- Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:57 am
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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.
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.
Last edited by Abernathy on Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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