"The Conservative party's governing board will discuss tomorrow what to do about the £1.5m worth of fees being sought by companies controlled by the Tories' former chairman, Lord Saatchi, for work on the 2005 election campaign which he then roundly criticised. Anger is widespread in the party about the way Lord Saatchi, the advertising entrepreneur who helped mastermind Margaret Thatcher's triumphs, rubbished the first Tory campaign to see seats gained from Labour since the Thatcher era. Hostility manifested itself this week in the publication of the Tory accounts for 2004. They included the previously not widely known fact that, when he was Conservative co-chairman, Lord Saatchi's companies, Immediate Sales and its parent firm, M & C Saatchi, billed the party for £339,000 and £207,000 respectively."
This is taken from an article in today's Guardian (the affair had previously surfaced in the Mail on Sunday). One of the most important things that the Conservative Party can do in opposition is to prove itself competent and ethical.
Even if Lord Saatchi was not personally involved in ordering business for his own companies the closeness of the top political and financial teams at Tory Campaign HQ should have set alarm bells ringing about the ethical issues that were certain to emerge. So long as Lord Saatchi was party co-chairman, with some responsibility for the election and other campaigns, there should not have been the option of him or his business interests benefiting from the money raised by volunteer activists from around the country.
Systems need to be put in place to avoid this ever happening again.
I seem to rememeber that it was Lord Saatchi who confidently predicted that the Conservative Party was ahead in most of the key marginal seats at the 2004 Party conference, who I presume was instrumental in formulaing the five buzz phrases of the campaign and in coming up with the leaden 'time-table for action' motif. All of which were a disaster for the party. Lord Saatchi is still living on the perceived triumps of 1979 and all that. Politics has changed and his approach hasn't and he then profits from his incompetence!! The Tory Party needs to move beyond reliance on these old adman routines.
Posted by: James | 05 August 2005 at 10:42
Surely it was known that Saatchi's companies would be continuing to run campaigns for the Conservative Party when Howard made his gimmicky appointment of MS as co-chairman? In other words, this is merely example no.384 of Howard's catastrophic lack of judgement. What a disaster the man has been. In the name of God, Mr Howard, just go.
Posted by: Larry Begg | 05 August 2005 at 12:06
So he electorate is asked to trust a party with public funds in government which cannot even exercise basic controls on insider dealing within its own party machine ?
This is the same party machine which has centralised literature, themes, and emasculated localism in the name of democratic centralism and which now thinks it should sweep up all local funds to the centre like a croupier on the gaming table ?
Someone is either injecting or inhaling in Concservative Central Office if not both !
Posted by: Rick | 11 October 2005 at 18:19
Surprisingly, for a lifelong Conservative supporter, joining the party for a couple of years actually made me less-inclined to vote Conservative.
Rather than a sense of 'common purpose', I found a series of little 'feifdoms', a great deal of political infighting, a surprising lack of basic organisation and a sense that ordinary members were good for nothing but contributing money and delivering leaflets.
When these 'unexpected' Saachi bills were first revealed, I found it difficult to understand how an organisation lacking the ability to pin-down the price on a simple contract could possibly be considered as a credible alternative government.
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