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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories 08:10 - Sep 4 with 15153 views

Many household names here. I'm going to be changing some buying habits and emailing to let them know why.

This could become massive for them as the cost of living crisis bites.

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 16:50 - Sep 4 with 1696 views

Oldsmoker

B*st*rds have got both Tate&Lyle and Silver Spoon.

Where's a man to get his sugar hit from?

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 16:53 - Sep 4 with 1687 views

bluelagos

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:00 - Sep 4 by Darth_Koont

Political donations are small in purely financial terms. Instead, I’d give parties this 5-10 million or whatever it is out of the public purse if it meant protecting and retaining the purpose of a representative democracy.

Political parties already get public money to operate (forget what it’s called and Google isn’t my friend looking for it). So there’s no reason the Tories or Labour need to be receiving big donations from private individuals and companies. Private donations could be capped at a more deomocratically accessible and responsible rate of say 50 quid.

I made this exact argument today to someone when discussing political donations. He countered that if we indeed publicly funded the existing parties and effectively banned political donations, how would new parties ever get created?

I didn't have an answer - am all ears if you have one.

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 17:28 - Sep 4 with 1657 views

BlueBadger

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 16:19 - Sep 4 by BlueBadger
What is it you like about the Tories the best? The open racism? The homophobia? The transphobia? The corruption? The incompetence? The ope spite directed towards anyone vulnerable? The criminality? The lying? The willingness to accept money from dodgy Russians?

I wonder what it is about the Tories that Zapers likes? The racism, the homophobia, etc, etc

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 22:57 - Sep 4 with 1611 views

hoppy

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 09:33 - Sep 4 by WeWereZombies

Copied and pasted from the link on tweet:

Addison Lee (via founder John Griffin)

Airbus Group Ltd

Airport Park & Ride Ltd

Alfred Dunhill Ltd

Allinson’s (bread — owned by Associated British Foods)

Alton Towers (owned by Prestbury property firm)

Amey Group Services Ltd

Annabel’s (Berkeley Square) Ltd

Asda Property Holdings

ASDA Stores Ltd

Askey’s (ice cream — owned by Associated British Foods)

Associated British Foods

AXA Trading Limited

BAA Airports Ltd

Balfour Beatty

Beds and Bars Ltd

Bell Pottinger Communications Ltd

Berkeley Homes (housebuilder)

Bestway (cash and carry)

Betfair Ltd

Bicester Shopping Village

Billington’s (sugar — owned by Associated British Foods)

Birmingham Airport Ltd

Bloomberg (media group)

Boden (online and catalogue retailer)

Caledonia Investments

Calor Gas Ltd

Cameron Mackintosh (theatre company: Les MisÃ©rables, The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, Oliver!, Miss Saigon, Cats and Hamilton)

Canary Wharf Group (property)

Carlton Television (via boss Michael Green)

Carphone Warehouse

Caxton Associates (via boss Andrew Law)

CityLink (via boss Jon Moulton)

Claridge’s Hotel

Clinton Cards (donations to individual MPs of which this is an example)

Cobra Beer

Country House Weddings Ltd

Crusha (milkshakes — owned by Associated British Foods)

CVC Capital Partners (via co-founder Bruce Hardy McLain)

Delamere Dairy

DFS Furniture (historical — Tory donor Lord Graham Kirkham lost control in 2013)

Dorset Cereals (owned by Associated British Foods)

Dow Investments plc

Dunelm (owner Bill Adderly donated £500,000 to the Tory 2019 election campaign)

Dyson (household appliance manufacturer)

EADS UK

E.On (gas and electricity supplier)

Express Newspapers

Flamingo Land (Yorkshire theme park)

Garden Centre Group

Gatwick Airport

GCH Capital (manufacturing and distribution)

Genix Healthcare (NHS and private dental clinics)

Ginsters (pasty and pie manufacturer, owned by Tory donors Samworth Brothers)

Golden Wonder (crisps)

Heathrow Airport

Hooch (drink, owned by Tory donor Global Brands Ltd)

Iceland (supermarket)

Imperial London Hotels Ltd

Jacksons of Piccadilly (tea — owned by Associated British Foods)

JCB (construction, but has also licenced hundreds of other products)

Jordans (cereals — owned by Associated British Foods)

JP Morgan Cazenove (via former chairman David Mayhew)

Kingsmill (bread — owned by Associated British Foods)

Kurt Geiger (shoemakers)

LNT Group (boss Lawrence Tomlinson donated £40,500 to 13 Tory candidates in 2019 election)

The London Cabaret Club

Lycamobile (SIM card company)

McLaren (automotive)

Meggitt (aerospace engineering)

Melton Mowbray pies (owned by Tory donors Samworth Brothers)

Microsoft Ltd (UK branch of the US corporation. This could be tricky as I expect we all have Microsoft products!)

Moonpig.com

Mothercare

National Express

New Cross Nursing Group Ltd (nurse agency)

Next

Nielsen Massey (vanilla and food flavourings — owned by Associated British Foods)

Numis (investment banker)

Ocado

Ovaltine (owned by Associated British Foods)

OVO Energy (through managing director Stephen Fitzpatrick)

Palantir

Parabis Group (legal & professional services)

Patak’s (owned by Associated British Foods)

Petrofac (via chairman Ayman Asfari)

Pimlico Plumbers

Powerleague (five-a-side football group)

Radnor Hills Mineral Water

Frederic Robinson Ltd (owns Robinson Breweries and 280 pubs in the North West, producer of bottled and cask beers)

Ryvita (owned by Associated British Foods)

Sainsbury’s (supermarket) (due to donations by Tory Lord John Sainsbury, the company’s president, totalling more than £1 million between 2001 and 2017. There is also a Lord David Sainsbury who donated £8 million to the Liberal Democrats — but his holdings in the firm are now managed as a ‘blind’ trust to prevent any conflict of interest with his political career.)

Scottish Power (although this firm seems confused and has also given to Labour)

Selfridges (department store)

Serco

Shop Direct

Silver Spoon (suger manufacturer, owned by Associated British Foods)

Soreen Malt Loaf (owned by Tory donors Samworth Brothers)

The Spectator (magazine, via former owner Sir Henry Keswick)

Speedibake (bakery products — owned by Associated British Foods)

The Sun (newspaper (it says))

Sunblest (bread — owned by Associated British Foods)

Tate & Lyle (sugar manufacturer)

Telecom Plus

Tempcover (car insurer)

Towergate Partnership (insurance/financial)

Truvia (sweeteners — owned by Associated British Foods)

Tullow Oil

Twinings (tea manufacturer, owned by Associated British Foods)

Tyrells (crisps)

Veetee Rice (food)

VK (alcopop owned by Tory donor Global Brands Ltd)

Warburtons (bread manufacturer)

Wates (construction)

Westfield (shopping centre operator)

Wetherspoons (pub chain)

Wittington Investments (food)

Wren Kitchens

E.On on the list...

Wonder if that would have been the case when they were also our shirt sponsors?

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 23:27 - Sep 4 with 1590 views

mutters

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 09:29 - Sep 4 by J2BLUE
That will teach me for not fact checking. Cheers.

With that approach, have you considered a career in politics, especially the right side of the spectrum? ðŸ˜‰

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 00:25 - Sep 5 with 1567 views

Bury_St_Edmundson

Seeing as Moonpig and Asda have been debunked... can we get some actual factchecking on this list before burning witches?

or at least weigh them against a duck

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 08:04 - Sep 5 with 1486 views

GlasgowBlue

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 00:25 - Sep 5 by Bury_St_Edmundson
Seeing as Moonpig and Asda have been debunked... can we get some actual factchecking on this list before burning witches? or at least weigh them against a duck

And McLaren. As posted, it was Ron Dennis and he was booted out of McLaren in 2017.

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 09:01 - Sep 5 with 1452 views

Bury_St_Edmundson

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 08:04 - Sep 5 by GlasgowBlue
And McLaren. As posted, it was Ron Dennis and he was booted out of McLaren in 2017.

I suppose we can't let facts get in the way of a good witch hunt though

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 09:08 - Sep 5 with 1424 views

Darth_Koont

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 09:01 - Sep 5 by Bury_St_Edmundson
I suppose we can't let facts get in the way of a good witch hunt though

Depends what side of the witch-hunt GB is on.

But I see he now knows that evidence trumps accusation. That’s a big step on his journey.

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 09:51 - Sep 5 with 1398 views

baxterbasics

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 22:57 - Sep 4 by hoppy
E.On on the list... Wonder if that would have been the case when they were also our shirt sponsors?

Maybe they just have a thing about supporting blue teams?

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 09:56 - Sep 5 with 1389 views

blueasfook

Have you not got better things to do with your time than send angry Karen emails to these companies becuase they give money to the Tory party?

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 10:09 - Sep 5 with 1364 views

WeWereZombies

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 09:56 - Sep 5 by blueasfook
Have you not got better things to do with your time than send angry Karen emails to these companies becuase they give money to the Tory party?

True, maybe just concentrate on never buying anything from the names on the list that have been proven to still donate to the Conservatives. It's a bit like it would be if we found out that Planet Blue was owned by Delia...

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 10:19 - Sep 5 with 1321 views

noggin

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 09:56 - Sep 5 by blueasfook
Have you not got better things to do with your time than send angry Karen emails to these companies becuase they give money to the Tory party?

Tell us you're a tory without telling us you're a tory.

Poll:

If KM goes now, will you applaud him when he returns with his new club?

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 10:22 - Sep 5 with 1318 views

ArnoldMoorhen

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 09:56 - Sep 5 by blueasfook
Have you not got better things to do with your time than send angry Karen emails to these companies becuase they give money to the Tory party?

I give a sh1t about corruption. I don't like the fact that companies can buy influence with political parties. It's also gives a whiff even to companies that have won contracts completely fairly.

For example, Moonpig have the contract for postal services to Prisons. Which obviously has no link to historic donations to the Tory Party, of course, and was the result of a completely open tender process achieving best value for the taxpayer.

I'm sure every single VIP lane contract during Covid, which were exempt from open tender processes designed to achieve best value for the taxpayer, and which Tory MPs could arrange access to, were in no way susceptible to influence from historic, or promised future, donations to the Tory party.

We are talking billions of pounds of contracts.

And then there is the funding of the Tory party by Russian individuals.

So, yes, we have to find ways to cut off funding, it's the boring end of the battle against corruption.

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 11:36 - Sep 5 with 1243 views

hoppy

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 09:51 - Sep 5 by baxterbasics
Maybe they just have a thing about supporting blue teams?

Forever in blue teams?

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 11:49 - Sep 5 with 1222 views

GlasgowBlue

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 10:22 - Sep 5 by ArnoldMoorhen

I really wish this wouldn't keep being ignored just because it is inconvenient.

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories by GlasgowBlue 4 Sep 2022 8:40
I stand to be corrected here but I thought it was Moonpig founder Nick Jenkins who donated to the Tories and not Moonpig themselves.

Nick Jenkins sold moonpig in 2011 and doesn’t have any involvement in the business.

As I say, I could be mistaken, but it’s a bit harsh to boycott companies based on the political donations of their previous directors.

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:05 - Sep 5 with 1218 views

blueasfook

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 10:19 - Sep 5 by noggin
Tell us you're a tory without telling us you're a tory.

I voted tory at the last election but that was because my lifelong tendency to vote Labour was rendered impossible by the awful Corbyn "leadership".

Next election I will return to voting for Labour now they are no longer run by radical Marxists.

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:19 - Sep 5 with 1202 views

noggin

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:05 - Sep 5 by blueasfook
I voted tory at the last election but that was because my lifelong tendency to vote Labour was rendered impossible by the awful Corbyn "leadership". Next election I will return to voting for Labour now they are no longer run by radical Marxists.

Marxists ðŸ˜‚ Are the Norwegian Government marxists too?

[Post edited 5 Sep 2022 12:23]

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:22 - Sep 5 with 1195 views

blueasfook

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:19 - Sep 5 by noggin
Marxists ðŸ˜‚ Are the Norwegian Government marxists too? [Post edited 5 Sep 2022 12:23]

Yes Marxists and terrorist huggers.

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:36 - Sep 5 with 1176 views

mylittletown

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:05 - Sep 5 by blueasfook
I voted tory at the last election but that was because my lifelong tendency to vote Labour was rendered impossible by the awful Corbyn "leadership". Next election I will return to voting for Labour now they are no longer run by radical Marxists.

To be fair to Corbyn, he was more of a cloth-eared witless fool than a Marxist.

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:48 - Sep 5 with 1148 views

Ryorry

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 16:50 - Sep 4 by Oldsmoker
Bstrds have got both Tate&Lyle and Silver Spoon. Where's a man to get his sugar hit from?

I refer m'learned friend to para 2 herein -

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories by Ryorry 4 Sep 2022 10:30
Oh dear, esp re Sains. Yes, the quality of their fresh veg in particular I've noticed has gone right down in recent months, tho some of that may be outside their control with sources being more limited now than ever.

Have just looked in my cupboard, have a half-full bag of Waitrose own brand, fully Fairtrade compliant, unrefined Demerara cane sugar, which is what I'm using at the mo & which is lovely, esp in coffee, so will stick with that. Also an untried as yet small jar of Vermont organic maple sugar.


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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:50 - Sep 5 with 1145 views

blueasfook

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:19 - Sep 5 by noggin
Marxists ðŸ˜‚ Are the Norwegian Government marxists too? [Post edited 5 Sep 2022 12:23]

I'm not Norwegian. I don't plan on being Norwegian, so who gives a crap if they're socialists? They could be fascist anarchists - that still wouldn't change the fact that I don't own a car.

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:53 - Sep 5 with 1128 views

noggin

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:50 - Sep 5 by blueasfook
I'm not Norwegian. I don't plan on being Norwegian, so who gives a crap if they're socialists? They could be fascist anarchists - that still wouldn't change the fact that I don't own a car.

Ok, I was just trying to understand your 'Marxist' description of Corbyn's policies.

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:54 - Sep 5 with 1132 views

blueasfook

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:53 - Sep 5 by noggin
Ok, I was just trying to understand your 'Marxist' description of Corbyn's policies.

For your homework this evening, you need to watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

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Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:55 - Sep 5 with 1126 views

leitrimblue

Here's a list of companies who donate to the Tories on 12:05 - Sep 5 by blueasfook
I voted tory at the last election but that was because my lifelong tendency to vote Labour was rendered impossible by the awful Corbyn "leadership". Next election I will return to voting for Labour now they are no longer run by radical Marxists.

So you voted for Boris because you thought Labour was run by radical Marxists.

Enough said

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