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Rayner urges Tories to repay £580k of public funds spent on polling
Rayner urges Tories to repay £580k of public funds spent on polling
Rayner urges Tories to repay £580k of public funds spent on polling
Have you heard of Ben Elliot? The Tories’ ‘money man’ is a ‘high-society operator’ installed by Boris Johnson in 2019 as co-chair to ensure the party was bankrolled at the last election, is wealthy today and will be well into the future
Ben Elliot’s strategy is networking money to power. Some senior Tories talk of a ‘250 club’ of donors who've given £250,000 or more. A party spokesman denied such a group’s existence, but eight Conservative party donors gave sums of exactly £250k in 2020
The pathetic thing about this story is that the amounts of money the "big donors" give the Tories is tiny compared with their wealth and also tiny relative to the damage their influence can do to tax policy, environmental policy etc.
By contrast to Ben Elliot, Boris Johnson is widely seen by senior Tories as useless at raising money. Says one former colleague: he ‘detests’ asking for cash and is delighted to leave the fundraising work to Elliot
Apparently these very rich people giving lots of money to the Tories have no influence on government policy In other news: pigs can fly and the earth is flat...
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The new Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, earns £150k as an advisor to US bank JP Morgan. JP Morgan say they "see the opportunities that lie ahead" for private healthcare. The ultimate "opportunity" for private healthcare is NHS privatisation. The NHS isn't safe with the Tories.
Boris Johnson tells us he wants no child to be more than 15 minutes away from a football pitch. The Tories' cuts have closed over 700 council football pitches since 2010.
MPs just voted on the Tories' new NHS Bill. It extends NHS privatisation, opens the floodgates to cronyism, & incentivises cuts & closures. It's really an NHS Corporate Takeover Bill. I voted against it, but Tory MPs voted it through. I'll keep fighting for our NHS 👊🏽
Serco's CEO is the brother of a former Tory MP. His partner is a Tory Party donor. And Serco's former top spin doctor is the Tory Minister for Health. In Parliament, I just voted for Test and Trace funding to go to local public health teams, not Serco. The Tories voted it down.
Trust teachers, not Tories.
I see some Tories are calling for a sentence of ten years in jail if you scrawl paint on a monument (that can be washed off) Average sentence for rape is 8 years. Good to see they’re getting their priorities right.
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