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Lord Sugar tried to avoid £186m tax payment as a non-UK resident
(www.thetimes.co.uk)
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Remind me why he was made a Lord?
He was one of the largest donors to the Labour Party, who made him a Lord. A few years later he switched sides to the Conservatives, and had been acting like the archetypal Tory gobshite ever since.
Oh yeah? What made him switch? Was he all right before becoming a Tory?
Based on how he's been acting since he became a lord, i would guess that his donations to Labour were simply to secure him the life peerage that Labour duly gave him in 2009, and since then we're seeing his true colours, including reposting a photoshopped photo of Corbyn with Hitler, and mocking the Senegal football team, saying they looked like street-side hawkers. Í think he occasionally bleats some sexist crap on xwitter as well.
I knew he was a cunt from the telly but he sounds like a proper cunt.
Labour back then were all into their 'Third Way' ideology (read 'neoliberalism with a left-wing mask') so it's not all unlikely he barely shifted his views at all