LEAH TURNS ON LABOUR BETRAYING THE NHS.

To understand why Keir Starmer has abandoned every pledge he made to become Labour leader, ‘follow the money.’ This reveals with surprising accuracy the motivation for his political decisions (U-turns) in this plutocratic age. 

Last week, shadow Chancellor Reeves sent personal letters to Tory donors inviting them to one-on-one breakfast meetings.^[1] Since becoming leader, Starmer has courted big business and he and Reeves have hobnobbed at Davos to convince the oligarchs that Labour won’t threaten their hegemony. Like obese rats fleeing the sinking HMS Tory, donors like Kasim Kutay, the CEO of life-sciences investor Novo Holdings and Gareth Quarry, a multimillionaire tycoon, jumped ship to HMS Labour, knowing they’ll be safe.^[2]

Their influence is obvious. Rather than fund the cash-starved NHS, Starmer just pledged to introduce personalised drugs, for which big pharma has been lobbying for years, the same industry that has exploited publicly funded research and privatised the profits. 

The Tufton Street gang, a gaggle of right-wing ‘think tanks’ with close ties to UK Government ministers, MPs and to Labour, is bankrolled by large corporations and wealthy elites, the same entities that fund the mainstream media. Their purpose is to protect and grow the establishment’s obscene wealth by completely destroying the post-war welfare state and impoverishing the vast majority of people. 

Staying in the union means Scotland’s extinction (our birthrate is 1.3 when the replacement rate is 2.1)^[3]while what remains of our land and resources is sold off to private corporations. To save itself, Scotland has no alternative but independence.

Yours sincerely,

Leah Gunn Barrett

^[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-14/labour-invites-tory-donors-to-breakfast-in-bid-to-woo-city-elite#xj4y7vzkg

^[2] ibid

^[3] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/news/2022/birth-rate-the-second-lowest-since-records-began