The price of Putney

Yesterday's Sunday Mirror highlighted how Tory peer Lord Ashcroft used his billions to buy Conservative wins in 19 constituencies - including Putney - at the last general election. You can click on the spread above for a larger version of the article, with Tory Justine Greening and the £14,000 "Cashcroft" channelled to her campaign featured prominently.

It's possible to argue that it wasn't Lord Cashcroft's Belize billions that made Putney Conservative in 2005 - but that's not what the Conservatives think. They clearly believe that cash equals votes, or else flooding the marginal constituencies with overseas contributions wouldn't be the central - almost sole - plank of their election strategy.

Unlike Justine Greening's Putney Conservatives, the only donations I accept are from local residents or people who know me and who want nothing other than a hard-working Labour candidate in return. Because I can't compete with the overseas billionaires and political lobbyists who channel funds to Putney Conservatives - and wouldn't even want to try - if you feel strongly about the Tories buying seats as if they're up for auction to the highest bidder please contribute to my campaign.

You can make a contribution of whatever you can afford via my secure website. I'm the only Putney candidate who can defeat the Tories and their view that elections can be bought, so please show them that while this may be how things get done in Belize, it's not how we do them in Great Britain.