(not satire – it’s the Tories!)
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Looks like the Tories forgot to ask the permission of at least one of the people who was supposed to have put his name to the so-called pro-Tory business letter.
Today, Pascal Soriot CEO of AstraZeneca, has accused the Tories of including his name in the letter without his permission:
Pascal Soriot: “I support policies that reinforce a competitive tax environment and encourage investment in the UK. Neither I nor AstraZeneca endorse any political party and while I support such policies my name should not be used in the context of the letter.“
Perhaps Mr Soriot is backtracking because he’s realised the public have sussed out the real reason a group of multi-millionaire company directors are backing the Tories:
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Or perhaps he’s realised that acting like a spoilt, overpaid fatcat who doesn’t give a damn about the vast majority of his customers who have had to suffer extreme austerity over the past 5 years, might not be good for business?
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Reblogged this on glynismillward189 and commented:
…and this is what happens when you don’t check your facts Mr CaMORON!! (the tories checking facts? that’d be a first)
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Probably just a researcher making the perfectly understandable assumption that none of the companies on the list would object to helping their pet party out.
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Or is it that CCHQ thought they could use the donors names with impunity? We know that many of the signatories are known donors, and/or recipients of Tory honours. Makes you wonder about the rest, eh? Make you wonder who is on the honours list that is being withheld (another first for Cameron, like using No10 doorstep for party politics, or plotting to use the last day of HoC business to try a fast one.).
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Mwhahahahahaha 😀
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Reblogged this on Jay's Journal and commented:
Larfing 🙂
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http://www.cityam.com/213067/general-election-2015-ladbrokes-chief-jim-mulllen-slams-business-leaders-over-telegraph
LADBROKES BOSS WAS PRETTY PISSED OFF WITH IT TOO. AND HAD A MOAN AT THE OTHERS TOO
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Such antics are hardly new to certain Tories.
In 1979, one Peter Young (in 1980, he was elected as Chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students) forged the signature of at least one of his referees on his nomination paper for the election to the Students’ Representative Council. The student whose signature was forged, was a medical student and could not be found in time for Peter Young to submit the completed Nomination Form in time. Rather than trying to find someone who would nominate him, Peter Young just wrote the name of that student on the form and added an illegible squiggle as the signature, in the misguided belief that the student would not object.
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
It seems that not everyone of the rich businessmen the Tories claimed were supporting them actually wants to be associated with that letter. Now it’s possible that he may be backing away from this for the reasons Tom says. On the other hand, it could also be that he thinks that supporting the other people might not be so good for business if Labour actually win the election, and he needs a few favours.
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Erm, so How exactly did his signature get in the letter?
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