The Labour Party: for the money not the few?
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Investigative journalists Sean Rankin and Steven McCracken have studied every donation made to Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer as recorded by the Electoral Commission and the Register of Members’ Interests.
It makes for enlightening if not altogether surprising reading
As the authors suggest modestly, “our report is suggestive of the direction in which the party is moving under Starmer.”
This article was originally published by Morning Star on Thu 17 Dec 2020. Read the original here.
The Labour Party: for the money not the few?
Sean Rankin and Steven McCracken investigate which groups and which individuals have been funding Corbyn and Starmer.
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By their friends shall ye know them.
New Labour funding:
https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster73/blair-israel.pdf
The internal report was the final nail in the coffin for Blairites, there is no longer any pretence that Red Tories have any place in the Labour party
So starmer and his ilk are tories in all but name.
First alarm bells started ringing for me during the leadership run when Starmer remained tight-lipped throughout when asked about who his financiers were…….
This is excellent work, much needed in exposing the direction that Starmer is pushing the Labour party in. I’ve never been a member and voted for it only once, last December, and this report gives me no reason to have any interest in the party’s internal fights. Socialism will never be achieved in the Labour party and probably not at all in the parliamentary system.
‘Just follow the money.’
Never more true.
Our Labour party, like our labour itself, bought and paid for by interests inimical to ours. The PLP and swathes of Labour party infrastructure represent neither the membership nor the unions. We’re back to the days when we needed the ILPs because the Liberal party refused to represent workers.
Thanks for publishing this detailed account. It’s serious informed research like this that means I support JVL.
The question I have been pondering since Starmer reluctantly revealed that his financial puppet masters include billionaires and a prominent Zionist is whether it actually matters to these people if a Labour government is ever elected. Probably not. The Tories have never been big on Palestinian rights and, of course, they represent the interests of the wealthy. Possibly Starmer’s brief is simply to turn Labour into a party which will continue to look after the comfortable people on the off chance that the electorate reject the Tories. This would lay the dread spectre of a socialist government which so terrified them in 2017. Starmer seeming to have no clear policies and devoting half his energy to victimising progressives in his own party bears this out.
I would highlight John Booth’s post (above) and its link to Robin Ramsay’s book “The Rise of New Labour”. Referring to the £millions donated to Blair by Michael Levy (a figure of £7 million is suggested, sufficient to give Blair “…. financial independence from the trade unions and the Labour Party. Blair hated the Labour Party and viewed it as his enemy”), the final footnote (on page 4) alarmingly suggests “…If it was indeed raised by Levy and not just laundered through Levy by the Israeli state.”