Tax letter business leaders gave £2.5m to Tories

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Signatories to a Daily Telegraph calling for a stop to the proposed increase in national insurance have given nearly £500,000 to the Conservative party.

UPDATE 14.55:

Thanks to our commenter, Henry, who pointed out that, “LFF are only scratching the surface with their list. You need to look at the companies.”

Companies run by the signatories have given an additional £2 million bringing the total donations from tax letter signatories to a stunning £2,484,804. Going through the list it turns out that:

• Aggregate Industries have given £100,500

• JCB have given £616,010 in cash donations and £118,177 non-cash donations

• Bestway Cash & Carry have given £28,852

• Harris Ventures (Lord Harris’ company) have given £1,160,730 in cash donations and £25,135.59 in non-cash donations

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Signatories to today’s letter in the Daily Telegraph calling for a stop to the proposed increase in national insurance have given close to half a million pounds to the Conservative party.

The following signatories have made donations to the Conservative party covered on the Electoral Commission register:

• Anthony Bamford has given £86,249.

• Aidan Heavey has given £5,500

• Christopher Gent has given £105,400

• Simon Wolfson has given £238,250

Among the other signatories, Lord Harris of Peckham takes the Conservative whip in the Lords.

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122 Responses to “Tax letter business leaders gave £2.5m to Tories”

  1. Any Colour but Brown

    As always the Mandlebum-lickers try to exaggerate anything anti-Tory into a smear campaign and sweep their own corruption under the carpet.
    The fact that Brown, himself, called NIC a “tax on jobs” is, also, blithely forgotten. Source: Hansard.

  2. Mr. Sensible

    ‘ Any Colour but Brown’, I don’t think anyone likes putting up taxes, but we have to be realistic; those same Tories have lectured us about the need to cut debt.

    The fact is that those retailers oppose this, yet 1 of the alternatives would be to increase VAT. Would they rather that?

  3. Henry

    Seems the Bamford family (& JCB companies) have alone given the Tories around £2.75 million. And that excludes their donations to the Midlands Industrial Council & Shadow Cabinet ministers’ offices.

  4. Gail Cartmail

    RT @leftfootfwd: Tax letter business leaders gave £2.5m to Tories http://bit.ly/ajXcKW

  5. john

    If you look at the full list of companies that signed the letter to the Telegraph most are in retail, most employ part time just above minimum wage. So how can they claim it will be a tax on jobs when the threshold for paying the increase NI will be 20k.

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