Traditional Values

Daveybloke's Cuddly Conservatives have been accused, by no less a paragon than New New Labour, of going against the spirit of electoral law by accepting two fairly small donations from a company controlled by one Fouad Makhzoumi. Makhzoumi is a former arms dealer from Lebanon, once described as a "good and trusted contact" by Jonathan Aitken, before Aitken went to prison on charges of being caught lying while a member of a government preceding that of Tony Blair. A spokesbeing for Daveybloke's Cuddly Guardians of Sovereignty Against the Euro-Menace said that the donations were perfectly fair and above board because there is nothing wrong in a future British government being sponsored by foreign plutocrats provided the said plutocrats are doing some of their profiteering through companies registered in the United Kingdom. New New Labour accused Daveybloke's Cuddly Conservatives of "returning to the era of sleaze", although unfortunately they were not entirely clear as to when either party is supposed to have left it.