tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post115407315636458108..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: The Sting for MingIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1154100212413465792006-07-28T16:23:00.000+01:002006-07-28T16:23:00.000+01:00He'd have never had a seat in the Lords. That's pr...He'd have never had a seat in the Lords. That's preposterous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1154087576972222642006-07-28T12:52:00.000+01:002006-07-28T12:52:00.000+01:00& presumably also to dig up what the Tories said a...& presumably also to dig up what the Tories said about it being OK.<BR/><BR/>The dodgy bit is about them accepting money from his business rather than personally which is precisely as dodgy as getting money as loans to avoid have to admit donations. I personally also think that limited companies should not be allowed to donate to party organisations. Despite the legal fiction about a company being a person it isn't & has no business influencing politics - I have little problem with the rich individual donating personally. Another reason is that a company's duty is to maximise profits - if it gives money it is either getting nothing for it & thus defrauding its shareholders or else it is.<BR/><BR/>Where criticism of the LDs falls is that there is no suggestion that he got anything for it & no readily apparent mechanism as to how he could have .<BR/><BR/>It should also be pointed out that what he has been convicted of is getting a new passport by filling in the forms untruthfully - essentially a holding charge & says nothing about financial fraud let alone that this particular money was obtained fraudulently.neil craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09157898238945726349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1154077140303340122006-07-28T09:59:00.000+01:002006-07-28T09:59:00.000+01:00I guess in the long run this devalues all politics...I guess in the long run this devalues all politics ("a plague on all your houses") yet I can't resist these waves of schadenfraude given how d*mn sanctimonious the Libs are at every opportunity.<BR/><BR/>It would be interesting to dig up whatever they said about us Tories when the Asil Nadir business was in the news (foreign fraudster supporting the party)....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1154074877417234282006-07-28T09:21:00.000+01:002006-07-28T09:21:00.000+01:00Yep. This story is going to run and run. Absolut...Yep. This story is going to run and run. Absolutely delicious.ContraToryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09479054357874249861noreply@blogger.com