Chimps' Tea Party @ No 10

"Dear me! It seems Lord and Master, him upstairs and his pals, are behaving like the monkeys at the 'Chimps' Tea Party! Remember that?" Arturo asked. "And we'd have known nothing about it but for that Peter Cruddas bloke being taken in by some of Murdoch's reporters!"

Of course, I had never actually seen the famed 'Chimps' Tea Party' which used to be held at London Zoo. But I had heard about it from my Aunty Dora who had been there. It seems the chimps were dressed up and given seats around a table. Tea and cakes and lots of goodies were brought to the table and the chimps proceeded to 'have fun'.

Now it seems we have our own equivalent of the 'Chimps' Tea Party' right here in jolly old Downing Street. 'Boy David' Cameron and the 'lovely' Samantha provide a meal and people eat with them! Some of those invited have made a contribution.

Something a bit fishy here? Do I sense you're thinking? Well, if it was fish, neither Arturo nor I had a bite of it! Whether it was fish, fowl or good red herring, we know not.

According to Peter Cruddas, now ex-Tory Party fund-raiser, some of those invited, to sample delectable morsels at the Cameron table, had paid handsomely for the joy of it! The 'Premier League' guys, according to Cruddas, had paid over £200,000! Now that's some meal!

Of course, we don't think that the Downing Street 'Chimps' Party' was ever as amusing as the London Zoo version. There, so I am told, the chimps got to throw cream cakes at each other! I doubt whether the 'lovely' Samantha could tolerate that! 'Boy David' gave up such things when he left the Bullingdon Club! But what these other 'chimps' are doing is chucking money round the table. Not as amusing to watch for onlookers but it's quite effective for the 'chuckers'. Again, don't take my word for it -we have Peter Cruddas' account!

However, the purpose of these little social gatherings, in the Cameron's private apartment, was not for pure entertainment. Oh No! Nothing so simple! Mary Riddell of the Telegraph wrote an article under the headline:

Cash for access: the scent of money has become a bad smell around David Cameron

She said:

David Cameron is not the first alleged pay-per-view prime minister, and he will not be the last. Claims by the Tories’ banished co-treasurer, Peter Cruddas, of “premier league” access to the PM in return for a £250,000 gift to party coffers were both shocking and predictable.

While denying that the PM was for hire, Downing Street was slow to publish the details of those, party donors included, who attended the Camerons’ private dinners for friends.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9167356/Cash-for-access-the-scent-of-money-has-become-a-bad-smell-around-David-Cameron.html

There has been a furore about what Arturo termed the 'pay-per-eat' with the Camerons. The story was broken by the Murdoch press which is a bit rich! Didn't he tell the Commons Select Committee that as soon as Cameron was ensconced in No 10 - he - Rupert himself - entered by the 'back door'! I'm sure he must have had, at least, a cuppa or two!

Now the ex-Tory Party fund-raiser, Peter Cruddas, has been flaunting his great knowledge about the goings-on at No 10, in a sting by reporters from the Sunday Times. Other papers quickly gave their opinions:

It'll be awesome for your business: Tory treasurer told donors they could have access to PM and influence policy

That was the headline in the Mail. The article by Jason Groves continued:

David Cameron’s pledge to clean up politics came back to bite him yesterday after his chief fundraiser was secretly filmed boasting major donors would get both access and influence in return for hard cash.

Peter Cruddas, a spread betting millionaire, told undercover reporters posing as potential donors that they could expect to meet the Prime Minister and feed in their concerns directly to Downing Street’s policy-making machine.

‘It will be awesome for your business,’ he claimed.Mr Cruddas, who was appointed by Mr Cameron as the Conservative Party’s co-treasurer in June last year, quit within hours of the secret recordings being made public.

Two years ago, Mr Cameron pledged to clean up politics by clamping down on the shadowy world of lobbying. But Mr Cruddas’s comments appeared to suggest that those with fat enough wallets are able to buy access to the heart of Downing Street.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2120287/Itll-awesome-business-Tory-treasurer-told-donors-access-PM-influence-policy.html#ixzz1qGIqTdu7

All this news of his little private dinners must be particularly galling for 'Boy David' Cameron. Why? Well, very recently he told a group of excited schoolchildren visiting No 10:

"I live in a little flat, a very nice flat actually, above No 11 Downing Street, but what I get up to up there is private."

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/307096/PM-describes-his-love-of-riding/-PM-describes-his-love-of-riding-PM-describes-his-love-of-riding-PM-describes-his-love-of-riding

That's what I call ironic! The whole world now knows that what goes on in his 'very nice flat' is far from 'private'! It's a 'chimps' tea party'! The world also understands what Cameron hopes to keep 'private'. Not quite what you would have expected, is it?

It seems that 'Boy David' Cameron finds it difficult to fight some battles and this is a big battle. So, he has brought in the 'Weasel Man' Francis Maude to act as his knight in shining armour. He appeared on the BBC Radio 4 'Today' programme. Instead of rescuing the situation, 'Weasel Man' Maude only made things worse. Evan Davis' questions about the 'pay-per-eat' story were dismissed as 'a bit of nonsense'! Oh, Francis! Tell that to the marines!!

Arturo padded back into the room "There's a smell of stinking fish coming from the Cameron's flat," he said. It was not said with any degree of irony! Anyway, I quite like stinking fish. I think I'll hang around outside and see if a tasty morsel comes my way!

'Bye'