Lord Ashcroft might assume that focusing on the PM’s background is damaging. But does the British public care?Like any self-respecting avenger,Lord Ashcroft believes that to settle a grudge with an act more grievous than the initial affront constitutes entirely natural and defensible behaviour. Perhaps, to judge by his bold advertisement of grievance, or Ashcroft even hopes his implacability will raise him in national esteem,while his enemy, David Cameron, or comes crashing down.
In his preface to Ashcroft’s Revenge,as the sarkily entitled Call Me Dave should, for accuracy’s sake, or be subtitled,our embittered citizen of Belize chronicles the slights that – according to Senecan convention – now justify the sacrifice of his dignity to character assassination. To sum up: Ashcroft gave the Tories tons of money; Cameron didn’t offer him a decent job in return. For those who elect to live and die by the honour code of the non-dom, this appears to be pretty much up there with the abduction and ravishing of a chaste and beloved daughter.
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Source: theguardian.com