Rotten To The Core

A political party is not a charity, so a company does not donate to it. It makes an investment, on which it expects a return. Companies that invested in the Labour Party have enjoyed a return of £138 million in public contracts, although there may well already be far more than that, and there certainly will be in the course of this Parliament.

Only the trade unions pay to be abused by a political party that was forever our ungrateful adolescent progeny. The Resolution Foundation, Torsten Bell's device for announcing future government policy by passing it off as thinktankery, has come out against John Smith's signature policy, which was never enacted by Tony Blair or even by Gordon Brown, that employment rights should, "begin with employment, and apply regardless of the number of hours worked."

Who has paid for that, and who has paid for Lisa Nandy's refusal to disclose information about her secret meeting with Tzipi Hotovely, whose appointment as the Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom was opposed even by Melanie Phillips? As the Ambassador of a foreign state, Hotovely appeared in Liz Truss's campaign video for the Leadership of the Conservative Party, and thus for the office of Prime Minister, as an example of "core Conservative principles".

As to the substance of those principles, Hotovely is linked to the church-burning anti-miscegenation activists of Lehava. She wants Israel to expand into Jordan and Syria. She denies that the Palestinians exist at all, yet somehow she wants their homes to be demolished. In 2017, she attacked American Jews in classically anti-Semitic terms as, "People that never send their children to fight for their country, most of the Jews don't have children serving as soldiers, going to the Marines, going to Afghanistan, or to Iraq." In 2019, she put out a video of Israel's Jewish critics exclaiming, "Oy vey! My German euros!" 

In May 2021, she addressed a London rally that called for Arab villages to be burned. That was a meeting of supporters of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, whom in 1981 the Thatcher Government had had the courage to ban from entering the United Kingdom. That ban remained in place until his assassination in his native New York in 1990. In Hotovely's presence in November 2021, Keir Starmer made what was then the most racist speech to have been delivered since the War by anyone with the remotest claim to have been considered a mainstream British politician. And court has been paid in secret to Hotovely by the Culture Secretary in the Government that persecuted everyone from Kneecap, to Bob Vylan, to the children in Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone.