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Cabinet Ministers Accepted Hundreds of Thousands in Union Donations Before Striking Pay Deals

by Richard Eldred
18 August 2024 5:00 PM

Labour is accused of being in thrall to the unions, after Cabinet ministers received hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations before announcing generous public sector pay deals. The Telegraph has more.

Sir Keir Starmer’s top team have accepted a total of £480,030 in cash and donations in kind from the party’s union backers since 2019.

Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, has already announced inflation-busting pay rises for millions of public sector workers since Labour took office last month.

Teachers and nurses are in line for a 5.5% pay boost, while prison service workers and senior NHS managers will see their pay increase by 5%.

Train drivers have also been offered a bumper pay rise of 14% over three years.

The recommendations are drawn up by independent pay boards but it is ultimately Ms. Reeves who has the final say.

Analysis of the MPs’ register of financial interests shows Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, has received £14,286 in support from unions in the past five years. …

Louise Haigh, the Transport Secretary, has received a total of £24,289 in union support since 2019. …

A total of £10,040 in indirect donations from the GMB union has been made to Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary. …

Senior Conservatives have accused Labour of being in thrall to the unions, whose backing has traditionally been central to the party’s finances.

Ben Wallace, the former Defence Secretary, last week claimed the generosity of public sector pay offers showed the Government prioritised its union “paymasters” over national security.

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: Liam Conlon MP, the son of Sue Gray, Sir Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff, accepted a donation of £4,000 from Aslef after he was selected to stand as a Labour Party candidate at the end of last year. The Mail has more.

Tags: GMBKeir StarmerLabour PartyStrikesTrade UnionsUnison

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FerdIII
FerdIII
8 months ago

The criminality and fraud never ends with these half wits and panjandrums. The entire system is diseased and unfit for any purpose. Statism run amok. I suppose under Herr Starmer if you criticise this unbelievable corruption you will go to jail – thriving democracy, values, open transparency, etc etc.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
8 months ago

This looks like a deliberate leak. The intention, yet again is to create anti-government anger and of course to rub our noses in their blatant dishonesty. I don’t doubt this will succeed. The fire will be constantly stoked until the lid comes off and we have massive civil disturbances and then the Starmer Fuehrer can go full Nazi and declare lockdowns, martial law and maybe even the camps all watched over by the Calais Yatch Club.

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Insurrectionist
Insurrectionist
8 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

My anti-government anger has been brewing for over 40 years…

The Revolution will not be Televised

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Mogwai
Mogwai
8 months ago
Reply to  Insurrectionist

If I remember rightly, doesn’t Starmer have significant form when it comes to stopping ‘charmers’ such as this, not just from being deported but from being sent to jail, from when he was a lawyer? So you’re just going to keep getting more of the same because what is there to stop it?

”A homeless man who tried to murder a postman by pushing him onto the tube tracks is a migrant convicted of sex crimes who was already facing deportation.
Kurdish migrant Brwa Shorsh, 24, shoved stranger Tadeusz Potoczek, 61, at Oxford Circus in central London on February 3.
Although he denied trying to kill him, Shorsh admitted he did it for ‘revenge’ thinking the postman gave him a ‘dirty look’ and was found guilty of attempted murder.

Shorsh accumulated convictions of assault and indecent acts since coming to the UK in 2019.
According to The Sun, the Home Office tried to deport him but he lodged an appeal with the immigration tribunal – which was ongoing at the time of the attack. 
A source told the newspaper his appeal was ongoing when he pushed Mr Potoczek on the tracks and added: ‘It makes you wonder what exactly you have to do to be deported from the UK.’
Shorsh had 12 convictions for 21 offences including assault, anti-social behaviour and outraging public decency. The Home Office declined to comment to The Sun.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13754579/Train-pusher-tried-murder-man-pushing-tracks-sex-crime-migrant-deportation.html

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Insurrectionist
Insurrectionist
8 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Starmer as head of CPS knew what was going on in Rotherham between 2008 – 2013…..
A wrongun is putting it politely.

It’s seriously bad times ahead…

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Mogwai
Mogwai
8 months ago
Reply to  Insurrectionist

Yes well with somebody as morally bankrupt as that at the helm what hope have you got really? It’s just #TwoTierBritain for the foreseeable, I think. Meanwhile, I think that the stabbings and robberies in London will continue to increase because it would seem that as long as you’re the same ethnicity as Mayor Khant you get to walk free, so that’s a nice deterrent for all the other scumbags out there, isn’t it? Posting anti-narrative stuff online, on the other hand…

”Two asylum seekers who targeted a reveller for his £25,000 Rolex in London’s West End walked free from court today.
Egyptian Yousef Garef and Algerian Amin Abdelkadar were both spared jail and handed community orders on Wednesday. Both admitted to robbery.
The pair, attacked Kris Smith at around 2am in Soho, London on July 21 last year, seizing his gold Rolex Day Date watch.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13644513/Two-asylum-seekers-robbed-reveller-25-000-gold-Rolex-Londons-West-End-walk-free-court.html

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Mogwai
Mogwai
8 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Well I think further unrest is inevitable, what with the way people opposing the government policies have been rounded up and are being put away as we speak, many just because they’ve posted their anti-establishment thoughts online, but we have the continuous influx of migrants, who are now apparently prioritized over Brits when it comes to new social housing that’s being built, and on and on it goes really. Not a lot to be positive about when you think about it. Here’s a quickie with Patrick Christys on the subject;

”Listen up it’s a @PatrickChristys
opinion piece. He observes “millions of people who are angry” & immigration now the top issue.” He notes silence from Downing Street.

Labour know thousands are coming & looking to build homes for them. They are looking to silence them.”

https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1825230299317293463

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
8 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

As I have been saying these last three plus years – an invading army.

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RW
RW
8 months ago

Labour is the union party. Hence, unions donating money to Labour is entirely unsurprising.

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varmint
varmint
8 months ago

Brown envelope politics. —Nothing new.

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CircusSpot
CircusSpot
8 months ago

Rewarding the Unions who operate closed shop policies against the non white people is not going to enhance the non white people to vote for you.

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