http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11792195/Labours-biggest-donors-pledge-to-stop-giving-cash-if-economically-illiterate-Jeremy-Corbyn-wins-race.html
Labour's biggest donors pledge to stop giving cash
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| Richard Brindle |
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| Assem Allam, the multi-millionaire |
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| John Mills, one of Labour’s biggest donors |
| Anonymous doner |
Another clique of rich Blairite party
donors, threaten to “stop giving cash if economically illiterate
Jeremy Corbyn wins race”. The names of these arrogantly patronising
“party donors” (except the one who chooses to remain anonymous
and just throw his snide comments out of his box) reveals the extent
to which the Labour party since 1997 under Blair has become too
closely associated with and influenced by a small section (but not
all) of the business community.
These “party donors” are amongst
that group of hypocrites who frequently argue that the “Unions”
have too much influence on the Labour party arising from their
contributions to party funds, and yet seek themselves to influence
the party leadership election (in addition to the “business
friendly” lobby they actively promote), with their threats to “to
stop giving cash” urging Labour party members to vote for the
proper candidate, which actually means any candidate except Jeremy
Corbyn, or else.
These “party donors” also by
accident, or more probably design, forget that the Labour party was
actually created by the TUC and not by a privileged bunch of rich
businessmen.
Assem Allam, the multi-millionaire who
has recently given Labour more than half a million pounds, attacked
the party for missing the “message” from voters that hard-Left
parties lose elections. Perhaps Mr Allam could explain when exactly,
did a “hard-Left party” last stand in a General election. Perhaps
he refers to the Michael Foot 1983 election manifesto referred to as
“the longest suicide note in history” and other hypocritical
nonsense. The 1983 party, despite all the hysteria at the time and
since, could hardly be described as a “hard-Left party”
Then Richard Brindle, who gave £100,000
under Ed Miliband,
also ruled out donating should Mr Corbyn win due to his “economically
illiterate” policies. What Brindle really means of course, is that
anyone who does not subscribe to his point of view is “economically
illiterate”. This is much the same philosophy as those who have
recently argued that “anyone who disagrees with me is mad”.
Arrogant and patronising nonsense
Another donor, hiding behind the cloak
of anonymity, contributes his, or her, opinion that “a Corbyn
victory would be electoral “suicide” and leave Labour in
opposition for 20 years”. An opinion offered without evidence or
substantiation but which demonstrates a preference for a Labour
government which would maintain the Blairite relationship with
business. In this, our anonymous friend shares the objectives of the
other donors who all prefer the status quo of the present Labour
party structure and policies
Paradoxically it is this very status
quo that is being rejected by thousands of people either joining or
rejoining the party, because they can see a different Labour party
where policies and principle are more important than personalities
and sound bites, where truth and honesty are more important than
hypocrisy and duplicity and where the criticism from the public that
“they are all the same once they get elected” can be finally
eradicated from Labour party politics.
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