Midlands Industrial Council
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'.[1][2] 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[3]
Kim Jaberi, who supplies food for airlines and is the only ethnic minority member of the council, told the Sunday Times:
- 'I was invited to join about five years ago. We are self-made people who can tell politicians about transport, about climate change, about tax -what real life is about.'[4]
As well as the Conservative Party the group also provides funding to the Taxpayers' Alliance.[5] In 2006 secretary of the MIC David Wall argued that
- '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'.[6]
Affiliation
Conservative Party | Taxpayers' Alliance
People
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
Former People
David Lees, GKN[7] | Eric Pountain[8]
Speakers at Events
Notes
- ↑ Robert Winnett and Holly Watt, Tories forced to name club of millionaire supporters, the Sunday Times, 15-October-2006
- ↑ Robert Booth, Who is behind the Taxpayers Alliance, The Guardian, 9-October-2009, Accessed 24-January-2011
- ↑ Robert Winnett and Holly Watt, Tories forced to name club of millionaire supporters, the Sunday Times, 15-October-2006
- ↑ Robert Winnett and Holly Watt, Tories forced to name club of millionaire supporters, the Sunday Times, 15-October-2006
- ↑ Robert Winnett and Holly Watt, Tories forced to name club of millionaire supporters, the Sunday Times, 15-October-2006
- ↑ Robert Winnett and Holly Watt, Tories forced to name club of millionaire supporters, the Sunday Times, 15-October-2006
- ↑ Euan Ferguson And Marie Woolf, CORPORATE CONTRIBUTORS: THE PROPAGANDA BUSINESS, The Observer, 14-April-1996
- ↑ Daily Telegraph, Obituary of Sir Eric Pountain Industrialist who quadrupled the annual profits of Tarmac and led an ambitious programme of expansion, Daily Telegraph, 27-October-2003
- ↑ Edited by Sam Leith, AT A meeting this week of ..., the Telegraph, 07-December-2001
