Midlands Industrial Council - Revision history

Melissa Jones: new category

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new category

Melissa Jones at 00:56, 16 April 2011

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Steven Harkins: /* Affiliation */

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Affiliation

Steven Harkins: /* Conservative Party Funding */

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Conservative Party Funding

Steven Harkins at 18:03, 15 April 2011

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Steven Harkins: /* People */

2011-04-15T17:56:53Z

People

Steven Harkins: /* People */

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People

Steven Harkins: /* People */

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People

Steven Harkins: /* People */

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People

Steven Harkins at 17:51, 15 April 2011

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−	The [[Midlands Industrial Council]] is a group of wealthy businessmen who help to fund the [[Conservative Party]]. According to the ''Sunday Times'', they are one of the Party's 'most important financial backers'.<ref>Robert Winnett and Holly Watt, Tories forced to name club of millionaire supporters, ''the Sunday Times'', 15-October-2006</ref><ref>Robert Booth, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/09/taxpayers-alliance-conservative-pressure-group Who is behind the Taxpayers Alliance], ''The Guardian'', 9-October-2009, Accessed 24-January-2011</ref> The Group donated £2 million to the Conservative's between 2001-2006 and is 'dominated by property developers, the heads of haulage firms, food-processing companies and other traditional manufacturers'. The MIC is an 'unincorporated association' which means it does not need to publish accounts or disclose the names of its members<ref>Robert Winnett and Holly Watt, Tories forced to name club of millionaire supporters, ''the Sunday Times'', 15-October-2006</ref>	+	The [[Midlands Industrial Council]] is a group of wealthy businessmen who help to fund the [[Conservative Party]]. According to the ''Sunday Times'', they are one of the Party's 'most important financial backers'.<ref>Robert Winnett and Holly Watt, Tories forced to name club of millionaire supporters, ''the Sunday Times'', 15-October-2006</ref><ref>Robert Booth, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/09/taxpayers-alliance-conservative-pressure-group Who is behind the Taxpayers Alliance], ''The Guardian'', 9-October-2009, Accessed 24-January-2011</ref> The Group donated £2 million to the Conservative's between 2001-2006 and is 'dominated by property developers, the heads of haulage firms, food-processing companies and other traditional manufacturers'. The MIC is an 'unincorporated association' which means it does not need to publish accounts or disclose the names of its members.<ref>Robert Winnett and Holly Watt, Tories forced to name club of millionaire supporters, ''the Sunday Times'', 15-October-2006</ref>

	[[Kim Jaberi]], who supplies food for airlines and is the only ethnic minority member of the council, told [[the Sunday Times]]:		[[Kim Jaberi]], who supplies food for airlines and is the only ethnic minority member of the council, told [[the Sunday Times]]:

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-[[Conservative Party]] | [[Taxpayers' Alliance]]
+[[Conservative Party]] | [[Taxpayers' Alliance]] | [[HS2 Cannot be Justified]]
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 ==Conservative Party Funding==
-In the 2005 general election the three-quarters of the 33 Conservative candidates who ousted Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs received cash from a [[Conservative Party]] donors' fund worth over £2m. The funds came from 3 donors, [[Lord Ashcroft]], [[Lord Steinberg]], and the [[Midlands Industrial Council]] who combined to bypass central office and directly fund constituency associations. The practice does not break any of the rules on campaign funding laid down by the Electoral Commission.<ref>David Hencke, After the election: Secret Tory fund helped win marginals: Campaign: Labour and Lib Dem seats targeted for this and next election, ''the Guardian'', 10-May-2005</ref>
+In the 2005 general election the three-quarters of the 33 Conservative candidates who ousted Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs received cash from a [[Conservative Party]] donors' fund worth over £2m. The funds came from 3 donors, [[Lord Ashcroft]], [[Lord Steinberg]], and the Midlands Industrial Council who combined to bypass central office and directly fund constituency associations. The practice does not break any of the rules on campaign funding laid down by the Electoral Commission.<ref>David Hencke, After the election: Secret Tory fund helped win marginals: Campaign: Labour and Lib Dem seats targeted for this and next election, ''the Guardian'', 10-May-2005</ref>
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	:'I've met almost every member of the shadow cabinet you care to mention. We are for the furtherance of free enterprise ... We have a mutual interest in politics'.<ref>Robert Winnett and Holly Watt, Tories forced to name club of millionaire supporters, ''the Sunday Times'', 15-October-2006</ref>		:'I've met almost every member of the shadow cabinet you care to mention. We are for the furtherance of free enterprise ... We have a mutual interest in politics'.<ref>Robert Winnett and Holly Watt, Tories forced to name club of millionaire supporters, ''the Sunday Times'', 15-October-2006</ref>
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		+	==Conservative Party Funding==
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		+	In the 2005 general election the three-quarters of the 33 Conservative candidates who ousted Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs received cash from a [[Conservative Party]] donors' fund worth over £2m. The funds came from 3 donors, [[Lord Ashcroft]], [[Lord Steinberg]], and the [[Midlands Industrial Council]] who combined to bypass central office and directly fund constituency associations. The practice does not break any of the rules on campaign funding laid down by the Electoral Commission.<ref>David Hencke, After the election: Secret Tory fund helped win marginals: Campaign: Labour and Lib Dem seats targeted for this and next election, ''the Guardian'', 10-May-2005</ref>

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-[[Robert Edmiston]] - Chairman | [[David Wall]] - Secretary | [[Tony Gallagher]] | [[Roy Richardson]] | [[Anthony Bamford]] | [[David Lees]], [[Tate & Lyle]] | [[Allen Lloyd]] | [[David Sandworth]] | [[Kim Jaberi]] | [[Peter Shirley]] | [[John Butcher]] | [[Christopher Kelly]] | [[James Leavesley]] | [[John Leavesley]] | [[Richard Smith]] | [[Brian Pettifer]] | [[Graham Hampson Silk]] | [[David Lees]], [[GKN]]<ref>Euan Ferguson And Marie Woolf, CORPORATE CONTRIBUTORS: THE PROPAGANDA BUSINESS, ''The Observer'', 14-April-1996</ref>
+[[Robert Edmiston]] - Chairman | [[David Wall]] - Secretary | [[Tony Gallagher]] | [[Roy Richardson]] | [[Anthony Bamford]] | [[David Lees]], [[Tate & Lyle]] | [[Allen Lloyd]] | [[David Sandworth]] | [[Kim Jaberi]] | [[Peter Shirley]] | [[John Butcher]] | [[Christopher Kelly]] | [[James Leavesley]] | [[John Leavesley]] | [[Richard Smith]] | [[Brian Pettifer]] | [[Graham Hampson Silk]]
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 [[Robert Edmiston]] - Chairman | [[David Wall]] - Secretary | [[Tony Gallagher]] | [[Roy Richardson]] | [[Anthony Bamford]] | [[David Lees]], [[Tate & Lyle]] | [[Allen Lloyd]] | [[David Sandworth]] | [[Kim Jaberi]] | [[Peter Shirley]] | [[John Butcher]] | [[Christopher Kelly]] | [[James Leavesley]] | [[John Leavesley]] | [[Richard Smith]] | [[Brian Pettifer]] | [[Graham Hampson Silk]] | [[David Lees]], [[GKN]]<ref>Euan Ferguson And Marie Woolf, CORPORATE CONTRIBUTORS: THE PROPAGANDA BUSINESS, ''The Observer'', 14-April-1996</ref>
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