probe

long time readers may remember my top tory totty list, in which i confess my guilty secret of finding several conservative right wing dames attractive. such is this desire on my part that i have had to call it the ttt.
there are a few conservative ladies who do not make it on there: ann widdecombe and mrs t are two very famous ones who just don't qualify for inclusion on the ttt. i am just not that perverse.
recently a tory dame from the past has resurfaced in london.
yes dame shirley porter has come back to london.
it appears that ken "the mayor" livingstone is hot for her as he calls for a "'urgent' dame probe". now to some with a kinky mind (yes that’s you shep and you jay..) this might be ken's way of saying "hey lets share a colonic" but fortunately dame shirley has awakened "red" ken and he is out for blood.
why?
well dame shirley was the leader of westminster council and was at the heart of the homes for votes scandal. after the 1986 election westminster council embarked on a policy known as "building stable communities", the main aim of which wasn't to build stable communities but to make sure that the tory council was re-elected.
one aspect of this was to sell off the council’s social housing to people who were more likely to vote tory. that would be rich people then. even better the houses were sold at an above average discount making them cheaper than they should have been and more attractive to the people who were more likely to vote conservative than they were labour.
it is estimated this form of gerrymandering cost the council £37 million.
i suppose if you are a tory supporter that might almost be considered a bargain.
but so much for the concept of a free market (but hell that sort of thing always goes out of the window when it suits).
the policy was declared illegal.
porter was ordered to pay costs of £27 million. she decided to leave the uk and live in israel, where she redistributed her own fortune (said to be £60 million) among relatives and trusts, which then allowed her to say her assets only amounted to £300,000. she eventually agreed to pay £12 million (obviously learning from the new testament how to feed the 5000 with a loaf of bread and a fish, she could make a fortune writing a self-help explaining how you go from £300,000 to £12 million! i don't suppose being the heir to the tesco’s fortune helped a bit?)

anyway after saying she was poor; dame shirley has once again taken her little bit of cash and somehow managed to buy a £1.5 million house in mayfair. i tell you bono needs this woman to solve african debt, she can turn nothing into a lot without breaking sweat...)

so ken is on the warpath as he wants "... an urgent investigation into whether dame shirley porter has committed perjury or any other offence at any stage in her court evidence and/or affidavits during the homes for votes scandal."

i am sure ken is aware that there is no way she would be made to pay more monies than she already has, i am sure he just wants to make sure that she isn't enjoying her return to london.

more power to his elbow, and let’s hope it a long hard probing she receives.