Theresa May has made much of her desire to crack down on irresponsible big business. But this may not go down well with some of her financial backers.
Let take a look at a few of her pre-election downers:
Sir Mick Davis, former owner of a mining conglomerate gave £30,000
Abel Halpern, a senior partner at a US private equity firm gave £30,000
Ian Taylor, CEO of oil dealer Vitol, which is a company previously found guilty of grand larceny in the Iraq Oil for food program, a 2001 article in the Observer stated that in 1995 Vitol had secretly paid US$1 million to Serbian war criminal Arkan to settle a deal with a Serbian Oil company, Orion. Vitol has denied all charges, arguing that no government agency has ever prosecuted the company in this respect.
In 2007, Vitol pleaded guilty to grand larceny in a New York court for paying surcharges to Iraq's national oil company during Saddam's regime and circumventing the UN oil-for-food program. Vitol subsequently paid $17.5 million in restitution for its actions.
According to an article in the Financial Times, Vitol was the company to organise the first controversial sale of Libyan rebel oil to Tesoro Corporation in early April 2011. According to the Financial Times, the company was approached by the Qatari national oil company to sell a cargo of crude oil supplied by the Libyans in exchange for technological supplies and fuel for the National Transitional Council of Libya.
In September 2012, an article in Reuters alleged that the company had bought and sold Iranian fuel oil, bypassing an EU embargo against Tehran. Vitol bought 2 million barrels using a ship-to-ship transfer off the coast of Malaysia from a National Iranian Tanker Company vessel and sold it to Chinese traders. The article stated that as Vitol is based in Switzerland, which did not implement Western sanctions, Vitol had skirted the charges.
In 2013, The Telegraph alleged that the company had been using for over a decade an Employee Benefit Trust, avoiding paying income tax for its UK staff.
Ian Taylor gave the Theresa May campaign £15,000.
Michael Lewis, African retail tycoons whos family wealth is managed in the tax haven of Jersey gave £5,000.
Ravinder Gidar, whos care company has been failed numerouse test from the Care Quality commission, gave £5,000.
So we have environmentally destructive industries like big oil and mining interests, some of the most irresponsible businesses on the planet.
Tax dodgers who by not paying tax are like vampires on the country, taking all the benefits and making money from the working class labour while moving profits off shore so services like the NHS suffer.
And an owner of a company who makes money from giving people in the last stages of life the poor care so they can make a bigger profit and give it to people like Theresa May and the conservative party.
The reason this happens is so that they can call in favors in the future and buy the good will of the new political powers. Do we think that these people who stretch laws to make some extra money give because they believe Theresa May will make them pay more tax and invest in public heal services and environmental initiatives? There is no way. She will get her marching orders from the doners not the electorate. The electorate gets lied to and those who pay get the laws they want. Corruption is alive and well in the British Government.
Do you thinks this will affect May's actions?
Let take a look at a few of her pre-election downers:
Sir Mick Davis, former owner of a mining conglomerate gave £30,000
Abel Halpern, a senior partner at a US private equity firm gave £30,000
Ian Taylor, CEO of oil dealer Vitol, which is a company previously found guilty of grand larceny in the Iraq Oil for food program, a 2001 article in the Observer stated that in 1995 Vitol had secretly paid US$1 million to Serbian war criminal Arkan to settle a deal with a Serbian Oil company, Orion. Vitol has denied all charges, arguing that no government agency has ever prosecuted the company in this respect.
In 2007, Vitol pleaded guilty to grand larceny in a New York court for paying surcharges to Iraq's national oil company during Saddam's regime and circumventing the UN oil-for-food program. Vitol subsequently paid $17.5 million in restitution for its actions.
According to an article in the Financial Times, Vitol was the company to organise the first controversial sale of Libyan rebel oil to Tesoro Corporation in early April 2011. According to the Financial Times, the company was approached by the Qatari national oil company to sell a cargo of crude oil supplied by the Libyans in exchange for technological supplies and fuel for the National Transitional Council of Libya.
In September 2012, an article in Reuters alleged that the company had bought and sold Iranian fuel oil, bypassing an EU embargo against Tehran. Vitol bought 2 million barrels using a ship-to-ship transfer off the coast of Malaysia from a National Iranian Tanker Company vessel and sold it to Chinese traders. The article stated that as Vitol is based in Switzerland, which did not implement Western sanctions, Vitol had skirted the charges.
In 2013, The Telegraph alleged that the company had been using for over a decade an Employee Benefit Trust, avoiding paying income tax for its UK staff.
Ian Taylor gave the Theresa May campaign £15,000.
Michael Lewis, African retail tycoons whos family wealth is managed in the tax haven of Jersey gave £5,000.
Ravinder Gidar, whos care company has been failed numerouse test from the Care Quality commission, gave £5,000.
So we have environmentally destructive industries like big oil and mining interests, some of the most irresponsible businesses on the planet.
Tax dodgers who by not paying tax are like vampires on the country, taking all the benefits and making money from the working class labour while moving profits off shore so services like the NHS suffer.
And an owner of a company who makes money from giving people in the last stages of life the poor care so they can make a bigger profit and give it to people like Theresa May and the conservative party.
The reason this happens is so that they can call in favors in the future and buy the good will of the new political powers. Do we think that these people who stretch laws to make some extra money give because they believe Theresa May will make them pay more tax and invest in public heal services and environmental initiatives? There is no way. She will get her marching orders from the doners not the electorate. The electorate gets lied to and those who pay get the laws they want. Corruption is alive and well in the British Government.
Do you thinks this will affect May's actions?
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