(not satire – it’s the Tories!)
A governing UK political party being bankrolled by Russian oligarchs isn’t something the British electorate – or MI5 – would be all that keen on I’d imagine.
So I’m not surprised the Tories have been trying desperately to hide the identities of the people who attended their fundraising dinner last year.
That’s because – after Brits – Russians were the most representative nationality at the fundraising event.
According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the list of ultra-rich Russians and eastern Europeans who attended the party fundraiser included:
Alexander Temerko (Russia)
Tatanya Korsakova (Russia)
Andrei Borodin (Russia)
Vasily Shestakov (Russia)
Alexander Kuznetsov (Russia)
Alex Nekrassov (Russia)
Andrei Kliamko (Belarus)
Darko Horvat (Slovenia)
Obviously, it’s always possible that all those dodgy Russians and their mates who are handing over their millions to one of our governing parties won’t be expecting anything in return for their beneficence.
Fingers crossed.
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Tories desperately try to hide their close links to Putin and his United Russia Party
Actually, the Tories have already gifted their Russian benefactors with the possibility of buying their way into the country:
From Russia with £1million: The UK’s Investor Visas
And London Mayor Boris Johnson has also been busy making dodgy Russian friends of his own:
Here’s a Russian spy with his ‘good friend’ Boris Johnson
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Reblogged this on Guy Debord's Cat and commented:
Tories are quite happy to accept money from any rich bastard, including Russian oligarchs. It says a lot about their standards.
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David Cameron: ‘UK companies put off Russia because of corruption’
David Cameron has warned Russia that corruption, bureaucracy and an inconsistent approach to the rule of law was holding back trade relations with Britain.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/globalbusiness/8758532/David-Cameron-UK-companies-put-off-Russia-because-of-corruption.html
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Reblogged this on loopeyange and commented:
CaMoron would trade with anyone, under ANY terms, IF it benefited him and his elite…..trouble is, he’s likely to piss a few neighbours off with this one!
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
I am not remotely surprised at this – Private Eye has pretty much said the same thing. And you can see why immensely rich Russian oligarchs would be keen to fund the Tory party: they’re used to living in a corrupt, authoritarian state, where the rich have always enjoyed lives of vast wealth and privilege and the poor treated as serfs. As well as a political system where you are technically free to vote for whomever you want, so long as its the man in charge. And like the Tories, Putin’s own party also behave like a bunch of Nazis when it comes to screaming about patriotism. There is one difference with Britain, however. In Russia, Putin’s thugs beat and murder genuinely investigative journalists. In Britain, with a few very honourable exceptions, the Right-wing press and the broadcast media have stopped investigating and exposing the government’s lies and corruption voluntarily. As for MI5, a long time ago when Barry Took hosted the News Quiz, he quipped that KGB called MI5 ‘our London office’.
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Wrote a similar criticism myself. http://kombatbadger.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/when-is-a-democracy-not-a-democracy/ . Don’t worry – referenced this blog!
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Not at all surprised. Tories are the lowest of the low and will go to anyone who has money to support their greed. The way its going in London there will be more Russians than any other nationality living there.
What Cameron and Co don’t see is that they are just little flies in the honey pot and that the rich nationals could take them apart in one stroke.
If Dave thinks that he is rich and has power, he’s in for another shock – they see him as a low and inferior person – poor Dave 🙂
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Reblogged this on stewilko's Blog.
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Looks to me that they have already bought the country and were just meeting up to tell their lackey’s what to do.
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here, here
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about time too!
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Be careful of falling into the ‘Eastern European’ trap and demonising others who are not from that part of the world. Slovenia is very much Central Europe and, other than hob-nobbing with Tories, Darko Horvat’s only ‘crime’ is to have built up a successful company. Just because he might have a funny-sounding name, it doesn’t mean he is from an evil eastern Empire.
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Wustpisk – I know more about eastern Europe (or central if you prefer) than you think.
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Ditto 🙂 But I don’t want to get into an argument – I enjoy and support what you do, and I would be interested to know your opinions on the (mis)use of the blanket term ‘Eastern Europe’ and ‘Eastern Europeans’. But this might not be the right forum …
[Well, I’ve been made very painfully aware more than once in some of those countries that the term ‘eastern Europe’ – as opposed to ‘central Europe’ – is disliked by many citizens of former Communist countries who understandably prefer to distance themselves from Russia. I don’t often get picked up on it in the UK though. So I’m presuming you or your family are from one of those countries? (Your written English is native so I’m also guessing you must have been born in the UK).
That said – if you look at the map of Europe, most of those countries are in fact positioned pretty centrally from a purely geographical point of view. So if we can put the political past behind us, I accept the term ‘central European’ is probably more accurate for a lot of those countries. I’d still definitely label Russia, Ukraine, Belarus – possibly Romania and Bulgaria – as both politically and geographically eastern European.
Anyway, you’re absolutely right about Slovenia – it’s definitely central European both geographically and politically – so I was wrong to lump it together with Russia as ‘eastern European’.
Where would you draw the line between central and eastern Europe?] – TOM
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Thank you for responding. I’m in agreement with you there and you are correct in your analysis of my background (family members, years spent living in the Czech Republic). The problem is that the term isn’t picked up on nearly enough (if at all) in the UK as it is a term that is used and abused by the media/police, etc to lump together the bogeyman from the east. In general people from central European countries (which geographically and politically includes Germany to the west to Poland in the east, down to Slovenia, possibly Croatia), consider themselves Central Europeans and many Romanians also consider themselves Central European as well. The biggest scandal in the UK is that the term ‘of Eastern European appearance/with an Eastern European accent’ is bandied about with no thought as to the absurdity of this description if you think about it – maybe you would like to do some sort of expose on this? It is something that has got to change.
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