Well that is another question. But then if you understand a forum and how it works the idea that one has to stay directly on topic is not so. The point is David pops up now and then when he does not like what he is hearing,makes his political point in the only way he can and drifts off into the distance. I will drift off the point and add this Reported Since the General Election, Andrew Rosenfeld is to donate £1 million to the Labour Party: ‘Ed Miliband has secured Labour’s largest donation since the party lost power: a £1m gift from a Swiss-based property tycoon. In a coup for the Labour leader, Andrew Rosenfeld, who is worth an estimated £100m, has pledged a seven-figure sum to target marginal seats’ (The Sunday Times, 17 July 2011,). Andrew Rosenfeld was, at various stages, co-founder, Chief Executive and Chairman of property development company Minerva plc.Lord Sugar. Lord Sugar owns Amsprop, a property investment and development company. He has donated £244,272 to Labour since the General Election (Electoral Commission). He reportedly donated £750,000 before then – £400,000 after January 2009 (The Telegraph, 13 April 2010).David Abrahams. He was involved in a donations scandal after admitting ‘gifting’ £650,000 of money to others, for them to pass on to the Labour Party, so avoiding having to declare the donations himself. Peter Watt, General Secretary of the Labour Party, resigned over the matter, and the police investigated in 2007, although no charges were brought (Sky News, 7 May 2009).Sir David Garrard. Gave £352,278 in 2008 and £200,000 in 2003 (Electoral Commission). According to the Times, Garrard ‘helped set up the London-based Minerva property group, standing down as chairman in 1995 and selling £37m of shares’ (Sunday Times, 27 April 2008).Mick Hucknall. Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall has given Labour over £50,000. He has been listed as a major shareholder in Ask Property Developments (Evening Standard, 2 March 2007).Canary Wharf Group. ‘ONE of Britain’s biggest property developers gave more than £120,000 to the Labour party to help to gain access to ministers and key officials during a lobbying campaign for a new rail link. Canary Wharf Group gave Labour the funds as part of its campaign for the £16 billion Crossrail scheme to link the City of London and the Isle of Dogs to Heathrow. The last donation, of £35,000, was made on September 29 this year, six days before Gordon Brown gave the project the go-ahead’ (Sunday Times, 16 December 2007).Ken Wills. Chief Executive of Commercial Group Properties Plc, Ken Wills, made a donation of £25,000 to Labour MP Stephen Ladyman’s Thanet South Labour Party in 2007 (This is Kent, 9 October 2008).
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