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The labour party are close to insolvency, as reported in the Telegraph.
The real story here is that it is only the trade unions keeping Labour afloat,
“The number of paid-up Labour Party members has fallen from 400,000 in 1997 to fewer than 200,000. Only the trade unions, which have almost quadrupled their support in the past six months, are saving the party from being declared effectively bankrupt.”
But wait a minute, is not the government, the government of a Labour Party kept afloat by trade union donations, also supporting trade union ‘modernisation’ with tax payer funded grants? Tory councillor Tony Sharp makes the point well in his blog,
“This large scale scam is what keeps the Labour Party in existence. Voters need to see where around £10 million of their money has gone and understand how it has been misappropriated.”
Despite this laundering of tax payers money Labour are still in the financial mire, perhaps Lord Levy can help out with the proceeds from his memoirs?
They are waking up at The Guardian. Even The Guardian has cottoned on to government duplicity and wised up to Browns smoke and mirrors tricks.
Money to help developing nations combat climate change is not as they thought in the form of grants, but in loans subject to interest.
Leaving aside the long story of non existent man made global warming … its really quite shocking that the government can stoop this low when it come to milking kudos. Certainly Ed Miliband made no mention of ‘loans’ when he welcomed the creation of the fund.
Brazil are “indignant” whilst development groups were “dismayed”, but it takes Tom Sharman, from ActionAid to hit the nail on the head with this observstion of Brownian absudity, “This is not money that is additional to Britain’s aid budget. It seems strange to be cancelling debt and then inviting poor countries to take on new debt.” Clearly at the time Sharman said this he had not heard of Browns plan to impoverish poor people by making them pay more tax but recompense them by making them go cap in hand to him for tax credits. What seems strange to Sharman is in fact quite sane if you inhabit Brown’s world.
What must really stick in the crow of Guardianistas is the realisation that the letter seen by the paper
“shows that the US has resisted the idea of loans, preferring to give developing countries grants”
