Cronyism Or Not Cronyism?
Draw your own conclusions:
The Co-operative Group is bidding to build an eco-town called Pennbury on land it owns between Stoughton and Great Glen in Leicester.
However, objectors are circulating literature pointing out that Labour received £500,000 from the group in 2005/06 and has a £13.5 million overdraft with the Co-operative Bank, an offshoot of the group.
The Co-operative Party, which supports the Co-op Group’s activities, sponsors 22 Labour MPs, including Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary. Mr Balls is married to Yvette Cooper, who announced the eco-town project to find 15 sites for environmentally friendly towns last year when she was Housing Minister.
Phil Hope, the minister for the East Midlands – which includes Pennbury – is also sponsored by the Co-operative Party. (The Telegraph)
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I hope you are not suggesting that there is anything untoward about this coincidence?
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As if I would do a thing like that!
Thoroughly improper, that would be. Impunging the honour of a government like this! How could I possibly? They’re whiter than white dontcha know!
Thanks for this, Thunderdragon. I’d missed it. Just typical of this lot!
People think I’m strange because I won’t go into a Co-op store, but this is one reason why.