Cameron's money men

alexhilton Thu Oct 02, 2008 at 12:08:42 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Click here for this week's C4 Dispatches documentary on David Cameron's convoluted financing of the Tory Party.





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Re: Cameron's money men (#1)

by Vlad on Thu Oct 02, 2008 at 12:42:28 PM GMT

Highly amusing to see the hypocritical stance taken by Labour on the financial situation at the moment. Hows about old Paul Myners of hedge fund manager GLG, biggest short seller of Bradford and Bingley. (Donor to Labour, crony of Gordon's, Smith Institute, appointee etc). Hows about £1 million from the non-exec chairman of Man Group (UK's largets quoted hedge fund group). Then there is nice Mr Tullet, another large Labour donor, his broking firm services hedge funds who want to go short on stocks and deritatives. I'm afraid the list goes on and on. Unite should really be holding wee protests outside the offices of the Guardian as Myner's chairs it's holding company. Be very careful what you say about Tory finances, hypocracy on this scale is not pretty.


Re: Cameron's money men (#4)

by For the Union on Thu Oct 02, 2008 at 04:51:50 PM GMT

Hypocrisy is promising to change politics and then charging 50K for meetings in your office. Perception is all - and it appears that those who have cash are privileged in their access to those in power. Then again, we all knew that didnt we - the tories would never change.

Cash for policies? "Would you want a tax cut, or no NMW?"


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Re: Cameron's money men (#6)

by dickwishart on Sat Oct 04, 2008 at 04:02:29 PM GMT

Paul Myners now in charge of business for the government, methinks the original poster may wish he'd never come up with this.


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Re: Cameron's money men (#2)

by LabourMatters on Thu Oct 02, 2008 at 01:57:53 PM GMT

Also available on YouTube. Are we able to embed YouTube vids Alex?


Re: Cameron's money men (#3)

by LabourMatters on Thu Oct 02, 2008 at 03:43:47 PM GMT

Actually, I'm wrong it's not on YouTube (that I can find). I was mixing it up with a previous Dispaches called Cameron: Toff at the Top.


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Re: Cameron's money men (#5)

by e10rifles on Thu Oct 02, 2008 at 05:03:11 PM GMT

All true, but over the last twenty years New Labour has forfeited our right to take the moral high ground on this one.

http://www.davidosler.com/2008/10/david_cameron_isnt_the_fat_cat.html


Re: Cameron's money men (#7)

by LabourMatters on Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 07:32:22 PM GMT

Channel 4 bites back after Tory complaints:
www.labourmatters.com/.../channel-4-fights-tory-complaints-over-camerons-money-men/

“Channel 4 is quite surprised that the Tories are making a point over this donation of £334 when in the programme we are raising questions about a £3 million donation from Lord Ashcroft and as yet the Tories haven’t come back on that at all.

“We are very confident that we haven’t flouted any election regulations. It’s completely legitimate to make such a small donation as part of a journalistic enquiry to test compliance procedures. We are very robust about this.”

 Adding:

“We were completely open and transparent, in contrast with Lord Ashcroft about where his donations are coming from.”

Ouch!


Cameron's money men | 7 comments (7 topical)