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News Corporation employs Right-Wing Broadcasters providing them with a platform ensuring the inequality of speech. Their Social Media Platforms not only advocate conservative, and extreme right-wing wing views. They monitor out most opposing opinions which they are entitled to do. However, they also simply lie when they say they provide an arena for fair and balanced discussion in a no-spin zone. They don't it's all spin.
But the biggest investments we need to make are in people, not concrete. The pandemic has exposed huge weaknesses in our social infrastructure, from aged care and public health to university education. These are the areas that desperately need more investment if we are to make the economic transformation we need.
An emotional Scott Morrison has put forward a compromise solution for
Queensland’s border closure, saying a requirement for those wishing to
enter the state to isolate for 7 years on a remote island would be a
more Australian, humane response. “This is the sort of compassion Australians expect,” Mr Morrison, close to tears, told radio listeners. “The idea that families have been separated without first being
placed in a cramped detention centre for the best part of a decade is
hard to fathom. It’s not the Australian way”. He said we risked losing our unique way of dealing with people from
other places. “When someone comes to our border we don’t just say ‘no’.
We lock them up. That’s how we do things in Australia. Full credit to
Queensland and Western Australia and South Australia for finding new and
peculiar ways to create fear of outsiders. But I think we can go much,
much further”.
Under a rapidly changing climate, it's not just about
keeping the lights on. We not only want energy, but we want to breathe
clean air, have enough food and live in a sustainable community.
FAKE NEWS
TRUMP BROKERS ISRAEL PEACE. REMEMBER WHEN CCN SAID HE COULDN'T?
Donald Trump has brokered two peace deals between Israel
and Arab nations - the UAE and Bahrain. Remember when the media howled
that he'd made peace less likely by moving the US embassy to Jerusalem?
Remember CNN? Remember John Brennan?
27m ago
Trump brokered absolutely nothing. What he did do was help Netanyahu's failing Prime Ministership by moving the US embassy to Jeruselem and legitimising the annexation of Palestinian lands in the West Bank and Golan Heights. A favour to his biggest American Jewish $100 mill + donor Sheldon Adelson. An area in the Golan Trump Heights was even named after his embassy promise.
So it's time. Time for a little Quid pro Quo. Netanyahu is simply turning the light on what has been happening for over 11 years. Israel's not so secret relationship with the Sunni run States of the Middle East. A theatre production always on the cards to help Trump and have a chorus yelling NOBLE Prize to match his Bay of Pigs one that doesn't exist. SNL Seth Rogen stoned couldn't have written a more hilarious one,
Israel has been fully involved in the war in Syria acting as a de facto air-force a hospital and a logistics base supporting rebels and terrorists in Syria. They have been providing and sharing intel with the Saudis against the Houthi in the Yemen and Iran and guranteeing the safety of the Sunni despots in the UAE Bhrain and Kuwait for years.
There is nothing new to see here. Trump has brokered absolutely nothing peaceful. In fact he's supplies and sent more drones over the Yemen than have ever been used before. He took a step too far when he illegally assassinate Solumeini which has resulted in no longer "assissting" but now "occupying" Iraq who now demands the Americans get out and Trump chest pounding reply "make me".
With the world watching he is about to symbolically move 2000 troops out for his image but not "get out" of the country. He'd shamed the American military by double crossing the Kurds who fought shoulder to shoulder with them against ISIS. Who he won't stop moving back to Iraq declaring them gone when they haven't..
There has been no peace deal brokered merely a great deal of spin created by two grifters Netanyahu and Trump scratching each others backs. One revealing what's been going on for years while the other Trump is being told to fuck off out of Iraqand Murdoch promotingTrump as an American Caesar.
The recovery has been very strong,” Donald Trump said
on Monday. Then the commerce department reported the US economy
contracted between April and June at the fastest pace in nearly
three-quarters of a century, which is as long as economists have been
keeping track. The drop wiped out five years of economic growth.
But pesky facts have never stopped Trump. Having lied for five months
about the coronavirus, he’s now filling social media and the airwaves
with untruths about the economy so he can dupe his way to election day.
The comeback “won’t take very long”, he reassured
Americans on Thursday. But every indicator shows that after a small
uptick in June, the US economy is tanking again. Restaurant reservations
are down, traffic at retail stores is dwindling, more small businesses
are closing, the small rebound in air travel is reversing.
Governments MUST have contingency plans for disasters, particularly ones like pandemics, which may be few and far between but which are, sooner or later, inevitable.
To have a government which looks after the wealthy with greater care than it does the needy could be seen as incompetent or even evil.
This is a disgrace. This is the Federal Government’s fault and Health Minister Greg Hunt. Morrison and the LNP removing $1.2 billion out of Aged Care. Morrison and the Government refusing to act on the RC.
After Trump’s comments after a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, James donated $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League. James has taken a principled stance, but it is also pragmatic. Since the sale of the bulk
of Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox assets to Disney (of which James was
chief executive), there is no future role for him in the corporation. By also resigning from the News Corp Board, he will be freer to
express his own views, and perhaps have the chance to watch from a
distance as Trump is defeated and Fox heads into decline together in the
coming months.
BAN ON HYDROXCHLOROQUINE VIDEO IS LETHALLY DANGEROUS
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube banned a video of doctors
promoting hydroxychloroquine, a drug that some studies and experts say
can stop people dying of the coronavirus. That makes this ban
potentially lethal as well as sinister. It is Trump Derangment Syndrome
at its deadliest. My editorial from The Bolt Report.
27m ago
Trump bans Tik Tok Bolt says nothing He complains about Twitter though hypocrisy? If Bolt's idea of free speech took a hold no decisions would be made to save a drowning man let alone Victoria in the grips of a pandemic. Besides only the powerful would get their message across. Dan Andrews is a Leader and shows how it's done.
Bolt for obvious reasons doesn't mention the above, does he? He prefers the company and ideas of idiots like Dr Stella and her outstanding reputation white coat and stethascope. Basically, Bolt is doing exactly what he's complaining about that's what makes it not worth listening to and bounces all over the place doing it.
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4 days ago - On July 27, the president and his son Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted a viral video featuring Dr. Stella Immanuel, in which the Houston pediatrician ...
It seems a Dr Stella Immanual is someone with white coat qualifications and background unnecessary to be vetted if promoted by an idiot at large called a President Andrew Bolt will, of course, declare hers a stellar performance. But no so the preeminent research bodies around the world that have peer-reviewed what is being suggested here. This particular Dr Stella Immanual comes with a history that advocates voodoo treatments along with aliens viruses associated with beliefs in Climate Change.
All studies should according to Andrew Bolt be heard so nothing gets done. If Milo donned a white coat he too should be heard. So long as she supports Trump then she's automatically stellar and granted expert status any denial else is dangerous in Andrew Bolt's mind "free speech" the holy grail and followers well that's an individual choice as well. If broadcast by Fox News then only then does truth have a chance. Why is Bolt panicking and demanding whackos be heard? Because it's becoming self-evident that he is grouped in Dr Stella's camp.
The Dr didn't seem to even know that Dr Fauci a virologist and immunologist didn't need a stethoscope or a white coat to be a real Dr and the fact that she had one on didn't make her one except in Bolt's eyes. Bolt's panic might be that like her he too is labelled nonsense and so he should. He should be declared a vexatious pundit whose opinions are unnecessary and falsely packaged as NEWS. As such he's interfering with Dan Andrews leadership the laws of the land and the emergency messaging that has the protection of all Victorians in mind. Bolt is actually promoting irresponsible protest that we have recently seen and he has the tone of a non-masker. He should be treated as one.
HOW TO SAVE VICTORIA FROM THE CORONAVIRUS
Victoria, don’t accept this! Desperate to seem tough as the
virus rages, the Andrews Government on Sunday imposed even more of the
kind of policies that failed last time, at a catastrophic cost. More
bans. A curfew, even. But there is a better and cheaper way to save the
state — and the country.
02/08/2020
Too strict, not strict enough, too strict, deserving respect, not strict enough, and too strict again. Tell me Bolt isn't a yo-yo. He's been doing this dance all week to grab attention. He's not passionate that's for sure his 3 day week ends aren't given over for work.
Particular issues based on his personal and political whims challenge the information gathered discussed by experts and a plan based on the broad aggregate of events and facts about what we do and don't know here in Victoria were discussed by experts in order to draw a plan to move forward. In order to move forward as a united front and not a rabble to resolve a situation in a short time rather than a longer time to avoid increased damage. Wrong says whiskey sucking Bolt.
Bolt can sit in his home chair and work in safety trying to disrupt any actions that the Victorian majority are happy to adopt because we will and are ready to act as a united front. Who is the odd man out here then, Dan Andrews? Who should be pointed to the door and told to leave? It's not Dan Andrews
THE RIGHT WING MEDIA ARE TO BLAME FOR COMPLACENCY IN THE COMMUNITY
The shrieking and screaming for Dan Andrews resignation from the likes
of Bolt the dolt , Credlin the cretin , and Jones the public toilet
loiterer have not one shred of credibility. The RW "media" originally said it was
"just a little flu" much like Trump and Bolsonaro said in the
beginning , and look how well they are doing. Seeding complacency into
the community with disastrous results as we are seeing n...
COLUMN It’s important to say this about James Murdoch quitting the board of News Corp, of which this paper is part. Good.
02/08/2020
"No board member is allowed to trash their own product" Andrew Bolt
That's the end of public debate Bolt so dearly, advocates. It's the reason why the structure of German boards is so much better than Australian why the debate at boardroom level is allowed and it's for the benefit of the companies,not their detriment that Bolt fears. If News Corp was more diverse he'd be out of a job. Boards trash their own products to a greater extent when they are so secretive as to be devious Banks, Stock Market and News Corp and Fox have shown just who that's done.
Bolt vying for recognition as the arse licker of the day? Too late this event happened when you were on your three-day break. Nobody actually among the Murdoch camp is capturing attention or wants it. Besides who gives a shit? Let alone what Bolt writes or thinks three days after thef event. All attention is on James.
What Bolt is worried about is the forthcoming further decline of News Corp making it a basket case in need of continual support of the LNP and IPA. $40 million dollars just won't cut it.
After Trump’s comments after a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, James donated $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League. James has taken a principled stance, but it is also pragmatic. Since the sale of the bulk
of Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox assets to Disney (of which James was
chief executive), there is no future role for him in the corporation. By also resigning from the News Corp Board, he will be freer to
express his own views, and perhaps have the chance to watch from a
distance as Trump is defeated and Fox heads into decline together in the
coming months.
Now that Israel has banned entry to Democratic Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, will Democrats affirm the right to boycott and hold Israel’s feet to the fire? Five takeaways.
1. Don’t let the headlines fool you: neither Ilhan Omar nor Rashida Tlaib had any intention of visiting Israel when they announced their trip to the region. 2. One must also take stock of Israel’s priorities when it makes decisions about who is or isn’t welcome. 3. BDS, one should recall, is a nonviolent and legitimate tool of resistance, 4. This is where parts of the left, whether in Israel, the U.S., Europe or elsewhere, also share the blame. By isolating BDS supporters, those on the left have paved the way for Netanyahu and Trump to go after Tlaib and Omar.
5. If Democrats don’t turn their statements into full support for the right to boycott and actively try to stop institutional attempts to silence criticism of Israel in the U.S., nothing will change. As long as the international community sits back and the U.S. continues to offer Israel diplomatic immunity and a blank check, Israel will continue to deny Palestinians their basic human and civil rights.
Andrew Bolt
The Andrew Bolt seems to be shrinking- He had little if no presence in the 2018 election of Scott Morrison and was a failure in promoting, his top dog in the race, Tony Abbott to another term. 2 GB gave him the flick from Nights with Steve Price; His ego-driven Sunday night podcast intended to be "I'll show you my radio ratings" with son Dom lasted 5 weeks. He's had some 9 weeks leave in 2019, and has been MIA on his blog for a week. The Bolt Report seems to have improved without him. So no News Corp doesn't seem to be missing him. Andrew Bolt's has publicly been accredited a Racist, Islamophobe, an Egocentric Monoculturalist, a commentator averse to debate who prefers teleprompter delivered produced monologues. He's a recognised misogynist, a singularly pro-Western Christian white Supremacist who denies any of it claiming to be and Indigenous Aussie. He is as a broadcaster a recruiter,an influencer of extreme Right-Wing beliefs and an enabler of radical domestic terror. Like ISIS media an encourager of extreme Islamic pushback among other divisive Australian reactions we have seen in recent times. As a result been convicted under our RDA laws. Bolt is basically a talking head for entrenched Industries that are no longer regarded as valuable to humankind's future but are now trying to prevent transition and progress into an alternative future. Who are pouring millions into actively promoting to stop or stall the progress that's already underway. Andrew Bolt is a Murdocratic, IPA, Ultra-Conservative venal sycophant puppet happy to take the money to promote the narrow interests of a few and readily accepts the paranoia that comes with the job. It appears to requires him to publicly hate everything that's characteristically Australian. So much so he's a happy to simply declare his public isolation as shyness rather than his innate aloofness recognized by others who knew him over 30 years ago. The aloofness is a natural state of being of a negative commentator like Bolt. He's dual passport holder who dreams of retirement outside the the country in which he claims to now be a true blue Aussie more true blue than most other Australians he runs down. He is a hypocrite who wants to live out life in Amsterdam significantly more overcrowded multicultural, left-wing ,socialist than Melbourne,why? For anonymity's sake we can only assume.
5m
Andrew Bolt is really a lost soul living in a different world to all Australians. Firstly there is no Parliamentary Liberal Party. There is a divided group of MPs who have been calling themselves the Liberal Party they represent the tail and the body of a dog. The tail pretending it's the dog and its head since 2015.
According to Andrew Bolt, the split in the Liberal Party began with Turnbull the chosen leader, and not with Abbott who has been the true-blue model of a Liberal politician all along. Let's forget about 2009 when Abbott took the Liberal Opposition leadership from Turnbull by a single vote. Forget the fact Abbott was ousted by the majority of Liberal Party after being given clear warning to shape up or ship out in 2015. He didn't and got the boot to skulk on the backbench. Turnbull never skulked. Forget the backroom sniping and infighting that was promised wouldn't happen. Forget the failed coupe that had Turnbull finally resign not defeated and leave the Party. Forget what Abbott's own branch currently thinks of him along with the total seat of Warringah and who they believe is the fox all of this. Finally, get Murdoch media to pour the blame on Turnbull Bishop and Banks for a civil war that's been raging since 2015.
Andrew Bolt really does live somewhere in Cloud Cuckoo Land, but it's definitely not in Australia.
Abbott is a career politician with no life experience outside of politics. The very sort of politician this country doesn't need and has destroyed Democratic politics, and it's service to the people as we know it.
History and context is something Andrew Bolt spends his time running from. The truth of the matter ever since I began voting it's been ultra-conservatives against the people and the worst being Tony Abbott who ran his government in opposition to not just the ALP but to all Australians. Bringing back Knights and Dames, Knighting Prince Phillip, and basically turning his back on the Pacific Region in favour of Europe a total disservice to the nation paying him.
This logic is much the same as applied by Trump to White Americans in the USA. The USA is a sovereign state "Only of White Christian Nationalist Western Cultured people" Citizens or not there is "them and "Us" the real Americans.that(ODT)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is the homeland “only
of the Jewish people,” in a new jab at the country’s Arab minority ahead
of April’s election. Netanyahu on Sunday addressed “slightly confused people” after an
Israeli celebrity defended the rights of Israel’s Arab population. Arabs
comprise about 20 percent of Israel’s 9 million residents. They have
full citizenship rights but have faced decades of discrimination. Netanyahu responded: Israel “is the national state, not of all its citizens, but only of the Jewish people.”
Buy your home generator now: "Coal-fired power generation would fall by 60 per cent within the next decade to meet Labor’s 45 per cent emissions-reduction target, leading to the likely closure of more than half the existing east coast plants, according to independent expert modelling." The Liberals' next leader must be able to fight on this issue.
PAYWALL
Conservatives hate socialism yet they desperately want to keep privatised the mega-structures that control our daily lives. The corporate world saw what the desktop revolution did to IBM and how it freed up the internet information and news. Murdoch wants the ABC gone from the digital world. Yes, conservatives are fearful the same might occur with an energy revolution. They are even lagging behind the acceptance of the global fossil fuel industry as a whole and are in the last ditch stand to block progress politically.
Air Water should also be a privatised and in the control of corporations because corporations and big business are the rightful gatekeepers of all the necessities of life and death. In Bolt's ideal world governments need to be beholden to them and not the reverse. People, well shouldn't really bother about such matters.
Automation is a far greater concern we ought to be celebrating it and the coming of both. We should be excited living in a progressive society the reason we aren't is because we live in a society where if you don't have a job or a living wage you are left to die. Corporations now control governments. Conservatives are aware and want it that way. They see moderates are more naive than visionaries if they think tinkering around the edges will solve decline and the systemic problems in our democracy and economy. The system uses the Bolt's to hide the economic ills and highlight the cultural ones to pit working class people against each other using migrants religion any them and us division as a tool.
No mention of Abbott's jumping left-show all attention off crying the Liberals have no hope. If the conservatives of the party have now taken over as Bolt says why are the polls such a rapid decline? One can hardly think it's because Abbott's the pivot for restoring the Liberals direction. If he's today's winner why is Sports Bet calling what we are seeing happening a total disaster and a conservative win? It may be a win for the conservatives but not the Liberal Party that will be in opposition 9 years.
Maybe all Australians need DNA testing and all purebloods stripped of their false identities. Bolt the Indigenous Australian might find he's more multicultural than he thinks. Latham too is all noise but typical racist. They could bring phrenology back also to test for criminality. How Victorian of them.
1) Free Speech seems a problem for Bolt 2) Bolt is entitled to encourage a bankrupt huckster to be given a visa and allowed entry not to just talk trash but to be promoted paid cash to shit stir. 3) Encouraged to not pay his taxes or bills which he owes and repeat and skip Australia again. 4) the rest of the world is laughing at what mugs this government is for letting this happen another time.
Nothing underlines white privilege more than the government’s reaction to child sex abuse. When allegations of paedophilia rings and child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory were made, the government sent in the army, stripped people of their rights, and made draconian rules affecting whole communities.
When allegations of child sex abuse were made about children in offshore detention, the government attacked those making the allegations. When rampant child sex abuse in the Catholic Church was exposed, former Prime Ministers lined up to provide character references for the offenders.
4m Bolt uses Henry Ergas yet another Murdochian to support him but trips up. 1) Math is a closed system of logic; it has no "truth" that enlightens our understanding of our world. So Bolt's might as well declare himself the source of all truth. This post is pure Bolt. Ergo it must be true. No, it merely shows him to be a wanker who fails to understand epistemology and our source of knowledge. Bolt drags up Murdochian Henry Ergas for support who asks " the fundamental issue is whether academic freedom gives him an untrammelled right to use the classroom as he wishes..." It's the same question asked of Andrew Bolt when he claimed he was denied "free speech" by Mordecai Bromberg who judged him and found him guilty of vilification under our RDA. Did Bolt have the untrammelled right to use the media and his position in it as he wished? Bolt's reply was a definite "yes" Bromberg's and our law a firm "no."
Ergas also says "no" and draws on Max Weber who along with Mordecai Bromberg said a definite "no."
In other words, by calling on Ergas Bolt's actually contradicting what he's always been saying that the Racial Discrimination Act trammels his right to free speech.
Max Weber also wrote Consciousness is Doom; he attempted suicide and had several nervous breakdowns. Sociology which demands critical and controversial thinking and questioning the very nature of what it is we take for granted is essential in the search for truth, and to that degree, it's not only gratifying but a personal and risky psychological undertaking. Something ultra-conservative Andrew Bolt is strictly against because it also threatens privilege, power and the status quo.
All in all, it becomes clear why Andrew Bolt was a loser academically he's so conservative. Someone who just doesn't dare question himself or the social construction of reality and his actual social status within it. Max Weber captured him to a tee.
JULIA BANKS' MATE ALEX HAS AN OBSCENE HATRED
POTTY MOUTH Alex Turnbull's abuse of the Liberals his father once led is obscene, foul-mouthed and almost deranged with hate. If my son spoke like that, I'd be savaged by the media Left, but Malcolm Turnbull will again be spared. But will Julia Banks, whose campaign Alex is helping, now disown him? Here's the tweet (warning: not safe for work).
PAYWALL
Bolt's obsession with Julia Banks is tantamount to media stalking. We recently heard Alan Jones's public apology to Malcolm Turnbull no doubt under the advice of his legal team after he received a letter from Turnbull's. Will the same happen to Bolt in his continued misogynistic bashing of Banks. Alex Turnbull is his own man
However let's test Bolt's bravado " If my son spoke like that I'd be savaged by the media Left, but Malcolm Turnbull will again be spared." Bolt and his son in the most disgusting racist manner mocked and derided South Sudanese women for participating in their communities beauty pageant. They did it on an IPA sponsored podcast in a very proud father and son interview. Foul-mouthed to the max these two were getting the jollies at the abuse they were spitting out. They weren't savaged by either the left who most likely weren't listening but neither by the right. Bolt is such an all-around ugly person, and it's no wonder he's afraid to step out beyond his front gate.
3m This part PAYWALL and part promotion for the Bolt Report and con man who has a history of not paying his way. The sheik pays his bills Milo doesn't, and he costs to government money. There are invoices left unpaid by Milo who Bolt promotes as being ripped off by the police and the state government. Australia for Milo is little more than a cash cow and an opportunity for Bolt to get some attention and extra money himself. "This is how a weak Liberal government aids the enemies of free speech and of the Liberals themselves."Bolt
Above Bolt was arguing along with Henry Ergas that the sacking of Tim Anderson was just. Bolt's own conviction unjust and Milo's too. Bolt principles are all over the shop but not as long as the argument supports his side.
The reality "You were issued with a bill of $50,000 by Victoria Police for the cost of policing your event." Immigration.
Like Milo Bolt prints the issue but ignores it he doesn't even discuss the unpaid invoice and expects the police once bitten aren't pissed.
MILO CHALLENGES JORDAN PETERSON: WHY DO YOU BETRAY ALLIES?
VIDEO Milo Yiannopoulos challenges Jordan Peterson: why has he betrayed Brett Kavanaugh, the Covington schoolboys and Milo himself? Peterson has apologised for one, while denying the rest. But Milo on The Bolt Report explains his charge. Watch.
As for Peterson as a psychologist, he seems to place the individual at the centre of society and reduces any explanation of society and history influence in the social psychological aspects as secondary. He sounds more like an existentialist when he says that individuals are responsible for their actions and therefore can't be judged according to stereotypes. It seems to me that's what Bolt thinks but prefers Milo when he says it. Basically, they all seem to agree that in our free market our power structures and privileges are the natural order and are the result of merit and to change the status quo is radically dangerous. Milo just happened to accidentally sell his gay soul to Breitbart who sacked him for going a little beyond the pale along with most of his other supporters that left him stranded. Bolt however still finds hin of use because he helps sell his spot in Newscorp without challenging him.
What Bolt has given up talking 14,000 jobs one minute then 9000 the next and being shoulder to shoulder with the CFMEU? He's turned on" one of a clutch" as somehow being the queen bee adviser to the Qld Government. Furthermore, advisers are activists just as doctors are to Bolt. Politicians are better off ignorant or in the hands of businessmen. Greens can't be professionals neither doctors or other experts unless of course, they come in the form of unqualified Andrew Bolt. He never speaks of Adani in terms of their Green activities in India where they are heavily into Solar Power. Where they are trying to divest from their best in the world coal-fired power plant that can't turn a profit. They are bullish on renewables in India. Bolt really cherry picks his Adani information for a predetermined story and outcome, doesn't he?
Israel's Attorney-General intends to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in three corruption cases, including one involving favours in exchange for gifts from the Australian billionaire James Packer.
A multi-millionaire pro-Israel lobbyist is funding the UK Parliament’s new Independent Group, it was revealed this week. Others are likely to follow. David Garrard told newspapers he had already donated to the MPs who broke away from the opposition Labour Party and the ruling Conservative Party. The Independent Group is expected to eventually register as a party. Garrard has for many years been a major financial backer of Labour Friends of Israel, a front group for the Israeli embassy, and was recently appointed to its board. Prior to left-wing Palestine solidarity activist Jeremy Corbyn becoming party leader in 2015, Garrard donated almost $2 million to Labour under former leaders Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband. Garrard was so dismayed after Corbyn’s leadership election in September 2015, that he called in a loan of more than $2.5 million he had made to the party. Despite this, Labour was last year reported to be Britain’s richest party, thanks to a massive influx of members enthused by Corbyn’s popular, moderately socialist agenda. Despite leaving the party, Garrard has continued to fund individual anti-Corbyn MPs within Labour. The Independent Group was formed last week by eight Labour MPs who quit the party, while alleging that Labour is now “institutionally anti-Semitic.”
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