Labour ‘change’ – just a cheap vapid campaign slogan created by someone behind the scenes

By NMRN

The reason Sir Keir Starmer & the Labour party at HQ do not want call for just a (immediate) ceasefire (without always instead having to add a prefix prior to the word ‘ceasefire) is that it appears they do not want to ‘Bite (one of the many) Hand(s) that feeds them’ (funds them)….

Last year in June it was reported that “The UK Labour Party’s latest corporate mega-donor is a pro-Israel businessman whose company profited from South African apartheid” where in a report in The Financial Times which stated that “their new megadonor. a multimillionaire , donated £5 million ($6.29m) to become the party’s biggest donor and one of the biggest political donors in Britain. It is claimed that Starmer is now filling the gap in Labour’s finances with the support of wealthy business donors , when Labour had been plunged into a financial crisis, largely as a result of its purge of left-wing members. It has reportedly lost around 200,000 members since Jeremy Corbyn was leader, costing the party more than $10.5m in lost membership fees”.

Plus Declassified UK reported that:

“In November 2023 it was reported that MORE than 40 per cent of Sir Keir Starmer’s cabinet has been funded by pro-Israel groups, a new report revealed today. Donations have been received by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, his deputy Angela Rayner, shadow foreign secretary David Lammy, and shadow international development minister Lisa Nandy”.

Plus

“More than half of the cabinet are listed as supporters or officers of Labour Friends of Israel (LFI)” where LFI had donated £50,000 to Sir Keir’s 2020 leadership bid, and a total of £200,000 to the shadow cabinet….plus Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves received some £17,000 to travel to Israel”

Well now we know why Sir Keir has been reticent to vehemently condemn the Israel government , the IDF and too all of the destruction that is happening with thousands dying in Gaza and thus why he has not demanded a ceasefire NOW !

Follow the money ( see also Mr Wes Streeting Shadow Health Secretary aka Mr ‘Hold the door wide open’  to the NHS for the private sector) which was a declaration made by him that was, I assume, made largely because of the large donations to both him, Keir Starmer and other Labour party MP’s by a Private Health Care company…..so who else, as a Private business/corporation has donated to them as a political party and also as the next assumed UK government ?

Labour Heartlands online reported last year that :

“Sir Keir Starmer, the Leader of the Opposition and a prospective Prime Minister, has found himself enriched by the tune of £157,500.00 from donors associated with the private healthcare sector. Yvette Cooper, the Shadow Home Secretary, boasts an even more substantial sum of £295,205.00. Meanwhile, Labour’s Dan Jarvis, juggling his role as the Mayor of South Yorkshire, has managed to secure a handsome £137,500.00 in donations from the private health industry. As for the Shadow Secretary of State for Health, the individual who would be entrusted with overseeing the NHS under a Labour government, his pockets have been lined with an impressive £193,725.00 in contributions”.

Yet we had Jackie Baillie at the latest Labour in Scotland party conference state in her speech “And so just as we are the Party who created the NHS; it’s our job now to save it”…..

Would ‘Saving’ the NHS be with the help of donations from PRIVATE HEALTHCARE companies and thus contracts and more involvement being awarded to the private sector within the NHS ??? ( as in a return for the money donated to your party Jackie)……

Can Jackie also help her Labour colleagues in Wales , her speech declared that Labour have ALL of the solutions and answers to ‘save’ the NHS….. but via some media reports upon the Labour Welsh government I believe there are problems, and even a crisis within some areas of their NHS, that they seem unable to address or solve e.g. long waiting lists, recruitment and retention, sickness absence and a heavy reliance on temporary staff and other issues that Jackie says she sees as failures in Scotland via the SNP….so since she states that both she and her party (not Labour Wales though obvs) has ALL of the answers….she should travel to Wales and impart her wisdom to her Labour colleagues there re the NHS…

I counted that the word “Change” was said by Jackie Baillie 17 times in her speech which I found online……less than Sarwar (he said Change 60 times in his speech) but still enough mentions to prove it is a just a cheap vapid campaign slogan created by someone behind the scenes in their Campaign team ?…..

I certainly will not “Change” my mind on the Labour party….still a NO for me on ever voting for them in any election…..simples.

NMRN

10 thoughts on “Labour ‘change’ – just a cheap vapid campaign slogan created by someone behind the scenes”

  1. As the above is about the HS I see SNP bad Doctor is at it again,

    The anti-SNP head of BMA Scotland, Dr Iain Kennedy, has just claimed that his trade union has no remit to comment on UK funding cuts that impact Scotland’s NHS. He refused to criticise the UK Govt. Do his members agree with this extraordinary comment

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  4. ‘just a cheap vapid campaign slogan’: what is this about Labour and ‘change’?

    Change Westminster’s FPTP voting system? ‘No.’

    Change by abolishing the House of Lords? – ‘No – well what we mean is not yet, maybe sometime in the future but to be clear, we do remain committed to do this’.

    What about change by reforming of the House of Lords? – ‘Well maybe just a wee tiny bit and it will be a really radical wee bit of reform.’

    What about change by reversing BREXIT by negotiating freedom of movement, a customs union, even re-entry to the EU? – ‘No – but we will achieve major change – a step change benefit to trade with the EU no less – through negotiation of minor technical matters. Just you wait and see!’

    Change by moving away from Tory neoliberal economics, fiscal rules and all? – ‘Well no – but regardless, you should vote for Labour because it really is a democratic socialist party!’

    Phase out reliance on weapons of mass destruction? - ‘You must be joking – who do you think runs this Party, socialist members in Scotland?’

    Change by moving away from Tory Unionism to respect Scotland’s right to self-determination? – ‘No, no a thousand time no. We are very clear on this – never!’

    Any change regarding Northern Ireland’s right to holding a border poll if there is a democratic mandate for it? ‘What a daft question! Of course not, Labour is a principled supporter of democracy.’

    And what about any change regarding the status of the Falkland Islands? ‘None, we agree with the present Tory Government. It’s up to those who live there to determine their constitutional future. With respect, that’s another daft question! Don’t pretend that you don’t know that Labour is a beacon of support for democracy and the international principles of self-determination.’

    So what changes? ‘How much ‘change’ do you need? Haven’t you been tracking all our policy U-turns? We’re demonstrating our commitment to change – daily!’

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        1. last two were from me, I couldn’t leave a comment for some reason, anyhoo……..these prove that there is NO CHANGE LABOUR, just the same as the Tories, like for like, money talks and power crazy!!!

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  5. Former SNP official ditches independence and defects to Labour

    “A FORMER SNP official who aimed to stand for the party at both Westminster and Holyrood elections has defected to Labour”.

    The Times reported that “Doug Thomson, a businessman who is married to Holyrood magazine editor Mandy Rhodes, had quit the SNP and said he no longer backed independence”.

    ” married to Holyrood magazine editor Mandy Rhodes” you say…… as in the same Mandy Rhodes who tweeted the below tweet yesterday on Anas Sarwar & Labour…(as in Labour the ‘new’ party that her husband has now defected to)…..

    “Thanks, once again, to @AnasSarwar for a searingly honest & at times emotional interview in which we discussed politics, Palestine, parenthood, learning from defeat and yes, what is a woman on which he was refreshingly clear. #ScotLabconf24 ”

    (Such journalistic objectivity in that tweet NOT….as tis more like the sycophantic kudos one now comes to expect from much of the client media connected to specific political PRO UK parties)…and Labour seems to be the media darlings in Scotland ATM do they not !

    Also two days ago she tweeted this “Many thanks to @AnasSarwar for being a star turn @HolyroodDaily ‘in conversation’ with me and thanks to the support from @ScotishWhiskySWA a great fringe event @ScottishLabour conference”.

    Three weeks ago The Holyrood Magazine did an article on Nicola Sturgeon , penned by the same Mandy Rhodes, entitled “Has any politician ever seen their political currency fall so fast as Nicola Sturgeon?”………..note the distinct difference in tone in comparison to her recent above upbeat and complimentary tweets on Anas Sarwar & the Labour party (chalk & cheese even)…..in October 2023 she penned another article stating “Is Sturgeon’s legacy really worthy of applause” and in Feb 2021 The Sun in Scotland reported this ” ‘Something reeks from the top of SNP down as disillusioned longstanding members continue to leave’ says Mandy Rhodes……so how many other negative examples via her upon the SNP and NS ?

    SAME Holyrood Magazine that was acquired by Lord Ashcroft’s company Political Holdings….same Lord Ashcroft who in 2022 The Herald reported as having donated more than £8 million to keep the Conservatives afloat…..

    Now one would and should expect similar articles and quotes penned by Mandy Rhodes that also diss and challenge Labour (Tory & Lib Dems also) and their leaders in the exact same way as she has chosen to promote negativity upon the SNP and NS, and she , Ms Rhodes, may indeed have written similar scathing articles on the Labour party and also upon other parties……….because if she has not and intends to not do so prior to the next GE then she offers no balance , objectivity, credibility and based upon her husband’s now defection to the Labour party she could and would then be seen to be partisan in publicly favouring ONE political party while actively opposing another…….and why does his defection to the Labour party then result in him “no longer backing independence”…….I wonder what strange epiphany he had after joining a Pro UK political party that, as a party, is against independence…….no mind boggling required !

    Really sick of all of this now…..beyond a joke ! (not laughing though….)

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  6. The last three tweets from Keir Starmer on his Twitter account all include the word ‘Change’ in them

    One tweet 3hrs ago……one tweet 22hrs ago and another one 1 day ago.

    So yes ‘Change’ is most definitely just a vapid slogan…….and like most words promoted as pledges/promises…without action…… they then have no real meaning…..

    Plus if you promise people a “Change” from what they are getting now then you at least have to be able to offer them something different from what they are getting now from the Tory party….and not, as it appears, more of the same.

    NMRN

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