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Tax-dodging Tory Lord Ashcroft’s enormous wealth helped “buy” 19 key seats for his party at the last election.

image The billionaire peer channelled £1m to 75 marginal constituencies through his company Bearwood Corporate Services.

Analysis of the seats has revealed Ashcroft’s money sparked a switch of tens of thousands of voters from Labour to Tory. The “swing” to the Tories averaged 4.7% in 19 key seats compared with the 3% national average.

In Hammersmith and Fulham in West London, he spent more than £42k, producing a huge swing of 7.3%. A seat Labour had won with 2,015 more votes than the Tories in 2001 fell to the Tories, who had 5,029 more votes than Labour.

The election saw Labour back with a majority cut to 64. The Tories picked up an extra 33 MPs and the Lib Dems 11.

Of the extra Tory seats, 19 had been targeted by Ashcroft, who it was revealed this week had saved an estimated £127m from his nondom tax status over 10 years.

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News from the stump

Fighting Barking and Dagenham and Hove & Portslade and the fight against BNP & Cashcroftgate.

Reading the Sunday papers today there seems to be only a few topics for the journo’s to write about and politically only one and they concern Cashcroft and the Baron Sleaze of Belize. 

Tories are reverting to kind thankfully. 

They are again in danger of becoming unelectable – which is a quote from the fat Essex controller, Eric Pickles. 

Andrew Rawnsley wrote that a dour Man of the Manse could be the next PM.  A week is a long time in politics – who said that – Sunny Jim or his predecessor  ‘good old Mr Wilson’ as John Lennon called him before he gave back his OBE.

Crazy Horse

Great movie – go see especially if you like country music – image even though we had to go to Star City, in Birmingham (30 screens!) which is a 45 minute drive, it was worth it.  Looking forward to the Oscars now.  Mort – you will love it.  Great hats, boots and wide open spaces.

Saw the trailer for “Blind Side” and I am tempted.  Not really liked Sandra Bullock until now but her recent $2m Haiti donation made me look at her new film in a different light.  Asked why she donated $2m she replied simply “Because I can”.

Marina Hyde at her best

Brilliant – read this

Tories on the ropes

Tory lobbyist Peter Bingle sent out an email entitled "Musings of a Tory in despair"

Labour lead…

and this – good old Nick

In a week of Foot and Ashcroft read this…

read this

Crazy Horse

Got to see this before the Oscars and believe it or not have image got to go to Brum as no cinemas are showing it round here in rural Shropshire – Jeff Bridges and his bro are brill actors (remember the Magnificent Baker Boys – not so sure about Dad) and am looking forward to seeing probably on Sunday – will post on it don’t fear.