"Bought like a banana republic"

[davek]

No, they just loaned money to the party in return for peerages. Cmon Dave, I know you're being partisan here but Labour aren't any cleaner. I dare say the Lib Dems would have been just as corrupt had they any power to sell.

Yes, they all work peerages in for donors..even the Lib Dems. The Ashton case is different...he's lied about changing his tax status to accept the peearge and the Tory 'modernisers' under Cameron knew for years he had. The Electoral Commission have been running a long running investigation into this - basically he's set up a shadow company to allow his Bearwood fortune (registered in Belize) to fund the Tories. He might have his Etonian & Bullingdon Club mates in his arse pocket, but that's not allowed I'm afraid, old boy.

There is no sense of "a pox on all your houses" here, I'm afraid. No crumb of comfort for the Tories. The Ashton case stands alone.

 

[davek]

Do they all accept peerages on the promise that they change their tax status and then renege on that promise? And do they all have places in their party's hierarchy masterminding an election campaign?

I think not.

A man who sees Belize (a country he's represented in the UN) as his home is trying to aid an election victory in this country.

Oh dear. Looks like the Tories have left this ticking bomb to detonate in their faces with two months or so to polling day.

Told you.

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