INCREDIBLE ARROGANCE : CONSERVATIVE REALITY

Ashcroft. Well, anyone with an ounce of sense has known that he had overseas interests and was a serial tax dodger, but why does someone already so rich, already in such a position of power and influence, who is able to ' negociate ' his own terms for becoming a Lord in the House of Lords, want to influence the outcome of a General Election ? He is already grossly rich, and yet withholds as much as possible from British taxes while simultaeously backing the Conservative Party to run the country.
If anything should alert people to what remains at the root and the base of the Conservative Party this is it : people who are already so privileged and flush with largely unearned wealth want even more and want to hang on to every damn penny rather than let any
'trickle down'(not that it does) or to be used in any way they have no control over.
This is fundamental and not insignificant. This is the essense of the what the Conservative Party is about : retaining money and influence in a self-selecting minority. That is it. And no matter how much you dress it up, and give them respectable titles, that is what they all want, and no matter how much they have, they always want more, and allways want to obscure their tracks, because they are stealing, vicious and unscrupulous and they continue to get away with it.
Horse Stealers, that's what the Tories were named after. They still are.