The serious alternative to pig-gate: Did Cameron mislead the public over Ashcroft’s tax status?
This is the serious other side to the pig-gate story that has been giving everyone so much joy, up and down the UK, recently.
Why a story about David Cameron misleading the British public should be shocking is a mystery to This Writer – he has been doing it for more than five years, at least – but here’s what The Guardian has to say about it:
David Cameron is facing fresh questions from Labour and the SNP over allegations by the former Conservative deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft that the prime minister conspired to mislead the public before the 2010 election about his knowledge of Ashcroft’s non-dom tax status.
Ashcroft, a billionaire businessman, Tory donor and former key Cameron ally, has said he is not seeking to settle old scores, but also claimed in a long-awaited unofficial biography that Cameron took drugs at Oxford University and was involved in an initiation ceremony involving mock sex with a dead pig.
In the preface to his book Ashcroft asserts he discussed his tax status with Cameron in 2009 in detail. He writes that Cameron was “fully aware of of my status as a so-called non dom. Indeed we had a conversation about how we could delay revealing my tax arrangements until after the election.”
Source: Cameron faces fresh questions over knowledge of Ashcroft tax status | Politics | The Guardian
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That’s simple! Yes!!!
Student days: Toff in a Snout.
Offered £8 million: Snout in the Trough.
What did you expect? Typical corrupt Tory.
And why is it ok to expect to buy your way into power by donations? Why not earn your way by merit? Truly revolutionary!
This little pig went to market, this little pig stayed at home, This little pig was sexually abused by a deviant spoilt silver spooned Tory drunk. I wonder if this is what SS Rottenfuhrur Shmidt had over him. We must be the laughing stock of the world. Sociopaths one and all.
“I wonder if this is what SS Rottenfuhrur Shmidt had over him.” if it is true then Smith’s days as DWP Uberfuhrer could be numbered. However I suspect that even more deviance may yet surface.
Deceit and corruption seems the Order of the day where money is concerned in that section of The House. I have no sympathy for either Cameron or Ashcroft.
Cameron has misled the public since day one so this should come as no surprise to anyone, he will continue to mislead us all until his arse is thrown out of office!