More #ToryFeeders

DFS

Sofa manufacturer has donated
£65,000 to the Conservative Party

CarpetRight

Lord Harris whose family founded the Co still retains shares and is a heavy hitter in the Conservative Party making personal donations

JCB

£3.7m donated since 2001

Shop Direct

Online retailer Shop Direct's Director Alex Baldock has made a donation of £1,200 this year... but they also do the £50k lunches with the PM

Who do Shop Direct own?

VERY.COM

Littlewoods

Ladybird

Goodsouls

South

LoveLabel

Definitions

Savoir

Cobra beer

Sad to say that Cobra Beer have donated nearly £10k to the Tories

The payment was made in beer (not cash)from their founder.. Lord Billimora but he's always on hand to support Tory Policy in the House of Lords

Kurt Geiger

Shoe retailer and #ToryFeeder Kurt Geiger has splashed out £12,000 in donations to the Conservative Party since 2010

Carphone Warehouse

TalkTalk

Sir Charles Dunstone, co-founder of Carphone Warehouse has donated £5,000 to the Tories in 2015.

David Ross the other co-founder is much more interesting.

His donations are in the hundred of thousands. He owns Academy Schools. He's been living as a tax exile.

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jul/04/wealthy-tory-donor-david-ross-ofsted-chair

Baroness Harding the CEO of TalkTalk is a Tory Peer. 

#ToryFeeders

On every High Street up and down the Land there are businesses that fund the Conservative Party. I call them #ToryFeeders. 

You might be surprised at how many household names give your money to the Tories.

I'll try to keep you up to date with #ToryFeeders as I find them. Please feel free to submit a #ToryFeeder you've found to: malkymister@gmail.com

Here we go....

#ToryFeeders

COSTA COFFEE

Costa are part of the Whitbread Group and Whitbread are serious Conservative Party Donors and Tax avoiders:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2015/apr/01/tory-100-industry-captains-party-donors-tax-avoiders


CHEEKY NANDOS?

Cheeky? If you count elaborate international Tax avoidance and being Conservative Party donors as cheeky...

Here they are feeding David Cameron & friends with the PiriPiri whilst avoiding UK Corp Tax and funneling heaps of your cash to the Tory Party from the comfort of their £8m Wiltshire stately home. How cheeky are Nando's?

Buy a £7.30 portion of spicy chicken thighs at Nando's and the cash flows into a network of accounting devices, involving Malta, the Isle of Man, Guernsey, the Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg, Panama and the British Virgin Islands

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/10/nandos-using-secretive-tax-haven-trust-avoid-inheritance-tax-bills

Pizza Express

Whenever you see a Tory getting a publicity shot done on a Company's premises, it's a safe bet that that Company are Conservative Party donors. So let's have a peek behind the scenes at Pizza Express

George Osborne? Making Pizzas in Pizza Express? 

Hugh Osmond is the co-founder of Pizza Express and is very chummy with the Conservative Party and Boris in particular. £115,000 in donations from him alone. Keep giving like that and he'll be a Peer in no time.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-should-sacked-loses-5588501

Let's keep wandering along the High Street

Next

Where to start?
Next is run by a Tory Peer Lord Wolfson. 
His wife Eleanor Shawcross is a special adviser to George Osborne at the Treasury.
Donations to the Tory Party from #ToryFeeders NEXT are in excess of £400,000 since 2006

Crombie Coats

Not an everyday buy unless you are a Head of State or a mega wealthy hipster, but Crombie coats are owned by former Tory Vice Chairman Alan Lewis, who has shelled out a whopping £246,000 for Conservative Party coffers from his tax haven in the Isle of Man. Tax avoiding #ToryFeeders

Taveta Investments, Arcadia? 

Never heard of them? 

Course you have! 

They own:

Topshop
BHS
Burtons
Dorothy Perkins
Wallace
Miss Selfridge
Evans
Topman
Outfit

That's a lot of #ToryFeeders cashflow. 

David Cameron made Philip Green a Sir and a special adviser to the Conservatives and allowed him to transfer all these High Street Companies to ownership in Monaco, where Philip's wife can own them without paying UK tax.

Feeling peckish?

You might want to avoid a Ginster's Pasty

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ToryFeeders&src=typd

Ginsters
Pork Farm
Soreen

Director Mark Samworth has donated £585,000 to the Tories since 2005... 
And Samworth Brothers who also own Pork Farm Pork Pies have donated another £32,000

#ToryFeeders Ginsters & Pork Farms Pork Pies have donated a staggering £650,000 to the Conservatives

Oh and by the way, the Samworth's also own Soreen

Let's pop to the Supermarket

Tesco

Tesco's Catherine Baxendale has donated £50,000 to the Conservative Party 

What does £50k buy you? 

Lunch with the Prime Minister

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/sep/30/david-cameron-conservative-donors


Warburtons


George Osborne papped at Warburtons? Yup

David Cameron papped at Warburtons? Yup

Warburtons gave the Conservative Party £25,000 on the run up to the 2010 elections.

These #ToryFeeders have been trying to play in down ever since.