Monday 26 March 2012

Queens cousin sells access to government for £250,000

'Call Me Dave' will host a dinner for you, with the fragrant Sam alongside, for the quite reasonable price of quarter of a million pounds. For that you get to eat in their Downing Street flat and any concerns you might have, say, about the higher rates of income tax, will be heard and taken back to inform the Policy Unit!

The Queen must so proud that one of her scions is selling England by pounds.

All in this together? We think not.

Dave himself said the following before getting into power: ‘It’s an issue that crosses party lines and has tainted our politics for too long... an issue that exposes the far-too-cosy relationship between politics, government, business and money. I’m talking about lobbying — and we all know how it works. The lunches, the hospitality, the quiet word in your ear, the ex-ministers and ex-advisors for hire, helping big business find the right way to get its way. In this party, we believe in competition, not cronyism. We believe in market economics, not crony capitalism. So we must be the party that sorts all this out.’

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/iainmartin/9166545/Cash-for-access-is-toxic-for-the-Tories.html