Yesterday the Lancashire Evening Post featured this report on Lord Michael Ashcroft a multi-millionaire who has been sloshing cash around marginal constituencies to try to win seats for the Conservatives.
Such cash can help to fund slick marketing campaigns and glossy leaflets.
It is believed that his money was crucial in influencing the result of the local election in South Ribble earlier this year.
The Conservatives have been exploiting a loophole which allows unlimited funds to be lavished on their candidates between elections. Once an election is called there is a cap on what can be spent in order to make the process fair and democratic.
David Borrow MP for South Ribble said:
"There is resentment that multi-millionaires with no association with a particular constituency can fund a political campaign and influence the result".
These Conservative tactics were heavily criticised in parliament yesterday and have been characterised as a throwback to the era of 'rotten boroughs'.
Was this, perchance, the same mysterious Mr Moneybags who donated £40,000 to RAWS, the campaign group against the waste plant at Farington Moss?
The donation, brokered by the Conservative Party, got them out of a spot of bother as they had made a questionable pledge of money to RAWS if they were elected to run South Ribble Council.
The question as to whether the donation would have been illegal has never been answered nor the legal advice they received made public.
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