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Title	:	Nothing Like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter
Author	:	Andrew Hosken
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2006 by Granta UK
Categories	:	Politics

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Homes for Votes, three cemeteries at five pence apiece, the missing Tesco millions and a gold toilet seat—plus a procession of camels, pay-as-you-go toilets, and a large plastic bin called Mr Clean-Up. The hallmarks of Shirley Porter's regime at Westminster City Council are as well known as they are farcical. The story of the Tesco's heiress who shot to power and notoriety in the 1980s has never been told before. The fall-out from her reign in Westminster united opposition from all corners of public life, from Ken Livingstone to Margaret Thatcher, Nigella Lawson to the Queen of Holland, Westminster refuse workers to the Billy Fury fan club. The gerrymandering scandal at the heart of her policies eventually lead to Dame Shirley being found guilty of corruption and ordered to pay a surcharge of GBP 21million. In a highly entertaining account of one of the strangest episodes in British political history, Andrew Hosken tells of Shirley Porter's wealthy upbringing as the daughter of Jack Cohen, the founder of Tesco; her rise to power in Westminster; and about the scandal and its aftermath. He has interviewed most of the individuals involved in a story that is colorful, shocking, and stranger than fiction.

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Original Title:	Nothing Like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter
ISBN:	1862078092 (ISBN13: 9781862078093)
Edition Language:	English

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Nothing Like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter by Andrew Hosken (2006)

DAM SHIRLEY PORTER I was aware of the scandals of Westminister City Council under Shirley Porter but nothing prepared me for reading Andrew Hoskens excellent piece of investigative journalism.The book is readable, coherent and makes the undoubtedly complicated shenanigans of the Porter Regime reasonably easy to understand if not exactly a pleasure to read (there is nothing pleasurable about Shirley Porter!) and it is absolutely enthralling. The most gob smacking thing about the book is it

fairly rare to read a gripping account of local government - but this is an incredibly gripping account of Porter's rein at Westminster. Well worth reading

fairly rare to read a gripping account of local government - but this is an incredibly gripping account of Porter's rein at Westminster. Well worth reading

Its not often that council housing is the subject of a best-selling book, but in the case of Nothing Like a Dame there would be no book if there had been no council housing in Westminster to sell off. Admittedly, Dame Shirley Porter, the disgraced leader of the council in the 1980s, also managed to sell the councils cemeteries for 5p each. But it was her disastrous policies for council housing that caused her downfall.Council flats that should have housed the homeless were instead sold to people