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Beware, Telegraph:
Rachel Reeves accepted £10,100 from a climate sceptic just days before Labour abandoned its flagship £28bn green energy spending pledge.
Bernard Donoughue, a Labour peer who previously told Parliament that the climate change debate suffers from “scaremongering” and “exaggeration”, donated to the shadow chancellor’s office late last month.
Labour formally ditched its spending plan less than three weeks later, when Sir Keir Starmer and Ms Reeves announced they would spend just £4.7bn a year on clean energy policies.
Lord Donoughue, who last spoke to Ms Reeves three weeks ago, said he supports Labour’s decision to drastically scale back the pledge but stressed his donation had nothing to do with the party’s green U-turn.
He said: “I thought that was a sensible decision in line with the national interest. As someone who’s worked with prime ministers, you can’t have wild spending – you’ve got to have control.
Rachel Reeves accepted £10,100 from a climate sceptic just days before Labour abandoned its flagship £28bn green energy spending pledge.
Bernard Donoughue, a Labour peer who previously told Parliament that the climate change debate suffers from “scaremongering” and “exaggeration”, donated to the shadow chancellor’s office late last month.
Labour formally ditched its spending plan less than three weeks later, when Sir Keir Starmer and Ms Reeves announced they would spend just £4.7bn a year on clean energy policies.
Lord Donoughue, who last spoke to Ms Reeves three weeks ago, said he supports Labour’s decision to drastically scale back the pledge but stressed his donation had nothing to do with the party’s green U-turn.
He said: “I thought that was a sensible decision in line with the national interest. As someone who’s worked with prime ministers, you can’t have wild spending – you’ve got to have control.
I'll admit to not paying the closest attention to this mess, but didn't he at one point try to say that what he said was wrong and he'd been taken in by a conspiracy theory? So is he now going back on that and doubling down on what he originally said about it being some sort of Israeli false flag?
To be fair there was no point not running as an independent given he had no funds from the party and wouldn't have the whip, but he could have at least tried to run on a 'I may not be Labour in name but I'll still be a pseudo-Labour MP in terms of voting" line. Now he's positioned himself alongside at least two other more high profile candidates that are also running on a 'Stick it to Starmer over the ME' platform so who knows how it'll break down.
NilSatisOptimum
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Nah fella what is amazing that in Britain in 2024, being anti-semitic or Islamophobic is some kind of badge of honor in some communities. I'm neither myself, not so sure about others.
Please highlight the bigots on this fine forum. A very worrying charge and the CA demands probity and justice.Nah fella what is amazing that in Britain in 2024, being anti-semitic or Islamophobic is some kind of badge of honor in some communities. I'm neither myself, not so sure about others.
reeves on bbc news now, commenting on the recession. "the scale of that failure".
Spadge Vernacular
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Rishi's recession seems to be the tag line as someone mentioned earlier. More of this will be most welcome.
Ming the merciless
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I think “ Private Eye “ would call that a “double reverse ferret “. If he was going to stand come what may he should have stuck to his guns in the first place. Now he just looks like a vacillating fool. Galloway has got in there before him and is half way down the track. I just got home to find Galloway posters and leaflets on my doorstep. Nobody else has bothered to leaflet so far.
"A double reverse ferret", for the love of god, lol lollol
NilSatisOptimum
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Positive is quite night here then.
That could be quite handy, along side 'pickaninny smiles' and 'tank topped bum boys' and 'letterboxes'. Like a pint though so all's forgiven right?
Get some more of yours (russian monies) to go with kopite fc, and there's room for a 'vlad the inhaler' pun somewhere.
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