ChinaGate donations: a whopper for the Gang of Four
The Sunday Times Rich list has a section on political donations. Now I thought the donations from Ken Wills and CGP to Steve Ladyman and South Thanet Labour Party were very high. Especially as similar offers were made to the Conservatives in North Thanet. Clearly donations to both parties at the same time isn’t really motivated by support for either or any party. And coming at the time of the largest-ever Planning application for cargo warehouses covering dozens of acres well, it looks fishy. So much so the Conservatives sort of accepted then turned it down. The public unanimously rejected the application – except almost all of Thanet’s councillors. A very strange do. Well, not really we can all guess what’s going on here. But I never realised how large a donation it was: according to the Sunday Time the top 40 donations range from £2M to £50,000 – with most of the donations around the £50k mark. So a donation of £25k or £50k is very significant indeed. So significant it would make on ...