Labour’s Wes Streeting takes £175k from donors linked to private health firms

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24250557.wes-streeting-takes-175k-donors-linked-private-health-firms/

by H__Poirot

30 comments

  1. When it says politicians take money from donors, does it go to the Party? Or is it for them to spend willy nilly on hot tubs and ice cream?

  2. I’m sure the cops would be at my door if I said what I wanted to.

    Rather, I will state that this man represents the biggest political danger to the NHS in British history. For his constituents to support this self-centered cunt must be thick as fuck.

  3. i do think its a distinct possibility that wes privatises the NHS. he clearly wants to; and, while the tories could never get away with it, labour as the “party of the nhs” have more scope. as wes himself has said about his plans for the nhs, “only nixon could go to china”

  4. Remember that time he burned down a pet shop to join a silly posh boy dining club? 

  5. Errm actually working class families view it as a priority for Wes to take money from dodgy doners, only middle class lefties care about this stuff why do you all hate the working class so much!?

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    Good honest salt of the earf working class geezer Wes there taking 6 figures to push to an agenda. What a hero

  7. This article is behind a paywall, I’m willing to bet no one here has a subscription to the National, but I tracked down a site listing these donations and the links to private healthcare from the last time this story did the rounds:

    https://labourheartlands.com/selling-out-the-nhs-the-shocking-links-between-labour-mps-and-private-healthcare-donations/

    These are the listings for Wes Streeting:

    > Peter Hearn. Majority shareholder in recruitment agency Odgers Berndtson (a subgroup of which is Berwick Partners). Berwick Partners helps with senior NHS executive recruitment AND helps private healthcare providers recruit healthcare professionals – berwickpartners.co.uk/what-we-do/sectors-functions/private-healthcare-recruitment/ Donation £160k

    > Trevor Chinn. Senior adviser to CVC Capital Partners which has extensive private healthcare and pharmaceutical/healthcare technology related investements Donation £15k

    > John Armitage. Cofounder and chief investment officer of Egerton Capital, a hedge fund firm with $16 billion under management including $0.56 billion invested in United Health, a US based private healthcare provider that is trying to break into the UK “market”. Donation £30k

    If you then look at the register of interests, these donations are all listed as “staffing costs for my office”.

    https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/231030/streeting_wes.htm

  8. In /r/ukpolitics before I was banned I was repeatedly called a tory enabler for saying Labour are no different from the tories.

  10. The fact that Wes was even able to become the shadow health secretary says a lot about the modern Labour Party.

  11. I’ve said it before I’ll say it again. Two cheeks of the same arse. Slate the Tories as much as you like. Labour are just as big a bunch of grasping wankers. Nothing is going to change in this country until both are gone.

  12. Why is Wes even in Labour? He seems like a Lib Dem at best.

  13. I long for the day when politicians are jailed for accepting money, in any form, from companies.

  14. I can’t believe it.

    Looks at all the things he has done that make it seem like he is on the right side of this argument…

    *tumbleweeds*

  15. We’re all fucked. We’re just completely and utterly fucked.

  16. Shocker that he’s pushing for tax payer money to go to private health firms…

  17. Once again I check my Surprise-o-meter and once again it reads zero.

  18. This oaf is one reason I won’t vote Labour, even when they will win.

  19. And people here genuinely argue that *European style* hybrid insurance systems are what he (or the Tories) will bring in.

    And not american fully private “healthcare”, accusing us of being hysterical.

    Must think we’re all buttoned up the back.

  20. Vote green to renationalise all our utilities and NHS.

  21. Every day Labour and the Tories creep closer together. Some opposition would be nice rn.

  22. I do think it would be funny if he took a load of money from private healthcare companies and then screwed them over anyway.

  23. Despicable man, Wes Streeting. He will treat the NHS even worse than the Tories.

  24. I did a bit of digging about this Peter Hearn – and it turns out he has been donating to the Labour party pretty heavily since 2014. I assume under Corbyn as well?

    [https://www.ft.com/content/124e1566-e5dc-4e1e-8ca4-082bf272f6e6](https://www.ft.com/content/124e1566-e5dc-4e1e-8ca4-082bf272f6e6)

    I guess this doesn’t fit The National’s agenda to be transparent about this. So you lot appear to have fallen for this campaigning newsrag’s article – hook, line and sinker!!

    “Hearn previously gave over £844,000 in a personal capacity to the Labour party and to individual Labour MPs between 2014 and 2019.”

  25. Let’s just be honest, they’re all bought. Labour conservative, they’re all willing to sell us down the river to fill their own pockets.

    This country is truly Fucked.

  26. Private political donations and sources of income other than salary for MPs should be illegal.

  27. This parasite needs to be kicked out of politics… He does NOT represent anything other than the people who’s looking to get rich with… Another parasitic career politician, looking to line his pockets, through the literal suffering of the people of this country.. FUCK WES STREETING, GET HIM OUT..

  28. It really is just trying to decide the lesser of two evils isn’t it. Sucks.

  29. What a coincidence he just so happens to be advocating strongly for complete privatisation of our health care. He’s not a corrupt piece of vermin at all. Just a coincidence.

  30. Well, of course he does.

    Because he’s a fucking crook.

    They all are 

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