So It Was Just Another Dirty Con Trick...
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.This is one of Tony�s more inventive �japes�. Side step the rules governing party fundraising by getting loans that you don�t have to declare (wink, wink, jobs a good �un), then reward your �friends� by getting them a seat in the House of Lords.
Wow, it�s actually a stroke of genius. He�s killing two birds with one stone, in as much as he can then fill the �Lords� with tame Labour party supporting representatives who will then rubber stamp all his lunatic policies.
No more will they have the numbers to turn down ID cards.
The Lords, that last stumbling block of �checks and balances� in our crumbling democratic system, becomes a Labour �Old boys club� while we (the public) enjoy/endure (delete as appropriate) a �New order� of authoritarian rule.
Mrs T was just a friend to a Chilean dictator, while TB wants to become one. There�s progress for you! If only he could have put his talent for fraud, subterfuge and deception to better use during his term in office, the Labour party might actually have achieved something!
There is a difference - this is considerably worse than 'cash for questions', for the reasons that stevie_c2it describes.
I'd like to know whether a) the loans were at a reduced rate of interest, or interest free, in which case they amount to donations; b) whether they were paid back; c) how the lenders treated the loans in their books; and d) what the money was used for.
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