Taylor Swift concerts, VIP boxes, designer clothes, exotic holidays, and lavish Birthday parties are all 'for the good of the people'.
"it is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples" - Squealer, Animal Farm
When I read the Telegraph article it made me think of the Orwell classic Animal Farm. The novel's allegoric tale of the Russian Revolution could easily be describing the Labour Party today.
The Telegraph have revealed that the Labour Cabinet have accepted £800,000 in donations and gifts (bribes) this year alone, an excerpt:
David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, has received the most since the beginning of 2024, having accepted more than £150,000 worth. This included £2,500 worth of tickets to see Tottenham Hotspur, with the use of a hospitality box. The largest sum donated to him was from Labour Together, a Starmerite think tank, which donated £40,440 for the “provision of research and writing services”.Labour Cabinet ministers have accepted £753,017 in donations and £90,853 in gifts since the beginning of the year, according to the analysis of the members’ register of interests.
Mr Lammy is followed by Wes Streeting, who received £117,000 in donations and gifts, among them four tickets and hospitality to see Taylor Swift at Wembley costing £1,160.The Health Secretary’s biggest donation was valued at £48,000 in four instalments from OPD Group Ltd, a company controlled by Peter Hearn, a recruitment mogul and one of Labour’s biggest donors.
He also accepted £13,000 “towards staffing costs” while Labour was in opposition, declared in April, from Kevin Craig, a businessman who later stood to become the Labour MP in Suffolk Coastal.Mr. Craig was later forced to stand down after it emerged he placed a bet on his constituency outcome in the General Election, betting that the Tories would win. Mr. Streeting returned his donation from Mr. Craig.Among Angela Rayner’s £104,000 in gifts and donations since the start of the year was £2,230 for clothing from ME+EM, a British luxury fashion brand.Donations and gifts to politicians have come under renewed scrutiny in recent weeks after
Sir Keir Starmer became embroiled in a row over funding clothes donated to him and his wife by Lord Alli.
Just like the last Labour government this lot are all Champagne Socialists, nothing changes.
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