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It occurs to me that nobody has really looked properly at Hester's motivation for donating so much cash to the Tories.

It's bad enough that his company has benefitted from government contracts awarded by the Tories to the tune of some £400 million, and that he no doubt anticipates being awarded further lucrative contracts should the recipients of his largesse somehow manage to remain in government after the election, and perhaps a peerage further down the line.. It is very obviously pork barrel politics in its most blatant form.

But there's another reason why this rich and powerful man donates so much money to the Conservative Party. I'd suggest that it is because Hester clearly feels comfortable in expressing his offensive and racist views in the orbit of that particular party. He thinks that the Tory Party is a safe place for someone like him to call explicitly for the murder of a black female member of parliament - and, judging by the mealy-mouthed eventual responses from Rishi Sunak, Kemi Badenoch, and sundry other government apologists, it really is.

The whole affair exposes the Tories on a number of levels - racist, misogynist, corrupt, in the pocket of rich business men, hypocritical, unprincipled, ugly.

Let's say it again - these bastards cannot be gone soon enough.

I can’t remember if it was Newsnight or some other programme that, a few years ago, ran a segment on Abbott’s staffers and the amount of time they put into going through her incoming post and filtering out the racist hate mail. Not to mention trying to work out if any of the numerous death threats were serious enough to warrant police attention. She was actually elected to parliament in the same year as Bernie Grant. You could probably build an art installation large enough to fill the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern out of all the shitty letters she’s had since then.

ConservativeHome commentators.

Yeah, so he done a racism.
Are we supposed to treat that like a bad thing?

The racist nans have taken over the care home.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:57 am It occurs to me that nobody has really looked properly at Hester's motivation for donating so much cash to the Tories.

Would you have any problem with me reposting this post elsewhere, Abers?

Properly credited, of course.

Be my guest.

‘We’re talking about you not to you.’

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... s-comments

The Commons speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, has sparked a fresh row by refusing to allow Diane Abbott ask a question during a heated session of prime minister’s questions, which was dominated by discussion of a Conservative donor’s comments about her.

Breaking news that there is apparently another £5m donation from Hester that the Tories are sitting on as as yet undeclared. That is 15 million quid the racist cunt is in for.

Fuck a Duck.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:54 pm Breaking news that there is apparently another £5m donation from Hester that the Tories are sitting on as as yet undeclared. That is 15 million quid the racist cunt is in for.

Fuck a Duck.

Hard to see how this doesn't fall foul of Gove's new extremism guidelines (announced today).

No doubt there'll be some semantic flourish that gives their cunts a pass.

Gove is an accomplished sophist.

Zoe Williams is well worth a read today.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -to-labour

Frank Hester’s £10m donation to the Tories is a priceless gift to Labour

‘The alleged comments were wrong…’

If Hester has admitted to them they’re not really ‘alleged’ anymore are they? What the fuck is he babbling about?

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:06 pm Gove is an accomplished sophist.

Also a Murdoch asset.

Compare Gove's description of extremism with the actions of News International (or it's latest rebrand).

I wonder if their attitude to him is inspired by the fear that he'll take his chequebook Reform-wards.

It’s also about a quarter of their election war chest.

They need Hester more than he needs them.

Let’s face it, they won’t be in power to gift him anything more.

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