Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat:
The Tories are buying marghinal seats with the money supplied by a tax refugee. Moreover, a tax refugee who was raised to the peerage under assurances of his paying his taxes in the UK. Which turned out to have been a lie, a scam to misled the Queen and PM.
Not that the Tories mind. Despite their posturising on corruption, Ashcroft has bought himself huge influence within the party with money that belongs to the British taxpayer.
Still the ancient Tory reflex: taxes are for the little people.
Hur, hur! Ashcroft is being delicately disengaged by Cameron, and Hague. The interesting thing will be to see if Osbourne says something stupid and is finally replaced by Clarke (oh, God, please let it happen!).
With that said, the money does not belong to the tax payer because Labour has not, in twelve years, reformed the Tax Code. This may be because they have their own non-dom Peers and benifactorcs.
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