Can we trust the tories when a man like this is bankrolling them?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tropical-storm-hits-ashcroft-1811697.html

"Michael Ashcroft, the Conservative peer who is funding a key part of
David Cameron's election campaign, is caught in the middle of a legal
and political storm in the Central American haven of Belize, where
many of his businesses are based.

In an interview with The Independent the country's Prime Minister,
Dean Barrow, has accused the billionaire Tory party deputy chairman of
operating a monopoly and of trying to obscure his interests through a
byzantine web of subsidiaries and trusts. Lord Ashcroft has rejected
the claims, which he says are politically motivated. But Mr Barrow has
vowed to pursue the peer and unpick a series of commercial deals that
he claims he has used to "soak" the country in the manner of a
colonial overlord.

In particular, he says Lord Ashcroft controlled both of the country's
telecoms firms, and brokered deals that, in effect, left Belize's
taxpayers subsidising his company's profits. ...............

...................Mr Barrow, a former lawyer for Lord Ashcroft and
the recipient of his political contributions, says he turned on his
former ally after discovering the existence of sweetheart deals that
the peer negotiated with the previous administration.

"He is a colossus here," Mr Barrow told The Independent. "It's never
been my understanding that because you contribute to a politician, you
own that politician, and I will always do my best to defend the
interests of the people of Belize. When that conflicts with any
expectations that some political donor might have of me, well I'm
sorry for that political donor."

Lord Ashcroft is one of the Conservative party's biggest donors and
has used his money to fund a highly targeted campaign to win key
marginal constituencies for the party.

His problems in Belize are an unwelcome distraction at a time when the
peer – who is also the Conservative's deputy party chairman – is
preparing for an election early next year.

The Prime minister of Belize specifically used Lord Ashcroft's high
profile role in the UK to attack the peer: "You would think that
government in the UK is so powerful and so diverse that he could not
exercise the kind of influence he has been able to here. But there
must be a warning in this: if he can he will. Based on my experience,
he fully expects that he who pays the piper plays the tune.""

Alang wrote:
> Can we trust the tories when a man like this is bankrolling them?
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tropical-storm-hits-ashcroft-1811697.html
>
> "Michael Ashcroft, the Conservative peer who is funding a key part of
> David Cameron's election campaign, is caught in the middle of a legal
> and political storm in the Central American haven of Belize, where
> many of his businesses are based.
>
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Remind us again as to why Lord Ashcroft got his peerage?