Labour For Sale: Even Tory Donors Are Giving Their Money To Starmer

It’s beginning to look a lot like the Labour Party is for sale this Christmas. 

Keir Starmer is desperate to move Labour away from a heavy reliance on union funding because he doesn’t want his version of the Labour Party to feel like or look like they owe any favours to the poor and low-paid working classes that once recognised the Labour Party as their natural political home. 

I don’t know about you, but when I buy something I expect it to serve a purpose. 

Are we supposed to believe a multi-millionaire hedge fund boss that hands over large sums of money to the Labour Party and its shadow cabinet members isn’t going to want something for his sizeable investment? 

John Armitage, who founded Egerton Capital, ended his association with the Conservatives in 2020 after donating £3.1 million to the Tories and has since made several donations to Labour. 

Super-loaded Mr Armitage - worth a mere £600 million - has given £12,500 to Keir Starmer, £15,000 to shadow health secretary, Wes Screeching, and £12,500 to the party itself. 

You know what it’s like, you hand out £40,000 to a political party and its MPs and expect absolutely nothing in return, right? 

The fact he used to be a Tory donor would suggest he didn’t sink his cash into Labour because he’s a born-again democratic socialist, but more the fact he sees Keir Starmer’s Labour Party as a safe home for Thatcherites to return to. 

A former Tory donor isn’t handing over his cash to the Labour Party because he wants to see a transformative Labour government that represents the many. His investment is a donation to the fighting fund of a beige quisling that’s hellbent on maintaining the status quo. 

To the elites, the wealth-takers, and the morally bankrupt tax shy media moguls it is simply a rotation of the establishment, to us it’s about putting food on the table and keeping the wolves from the door. 

Us and them, we couldn’t be much further apart if we wanted to be. What they spend on one breakfast we spend on a week's shopping. This isn’t coming from a place of envy, it is coming from a place of true disgust.

Armitage isn’t the only ex-Tory-now-red-Tory donor. 

Another multi-millionaire, a chap named Gareth Quarry, previously funded the Tories under the leadership of David Cameron and Theresa May.

But Mr Quarry has ditched the Tories and joined Keir Starmer’s Labour Party with an initial donation of £100,000, describing them as a “left of centre alliance”. 

Quarry’s LinkedIn describes him as the “Chairman of www.LVDY.co.uk, a 100% natural supplement business whose primary product boosts the body's defence against hangovers and fights the toxins from alcohol.”

If all of that money hasn’t gone to Mr Quarry’s head, something else has, unless he simply meant Starmer’s socially conservative Labour Party is left of centre within the Tory party that he personally funded over the duration of two governments. 

There might be a chance you are wondering why I’m ranting on about political donors, so allow me to shed some light as to why. 

It was reported this week that Labour Party HQ are looking to build up a £30 million “war chest” to fight the next general election with - double what the Conservatives spent during the 2019 campaign. 

A Labour insider has claimed that Keir Starmer is turning up at more donation dinners than ever over recent months, and he and his MPs are on an “enhanced donation drive” to ensure Labour has the necessary funding to outspend the Tories at the next election. 

The insider said: 

“Keir had an event in his office recently and he told MPs they had to bring two or three potential donors.” 

A shadow cabinet minister has also claimed that other shadow ministers are paired with potential financial backers and most of the frontbench are meeting with possible major donors every week. 

And that’s not all. 

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have been on a “salmon and scrambled egg offensive” in the City which has seen the pair meet up with almost 200 Chief Executives over the past year. 

Be in no doubt whatsoever, with political donations comes access and influence. 

Why do you think the hedge fund bosses and the corporate giants wouldn’t hand over their cash to Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour? 

I’ll tell you why. They feared the end of business-as-usual, they couldn’t stand the thought of paying a bit more tax to fund our vital and massively underfunded public services. 

And they were absolutely right to do so. 

You know only too well that Keir Starmer was elected as leader of the Labour Party by lying through his teeth to the Labour membership - see pledges 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 for evidence - still helpfully displayed on his campaign website for all to see. 

Principles never change, Mr Starmer, it’s only people that change, particularly when power is dangled in front of them. Important principles must be inflexible, not sold to the highest bidder. 

Call me cynical, but I find it deeply problematic that a political movement such as Labour would demonstrably prefer to seek funding from hedge fund bosses and multi-millionaire tycoons than nurses, bus drivers and cleaners. 

The creation of the Labour Party was the result of many years of struggle by working class people, trade unionists and socialists, united by the goal of working class voices represented in Parliament. 

122 years later and working class people are told by this Labour Party that they won’t commit to giving them a real terms pay rise, trade unionists aren’t particularly welcome if they’re not with a union that is fully supportive of Starmer’s age of beige, and something like 150,000 socialists have left the party mostly due to the right-of-centre vision we now associate with the red Tory reservists. 

I find it quite astonishing how the media present the fraud Starmer to the people as a man of ethics, integrity and principle. 

This is the same Keir Starmer that wanted to abolish the monarchy. 

This is the same Keir Starmer that wanted the UK to quit NATO. 

This is the same Keir Starmer that laughably claimed he still sees himself as a socialist. 

This is the same Keir Starmer that stood in solidarity with McDonalds workers during their campaign for a £15 minimum wage in 2019, before demanding his former Shadow Employment Rights Secretary, Andy McDonald, argue AGAINST a £15 minimum wage because it was the “responsible” thing to do. 

Just think, Starmer has this big poll lead, simply down to how bad the Tories are, and he uses it to show you that he too can be nearly as bad as the Tories if you vote for him. 

I’m not sure what else I can say to the non-believers that refuse to entertain the thought that Keir Starmer might just be a centre-right shithouse that will do anything and say anything to enhance his morally vacant crusade.

But you know me, that won’t stop me from saying it. 

Thanks for reading, 

Rachael 

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