‘Slippery Starmer’ slammed for accepting donations from ‘eco-loonies’
Conservative MPs have hit out on the Labour Party for accepting donations from Just Stop Oil monetary backers.
The Labour Party is below mounting stress to return £1.5million price of donations, accepted since 2014, from environmental campaigner Dale Vince, who’s a backer of Just Stop Oil.
The Conservative Party’s Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson mentioned the acceptance of the cash is a “slap in the face to hardworking Brits trying to get on with their lives”.
Meanwhile, Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns mentioned most of the people are “tired of road blocks and disruptions”, including: “Enough is enough.”
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Mr Anderson instructed the Daily Express: “Starmer’s been caught orange-handed.
“Every day that Labour takes cash from Dale Vince one other ambulance is delayed, a hospital appointment is missed, a grieving relative cannot get to a funeral which proves it is a slap within the face to hardworking Brits attempting to get on with their lives.
“Slippery Starmer should apologise and stop taking cash from eco-loonies bringing Britain to a halt.”
Meanwhile, Ms Jenkyns mentioned: “Labour being bankrolled by groups that wish to have influence over the direction of policy in British society comes as no surprise, the unions have been doing it for decades.
“People are uninterested in street blocks and disruptions to sporting occasions.
“The tide is turning and they’re saying enough is enough.”
Earlier right this moment, Conservative MP Paul Scully instructed the Express it’s “shocking” Sir Keir Starmer’s get together has taken cash from Mr Vince.
Mr Scully – the frontrunner to be the Tory London mayoral candidate – additionally vowed to crack down on eco-zealots inflicting chaos within the capital if his bid to take Sadiq Khan’s job is profitable.
Over the weekend, Conservative Chairman Greg Hands wrote to his Labour reverse Anneliese Dodds demanding the get together return donations from Mr Vince.
Mr Hands’s intervention got here after Just Stop Oil activists disrupted the Gallagher Premiership rugby ultimate at Twickenham on Saturday, days after a protest on the Chelsea Flower Show.
In his letter, the get together Chairman mentioned: “Since 2014 the Labour Party have taken £1.5million in donations from one of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil’s biggest donors, Dale Vince.
“Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner have collectively taken £30,000.”
Mr Hands urged for the money to be given back as he cited concerns about the “affect” of the eco-zealots on Labour.
He said: “Given these assaults I’m calling on you to return these donations.
“I am concerned about the influence of this money given the Labour Party’s decision to vote against tougher measures to stop disruption via the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act.
“I word the Labour Party has already caved into the calls for made by the group and introduced a halt to new oil, fuel and coal initiatives.”