organise busses and million-man riots. Bus in students. Bus in hundreds of thousands of ‘members’ who won’t be missed from their day-jobs to make trouble.
C*nts like Bob Crow are just itching for it.
A responsible Labour government with the UK’s best interests at heart would have started the difficult process of publically squaring cuts away with the unions by now. But they’re not. they’re pretending that no cuts will be necessary in the knowledge that if they [Labour] have to make them then at least the unions will be a bit more on-side.
But if the Tories have to make them they’ll be there invoking the 1980′s all over again and cheering on the union destroyers.
Utter, utter c*nts.
Leader of the Socialist Labour Party, a bunch of commie wankers.
Yesterday BBC were showing ‘Thatcher/Torry’ poll tax riots in London (subliminal message, ‘This is what you get if you vote for them’)
Next up, coming soon is the left wing ‘documentary’ on the miners strike to be shown at a convenient time once the election is called. I wonder if they will have interviewed some of the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire miners who had their houses and property trashed because they dared to work and disobey the peoples commissar Arthur Scargil. What ever happened to that cnut, is he still alive? Probably got a job in Europe.
Nah. Still president for life of the NUM.
They weren’t kidding these fucking Marxists. They really did think the government would fall and usher in a UK Soviet. And when it didn’t they still acted as if it had.
Yeah. President for life of the NUM. That’s just the job for me. Keep the revolution pure.
The current NUM president (have fun checking him out) has just been appointed Labour PPC for the supremely safe seat of Wansbeck in Northumberland…nothing is too good for the workers!
Imagine being a Tory in a Durham mining village back then….
Never mind trashing houses etc, a couple of strikers killed a local guy for breaking the strike. They dropped a concrete slab off a bridge onto his car.
It was the right thing to do.
These were the ‘key-workers’ of the 1970′s and 1980′s. They’ wheedled their way to the point where the country was dependent on them keeping up the supply of coal to run our gas and power stations.
And boy did they know it. And boy did they let us know it. Any time the KGB rang up Scargill (generally during the winter) they’d be all out with their brass bands parading up and down the street like a conquering army following their colours.
Meanwhile the rest of the country was freezing its bollocks off. Hospitals plunged into darkness. Operations cancelled. The old dying of the cold in record numbers.
And yet they’re the fucking heroes in the mind of jackasses like Prescott.
And now we have set ourselves up yet again for such idiocy.
The new shock troops will be photogenic nurses. Their faces twisted in hatred giving it ‘a fair days pay for a fair days work’. All orchestrated by the same failed Marxists as the 1970′s and 1980′s.
It’s the 1970′s all over again. Economy fucked. Deficit out of control. Unions spoiling for a fight. Labour party providing political support and cover for the economy destruction being caused by their own idiot policies.
All we need are re-runs of ‘Z-cars’ and ‘The Liverbirds’
They could do worse than re-run ‘The Sweeney’…
They keep advertising a programme about anti-fascist riots in London with heavy emphasis on the nasty “right wing”. The subliminal message here is Tories = right wing = fascist.
Pot calling Kettle?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/02/lord-ashcroft-tax-mandelson-inquiry
All these trolls are becoming very tedious.
They will not change opinions here but they are obviously trying to be divisive and try and turn punters away.
So that we can get back to normal service can we just ignore all their posts however tempting it is to offer a ripost
Secretary of State for Schools can’t spell:
“Oops – spelt “tries” as “trys – will retweet “
Why not just jump off a really tall building,making sure the Jonah is standing underneath.
Now that would be a You Tube video worth watching.
What the f**** is all this fuss about donations, there are far more important issues. Like policies, the economy etc. FFS if I had a few billlion £’s I’d donate to UKIP just to be put two fingers up to the EU communist corruption club
If only Cameron had the courage to tell the EU where to go (to hell)
Meanwhile Labour rushes to tie Tories hands even further….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8543328.stm
Great.
They hate us all. They’re doing it purely to spite the Tories but it’s all 60 million of us who’ll be punished.
Labour – enemies of the people.
This is my scoTched earth policy. A few more billions here, a few tens of billions there. So what, as Ed would say so eloquently ?
It’s the shite thing to do.
Be quiet or you’ll get a Nokia between your eyes.
Be afraid, very very afraid. The digital patient records are being created from doctors’ notes in a way that can only be described as grossly negligent and they will have numerous errors that will remain undetected because the project cost overrun has compromised the quality of the data, and this issue is not being addressed. If you have such a record, it may kill you. I would not consent to a summary care record unless I could inspect the record myself and have errors rectified. I do not think this likely in general will happen.
A friend works in an inner city NHS practice. Many of the staff in the practice (including some of the GPs apparently) intend to/have objected to their medical records being uploaded to the NHS ‘spine’.
Not only because of errors. Practically ANYONE (other than cleaners maybe) in the NHS can already access ANY medical record – all they need is a vacant, logged in computer terminal (the NHS apparently doesn’t prohibit login/password sharing) a surname & date of birth. All hits come up with addresses etc. Select your target and you have their full medical history inc internal practice notes.
The NHS says that it already logs ‘suspicious’ activity – namely attempting to access non practice patients more frequently than every (4?) minutes – but I bet no such audits are carried out WRT details accessed in hospitals.
Your NHS GP is supposed to ask you if you are prepared to allow your records to be uploaded to the Spine – but no-one I’ve asked has been contacted by their GP.
If the NHS can be so cavalier with security now, wait until somebody lifts a proportion of the spine database. Then citizens may REALLY know what it means to live in a surveillance society…
Nick -your friend is talking bollocks
Don’t you get it Ashcroft is white, so he should pay tax. Whereas the others are not considered British and are therefore not “getting away” with anything.
Reply to
’46 Martin Day’ says:
March 2, 2010 at 9:01 am
The Conservative Party are a bunch of shits
K-unt
stange how you seem have to forgotten the £50,000 Brown Slush fund!!!
Strange how the Medjia forgot that AS well
Not to mention the strictly illegal anonymous donation of £680k, traced back to David Abrahams.
Yet another case of nobody to blame, lets learn lessons and move on.
Last night on Sky News, there was a short interview of Dave, explaining Ashcroft’s status. “He is a non-dom, just like Lord Paul”.
Switched over to BBC, exactly the same interview footage, apart from the clumsy removal of ‘just like Lord Paul’. Then it was over to Toenails for a helpful explantion of what a bunch of evil baby eating bastards the Tories are.
Utterly disgraceful bias.
We all know that this row over onations is because the tories are loaded and Labour are Skint
Not a sausage ,bugger all ,they haven’t got a pot to piss in
So why are Daves crew doing so badly
get out and spend some money and try to look like you want to win the fucking thing !
Imagine how much money it would cost to buy 10 minutes of prime-time trashing of your opponents every night? And yet the BBC hands it all out free to Labour.
marginals do not exist in a bubble
spend as much as you like if the public doesn’t want to know you’re pissing money down a drain
all 3 Parties know that the televised debates will affect the election more than any amount of money poured into a marginal
3 hours of primetime on the big 3 channels
10 Million couldn’t pay fror that kind of exposure
They will not happen, too big a risk for Bruin
They most definitely will happen.
If any Leader pulled out of them now they would get beaten like a rented mule from now until polling day.
Too late to back out now.
They will not happen. The Maximum Imbecile will not pull out. He will merely make ever more insane requests – all questions to be set by me – no questions to be revealed to Cameron – all studio members to be hand-picked by me.
My answers to be delivered uninterrupted for as long as I choose. Cameron’s to be limited to 30 seconds. I get the first and last word on everything.
Andrew Marr to ask the questions in the form ‘Prime Minister – there are some people who have not heard how brilliantly you saved the world – would you care to tell them in your own words…’
Only the BBC will agree. The rest will tell him to fuck off. Then Cameron will make the same insane demands of the BBC and pull out too.
There will be no debates. Cameron has too much to lose and Brown has nothing to lose.
The debates will turn into Brown And Clegg spending 3 hours Cameron bashing. I’ll be astonished if Clegg spends more than a cursory couple of minutes criticizing Brown.
Tony Hall, the former head of News at the BBC who was so helpful to Tony and Gordon that they rewarded him with a nice little sinecure at the Royal Opera House, is currently being touted as a prospective Labour peer – so its not all about money for those BBC apparachiks
Labour are skint again?
Never mind, Labour will just give a few million of taxpayers money to the Union`s, who will magically “donate” it, minus their cut, back to Labour the next day.
In most societies it would be called theft and money laundering, in the UK it is perfectly acceptable socialist practice.
Labour are planning to raise cash by increasing their core trade of selling honours, appointing friends and donors to unelected sinecures and taking bribes for government contracts.
The one thing against ashcroft is the way poor old William had to go on newsnight and bullshit for him. Anyone got a labourite having to go through the same ordeal?
I don’t know why the Tories bother going on Newsnight at all. The programme’s only purpose is to contort the facts and insult everyone.
Gove raised the BBC bias last night, closed down by KWalk, but a start?
In the interests of balance, we have to ask hard questions of evil, baby-eating Tories, but those fine, upstanding people in the Labour party (long may it rule over us) would never try to deceive us, so we don’t have to ask them hard questions.
Labour : more smears than Mandelsons duvet !
Nasty!
More Marx On duvet……………Better?
I hear they were even repulsive enough to smear famies and children
what happened to McBride again ?
that’s right,
he is now deservedly regarded as untouchable filth spat at for his subhuman scumbaggery
there’s a lesson in there somewhere
everyone seems to have forgotten about mandelspoons dodgy past,sacked twice why is he allowed in the lords the hypocritical fuckwit Huhnez
When Labour came to power in 1997 the Premiership was British owned. Now its all owned by non-doms. That’s because Gordon instructed our banks to lend our money to foreign crooks and money launderers
Is there anything left in Britain that’s actually British owned?
Yes, Billions in debt.
Is Lord Fondlebum the Queen of England?
Get this message across the airwaves:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1254755/KENNETH-CLARKE-How-dare-say-crisis-isnt-fault.html
Surely, Guido, the question is not “who is worse”, but “is it right”? And the answer, in my view, is that it is most certainly not right. The rest of the debate is a distraction.
Sorry mate,
You appear to be lost.
We don’t care about that here.
You’re right, too early in the morning to get serious, hang the lot opf them!
Don’t go back too far, we just don’t want to get involved!
How far back ?? Past port ????
Exactly – steady on Guido
OT
I happened to watch a programme last night about obesity. The lovely presenter was trying to get a few words from Burnham without joy. So she door stepped him at his surgery.
He was walking across a city squuare, about to have a fag when she jumped him. He said ‘ you need to talk to the BBC press office…’ ‘I’m from the BBC, don’t you mean I need to speak to your press office?’ It was raining, so she offered to share her brolly. He took it; she then had to ask whether she could share it as she was getting soaked. What a plonker. He did agree to meet later.
But she then had a call from his press office telling her to get lost, how dare she appraoch a Minister of state in the street without an appointment. she was actually trying to be positive about their obesity campaign. Worth a watch on the iplayer
Was that the one with Rebecca Wilcox, daughter of Esther Rantzen ?? Good programme. encouraging to note that the BBC are nepotistic as well as biased.
s a u s a g e s
Only just noted the nepotism that is rife in the BBC then? Been that way for years.
It is largely like a big club. A socialist utopia cossetted from the real world. Will never be any different until broken up and commercially funded.
One word: Dimbleby.
Still on the iplayer at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nj6xc/Mischief_Who_Made_Me_Fat/
Burnham appears at about 24 mins in.
A picture tells a thousand words…
Cracking comment on the Grauniad Mandelson story :
“[I]‘m sick of all this stuff about being a non-dom. [H]is sex life is his own affair, leave the man alone”
why should people pay tax on what they earn abroard? it’s just the politics
of envy.
In the words of the boggle eyed bastard…so what. anyway he is going
So is Bruin.
Does that make what he’s done okay?
Labour must be very careful. Take Ashcroft down and down go their mates!
Apparently Lord Mandelson is going to make a statement about what his undertakings were on gaining entry to the Upper Chamber. Should make for interesting listening.
Some interesting factual snippits:-
- Labour received 30% more money from non-doms than tories
- Labour MPs accounted for 60% of MPs expenses abuses
- Same said MPs claimed millions of money, upon which they did not pay tax
Hypocrisy and double-standards.
All too true which is why the Parties are doing so badly and the public regard them as scum
I forgot about the Labour union contributions which also avoid tax.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/relationships/7324032/How-to-lie-and-not-look-as-though-you-are-lying.html
Interesting, but not necessary. It’s actually quite simple.
Are they a politician?
- Yes: they are definitely lying. About everything. They’re probably a thief too.
What do you mean ‘probably’ ???
What have you got to do these days to get tried for Treason?
Rape the Queen’s favourite Corgi?
For safe donations DON’T use a non-dom
That’s how Leo was conceived, because of non-doms.
If you want the unexpurgated version, it was because some people were using my Femidom as a hot air balloon that day.
The issue is surely that the tories lied about Ashcroft for years (and so did Ashcroft himself). The labour non-dom donors were at least open about their status.
You are clutching at Jack Straws here. You should know that politics is all about lying or to put it more kindly, expediency. Labour have led by example. Lord Paul became a Privy Counsellor AFTER stumping up much of the cash for Gordon Browns leadership bid. Sounds like ‘cash for privileges’ to me. I demand an inquiry.
I heard Michael Crick is going to investigate Lord Paul’s campaign donations and subsequent Privy Council appointment on Newsnight tonight. Should be fun to watch.
My mistake. They’re doing a special on how Mrs Thatcher is to blame for the 1200 deaths at Mid-Staffordshire Hospital. Quite right too.
There always used to be Trade Union companies on Registered Office nameplate boards in Guernsey accountants’ receptions!
Do they still do it and why?
I want to marry Lord Ashcroft and have his babies
In the same period that they are moaning about Ashcroft. The unions have paid £87M to Labour. UNIONS DO NOT PAY TAX. What’s the difference?
Ashcroft still probably pays more tax in the UK than a cabinet minister does from his/her salary and he is not paid by the state.
YOU WONT BELIEVE THIS
DAILY EXPRESS
taunt him over baby’s death’
UK NEWS
GORDON BROWN ‘BELIEVED BLAIRS LEFT PRAM OUT TO TAUNT HIM OVER BABY’S DEATH’
Blair would feel right at home here then.
And Sainsbury – who became a govt minister has donated even more money to Labour than Ashcroft.
Is Sainsbury the biggest political donor in British history?
Could people PLEASE stop saying that we have anything to do with this?
Money does NOT talk
Remind me, when did any of the Labour donors promise to be permanent residents and pay tens of millions of pounds in UK tax , back when permanent resident didn’t mean “non-dom”?
The issue is that Ashcroft broke his word, and made Hague look shady and corrupt. You are supposed to be all about openess, but it’s clear you are just a partisan hack.
“Resident” and “domiciled” have different meanings for tax purposes. There are three categories, all acceptable so long as it is clear to HMRC which one applies.
Resident and domiciled = live in UK, pay UK taxes on all income, wherever earned.
Resident and non-domiciled = pay UK tax on UK income, overseas tax on overseas income.
Non-resident and non-domiciled = pay all taxes overseas.
It’s legal (currently) for UK political parties to accept donations from people in any of those categories. It’s also legal for people to sit in the Legislature whichever of those categories they come under, though the Tories have said that they’ll change that to resident and domiciled only, giving MPs and Lords three months to decide if they wish to relinquish their Legislative powers or their tax status.
There are a number of non-domiciled donors to political parties, of whom Ashcroft is only one. Others include eight Labour donors, and a couple of Lib-Dem possibles. The party to have benefitted most substantially from donations by non-doms appears to be Labour.
No, the meaning changed in 2008. In 2000 “permanent resident” meant UK resident domiciled for tax purposes, not non-dom. That’s why Hague talked about “tens of millions of pounds” in UK income tax, and why he was incredibly cagey about Ashcroft’s status, saying he “was fufilling” rather than “fulfilled” his promise.
It’s not the fact he’s a non-dom, though I’m not entirely happy about non-doms donating to political party, it’s the fact he broke his promise to get a peerage, and that the Tory party have covered it up for ten years.
PS – Ashcroft did not break his word.
He undertook to pay UK tax on UK income, and unless anybody can prove otherwise, we can assume that he has, since HMRC have not acted to prosecute for unpaid tax.
Ashcroft totally lied.
The laws he are citing did not exist when he took office. They didn’t exist for 7 years as a Lord. The laws he are citing came into existence in 2008.
The reason Ashcroft didn’t reveal his status until now, and the party hid it for so long is the simple fact that he was doing it dishonestly for 7 years.
He was not allowed to be a lord, and a none dom until 2008. So his party lied about it
Yeah, I think the whole point is that it’s one man and the influence he has… Twats.
Between 2001 -2008 Lord Ashcroft attended Parliament 285 times at a cost to the taxpayer of ZERO pounds in expenses. Average cost: Zero
During the same period Lord P*aul attended Parliament 1047 times at a cost to the taxpayer of £281,263 in expenses. Average cost per visit: £268.64 in 2008/9 this jumped to £405.58 per visit.
Which one is more patriotic?
This was started by a tory blogger. I can only assume he’s got his activists to spread the word.
Lord Ashcroft has only attened the lords 280 times in 10 years. There is your headline.
Frankly, we need more non-doms in the country and more people making creative use of tax law to limit the amount of money the government takes and wastes on its pet projects for the glory of the Motherland.
Mandleson on BBC now accusing the Tories of “stealing” the election by using Ashcroft money that should have been paid to HMRC.This coming from the arch thief himself
FULL ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN PROGRESS
And Labour will make it the dirtiest,smear laden campaign of all time.
I just hope that Labour are exposed to and by the Electorate for what they are.
How much did the Hindujas give again?
Mr Biscuit, have a look at the cost of Mandlesons house, there may be a clue there
Did baby Leo Blair throw his toys out of his pram just to taunt Gordon
(Im the only one who should be throwing his toys out of the pram )McMental?
A very cruel thing to do to such a sensitive man
None of the money i give Gordon comes from child labour.Honest.Just ask Mandy
[...] Guido co-conspirator in the comments points out that between 2001 -2008 Lord Ashcroft attended parliament 285 times at a total cost to [...]
Cost to the Tax payer – NIL
Those 3 faces on the red bar don’t look very British, do they?
This just underlines the complete and utter joke that the so-called workers party is the party for the people.
Thus far it has been the party of spin, bankers, enriching the rich, lies, bullying, murder and lest we forget – DEBT
[...] Guido co-conspirator in the comments points out that between 2001 -2008 Lord Ashcroft attended parliament 285 times at a total cost to [...]
Ashcroft is the only English name – can Gordon only rely on foreigners for his power over the British people.
Dear God, this is my first visit to this blog and what a cesspit the comments section is
It’s the web equivalent of watching some pre school children smearing the contents of their nappies on the wall in a vain attempt to get attention.
You should see it when it gets bad. Still, if you’ve ever wondered what sort of person votes conservative, now you know.
Jimmy
Lord Ashcroft personally funds tory blogs and activism. It’s part of his mandate in tory HQ.
Ian Dale was forced to publish a disclaimer, saying he was in fact “business partners” with Ashcroft yonks ago. By “partner” he means, he is funded by tory HQ basically.
Guido is just the same. He just hasn’t been outed yet like Dale.
All of the undying support on blogs, and message boards for Ashcroft is just activists and bloggers defending their boss.
You mean that list of Labour non-dom donors that appeared repeatedly on every blog yesterday wasn’t just just some spontaneous coincidence?
Well I’m shocked I tell you, shocked.
“Since 2001..”
…which is, of course, when time began.
Guido
This information was sent out from tory HQ, to it’s bloggers yesterday, to coincide with the revelation. In an attempt to “dampen” the news.
Aren’t you just, inadvertently admitting that you are run from tory HQ, just like your Ian Dales etc etc.
Lord Ashcroft personally funds tory online activism. Ian Dale was forced to print a disclaimer on his web site stating that Lord Ashcroft was a “business partner” of his. Translated, he funds the web site.
Dear me………
1: Your figures are outright lies. Ashcroft admitted himself that he had given at “least 10 million” to the party since 1997.
What’s more he has given, fact, 4.6 million, to the Cameron campaign alone. You are questioning people’s intelligence if you are seriously trying to claim that he only gave 1 million to the Howard, Major and Hague campaigns combined!
Many newspapers quote his donations since 2001, of being closer to 15 million
2: Lord Paul has only given £50k since 2001. And that was for internal labour business – as in a leadership issue. Not funding elections.
3: Mittal is neither a Lord, a party deputy chairman, so can frankly give what he wants. If you are trying to list tory none doms, who aren’t lords or party members, you are probably talking 5x as much!?
The key point is the simple fact that the laws Ashcroft is citing to clear his name (long distance resident) only came into existence in 2008.
He took office in 2001, stating he would pay full time UK tax. Hague stated clearly that he would.
From 2001-2008, he was still a none domicile, with no laws to back him up. He and his wretched party simply lied, and misled during this period.
In 2008, a law came about that he could claim he was following, and he finally came out because of freedom of info pressure.
The key fact being, he lied to take office as a lord for 7 years. As did his party. And is the very reason why they never made it public until recently.
PS.
The Guardian today revealed the information, and data, the tory press office had handed out for it’s bloggers to publish, to coincide with the announcement/revelation. In an attempt to dampen the bombshell.
Either Guido is simply copying it, or he was given this information direct from tory press office, as he has published every bit, directly in time with all of the other tory blogs.
Only an idiot would think Guido isn’t a tory blogger anyway. Working from the tory press office, but thanks for finally confirming it.
The cherry on top is the obvious point that Lord Ashcroft actually funds all official tory blogging, and activism. If you were wondering why message boards and blogs have been flooded with undying love, and support for the tax dodger in chief!
Tory Shadow cabinet member Michael Gove on Ashcroft in the late 1990s (he of course did not know the man was going to be his boss a decade later!) when a political journalist for The Times:
“Mr Hague certainly has a well-developed sense of humour…You certainly do not emerge strengthened as an opponent of cronyism by expending what credibility you have acting as the paid lobbyist for your own title-hungry Treasurer”.
“Enjoys no check on his arrogance…Why wasn’t the Conservative Party capable of seeing how much trouble reliance on this one man would cause?”
Haha! Classic
Guido
You do realise that in lobbying so hardly for Ashcroft (a cronie who bought a peerage, and then lied about it) you are just really showing that your claims about being a “libertarian” are as phony as your psuedonym.
You’re a tory blogger, who’s been handed these figures by the tory press office like Ian Dale, and all of your colleagues.
Lord Ashcroft funds tory blogging. Go figure your going to defend his cronyism to the death.
If you were a Libertarian, you’d be laying into the guy, for his lies, deceipt, and bought titles.
Instead, you are just towing the party line, and trying to turn it on Labour, like the tory press office requested, from all of it’s bloggers (see Guardian article).
I realise you not being a tory blogger is a running joke. As in everyone knows you are, but it’s an in joke to just keep denying it.
But can I suggest that a non partial, libertarian, would be laying into this sort of sleaze? Rather than just posting the information the tory press office asked you to post on the subject?
As in PR
Tory press office sent a set of figures, and angles, to all of it’s bloggers, on the release of the Ashcroft admission, to dampen the subsequent media attacks.
On the basis that Ashcroft funds all tory blogs of note. As well as all tory activtism
Like the agenda less, impartial libertarian Guido is, he just publishes it all, just like any Ian Dale, or Conservative home.
I have no problem with tory blogging. I’m just sick of all the undue respect this tory cretin gets for just being a pawn of Ashcroft, like any normal tory blogger.
The guys towed the tory office media line completely on this. Right down to the figures they prepared for it last week, as part of the PR battle.
“Fighter for truth and honesty in politics!” Unless it involves my boss.
From the Guardian
“Tory press offices sent out a whole host of stats and figures to their bloggers, to try and push a “hyporisyy” angle, in defence of their party deputy chairman”.
Deary me Guido. Mr. “I am not a tory blogger I am here to expose sleaze” Fawkes!
Sleaze, as long as it doesn’t involve your boss