Labour’s been bought by the rich, that’s why kids must stay in poverty

Right, so political party donations often become a talking point following a General Election as their election spending get’s scrutinised, who gave them cash especially get’s scrutinised because inherently you always have to ask the question of what exactly is being bought and paid for here and when you get a new government, the policy they enact, or don’t often becomes a reflection of who has given them money and what their vested interests in that might be and considering Starmer’s Labour got more money in the form of donations than every other political party combined, what exactly have certain people been buying and what are the consequences of that, especially when this Labour government is refusing to lift 250,000 kids out of poverty, because it says we can’t afford it, when that is just a complete lie and will have to vote on an amendment to today’s King’s Speech on this very policy choice in justification of it. Will Labour actively vote to keep kids in poverty then?
Right, so that was a quick clip of Carla Denyer, co-leader of the Green Party, now the Green MP for Bristol Central saying what few other politicians are prepared to, especially on mainstream media and saying it is literally Labour’s choice to keep them in poverty. A wealth tax according to Green Party estimates for example, could bring in £44bn. The cost of taking these kids out of poverty is around £2.5bn. Starmer found £3bn a year to just give to Ukraine. These are choices, you might agree or disagree with them, but surely taxing the wealthiest in this country is no longer something we cannot afford to do? When the choice is kids going hungry, whilst the rich get even richer, that shouldn’t be a choice should it? But then you get wealthy people donating to political parties and then when they get into government, as Labour just have, all of a sudden these things are not possible, they are unaffordable and you get politicians with the temerity to go on TV and say sorry, there is no money. We are the 6th richest economy on Earth, if the government doesn’t have the money, who does? And the answer is obviously the people who have so much of it, they can afford to buy influence with wannabe governments. We know this is the route Keir Starmer chose, it is the same road Tony Blair walked, blow to membership and donations from ordinary working class people, as Corbyn brought so much money into the party by doing, he would rather serve people who will fund the party instead and line up a cushy future for himself further down the line when his time in politics is over. It’s what Blair did after all.
When you look at who the donors are for certain parties, it begs the question of what they are buying and that is often reflected in party policy or in the case of the governing party what they do, so let’s look at some of the donations that came in and since I brought up the Greens, let’s look at them first.
Election donations-wise, the BBC have published the donation figures and collated a list of the 16 biggest donors and the Greens brought in a very modest £160,000 all in, most from small donations, no big money donors for them, but the same can’t be said for other parties and the limited company majority owned by Nigel Farage, that masquerades as a political party, called Reform UK, who brought in ten times as much as the Greens, but only got one more seat than them.
Reform UK brought in £1.6m, of which two of their donors, made the BBC rich list, company Britain Means Business, which is basically Richard Tice, now a Reform MP himself and also Deputy Leader having made way for Farage’s return, who handed over £500,000 and Zia Yusuf, who’s donation of £200,000 appears to have been enough to see him made Reform UK chair.
The Lib Dems brought in £1.65m, with large donations appearing on the list from consultancy firm Adam Management handing over nearly £480,000, gambling multimillionaire Derek Webb gave then £200,000 and food import/export company GADF Holdings also gave them £200K.
Despite the Tories scoring £1.8m in donations, only one entry for them appears on the BBC rich list, which was £225,000 from their own draws society, so the big money bankrollers just evaporated, but Labour had plenty.
The Tories came second in the list with their £1.8m in donations, but Labour accepted £9.5m in donations over that same period and it all comes down to what these people are buying as to what we’ll see Labour do, because big money in politics always breeds corruption and frankly it has to be stamped out, because our democracy is constantly up for sale.
Biggest donor bar none was Lord Sainsbury, giving Labour enough on his own to top the list, a massive £2.5m from him, he was made a peer in 1997 and well, given his sizeable donations to Labour previously was involved subsequently in the cash for peerages scandal after failing to disclose a £2m loan he had made to the party, loans becoming a thing under Blair, because when you rely on big money donors to bankroll you, them not paying up puts you in a spot of bother. You aren’t free to run the country as you see fit, you’re owned. Sainsbury is also allegedly involved with Labour Friends of Israel, which would certainly be fitting with a Starmer led Labour and other donors bear that out too. Labour got £900,000 from Gary Lubner, who’s family made it’s fortune in apartheid South Africa, is very supportive of the apartheid Israeli state as well and who’s son is the current Young Labour chair.
Stuart Roden, who I wrote about recently in another video for publicly abusing Palestine protesters at Labour conference last year gave Labour £570,000. Martin Taylor, a hedge fund manager with interests in private healthcare, gave Labour £700,000, sculptor Antony Gormley, gave them £500,000, though this was in the form of artwork, rather than cash, Toledo Productions, the film company behind Love Actually, run by Duncan Kenworthy gave Labour £500,000 as well, there were other donations as well from other hedge funders, the oil industry to lesser extents. A near £1.5m donation from Unison and £514,000 from USDAW being the biggest trade union donations, cleanest money in politics as that is, raised by ordinary union members, but it’s tell that these donations both came from right wing trade union administrations and that despite a huge amount of cash raised, union donations to Starmer’s Labour actually fell.
So a bigger emphasis on money from wealthy individuals, many of whom have vested interests and they have pointed out as I’ve gone through some of them, so I’m not going to go over them again, but if you wanted to know why Labour won’t raise a wealth tax, it’s because they can kiss these donations goodbye if they did. This money is an investment in the wealth held by these wealthy people, because it’s cheaper for them to hand these eye-watering sums over to political parties, then pay a fair share of tax. That’s why this economy is as large as it is, but why so few of us see it – it’s hoarded at the top and until a political party comes in prepared to say no more to these massive donations, we need an economic reset, so it works for the bulk of the country, so that those at the bottom end who spend their money, have more of it to get by and have a better quality of life for it, are able to get on the housing ladder, do all the things we expect to be able to do, but find in these modern times are completely unable to, take holidays, the spending of money is what strengthens the economy over all. Having all the money being hoarded at the top, where it just gets stashed away and does no work, does not get spent, actively harms the economy. Remember when Starmer said country before party? He was taking this money while he was saying it. He never meant a word of it and if he and Reeves go down this route, economic stagnation is going to continue, there will be no change. When they are making choices to keep kids in hunger and destitution instead of taxing the rich a bit more, rich people who are themselves happy to live in a country where poor kids go hungry, then something is very wrong, but thank goodness there are some politicians, a few, who will call this out and on this matter of child poverty, the two child benefit cap, Starmer could be facing a reckoning, not just from outside his own party, from the likes of the Greens and Independent MPs who largely crowdfunded their campaigns, no big donors there, but within it as well and less than two weeks into government Starmer’s Labour, if they choose to fight this, whether they win or lose, are going to look just as evil and just as nasty as any Tory administration that’s come before them.
Meanwhile, all those pro Israel donations are paying off too as Labour seek to get Israel off the hook at the International Criminal Court for those arrest warrants attempting to be procured by the ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan instead of letting due process be carried out as they promised during the election campaign, that honesty deficiency will be seen by a lot more people under Starmer going forwards I have no doubt and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.