Lingerie Tycoon Michelle Mone
Michelle Mone, lingerie tycoon and noted supporter of New Labour, has turned her back on the party as a result of the disastrous budget.
Ms Mone, from Glasgow, told the Scottish Sunday Express: “I certainly don’t mind paying more tax if the real benefits are being felt by schools, the health service, the elderly and businesses.
“But to just come and ask for more money to throw away is crazy.”
The news will not be uplifiting for Messrs. Brown and Darling’s increasingly alienated kleptocracy; they will need all the support they can muster in the run up to the next election; the bad news is compounded by the departure from Labour of leading Scottish QC Paul McBride.
Mr. McBride said:
I have been a supporter of the Labour party all my life. However, I now find myself in a position where I can no longer support a party that is serially mendacious and incompetent… Wednesday’s Budget showed that Labour has been in power for too long. It is a party that now relies on smears and fears rather than policies, persuasion and hope. The sooner there is a change of Government the better, and David Cameron is that change… In Scotland, Annabel Goldie has set the agenda and is delivering real change. I am delighted to be speaking at our spring conference in Perth in May – an event which will no doubt show Scotland that the Conservatives are winning again.
