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How Secret Pro-Israel Money Flooded the Labour Party and Ended with a Ban of Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur (www.dropsitenews.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government is not really a Labour government; it came to power on the back of a secret project to wrest control of the Labour Party back from an ascendant left wing. This secret project was resourced by illegally undeclared money from wealthy donors, funneled through a seemingly anodyne think tank called Labour Together. It involved covertly seeding promiscuous claims of antisemitism against political opponents, attempting to silence independent media that threatened to expose its project, and—ultimately—developing the dishonest leadership pitch that allowed Keir Starmer to trick a left-wing membership to elect him leader.

Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary responsible for the ban on Piker and Uygur, was one of a ‘brave band’ of eight MPs that guided the Labour Together project during the leadership of Starmer’s left-wing predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.

The MP who has most loudly demanded Piker and Uygur’s banning is David Taylor. Elected in 2024 as part of the Labour’s landslide, Taylor was closely vetted and approved by a Labour Party bureaucracy reporting directly to Labour Together’s long-time former managing director. And the single largest donor to Taylor’s election campaign was Labour Together.

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre/monthly-update-concluded-investigations-september-2021

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[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hasan is such an easy target for the right wing. All they need to do is find snark communities that make out of context clips. Pretty easy to point to the bad faith actions and say See? That’s the bad guy!

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He clearly is not given how the smears keep backfiring on them.

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think that's called a honeypot. Easy to target, easy to take down those that target him.