(UK) Tory Peter Cruddas sold access to PM, Sunday Times alleges
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[quote]Conservative Party co-treasurer Peter Cruddas offered access to the prime minister and chancellor for £250,000, the Sunday Times has alleged.
It has footage of him apparently making the offer to undercover reporters.
London-based Mr Cruddas was appointed Tory co-treasurer in June 2011 and is the founder of online trading company Currency Management Consultants Ltd.
The Conservative Party said it would investigate but pointed out no donation had actually been accepted.
Labour has challenged the Prime Minister to "come clean" about what he knew about the matter, and when he knew of it.
In the footage, Mr Cruddas is heard discussing what access different size donations would get.
"Two hundred grand to 250 is Premier League… what you would get is, when we talk about your donations the first thing we want to do is get you at the Cameron/Osborne dinners," he says.
"You do really pick up a lot of information and when you see the Prime Minister, you're seeing David Cameron, not the Prime Minister.
"But within that room everything is confidential - you can ask him practically any question you want.
"If you're unhappy about something, we will listen to you and put it into the policy committee at number 10 - we feed all feedback to the policy committee." [/quote]
[url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17501618"]Source[/url]
Video in link. Hate how much sway money has on politics.
So basically they only take the concerns of people who donate £200k ($300k+) seriously?
So basically corruption.
[QUOTE=Cushie;35281612]So basically they only take the concerns of people who donate £200k ($300k+) seriously?[/QUOTE]
BREAKING NEWS: Tories only care about rich people, in other news Ed Miliband accused of being 'a bit rubbish', more at 11
All Politicians who have become corrupt should be hung, it's one thing to kill someone, and it's another to turn your back on the majority of people that voted you in and fuck over the entire population due to your greed and (if so) backwards ideas that belong in the 1800's.
That or at least a considerable prison sentence or something.
[QUOTE=smurfy;35281656]BREAKING NEWS: Tories only care about rich people, in other news Ed Miliband accused of being 'a bit rubbish', more at 11[/QUOTE]
It's funny how you're implying this is kind of corruption is limited to Tories.
[QUOTE=smurfy;35281656]BREAKING NEWS: Tories only care about rich people[/QUOTE]
That's news?
Sometimes i wish the world would end and start again, in hopes we can create a paradise rather than the shitfest of a planet we have created today.
You could gain a quick access to Tony Blair when he was pm if you were able to correctly identify his scrotum in a scrotum line up consisting of the pm and entire cabinet at the time. the scrota would poke through a hole onto a small platform which would vibrate at an undisclosed frequency (which was apparantly enough to throw off any of the current scrota identification technology that participants may have concealed). participants were allowed to use touch and taste to help the identification and were in fact extremely encouraged to.
this is how they got him to appear on Parkinson and all the comec relief etc
[QUOTE=Leg of Doom;35288895]You could gain a quick access to Tony Blair when he was pm if you were able to correctly identify his scrotum in a scrotum line up consisting of the pm and entire cabinet at the time. the scrota would poke through a hole onto a small platform which would vibrate at an undisclosed frequency (which was apparantly enough to throw off any of the current scrota identification technology that participants may have concealed). participants were allowed to use touch and taste to help the identification and were in fact extremely encouraged to.
this is how they got him to appear on Parkinson and all the comec relief etc[/QUOTE]
source??
"Preorder your copy now for early access to the PM and the exclusive 'Heard Opinions' DLC"
I don't think this is how it seems, he was probably just trying to scam money out of people rather than actually have the powers to make what he says happen
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