(not satire – it’s the Tories!)
There shouldn’t be too much surprise that the Independent and the Standard – which are both owned by Russian oligarch Alexander Yevgenievich Lebedev – have come out in support of the Tories:
Why the surprise? Here’s why the Independent supports the Tories:
Because David Cameron has already gifted his Russian benefactors with the possibility of buying their way into the country:
From Russia with £1million: The UK’s Investor Visas
Of course, 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 David Cameron’s party won’t be expecting anything in return for their beneficence.
Fingers crossed.
Tories desperately try to hide their close links to Putin and his United Russia Party
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 Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
Private Eye has also frequently drawn attention to the large numbers of the Russian super-rich now donating handsomely to the Tory party. At one level, it’s hardly surprising – Russia is now the the nation of almost pure, unbridled capitalism, where the rich can do just about anything – with the proviso that they have Putin’s approval. The oligarchs are instinctively aristocratic in temperament, and so naturally look to the other blue-bloods over here, on this side of the Baltic and the North Sea. Neither Putin or Cameron really believe in democracy, despite what they tell the voters, and so when they come here, the Russia mega-rich naturally feel most at the home with the Tories.
The mentality behind the Russian favouring of the Conservatives goes right back to their country’s traditions of autocracy, which continued after the Communist Revolution with the highly centralised powers in the person of the President and General Secretary of the Communist Party. It was, after all, Khrushchev, who told an audience of British Tories, ‘If I was an Englishman, I would be a Conservative’.
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Reblogged this on sdbast.
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Reblogged this on World4Justice : NOW! Lobby Forum..
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Tom, excellent work 🙂
Good addendum from beastrabban, too…thank you. Will reblog when I get over to WP shortly
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This isn’t news Tom. I was reporting on this when ‘the kids’ from BIJ were still in nappies. It’s amazing what the promise of a genuine bottle of Russian vodka will do.
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Posted on a couple of David Cameron’s thread overnight. Prepare for incoming trolls 🙂
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Why am I thinking that given their influence this list of rich Tory Party-supporting fundraiser attendees should be household names in Britain — but they aren’t?
If Boris Kerfuffel Johnson becomes Prime Minister, I think Downing Street will be run from the Kremlin.
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Russian Oligarchs will well remember the 1917 revolution when an entire class was wiped out after years of famine and misery by a society that had remained feudal right up til then.
The UK is still a feudal society in government, ruled by aristocratic mindset taught through public school and Oxford and Cambridge university.
The rich know that not feeding the poor has never been a good idea in history.
I could write up a manifesto tomorrow (the Greeks invented western democracy and politics and I’m half Greek and a huge fan of SYRIZA) but that, in England, could keep these rich happy AND feed all the poor.
But I would need young legs to give it a practical application in England.
But no small party can ever reach the public til we have public funding of political parties, so that once a party reaches a minimum threshold of members they get an equal amount of advertisement / admin money, rights to advertise and equal billing on television for free.
And Coucnils are banned from forbidding posters on street furniture or handing out leaflets under litter laws, that goes against free speech.
The SNP can have Scotland and Plaid Cymru Wales and the parties of Ulster themselves. They want to be anti austerity but are thwarted in many ways, including the loss of state pension that is UK-wide law only.
See why at end of my petition, in my WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT section, at:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
You might care to share this, because this is going to be a bigger scandal once even the Tory voters see that they are being short-changed and left in penniless old age.
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