‘Cringeworthy’ think tank gave Scottish Labour MPs £100,000. Almost half of Scottish Labour’s MPs have received donations worth £100,000 from a think tank Anas Sarwar derided as a cringeworthy “fringe group” after it suggested that people smugglers should be shipped to Scotland.

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  3. As much as I dislike the implied whataboutism in the statement…

    This isn’t a singular party issue. Scotland has a serious lobbying problem that Scottish politicians have gotten used to deflecting with the “we have a regulated lobbying register” ignoring the numerous exemptions and the fact that the public can see who has donated to you doesn’t actually mean it’s right to accept the donations.

    Ignoring party level donations for a moment, per the Lobbying Register which again does not count things that are exempted… there’s been 18.7 incidents of lobbying every day since the start of the year. When you take into account recess periods it’s actually much higher.

  4. See human error, no ‘whiff of corruption’ here..

    It has also run into trouble with the Electoral Commission for failing to declare £730,000 of donations made between 2017 and 2020, something it attributed to “human error”.

    Nothing wrong with that nice Mr Lubner donating £4.5 m to the Labour party or his son becoming head of the youth wing

    “Lubner’s son Jack is a leading member of several pro-Israel lobby groups in Britain, including Zionist groups such as the Jewish Labour Movement, Yachad and the Israel Embassy-funded Union of Jewish Students”

    “The Lubner family’s Israel connection is deep. Bertie Lubner is said to have been a major financial backer of Ben Gurion University of the Negev from 1975. A South African fact-finding mission in 2011 found the university guilty of “institutional complicity and active collaboration with the Israeli military, occupation and apartheid practices.”

    As well as the family involvement with the apartheid state of S.Afrika.

    “An image of a letter sent to Prime Minister P W Botha by Lubner’s uncle in 1982 exposing the family’s strong connection with the apartheid regime was also included. In the letter, Bertie Lubner fawned over the apartheid leader, writing that, “It is men with such high ideals and determination like yourself that create history.” Botha is accused of being a leading white supremacist and was a former member of the Ossewabrandwag, a South African Nazi group.”

    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230613-uk-labours-major-donor-is-israel-lobbyist-who-profited-from-south-african-apartheid/

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