Real History and the financial ethics of those nice people The Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech Alphabetical index (text) [images and captions added by this website] London, Saatchi charges Tories £1.5m for failed campaign By Andrew Pierce LORD SAATCHI, the former Conservative chairman, charged the party £1.5 million for the services of his advertising companies in the general election campaign that he helped to
create. The revelation that Lord Saatchi billed the cash-strapped party while he was chairman has astonished senior Tories. David Irving comments: A FEW helpful notes for our foreign readers. The Saatchi brothers are the owners of a large art collection, much of which would have been classified in Nazi Germany as Schmutz und Schund (smut & filth), which was one rung lower even than Entartete Kunst . Sculptures made entirely of frozen blood, that sort of thing (I kid you not).
Moreover they are — like their agency’s current victim Michael Howard , the (affable, avuncular and all the other As except *sshole) leader of the British Conservative Party which Saatchis have just billed for $3m — Jewish. One of the Saatchis — I forget which , it could have been either — protested when The Daily Telegraph published his photograph, claiming it was a clear instance of anti-Semitism to do so.
We disagree: they are both handsome beyond disbelief: Schmutz: Maurice Saatchi und Schund: Charles Saatchi But what is a $3m charge among friends?
It calls to our incorrigible mind the loping, beerglass gripping figure of Anthony Julius , Lipstadt’s (all the A’s) attorney in her trial for libel: he clutched her Royal Highness Princess Diana’s elbow as her legal adviser and steered her through her divorce case against Prince Charles, securing a monster, multi-million pound, cash settlement in her lifetime.
Thereafter, his law firm Mishcon de Reya set up The Diana Memorial Trust Fund, which raked in the shekels from all over the world; and thereafter that, so to speak, Julius secretly charged the Fund more than $2m for his first year’s work in setting up the fund. Or so we’re told by the newspapers (more anti-Semitism). We’re not sure if that included postage and sundries.
Julius also started off offering to defend Lipstadt free in her libel action, pro bono, as lawyers say; but somehow there too a bill resulted at the end of the day. Never forget, to coin a phrase; never forget. When he resigned from the Shadow Cabinet after the election defeat he [Saatchi] delivered a withering denunciation of the campaign that centred on asylum and immigration.
The payments to Lord Saatchi’s companies are revealed in the newly published Conservative Party accounts for 2004 which state: “Central Office purchased services and paid commission amounting to £339,000 and £207,000 respectively from the Immediate Sales Company and M&C Saatchi companies in which Lord Saatchi has an interest.” A further £19,000 was paid in 2003. The Times has learnt that Lord Saatchi invoiced the party for a further £1 million for work in 2005 before polling day.
The 2004 accounts showed that he made a £6,000 donation to the party. The Immediate Sales Company has subsequently pitched for commercial contracts on the back of the work done on the Tory campaign. Most members of the board of the Conservative Party were taken a