Call This Writer a cynic if you want, but I simply don’t think they discuss the weather.

Common sense suggests that, having spent a pretty penny propping up the Tories financially, these people will want a say in what those Tories do.

Sir Michael Hintze, the Brexiteer hedge fund billionaire is a regular at these lavish meals. He's handed out £4m to the Tories including more than £250,000 just 3 weeks after the election. Access to democracy is based on your bank balance. — Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) December 15, 2017

Of course, this would conflict with the principle of democracy, in which the Tories would be expected to do in government what they promised in the manifesto that was supported by a large proportion of the voting public.

(That’s the manifesto that seems to have been whitewashed out of history, as you’ll remember.)

The suggestion of corruption is heightened by the fact that the Tories had to be pushed into complying with their promise to name Leaders Group meal guests, the fact that all of these guests are spectacularly rich Tory donors and none of them are poor, and the fact that the Tories refuse to disclose what was discussed and whether it had any effect on their policies.

What are we to conclude – if not that the only qualification needed, to have a say in the way the Tories run the country, is to be filthy rich?

Matters such as conscience and responsibility have no bearing on it.

Humiliated Tory chiefs have finally named dozens of super-rich donors who dined with Theresa May. Guest lists were slipped out without fanfare on the Conservative Party’s website. The new list names 64 donors who attended a Leader’s Group meal with Theresa May or a top minister between January and June 2017. Billionaires who attended meals in that period include Bestway cash and carry chief executive Zameer Choudrey, JCB boss Lord Anthony Bamford and hedge fund tycoon Sir Michael Hintze. The latest dinner was believed to have seen billionaires and tycoons dine on lobster and beef with the Tory leader just weeks ago. The meal came just hours after the government confirmed millions of people’s benefits would be frozen for another year. Despite the newly-published list the Tory party refuses to say what is discussed at the dinners, even if it touches on government policy.

Source: Tories quietly name more than 50 donors who dined with top ministers and Theresa May after pressure from the Mirror – Mirror Online

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