Thread on Keir Starmer's donors

I will highlight some of Starmer's backers on this thread.

During the #LabourLeadership campaign Keir Starmer refused to disclose his donors. #LabourParty #StarmerForSale
Martin Taylor gave Starmer £95k for his leadership bid, Taylor also funded the 2016 chicken coup by donating £80k.

"Labour Tomorrow & Saving Labour" invested £449,860 to take down Corbyn back in 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/21/anti-corbyn-group-funded-tony-blair-spin-doctor-benjamin-wegg-prosser
During the Ed Miliband years, Martin Taylor donated £600,000 to the Labour Party which apparently went unnoticed.

Martin Taylor was the the founder of Nevsky Capital, which run a £1 billion ($1.5bn) hedge fund. Nevsky Capital ceased trading in 2016. https://www.ft.com/content/6e3185ca-cf55-11e4-9949-00144feab7de
BICOM Trevor Chinn has funded various Labour MPs over the years including Tony Blair, Ruth Smeeth, Liz Kendall, Tom Watson, Dan Jarvis, David Lammy, Owen Smith, Lisa Nandy, Tristram Hunt, Jack Dromey, Ian Austin, Rachel Reeves, Liam Byrne, Joan Ryan [Labour Friends of Israel]
Jonathan Kestenbaum was one of the 67 Labour peers who took out a full-page propaganda piece in the @guardian. Signatories included Iain McNicol, Peter Hain & Peter Mandelson. Throughout Corbyn’s tenure the Guardian attacked Corbyn relentlessly along with the entire British media
Gail Rebuck gave Starmer £4k for his leadership bid. Rebuck was made a Labour peer in 2014 by Ed Miliband.

She was the Board of Tony Blair Faith Foundation. As chief executive of Random House she paid £4.6 million advance to Tony Blair for his memoirs. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/sep/13/gail-rebuck-tony-blair-random-house
Gail Rebuck was nominated as a peer by Ed Miliband in August 2014. Her husband, Philip Gould was given a lifetime peerage by Tony Blair On 7 June 2004.

Rebuck was one of the 67 signatories on the propaganda hit piece in the @guardian against Corbyn. https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/gail-rebuck-nominated-as-a-peer-by-ed-miliband-1.56121
Media mogul & chair of Asos, Waheed Alli gave Starmer £100,000 for his leadership bid, Alli was made a life peer by Tony Blair.

Alli was one of the 67 signatories on the propaganda hit piece in the @guardian claiming Corbyn is "anti-Semitic" https://www.standard.co.uk/business/meet-waheed-alli-the-labour-peer-suffering-birth-pangs-of-india-s-answer-to-asos-a4183176.html
Clive Hollick gave Keir Starmer £25,000 for his leadership bid, he has interests in Banking & Media.

Hollick was the Chief Executive of United News & Media (Daily Express & Daily Star) UNM dropped their longstanding support for Tories in favour of Blair. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/apr/22/dailyexpress.pressandpublishing
Joan Bakewell gave Starmer £5k for his leadership bid; she previously donated £10k to Miliband who gave her a lifetime peerage.

Bakewell was one of the signatory to the full-page propaganda piece on the @guardian claiming Jeremy Corbyn is "anti-semitic". https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/nov/18/joan-bakewell-labour-house-lords
Martin Clarke who was the Chief Financial Officer of @TheAA_UK & a former executive of private equity firm Permira gave Starmer £25k for his leadership bid.

Clarke was anti-Corbyn from the beginning, he is close to Chuka Umunna & is the co-architect of Change UK #StarmerForSale
Lady Katherine Gavron gave Starmer £5k for his leadership bid; she is the widow of printing millionaire Robert Gavron, who funded Tony Blair to the tune of £500,000, he was described as part of the ‘Blairite Aristocracy’, having been appointed as a life peer in 1997 by Blair.
Peter Droussiotis: CEO of PGD Strategy donated £2.5k towards Starmer’s leadership. He is also Chairman of UK Cyprus Enterprise.

Droussiotis seems to enjoy Oakeshott's joke about Corbyn. He isn't a fan of the Turkish President so hopefully that £2.5k won’t buy a war with Turkey.
Denise Kingsmill who was appointed as a life peer in 2006 by Tony Blair donated £2,000 towards Keir Starmer’s leadership campaign.

Kingsmill was one of the 67 Labour peers who took out a full-page propaganda hit piece on the @guardian claiming Jeremy Corbyn is "anti-semitic".
Felicia Nicolette Gavron gave Starmer £2,000 for his leadership bid; she was married to printing millionaire Robert Gavron from 1967 to 1987, Baron Gavron funded Tony Blair to the tune of £500k.

Nicky Gavron was Former Deputy Mayor of London under Ken Livingstone (2004 - 2008).
Robert Latham, a retired barrister who has been outspokenly anti-Corbyn gave his former colleague Keir Starmer £100,000 towards his labour leadership campaign. Latham is an admirer of Tony Blair. A lifetime peerage awaits perhaps? http://westendextra.com/article/belief-in-the-betterment-of-society-seems-to-have-gone
Howard Dawber donated £1,000 towards Keir Starmer’s leadership campaign. Mr Dawber is the Managing Director of Canary Wharf Group plc.
Miranda Grell donated £2,000 towards Starmer’s leadership campaign; Ms Grell is a barrister 10KW, She is a former Labour Party councillor and was convicted in September 2007 for making false allegation of paedophilia against her political opponent. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/l 
Founder & Managing Director of Pensions & Investment Research Consultants Ltd (PIRC Ltd), Alan MacDougall donated £6,500 towards Keir Starmer’s leadership campaign. Mr MacDougall is no fan of Jeremy Corbyn or Seumas Milne or Steve Howell. #Starmergeddon #StarmerForSale
Clive Hollick gave Keir Starmer £50,000 in total for his leadership bid.

Baron Hollick was one of the 67 Labour Peers who took out a full-page propaganda piece on the @guardian claiming Jeremy Corbyn is "anti-semitic"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/may/13/executivesalaries.executivepay
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/may/13/executivesalaries.executivepay
Keir Starmer's biggest backers are all Blairites.

Baron Alli - £100k
Robert Latham - £100k
Martin Taylor - £95k
Lord Hollick - £50k
Trevor Chinn - £50k
Unison - £41k
Martin Clarke - £25k
Peter Coates - £25k
Community - £25k
USDAW - £25k

Total: £536k https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25353 
Benjamin Wegg-Prosser was Tony Blair's Director of Strategic Communications. He previously worked for the Guardian & Russian SUP Media. Wegg-Prosser is the managing partner of Global Counsel & director of LabourList.

Peter Mandelson is Co-founder & Chairman of Global Counsel.
Keir Starmer is a member of the Trilateral Commission.

David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission in 1973 to promote #Neoliberalism & undermine democracy.

[Noam Chomsky on the Trilateral Commission]
"Lively discussion this morning @ Trilateral Commission. Different points of view is an understatement: different visions for Britain!" Keir Starmer 04/11/2017
Unison donated £41,000 towards Starmer's leadership campaign. Emilie Oldknow is the Assistant General Secretary of Unison. She is Starmer's favourite to replace Jennie Formby.

@DavePrentis promised to back all Labour HQ staff in the leaked #LabourReport according to reports
USDAW bankrolled Keir Starmer with £25,000.

The @UsdawUnion "represent" some of the most underpaid workers in the country! Looking at Starmer's millionaire backers it makes no sense!

Starmer refused to vote against austerity along with 184 Labour MPs under Ed Miliband's reign!
Rajesh Agrawal donated £5.000 towards Keir Starmer’s leadership campaign. He is the Deputy Mayor of London for Business, founder of RationalFX & Xendpay international money transfer services

Responsibilities: Chair of London & Partners

Salary: £132,664 https://www.london.gov.uk/people/mayoral/rajesh-agrawal
CROWNHAWK PROPERTIES Ltd donated £6,521.80 towards Keir Starmer’s leadership campaign for the Labour Party. The company is registered at a residential address and has no known website.

Director: Joanne Mary Humphreys & Roderick Havard Lloyd
DCD London & Mutual PLC donated £5,000 towards Keir Starmer’s leadership campaign. The company operates as a financial asset management group with a core focus on property. There are several other registered businesses under dictators.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02896868/officers
Mancunian Way Properties LLP donated £5,000 towards Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership campaign.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/OC425695/officers
Construction and Property Solutions Ltd donated £5,000 towards Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership campaign. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07773717/officers
Khalidoscope Services Ltd donated £5,000 towards Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership campaign. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07577676/officers
List of all other Keir Starmer private donors – I haven’t been able to verify their identity therefore can’t provide more info on these individuals. I am sure Starmer will reward all his donors sooner or later, some more than others of course.

Total on this list = £64,458
Labour Party MPs funded by pro-Israel lobbyist Trevor Chinn of BICOM.

Chaim "Poju" Zabludowicz is the founder & former Chairman of the Britain Israel Communications & Research Centre. Zabludowicz has donated a total of £380,000 to the Tory Party. https://twitter.com/BossLarkin/status/1252215674367328256?s=19
Keir Starmer's Communication Director, Ben Nunn worked as a lobbyist for private healthcare. Incisive Health are paid to represent top NHS privatisers like Virgin Care, Ramsay Healthcare, Care UK, Circle Health.

I wonder who Mr Nunn voted for in GE19? https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/ex9qxj/richard-douglas-incisive-health-nhs-department-of-health
Bill Morgan is one of the founder of lobbying firm Incisive Health, Morgan was "Special Health Advisor" to Andrew Lansley (Health Secretary under Cameron).

Morgan sold his 33% stake in Virgin Care for £13.6million in 2019.

[3rd Pic Starmer & Ben Nunn]
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/former-health-secretary-andrew-lansley-s-diaries-finally-released-in-nearly-full
UDG Healthcare acquired Incisive Health lobbying firm and US-based Putnam Associates in May 2019.

UDG Healthcare plc is a Dublin-based company providing clinical, commercial, lobbying and packaging services to the healthcare industry worldwide http://www.prweek.com/article/1585352 
If you still haven't figured out who Keir Starmer is by now, you never will! If you still haven't figured out majority of the Labour MPs are neo-liberals then perhaps you're lost.

“I just want to give Keir Starmer my support." War Criminal Tony Blair
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