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Pendle MP Gordon Prentice: Lord Ashcroft ‘should resign’
9:12am Tuesday 2nd March 2010 in
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- By Peter Magill » Chief reporter
A MAJOR backer of the Tory General Election campaign should resign after admitting he did not pay tax on the majority of his UK income, Pendle’s MP hags said.
Lord Ashcroft, the Conservatives’ deputy chairman, has bankrolled his party’s bid to secure the Nelson, Colne and West Craven seat to the tune of £50,000 to £60,000.
And yesterday he admitted, in a statement to the House of Lords, that his tax status was as a ‘non-dom’, meaning he is not a permanent resident for tax purposes.
Lord Ashcroft argued that his position mirrored that of key Labour donors Lord Paul, a privy councillor, and Sir Ronald Cohen.
But Gordon Prentice, Pendle’s Labour MP, who has led public calls for the former UN envoy to come clean about his tax affairs, has urged him to resign from the House of Lords.
Mr Prentice said: “Ashcroft has dissembled for a decade, concealing the fact that he is a non dom.
“He promised to take up long-term residence in the UK as a condition of his peerage – and that means paying UK taxes like the rest of us.
“He has been bank-rolling the Conservatives for years, buying the election with his huge wealth, most of which is untaxed in the UK.”
Last year the Lancashire Telegraph revealed that Lord Ashcroft was supporting the parliamentary campaign of Colne-based Conservative Andrew Stephenson.
Mr Prentice claimed the peer was trying to ‘buy’ the next election, claims which Mr Stephenson condemned as ‘insulting’.
But it did emerge that the Conservative candidate was receiving between £50,000 and £60,000 for party work in the constituency through Ashcroft’s Bearwood Corporate Services.
Tory chiefs have insisted that the peer’s donations are permissible and legal.
Ashcroft and the Shadow Cabinet have dodged questions about his tax status for months.
Mr Stephenson said: “I am pleased that Lord Ashcroft has clarified his tax status, a status that he shares with numerous Labour Party donors.
“The Labour Party will clearly continue to make cheap political points about Lord Ashcroft.
"However, what the Labour Party say is very far removed from what they actually do.
“Latest figures show that since 2001, Labour have taken over £10 million from eight reportedly ‘non-dom’ donors.”
Comments(24)
akon
says...
10:12am Tue 2 Mar 10
We are now ruled by the Stalinist's from Brussels (which is an even bigger fiddle )wether you like it or not thanks ,to the Lib/Lab/Con traitors.
Izanears
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11:03am Tue 2 Mar 10
The Abbot
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11:40am Tue 2 Mar 10
Joseph Yossarian
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12:04pm Tue 2 Mar 10
Ashcroft pays full UK tax on his UK income.
Ashcroft does not pay UK tax on his foreign income.
so what's the big deal? Good for him I say.
And many congratulations to Ashcroft for protecting his wealth and not being screwed to the ground by the ridiculous tax burden imposed by Labour.
I wish I was that clever!
A Darener
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12:27pm Tue 2 Mar 10
"Do as I say not as I do" must have been coined by Labour.
tonygreaves
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1:25pm Tue 2 Mar 10
Ashcroft has not spoken in the House in the past year. He has spoken only five times in the past ten years. What is he there for?
Tony Greaves
Norm de Plume
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2:11pm Tue 2 Mar 10
ganja man
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2:22pm Tue 2 Mar 10
The Tory candidate Andrew (get me in the photograph) Stephenson has a great deal of explaining to do to the people of Pendle for taking money from a non-dom. Stephenson has been "shipped in " to try and BUY the MP's seat here in Pendle. Most people can now see this and will vote accordingly.
What has stephenson done in Pendle apart from pollute the environment with those glossy (get me in the photo) leaflets. A young pretender out of his depth!
He has the look of a naughty schoolboy! Say no more!
While on the subject of "targeting seats campaigns" Your lordship Tony Greaves that being your specialist subject, it is apparent now that from defeat after defeat in the elections for the Lib Dems locally you need to revise your strategy.
As for Gordon Prentice he has failed to attract inward public sector investment into Pendle to create jobs, eg build new prison
As for Afzal Anwar another of Lord Greaves stooges who fails to inspire and lacks ideas.
A shabby lot all of them.
Need for true grass roots communist/socialist candidates to break the monopoly
ganja man
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2:22pm Tue 2 Mar 10
The Tory candidate Andrew (get me in the photograph) Stephenson has a great deal of explaining to do to the people of Pendle for taking money from a non-dom. Stephenson has been "shipped in " to try and BUY the MP's seat here in Pendle. Most people can now see this and will vote accordingly.
What has stephenson done in Pendle apart from pollute the environment with those glossy (get me in the photo) leaflets. A young pretender out of his depth!
He has the look of a naughty schoolboy! Say no more!
While on the subject of "targeting seats campaigns" Your lordship Tony Greaves that being your specialist subject, it is apparent now that from defeat after defeat in the elections for the Lib Dems locally you need to revise your strategy.
As for Gordon Prentice he has failed to attract inward public sector investment into Pendle to create jobs, eg build new prison
As for Afzal Anwar another of Lord Greaves stooges who fails to inspire and lacks ideas.
A shabby lot all of them.
Need for true grass roots communist/socialist candidates to break the monopoly
ganja man
says...
2:22pm Tue 2 Mar 10
The Tory candidate Andrew (get me in the photograph) Stephenson has a great deal of explaining to do to the people of Pendle for taking money from a non-dom. Stephenson has been "shipped in " to try and BUY the MP's seat here in Pendle. Most people can now see this and will vote accordingly.
What has stephenson done in Pendle apart from pollute the environment with those glossy (get me in the photo) leaflets. A young pretender out of his depth!
He has the look of a naughty schoolboy! Say no more!
While on the subject of "targeting seats campaigns" Your lordship Tony Greaves that being your specialist subject, it is apparent now that from defeat after defeat in the elections for the Lib Dems locally you need to revise your strategy.
As for Gordon Prentice he has failed to attract inward public sector investment into Pendle to create jobs, eg build new prison
As for Afzal Anwar another of Lord Greaves stooges who fails to inspire and lacks ideas.
A shabby lot all of them.
Need for true grass roots communist/socialist candidates to break the monopoly
akon
says...
3:20pm Tue 2 Mar 10
Gerry Gable (vermin) a classic example !!
ganja man
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3:46pm Tue 2 Mar 10
His magazine SEARCHLIGHT has in this months FEB issue has SHOWN with EVIDENCE as to where the BNP obtains its money from and who it goes out to.
It certainly is more interesting than Lord Ashcroft's secret!
Full story in SEARCLIGHT magazine by Sonia Gable.
We have seen Griffin for what he is and now get the Low Down on their finances. Happy reading!
ganja man
says...
3:46pm Tue 2 Mar 10
His magazine SEARCHLIGHT has in this months FEB issue has SHOWN with EVIDENCE as to where the BNP obtains its money from and who it goes out to.
It certainly is more interesting than Lord Ashcroft's secret!
Full story in SEARCLIGHT magazine by Sonia Gable.
We have seen Griffin for what he is and now get the Low Down on their finances. Happy reading!
akon
says...
4:19pm Tue 2 Mar 10
Please go to
SearchlightExposed.c
om to see the twisted logic of this scum & his sick followers.
ganja man
says...
4:43pm Tue 2 Mar 10
For the article on BNP finances go to www.searchlightmagaz
ine.com
for the article by sonia robinson
andy1
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7:05pm Tue 2 Mar 10
akon wrote:See akons still around spouting propaganda for Uncle Nick. Of course as usual akon aint got a clue what hes on about as usual. akon all mouth when the thugs are around him like a little lamb when alone. You stocking up on your ammo akon to throw at people who disagree with you when the GES called again? To remind you of what I mean rocks stones etc.
Ah ,we find a true comrade of the convicted thief,burglar Gerry Gable.
Please go to
SearchlightExposed.c
om to see the twisted logic of this scum & his sick followers.
akon
says...
7:53am Wed 3 Mar 10
Labour party Kitty Ussher spokesman.
You know where i live ,feel free to pop round ANYTIME SOON ,we will see who the lamb is then, face to face eh yellowback.
ALL MOUTH.....
Big talk from a battered husband !!
akon
says...
7:59am Wed 3 Mar 10
om
See the murky world of paedo lovers ,non- consentual homosexuals,liars,th
ieves & convicted criminals . andy1 & ganja's hopes for this country.
lancastrian lass
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8:39am Wed 3 Mar 10
akon
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10:13am Wed 3 Mar 10
oh ,up pops the padiham slapper .
Anyone fancy a ride ?
Contraceptive a MUST !!
Richard_Nelson
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3:10pm Wed 3 Mar 10
What really makes me angry, if this Non Dom doesn't live here and very rarley speaks in Parlaiment and has millions in his back account better not be paid any form of money by the Lords. Look at home much Greaves gets, if Ashcroft (Cashcroft) is claiming his peerage allowance.
In regards to Andrew Stevenson, you honestly think that the people of pendle would be so stupid to buy the constant leflets and news letter that are posted through. It just proves to us all your funded by a tax exile, plus and I'm sorry to say this but I think he would be a dead loss to pendle.
jghazanfar
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3:54pm Wed 3 Mar 10
lancastrian lass
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2:38pm Fri 5 Mar 10
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Norm de Plume says...
10:10am Tue 2 Mar 10
Lord Cashcroft has never been a UN envoy. You are confusing him with Lord Ashdown.