Yes, the Labour Party is after your money again.
Having squandered all the cash raised by Jeremy Corbyn when, as leader, he brought hundreds of thousands of new members into the party – mostly wasting it on highly-expensive court cases connected to mostly-false accusations of anti-Semitism against some of the same members, Keir Starmer’s party wants more.
After receiving £9.5 million in donations in the run-up to the 2024 general election – more than all the other UK political parties combined, and spending £6.1 million on online campaigning alone, Rachel Reeves’s party wants more.
But what did it get for its outlay? The only reasons Labour won the election with a landslide majority are well-documented: Conservative supporters either stayed away from polling stations in disgust at their own party’s failure to govern in any useful way, or turned to Reform UK – splitting the right-wing vote.
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An email to party supporters states that the Tories remain a threat to the Labour government, while Reform is using newfound funding to scale up its operation. It says Labour needs to “build up strong financial foundations” in order to meet those challenges.
Why didn’t Labour use the years from 2020 onwards, when Starmer was elected leader, to build up those “strong financial foundations”, rather than persecuting its own mostly-innocent members?
“With four metro mayors and thousands of councillors up for grabs in May’s elections, we cannot be complacent. It’s on us to take the fight to Badenoch and Farage on the doorstep, on the airwaves and online,” the email states.
“To do it, we must rebuild our election fund. If everyone receiving this email donated just £3 today we’d have the resources to power our campaigns for the rest of the year.”
Here comes the kick-in-the-head: “The work of change is just beginning.”
What change?
Let’s turn to legendary left-wing website Another Angry Voice, which published an article last week questioning Labour’s claim to have brought change, under a series of subject headings as follows:
Austerity
One of the first things Rachel Reeves did was to launch another economically debilitating round of austerity cutbacks, pinning blame on the previous government for her actions.
That’s pretty much identical to George Osborne’s strategy in 2010, of blaming Labour’s supposed economic mismanagement for his ruinous programme of austerity cuts.
Conclusion: “More of the same”
Privatisation
Starmer’s health secretary Wes Streeting is salivating at the mouth at the prospect of carving the NHS open for even more private profiteering, to the benefit of several private health figures who have donated hefty sums to Starmer’s front bench.
Even Labour’s renationalisation of the railways is a sham which keeps the trains and freight services under the control of greedy private profiteers.
Conclusion: “More of the same”
Growth
Rachel Reeves keeps going on and on about creating “growth” but without setting out any kind of realistic framework to get the economy growing in real terms, and without defining any redistribution strategy to ensure that any additional growth isn’t simply hoovered up by greedy corporations, exploitative landlords, financial speculators, and the tax-dodger brigade, leaving the rest of us even deeper in the mire of inequality.
Without redistribution policies Reeves’ “growth agenda” amounts to the same old trickle down economic bunk that neoliberal political grifters have been spouting for decades.
Conclusion: “More of the same”
Welfare scapegoating
Rachel Reeves has been copying from the same Tory playbook by distracting from her own economic failings by whipping public resentment against disabled people, and pledging yet another round of austerity cuts to the disability welfare system.
Conclusion: “More of the same”
You can read more in the article, of course – the above is just a selection.
And the evidence is clear: under Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, and the rest of Labour’s front bench, the UK is not getting change; in fact, it is another Conservative Party, offering Conservative policies under the disguise of a red banner instead of a blue one.
Last year, the UK made a very conscious choice to reject the Conservative policies that this Labour-In-Name-Only party is continuing.
Why should any of us bother to send Starmer a single penny if he isn’t delivering the change he promised?
This Writer thinks you would end up far better-off if you give your money to – well, to these people:
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The Labour Party is after your money again
Yes, the Labour Party is after your money again.
Having squandered all the cash raised by Jeremy Corbyn when, as leader, he brought hundreds of thousands of new members into the party – mostly wasting it on highly-expensive court cases connected to mostly-false accusations of anti-Semitism against some of the same members, Keir Starmer’s party wants more.
After receiving £9.5 million in donations in the run-up to the 2024 general election – more than all the other UK political parties combined, and spending £6.1 million on online campaigning alone, Rachel Reeves’s party wants more.
But what did it get for its outlay? The only reasons Labour won the election with a landslide majority are well-documented: Conservative supporters either stayed away from polling stations in disgust at their own party’s failure to govern in any useful way, or turned to Reform UK – splitting the right-wing vote.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
An email to party supporters states that the Tories remain a threat to the Labour government, while Reform is using newfound funding to scale up its operation. It says Labour needs to “build up strong financial foundations” in order to meet those challenges.
Why didn’t Labour use the years from 2020 onwards, when Starmer was elected leader, to build up those “strong financial foundations”, rather than persecuting its own mostly-innocent members?
“With four metro mayors and thousands of councillors up for grabs in May’s elections, we cannot be complacent. It’s on us to take the fight to Badenoch and Farage on the doorstep, on the airwaves and online,” the email states.
“To do it, we must rebuild our election fund. If everyone receiving this email donated just £3 today we’d have the resources to power our campaigns for the rest of the year.”
Here comes the kick-in-the-head: “The work of change is just beginning.”
What change?
Let’s turn to legendary left-wing website Another Angry Voice, which published an article last week questioning Labour’s claim to have brought change, under a series of subject headings as follows:
Austerity
Privatisation
Growth
Welfare scapegoating
You can read more in the article, of course – the above is just a selection.
And the evidence is clear: under Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, and the rest of Labour’s front bench, the UK is not getting change; in fact, it is another Conservative Party, offering Conservative policies under the disguise of a red banner instead of a blue one.
Last year, the UK made a very conscious choice to reject the Conservative policies that this Labour-In-Name-Only party is continuing.
Why should any of us bother to send Starmer a single penny if he isn’t delivering the change he promised?
This Writer thinks you would end up far better-off if you give your money to – well, to these people:
Vox Political needs your help!
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2) Follow VP on Twitter @VoxPolitical
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Join the Vox Political Facebook page.
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7) Feel free to comment!
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The Livingstone Presumption is available
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Health Warning: Government! is now available
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The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
is still available in either print or eBook format here:
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