Tony's "Lavender List" of Labour lenders

Tony's ex flatmate the be-jowelled, dewlapped, fat Lord Chancellor Lord Falconor of Thoroton (bearing a passing resemblance to field Marshal Goering - he had a fondess for fancy dress as well) has provided with great flourish the list of Labour lenders to whom the party is in hock to the tune of some £14 Mn plus interest at commercial rates ;

Lending Labour money - the 12 indivduals - BBC have more biographical information for each of them

Rod Aldridge - £1 million (Capita PLC Chmn.)
Richard Caring - £2m
Gordon Crawford - £500,000
Professor Sir Christopher Evans - £1m
Sir David Garrard - £2.3m
Nigel Morris - £1m
Sir Gulam Noon - £250,000
Dr Chai Patel - £1.5m
Andrew Rosenfeld - £1m
Lord (David) Sainsbury - £2m
Barry Townsley - £1m


Sir David Garrard, property developer and funder of TB's City Academies lent the party £2.3 million, and science minister Lord Sainsbury, provided a loan of £2 million,(in addition to massive gifts previously) were among the 12 individuals who loaned the party £13,950,000 - a significant proportion of Labour's £17.5 million spending on the 2005 election campaign. Of course a peerage is only one benefit a "lender" may seek, access to Government contracts (Capita PLC ?), etc.,

What a joy it is to be a lawyer and seek to use the assembled words of the English language in such a precise yet wholly ambiguous way.

Lord Falconer, asked if the law would be retrospective so people could assess any possible link between past loans and peerages, said: "As far as law is concerned, you very rarely pass a law which changes the law in the past.

Asked directly how many peerages (Torygraph online report)had been given in exchange for cash, replied: "None, as far as I know."

"As far as I know" - could be true, may be true but don't expect me to know.

Well Lord Falconer - yes the Labour Party is in the business of selling honours, and has been for many years - exchanging money for mediaeval titles which any sane socialist party would have abolished years ago - and should be ashamed of peddling.To compare this funding with the open and transparent funding by the Trade Unions is insulting as well.

There you go Lord F. Now you know. ... pic of Lord Falconer of Thoroton courtesy of the BBC at the site of the Millenium dome - remember the Hindujah bothers, Millenium funding and a passport or three ?

Here's his lookalike - an unelected preposterous, pompous, overweight, vain, booby who went in for grandiose buildings on a lavish scale paid for by others or simply stolen. Committed suicide.