So apparently there is someone hawking themselves around to the filthy rich offering a private dinner with David Cameron and George Osborne for a ‘minimum donation’ to the Conservatives. The papers have jumped all over it calling it ‘cash for policy’.
I think everyone is missing a point here. We are all deluded if we believe that this doesn’t go on with every political party. Private functions between party leaders and wealthy donators have been happening for years. It’s all about a political party having a particular angle on a subject to favour the donator. It has been going on for years and we are all naïve if we believe it is anything other. The Conservatives are in bed with another political party (I believe it’s called a Coalition Government) and it’s a pretty big ship to change course. We are crazy to think that a private dinner can change anything when we have the Lib Dems as our safety net (bizarrely).
For me, the big issue is that Downing Street is a gift from ‘us’ to the Prime Minister / Chancellor and should be used to run the country. All of the resources and costs are ‘ours’……not for fundraising for the political party. We also own their time and they represent ‘us’. This is the biggest crime here…..’our’ resources being used for political gain.
In case you were wondering, the Conservative HQ is just 0.9 miles away from Downing Street.
Just saying……that’s all.
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