LATEST Labour scandal exposes REAL REASON for more austerity?

Right, so another week another massive new scandal erupts for Keir Starmer’s Labour and this time it really is an old rehashing of an old problem that always seems to afflict right wingers. Frankly this sort of scandal should be an obvious indicator of being right wing, of being bought and paid for and it really does explain why the economic narrative is a carbon copy of every excuse George Osborne coughed up as to why we, the ordinary working class have to be kept poor, because it's only by our poverty that rich people stay rich and when they have special access to government, cash for access as this scandal is, when Keir Starmer goes ahead and makes his speech later at time of writing that amounts to things can only get worse for us, it should serve as a reminder that when rich people can turn up on his doorstep any time they like, all the more so when they are party donors, you realise what those donations effectively pay for and wonder no more about why Labour cannot countenance or fathom the point of a wealth tax. Starmer’s Labour might have stopped the Tory gravy train, but only long enough for them to get on board themselves.
Right, so as Keir Starmer prepares to make another one of his bland and boring speeches, there he was laying into the Tories for sleaze and yet it’s taken mere weeks for him to be embroiled in a sleaze row of his own! He will basically be telling us that although he stood on a platform for change, the change for us ordinary working class folk won’t amount to a hill of beans when the message is very much not going to be things can only get better, but things are going to get worse instead.
Still despite this already having been widely debunked, Starmer will tell us that the inherited mess of the Tories, things are worse than they could have possibly imagined, exactly what George Osborne and David Cameron said and repeated for years and years as things never got better. It’s jam tomorrow again, that’s what his message will be and frankly the more Starmer and Reeves harp on about it, the more worried people are going to get.
We also know that this is the 6th richest economy on Earth, yet despite that it has barely grown for years, broadly flatlining, a 0.1% rise here, a 0.2% rise there, it’s nothing to speak of. Yes the Tories were an economic disaster no argument here, they were cold and callous and cruel and rewarded their mates with crony contracts and public money was spent like water, that’s historical fact, we know this, they always do it, but here is Labour not offering change, but offering more of the same and it’s very difficult to countenance hardship for all of us, again, when more money in our pockets boosts the economy, triggers growth because we will use that money, we will spend that money, we will make that money work. But we’re the 6th richest economy, with pathetic growth for one major reason and that is all the wealth is hoarded at the top, where it sits in accounts somewhere, doing nothing. Economically inactive wealth, most of the wealth of this country does nothing but essentially sit on it’s backside. Take some of that, put in the pockets of those with the least, it’ll get spent, it’ll work for the economy again and we’ll get growth. It’s been said so many times, by so many credible economists, not just me blithering on about it, but it’s a very easy concept we should all be able to grasp, money has to work has to be used, be spent, for shops to do well, wages to be paid that tax will be paid on, goods bought that tax will be paid on, money being used generates a return for government freeing them up to spend more, that is why a healthy economy is important that is why a wealth tax can kickstart brilliantly and Labour could do this and be different to the Tories and be the change they promised they would be, but instead they are going to carry on exactly as the Tories did before as if they had never left office and in fact with a Chancellor such as Rachel Reeves, things could even be made harder and made worse.
But why? Why must be like this and the answer has just come in the form of yet another scandal exposing the truth of the matter. Labour behaving like the Tories is because they are now being funded exactly like the Tories and that has just been exposed over the small matter of a Downing Street pass.
Getting into Downing Street, well you can’t just walk down there can you? Police in the way, gates, it’s frowned upon attempting to do so, you need a pass to be let in, a security pass.
Secure access to Downing Street? Well you can only imagine the checks that have to be done to allow non ministers in can’t you, you can’t just let anyone in…except that is exactly what Keir Starmer has done it seems and their version of events to excuse this have been inconsistent to say the least.
Security passes of course need to be held by ministers and obviously civil servants who work at Downing Street and/or need access at times. The running of government obviously requires this. Why Keir Starmer’s biggest personal donor and a man who gave the party half a million pounds had such a security pass so he could enter Downing Street whenever he wished is a bigger issue. If people can be seen to be able to buy a security pass by donating to the party now in government, but only 7 weeks in, then we’re back in cash for access scandal territory already and indeed in relation to my earlier point, if donations are the reason a wealth tax won’t be considered by Labour and we all have to suffer even more after 14 years of Tory austerity already, having a wealthy man able to bend Starmer or whoever’s ear whenever he likes, with such access to Downing Street as he evidently has or had, depending on which of Labour’s version of events you believe if either of them, is surely tantamount to ongoing lobbying on the subject?
The donor at the centre of the storm is longtime Labour donor Lord Waheed Alli. Alli is a former investment banker, because of course he is, a former TV mogul as well, having created the concept of the Survivor series and also Channel 4’s Big Breakfast. He was also chair of online retailer Asos. He got given a peerage by Tony Blair back in 1998 at the age of just 33, Alli having been his advisor to him on what the youth of the day wanted. Well I was 20 in 1998 and I didn’t want Blair, so there! That went unanswered!
Anyway, Alli has also been a key player in Keir Starmer’s camp, having been the chair of the election fundraising campaign and had himself as aforementioned given half a million pounds to Labour since Keir Starmer became leader in 2020. He has also donated personally to Starmer, having literally dressed the man it seems, with a £16,800 donation for ‘work clothes’ so his suits, some £2,825 for multiple pairs of glasses and coughed up some £36,400 for office costs and accommodation during the General Election campaign. Now that is all well and good, but it sure as hell doesn’t account for why Alli should ever have been given a security pass for Downing Street. He organised a post election celebration on the Downing Street garden after Labour’s win, for those who helped bankroll Labour’s campaign, so a knees-up for the donors.
Nobody, save the person who granted Alli the security pass and Alli himself know why he was even given one. These passes are reserved for the staff who work in Downing Street, the civil service, ministers who obviously need access and the families of those who live there. Nobody else should require one, so why does a donor have one? Labour were in full on waffling spin mode on this this morning with Starmer loyalist Pat McFadden saying that actually it wasn’t unusual for him to have had a security pass, saying that he thinks he had one, but doesn’t have it now.
This is in dispute of what has been said by those who broke this story, who, prior to publication stated that Alli very much still has a pass, although it might be temporary. Frankly until it runs out or until Alli or someone else states when it expires, this all very much looks like another cash for access scandal, a donors paying for access scandal and with those on the receiving end of his donations, not just Starmer, but also including Angela Rayner, David Lammy and Bridget Phillipson not wishing to lose such funding, especially with Labour membership collapsing, membership dropping by 9% in just the last year, more reliant than ever on donors are there others getting special access like Waheed Alli, and even if he isn’t using that position to lobby against wealth taxes or similar moves against wealthy people like himself, with Labour more reliant on private donations now that it is losing members, is the effect not the same and the optics of it all no less damaging?
Let’s also not forget that this latest donor scandal comes hot on the heels of another one in the last couple weeks only of Rachel Reeves doing, where she literally gave a job in the treasury to one of her donors, literally made a guy who had given her £5K and donated more than £20K to Labour over the last 10 years a Treasury director! I really don’t know why they think they can get away with it, because they won’t and having been found out, the guy in question in this instance, Ian Corfield, has stood down from the paid role to become an unpaid adviser, but the damage has already been done and here we are again now with more questions of Starmer’s Labour relating to the preferential treatment getting offered to significant donors to the party. Who is in charge here? Is the question we are all justifiably asking again. Who is the country being run in the interest of? And when we are being told to tighten our belts and the rich aren’t getting a wealth tax inflicted on them, instead of kids being left in poverty, or pensioners being robbed of their winter fuel allowance?
Labour can’t afford to lose it’s donations and therefore cannot afford to implement a wealth tax. Therefore the majority of the country must suffer, so the rich can keep on getting richer. We have a bought and paid for political system, where only Labour or the Tories get in, and both are utterly reliant on big money to fund them, so who is really running the country? That is why a wealth tax won’t be implemented and why one only will be implemented, when we stop voting into power the same parties. Starmer has a lot of explaining to do and with two versions of this story floating around already as to how Alli got his security pass, it looks set to get a lot messier yet, because someone somewhere must clearly be lying about it.
If Labour thought their approval ratings were bad before, they’re going to get a heck of lot messier in light of this and that’s before we even get to October’s budget, which, coming the day before Halloween, will be a horror story for many people and seemingly this is one major reason at least as to why that might be, but with those ratings already having fallen by double digits in just the last few weeks, and not even having been in power for two months yet, Starmer’s government could be one of the most short-lived and he only has himself to blame for it. Enjoy the freebies while they last Keith. Get the details of all of that in this video recommendation here as your next watch and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.