Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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19 January 2010
21:3838289Today it has been announced that the tory party are being financed by a private company likely to take resourse away from the much loved NHS
The donation of "£21,000 to the tory party for private health care must influence the party in favour of private medicine and shows the REAL colours of the tory party.
DON'T LET THEM DESTROY OUR NHS
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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19 January 2010
21:5538291who in the blues is getting the 21 grand?
probably would just cover treatment for their nobby stiles.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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19 January 2010
21:5738292THE TORY P;ARTY HOWARD HAD A DONATION FROM A PRIVATE MEDICINE COMPANY
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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19 January 2010
22:0238296Sorry, I thought this was the Never Hadit Sogood post.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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19 January 2010
22:0438300£.21000 is hardly likely to influence policy keith, as you well know.
county councillors probably go home with a similar sum.
19 January 2010
22:1038302With all due respect Keith, £21,000 is peanuts.
Much more interesting is the fact that is the fact that DfID (Dept. for International Development) have given the best part of £3.6 million to the TUC who are, of course major sponsors of the Labour Party.........
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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19 January 2010
22:1138304I love peanuts Bob if you`ve got some spare.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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19 January 2010
22:1538305I wonder how the TUC has given to the labour party?
If we go down the road of looking at unions and supporting its members, they dont pretend to be a friend then go other ways.
Where as the tory party are happy to get this £21,000 may be peanuts but its the influence that counts
And the impression your totally supporting the NHS yet being influenced by a private health company
19 January 2010
22:4338309Keith, sorry to resort to cutting and pasting but:-
'In a report in 2009, International Policy Network disclosed that between 2003 and 2006 the Trades Union Congress received over £1.2 in taxpayers' money ostensibly intended for promoting development in poor countries. A significant amount of this money - which came from the UK Department for International Development (an entity created by the Labour Party in 1997) - was spent in the UK on activities that do not seem to have yielded any practical benefit to the poor either inside or outside of Britain.
Subsequently, IPN discovered that the TUC was recently granted a further £2.4 million by DfID for the period 2009 - 2011.
The new support to the TUC comes from funds intended for large international development NGOs with a track record in poor countries. It's unclear why this trend has been broken to fund a British trades union.
To make matters worse, unions that are members of the TUC represent over half the funding of the Labour Party. Since the DfID grants to the TUC come with few constraints, it is possible that DfID's money could essentially substitute for money that would otherwise come from member unions - freeing them up to give more to the Labour Party.'
The full horror can be read by downloading the report 'A Closer Union: The Political Abuse of Foreign Aid' from the IPN website.
Amongst other facts therein is the information that DFiD grants to the TUC were spent on courses to teach Trades Unions how to get more grants from the DFiD!!!!
You really couldn't make it up....
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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19 January 2010
23:0838311Keith - you are really desperate and highly imaginative in concoting this nonsense. Well done Bob for putting that into the perspective of the real problem, the level to which Labour are in hock to the Unions.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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19 January 2010
23:1238314Ask bob crow if he is in HOCK(barryw words) with the govt, think you will find that its far from the truth
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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19 January 2010
23:2038319If it were not for the Unions Labour would be bankrupt. Technically they are already in fact. It is not beyond the realms of possibility for the election to push them over the edge.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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19 January 2010
23:3938323I heard both GB and DC commit the full amount allowed to be spent on election will be spent to the maximum.
And it runs into millions
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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19 January 2010
23:5638324so how does this 21 grand enter into the great scheme of things?
a poster or two in an obscure street somewhere?
an upgrade of david camerons bicycle?
that sort of money would not cover barry and colettes weekly grocery account at fortnums.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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19 January 2010
23:5838325Its not the dosh its the influence
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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20 January 2010
00:1338326how can it buy influence if it does not even buy a top of the range jam jar?
there are private individuals that give political donations a lot larger than that, the best they can expect is a thank you letter.
i would be more interested in how much that chap that does not live in belize gives.
20 January 2010
00:1438327One of these posters Howard?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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20 January 2010
00:1638328excellent bob, the problem is that he has only one bicycle.
i believe that you have boasted on here about having 100% more.
20 January 2010
00:2438329550% actually Howard (one is a unicycle!)
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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20 January 2010
08:3138331So Keith, are those two individuals giving £1m each to Labour last month, trying to buy influence?
What about the Unions who are bankrolling Labour, arn't they trying to do so with £millions?
To suggest suggest what you do with a pathetic £21k is a bit sad in this context.l
