Frank Hester's Racist Comments About Diane Abbott

[*Wallace*]

I don’t know if it’s gospel but I’m sure I’ve just heard on the news Rishi says he won’t return the 10 mil and he’s accepted a further 5 mil from him ?

[The_DADDY]

3 minutes ago, *Wallace* said:

I don’t know if it’s gospel but I’m sure I’ve just heard on the news Rishi says he won’t return the 10 mil and he’s accepted a further 5 mil from him ?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13199161/Rishi-Sunak-pressure-millionaire-Tory-donor-said-MP-Diane-Abbott-shot-claimed-Conservatives-5million.html

[*Wallace*]

6 minutes ago, The_DADDY said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13199161/Rishi-Sunak-pressure-millionaire-Tory-donor-said-MP-Diane-Abbott-shot-claimed-Conservatives-5million.html

Ta Daddy you’re a gem mate.

[The_DADDY]

2 minutes ago, *Wallace* said:

Ta Daddy you’re a gem mate.

You're welcome matey 👍 

[despritdan]

The Tories privatize everything then give generous contracts to their friends. Their friends give some of the taxpayers' money they've received to the Tory party as a thank you. It's a way of transferring millions of pounds of taxpayers' money into the coffers of the Tory party. If there's money left over, it should be repaid to the Exchequer where it came from, otherwise it's blatant corruption.

[Axe]

32 minutes ago, *Wallace* said:

I don’t know if it’s gospel but I’m sure I’ve just heard on the news Rishi says he won’t return the 10 mil and he’s accepted a further 5 mil from him ?

Rightly so the the funding donation is not returned.  Hopefully Rishi Sunak has some backbone and will not do a u-turn

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, despritdan said:

The Tories privatize everything then give generous contracts to their friends. Their friends give some of the taxpayers' money they've received to the Tory party as a thank you. It's a way of transferring millions of pounds of taxpayers' money into the coffers of the Tory party. If there's money left over, it should be repaid to the Exchequer where it came from, otherwise it's blatant corruption.

That's correct - that's the way they undertake legalised corruption without having a worry in the world.

No wonder they think the public are daft.

That's how Hester can afford to be so generous to the Tory party in this  "all donations gratefully accepted"  brand of governance that we accept.

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19 minutes ago, Organgrinder said:

That's correct - that's the way they undertake legalised corruption without having a worry in the world.

No wonder they think the public are daft.

That's how Hester can afford to be so generous to the Tory party in this  "all donations gratefully accepted"  brand of governance that we accept.

No doubt I'll get complained about for quoting The Grauniad once more, but The Observer is the one breaking the storyl
Revealed: Sunak flown to Leeds for private tour of Frank Hester’s office weeks after £5m donation
Fresh questions raised over Tory donor’s access to prime minister following November visit

It has now emerged that the prime minister visited Hester’s healthcare IT company in north-west Leeds on 23 November, with the £16,000 of travel costs by helicopter met by the businessman.

The trip was made roughly three weeks after Hester’s company, the Phoenix Partnership (TPP), gave a second £5m tranche to the Conservatives last November.

Hester himself donated £5m in May of last year, while a further £5m is reportedly under discussion.

The businessman from West Yorkshire is the sole owner of TPP, which has been paid more than £400m by the NHS and other government bodies since 2016, primarily to look after 60m UK medical records.

He has profited from £135m of contracts with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in four years.

 

Are these donations, and free transport,  entirely altruistic, or might there be a coincidence regarding the number and size of contracts awarded to the donor's company?
Can anyone think of a reason why  that Sunak et al are so keen to defend Hester (& Marshall)?

 

Sunak initially declined to comment on Hester’s 2019 remarks that looking at Diane Abbott makes you “want to hate all black women” and that the MP “should be shot”.

But after an outcry, the prime minister’s spokesperson said the comments were “racist and wrong”.

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17 hours ago, butlers said:

Baroness Warsi former MP ,former deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party now in the Lords she was on a podcast today saying the Party should return the money .

And several other things about the current Tory party as well; pour out a beverage of your choice, sit down and have a listen.

The podcast is available here, with the relevant part from Baroness Warsi from 15/16 minutes in. The initial minute from 15-16 is an introduction to her.
The first 15 minutes of the podcast are irrelevant to this thread.

 

Sayeeda Warsi on her "arsonist" Tory colleagues from The News Agents | Published 2024-03-15

British politics has been dominated by race this week. The big picture is that certain ideas which would once have been unsayable are now commonplace within the Conservative Party. Sayeeda Warsi was at the centre of the Cameron modernisation project, where he sought to bring ethnic minorities into the tent. Now she’s in the wilderness and gives us a perspective of the changes which have taken place in her party. Among other things she calls some Tory ministers “arsonists” who seek to divide and that Michael Gove should be “nowhere near” communities and extremism policy

[PRESLEY]

18 hours ago, Axe said:

Rightly so the the funding donation is not returned.  Hopefully Rishi Sunak has some backbone and will not do a u-turn

Scummy money for a Scummy Party,  Sunak has no Morals  thats  the reason why he will keep the money, if he had a backbone he would return the money, also being affraid of facing a GE shows he is Spineless.  😤