Labour snubs McDonald’s SHOCKER! Or is it a McNugget blown out of proportion?

Last Updated: April 19, 2016By
[Image: Hungry for Justice.]

[Image: Hungry for Justice.]

Matters must be bad for the Conservatives if their friends in the press are trying to use this as a distraction:

According to the Torygraph and others, those loony lefties at Labour have been showing how crazy they are by refusing to take £30 grand from Ronald McDonald so he can stage an “interactive experience” praising British farmers and produce.

It’s loony because Labour is in a deep financial crisis, and it’s leftie because Labour is run by snobs who turn their noses up at Maccie D-style fast food (according to Tom Harris in the Torygraph).

He kindly adds that the Tories and the SNP have already welcomed McDonald’s “with open wallets”.

That’s very interesting. Damning, in fact. Not of Labour, though, but of the Tories and the SNP.

Look at this:

160419McDonaldsTax

That’s right – McDonald’s has been dodging tax on a fortune in earnings for longer than the Conservatives have been in government.

The Tories have done nothing to prevent this. Considering their leader’s tangled tax affairs, it is easy to understand why. And there’s our first point:

All this story does is re-focus attention on tax dodging and the fact that Conservatives not only allow it, but encourage it and participate in it themselves. Taxation is for the ‘little people’, in their opinion.

What’s not quite so clear is why the SNP want to take tax-dodged money and promote a tax-dodging multinational. Perhaps Ms Sturgeon would like to explain?

Secondly, Labour is not facing a financial crisis:

160419LabourFunding

The graph shows very clearly, as Eoin Clarke tweeted: “Labour membership has doubled. Finances are soaring. We have paid off our debt. We can now become Crony Donor free.”

Third, McDonald’s is an appallingly bad employer. It refuses to recognise trade unions and employs people on zero-hours contracts.

That is why Labour doesn’t want anything to do with it.

Next time the Torygraph or some other tattle-sheet comes out against Labour with a hysterical headline:

Ask yourself, who are the real loonies?

The fast food giant had offered Labour £30,000 for the privilege of staging an “interactive experience” in support of British farmers and producers. The Tories and the SNP have already welcomed them with open wallets; Labour has delivered a big McNo.

Snobbery towards McDonald’s is nothing new on the British Left. You only have to mention their name on Twitter to provoke a deluge of self-righteous comments from people living in London who wouldn’t dream of letting little Marcus or Louisa sink their perfectly aligned incisors into a Big Mac or a McChicken Sandwich.

So why, when the party is facing the greatest financial crisis of its existence thanks to the government’s egregious trade union legislation, does the party feel it can turn its nose up at an easy 30 grand?

Source: Labour sneers at McDonald’s then wonders why the public think it’s out of touch

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6 Comments

  1. casalealex April 19, 2016 at 7:34 am - Reply

    “So why, when the party is facing the greatest financial crisis of its existence thanks to the government’s egregious trade union legislation, does the party feel it can turn its nose up at an easy 30 grand?”

    Because Corbyn’s Labour are a party of integrity; not espousing morality whilst taking backhanders from immoral tax evaders!

    • Mike Sivier April 19, 2016 at 12:23 pm - Reply

      And because Corbyn’s Labour Party doesn’t need the money.

  2. Chris Bergin. April 19, 2016 at 8:26 am - Reply

    Rather illustrates how money has become more important than people in political circles.

  3. TomMagenta April 19, 2016 at 10:12 am - Reply

    oh god why do i share a name with a telegraph writer? my heart skipped a beat when i read that o_o

    Love that “McNugget” line BTW. XD

  4. David April 20, 2016 at 7:59 am - Reply

    McDonald’s = Foul Food Inc. I wouldn’t touch anything of their with a barge pole, let alone get my teeth round it.

  5. mohandeer April 20, 2016 at 9:23 am - Reply

    So the Tories are willing to accept a bribe from MacDonald’s even though the EU is trying to take a stand against their Tax Dodging (there’s a big surprise). Labour membership has soared to the point that the party can now declare itself “Crony Donor” free. Last but not least the Labour Party has taken a principled stand (something neither the Tories or SNP would comprehend) against MacDonald’s for it’s notoriety for making billions of pounds exploiting workers on Poverty wages record and have chosen not to welcome them with open wallets. Wes Streeting and Ian Austin may be unprincipled t*****s but I for one, am glad that the Labour Party has shown itself to have some scruples and integrity.
    Good for them!
    Can you imagine the Tories and right wingers allowing their little darlings have birthday parties at MacDonald’s, because it is a cheaper opportunity than canapes and fruit punch? Labour left wing, snobs? Got that the wrong way round didn’t they? Not that they would know anything about such “low achievers” way of life.

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