Conservatives claim that a website design firm they handed £100,000 in taxpayer cash is ‘independent’ — but it’s listed at an address owned by a CCHQ staffer

*Claims by the Conservatives that a website design service handed £100,000 in taxpayer money by the party’s MPs is “independent” have been called into question, after records seen by this paper show it listed at an address owned by a Conservative Party employee.*

*The Guardian reported on Sunday that Bluetree Website Services had received the money to design constituency websites for Conservative MPs, the cost of which was then claimed back in expenses.*

*Asked about the status of Blueetree, The Guardian reported that CCHQ had claimed it was “part of a registered company separate from the Conservative party” but would not say what that company was.*

*However, an invoice seen by Byline Times, which was sent by Bluetree to a former Conservative MP, shows its address as being a residential property in South West England. Land Registry records suggest that this property is owned by Graham Godwin-Pearson.*

*Godwin-Pearson, is a former Conservative councillor who is listed as working for a current Conservative peer and was listed online as a CCHQ staffer under the party’s former chairman Greg Hands.*

*He is also the owner of a separate limited company which is listed on Companies House as offering “Information technology consultancy activities” and whose latest accounts show more than £200,000 in capital and reserves.*

*Tom Brake, the director of campaign group Unlock Democracy, suggested rules would have been broken if any of the money given to Bluetree was used for campaigning purposes.*

*“The rules are clear. Taxpayers’ money cannot be used by MPs for party political campaign purposes. Yet Bluetree’s promotional material about their websites makes it clear that that is their intended purpose,” Brake told The Guardian.*

Blatant corruption. 

I wonder how much corruption was obvious to investigative journalism that has been berried in the last 4 years. 

I would say pigs in a trough, but that’s unfair on Pigs.

Time to get stuck into some Google reviewing.

Tip: don’t leave 1-star reviews, easier to be purged.

What’s really sad is that all this blatant corruption is overshadowing policy. I am struggling to work out what the parties stand for in detail, simply because the only major talking point is how corrupt the Tories are.

What about the SNP stamps!? Some of them were 1st class.

When it comes to corruption the Conservatives are a different class.

15 years of this.. the country bled dry and we know why and can’t legally go get all that covered up money thrown at Eton school friends businesses and clubs and endeavours. This is why people are screaming eat the rich the money’s there just in off shore accounts.