Saturday 25 October 2008

Conservative Leader David Cameron's Free Flights Fiasco

Actually this is not a fiasco at all, but something rather more alarming. Cameron accepted £34,000 worth of free flights from Matthew Freud, son-in-law to Rupert Murdoch, this summer (strange that anyone married to an Astor would need freebies, but more worrying that a relative of Murdoch would want to give them) - one flight from Farnborough to Istanbul & thence to Santorini, followed by a link to Dalaman, also in Turkey. In Santorini, Cameron met with Murdoch.

One remembers Tony Blair cosying up to Murdoch in Australia before his election - but his declaration in the MPs Register of Interests at the time mentioned the interest of Murdoch. Cameron's did not. Why not ? We will only really believe that the party of privilege & the old school tie has changed when the con is demonstrably taken out of Conservative.

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