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| Grant Shapps boasts: I'm so rich my car even has a fridge in it | |
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| “We’re all in this together,” says the Tory party chairman who boasted his riches were so large it afforded him the luxury of having a private plane, a six-bedroom mansion and a car decked out with “every refinement you could imagine”. | “We’re all in this together,” says the Tory party chairman who boasted his riches were so large it afforded him the luxury of having a private plane, a six-bedroom mansion and a car decked out with “every refinement you could imagine”. |
| “Why, it even has a fridge,” Grant Shapps bragged in a sales letter he wrote in 2004. | “Why, it even has a fridge,” Grant Shapps bragged in a sales letter he wrote in 2004. |
| These were the kind of examples of his luxurious lifestyle Mr Shapps tried to entice ‘customers’ to pay $197 (£130) for his “toolkit” of secrets to making a fortune. | These were the kind of examples of his luxurious lifestyle Mr Shapps tried to entice ‘customers’ to pay $197 (£130) for his “toolkit” of secrets to making a fortune. |
| He then claimed the true value of his “secret” was $100,000. | He then claimed the true value of his “secret” was $100,000. |
| This was all before he became the Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield in 2005. | This was all before he became the Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield in 2005. |
| He ran a web-marketing business selling self-help guides such as “Stinking Rich 3”, claiming his advice would make his customers a “ton of cash”. | He ran a web-marketing business selling self-help guides such as “Stinking Rich 3”, claiming his advice would make his customers a “ton of cash”. |
| Grant Shapps claimed the true value of his product was $100,000 (Getty) | Grant Shapps claimed the true value of his product was $100,000 (Getty) |
| In the latest revelations of his products, unveiled by the website Political Scrapbook at the weekend, Mr Shapps sold the “How To Become Stinking RICH Online” self-help guide for $197 – selling it in US dollars to broaden his market. | In the latest revelations of his products, unveiled by the website Political Scrapbook at the weekend, Mr Shapps sold the “How To Become Stinking RICH Online” self-help guide for $197 – selling it in US dollars to broaden his market. |
| It would make the buyer “11 to 22 times more successful than the crowd”, he claimed. | It would make the buyer “11 to 22 times more successful than the crowd”, he claimed. |
| This would entitle buyers to a similar lifestyle to himself. So what was it like to be the ‘stinking rich’ chairman of the Conservative party? | This would entitle buyers to a similar lifestyle to himself. So what was it like to be the ‘stinking rich’ chairman of the Conservative party? |
| For a start, he was able to buy a car “complete with in-car DVD, SatNav and just about every other refinement you could imagine in a vehicle. Why it even has a fridge!” | For a start, he was able to buy a car “complete with in-car DVD, SatNav and just about every other refinement you could imagine in a vehicle. Why it even has a fridge!” |
| He boasted: “Since owning an online business has enabled me to live in a $2m home… to drive 3 high-end luxury cars and to own and operate my own aircraft, I suppose a toolkit that exposes every secret used to build that kind of wealth should rightfully sell for say $100,000.” | He boasted: “Since owning an online business has enabled me to live in a $2m home… to drive 3 high-end luxury cars and to own and operate my own aircraft, I suppose a toolkit that exposes every secret used to build that kind of wealth should rightfully sell for say $100,000.” |
| A caption accompanying a picture of him posing in his car read: “That's me... and I'm sitting in my brandspanking-new Crossfire Convertible 3.2L (delivered Saturday July 24). It's one of the first dozen on the road here in the UK.” | A caption accompanying a picture of him posing in his car read: “That's me... and I'm sitting in my brandspanking-new Crossfire Convertible 3.2L (delivered Saturday July 24). It's one of the first dozen on the road here in the UK.” |