WHY CAMERON IS MUCH MORE CULPABLE THAN HAGUE OVER THE ASHCROFT MONIES AND STATUS

           David Cameron's judgement and political antenna is much more suspect than William Hague's is over the Lord Sleaze of Belize affair.

          Ashcroft was, as Tory sources claimed at the time 'a foul-weather friend' and was the only siginificant party donor in their dark days of 1997-2000. In other words William Hague had little chouce but to accommodate Ashcroft's aversion to scrutiny of his personal tax affairs. Once he made the decision to turn a blind eye (and he had very few options at the time), he was complicit in Ashcroft's tax cover-up, even if he wasn't aware of the precise details at the time.

          However, it is Cameron who has made the greater error. Cameron assumed the leadership of the Tory party at a time of much more financial stability for the party. Donations from class allies in the City and elsewhere were flooding in. The rea of almost total dependence on the Ashcroft millions had long gone and the funds raised by the Tories now came from a much broader base.

          Hence Cameron had the perfect opportunity to confront the issue of Ashcroft's 'unknown' tax status and take whatever remedies he wanted to, if Ashcroft either refused to tell him or revealed his non-dom status at the time. He would have been able to ring-fence the issue of Ashcroft 2 years ago and forestalled any electoral impact it would have had.

          But what did he choose to do? He stuck his head in the sand and hoped it would go away. He is a bottler who seems to avoid the hard decisions and instead continues to implement a PR strategy for his party almost wholly dependent on his own personality, when that said personality is so obviously flawed.

          Ashcroft, tax breaks for married couples, his own gouging of parliamentary expenses on a tozlly superfluous £350,000 on his constituency dwelling in Witney, Oxfordshire, his gross misjudgement in cosying up to the Ulster Unionist Party in his desparate attempt to try and ensure a Parliamentary majority for his party etc etc etc.

         David Cameron is temprementally, intellectually and morally unsuitable to become Prime Minister of the UK.