Back in 2002, New Labour accepted a £100,000 donation from Daily Express proprietor Richard Desmond, a man who made his original fortune from printing pornographic publications under such lurid titles as The Very Best of Mega Boobs and – hey, let’s not be squeamish, because Blair certainly wasn’t – Spunk Loving Sluts. Questioned on the issue, […]
Posts Tagged ‘Snobbery’
Porn, fags and Big Macs: Labour and the ethics of business donations
Apr 22nd, 2016 by David Osland.
Labour and the Big Mac: Snobbery or principle?
Apr 19th, 2016 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.What kind of company should be allowed to have a corporate stand at Labour Party conference? Should all-comers be taken provided they stump up the readies, or as a minimum are they expected to subscribe to a set of standards around employment relations, trade union recognition, and ethical practices (whatever they are)? I ask because […]
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Labour candidate unacceptably mocks working class people
Jan 22nd, 2013 by Ruairi Lynch.Delegates to Labour Students’ National Council on Saturday were shocked to hear terribly snobbish comments by guest speaker Andrew Pakes, Labour’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Milton Keynes South (one of the party’s top 106 target seats for the 2015 General Election). He told a story of encountering two shop stewards from a West Midlands car […]
