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. DrJasonAbbott

    #fighters Donations to Tory party by business leaders who oppose 1% cut in N.I revealed http://tiny.cc/idmhv

  2. DrJasonAbbott

    Revealed donations to Tories by business leaders who oppose 1% cut in N.I #fb http://tiny.cc/idmhv

  3. Nicholas

    I hope they keep giving. We need to get rid of this left wing nonsense from our country. If you want to start a recession keep increasing the public sector without improving its productivity. You commies just don’t get it!
    1. Public Spending IS NOT the same as investment.
    2. Reducing Taxes is not taking the money out of the economy.
    3. Stop taxing our economy into a massive recession!

  4. joefd

    they also donated or paid over 60k to conservative members of parliament – including 8k to cameron and 45k to hague… http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/100324/100324.pdf

  5. Chris

    I find it amusing that a lot of the tory cheerleaders are yet to realise that they are taking a real battering in the polls over this NI issue.

    Mandelson, Brown aren’t that stupid. They’ve been trying to pick this fight on purpose. Brown could have easily left it alone. He was back on at it yesterday. Trying to bait business.

    Why?

    Latest Sun Poll yesterday suggests that 48% of the electorate disagree with cutting NI. Amazing but true.

    Only 28% back the policy.

    Guardian poll. 70% of people would prefer NI to be raised instead of VAT.

    Tory poll lead has plummeted from 10% to 5% in 4 days over this. The more corporate fat cats that back Cameron, the worse it gets.

    Queue Dave snivelling in his press conference for Brown “to stop fighting with business leaders”.

    He knows full well the conequences of it all. They are losing support.

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