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    Re: Sky News investigation into MPs private donations Archived Message

    Posted by sinister burt on January 9, 2023, 5:53 pm, in reply to "Sky News investigation into MPs private donations"

    Then there's this trio - imagine those three were your choice of people in labour to support - I guess it makes total sense to an 'investor in the employment sector' (whatever that means)

    (apologies for the source) https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1718934/labour-mps-donations-mysterious-firm-investigation-yvette-cooper-wes-streeting-dan-jarvis

    "Yvette Cooper, Wes Streeting and Dan Jarvis raked in hundreds of thousands of pounds from MPM Connect Ltd in the past two years. Overall the firm has dished out £345,217 to the three high-profile since February 2020.
    ...

    A spokesperson for Yvette Cooper said: “MPM Connect is an investment company in the employment sector owned by Peter Hearn, a UK businessman and long standing Labour supporter, and as has been reported many times, Mr Hearn kindly donates money to fund Yvette’s office staff and has done so for many years.

    “It has all been fully declared and compliant with all the rules. Like lots of companies MPM Connect is registered to their accountants office, as is made very clear in its Companies House entry.”"


    Typically, the express article then goes immediately on to talk about union donations, as if unions giving money to the party they founded to represent workers is the same as some capitalist with his thumb the scales.

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