Yellow Fever 3,792 Posted December 30, 2022 3 hours ago, horsefly said: Read it and weep: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/29/one-in-10-tory-peers-have-given-more-than-100000-to-party One in 10 Tory peers have given more than £100,000 to party Exclusive: 27 members of House of Lords have donated almost £50m in total to Conservatives One in 10 Conservative peers are big donors to the party, giving almost £50m in total, new analysis shows, amid controversy over more financial backers believed to have been put forward on Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list. After speculation about more donors due to get peerages within the coming weeks, figures compiled by the Guardian show 27 out of the party’s 274 peers have given more than £100,000 to the Conservatives. The rate of donors being given peerages appears to have picked up over the last six years, during the tenures of Theresa May and Boris Johnson. The new year honours list giving out knighthoods and damehoods is due to be published on Friday, with Rishi Sunak under pressure to clean up politics by cutting out big donors. Last year under Johnson, David Winton Harding, a billionaire hedge fund manager who had given £1.5m to the Tories, was given a knighthood. During his three years in power, Johnson submitted the names of six major donors for peerages, including three financiers: Sir Michael Hintze, who has given £4.5m to the Conservatives; Michael Spencer, who together with his company has given about £7m; and Peter Cruddas, who has donated £3.4m. At least two more donors – David Ross, the Carphone Warehouse founder who arranged Johnson’s £15,000 holiday in Mustique in 2020, and Stuart Marks, a technology entrepreneur – have been tipped for a peerages in his resignation honours list. The list has been expected for some time, but it appears to have been held up during the vetting process, with Sunak facing calls from Labour to block it. There has also been a growing trend of big donor peers being given jobs as ministers. Most recently, Liz Truss requested a peerage for Dominic Johnson, a former party vice-chairman who has given more than £300,000 and was the business partner of her then business secretary, Jacob Rees-Mogg. He was subsequently appointed as a trade minister, a job he then retained under Rishi Sunak. At least six big donor peers have been given government jobs in the last decade, including two schools ministers (Theodore Agnew and John Nash), a Scotland Office minister (Malcolm Offord) and a business minister (Jonathan Marland). Dolar Popat served as a government whip. ... (It's worth reading the rest of this article from the link above) I saw this and it just SCREAMS corruption. A very British oligarchy. Needs sweeping away and then disinfecting. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
littleyellowbirdie 2,551 Posted December 30, 2022 25 minutes ago, Yellow Fever said: I saw this and it just SCREAMS corruption. A very British oligarchy. Needs sweeping away and then disinfecting. Well overdue really.Could have done with sweeping away and disinfecting the last time Labour said they were going to do it as well. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jan/26/lords-allegations 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
