{"id":294773,"date":"2024-09-13T07:11:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T07:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=294773"},"modified":"2024-09-15T07:39:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T07:39:39","slug":"british-labours-raw-deal-for-working-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=294773","title":{"rendered":"British Labour\u2019s raw deal for working people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finian Cunningham \u2013 Strategic Review Sept 12, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Keir Starmer\u2019s Labour Party won a landslide election in July with the slogan \u201ca new deal for working people\u201d.<\/p>\n

Already the electioneering can be seen as a sham. This week, the Labour government won a majority vote in the House of Commons to cut winter fuel payments for pensioners. Around 10 million<\/a> senior citizens will no longer receive a financial grant to help them pay soaring energy bills and keep their houses warm this winter.<\/p>\n

The energy crisis for households in Britain and across Europe is a result of the NATO proxy war in Ukraine and the cutting off of Russia\u2019s abundant gas and oil supplies to the continent. The Biden administration ordered the blowing up of the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany. That was in September 2022. The best way to end the energy crisis for European households would be to stop the war, make peace, and return to normal relations. But the new Labour government is having none of that common sense. It is eagerly fueling the proxy war as much as the Conservatives before it, and what\u2019s more now making the poor of Britain pay for the warmongering.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Starmer told angry unions and workers that he would make no apology for the winter fuel payment cut. His ministers are claiming<\/a> they have \u201cno choice\u201d but to repair a \u201c\u00a322 billion blackhole\u201d in public finances gutted by the predecessor Conservatives.<\/p>\n

Starmer\u2019s Labour is warning that more \u201ctough choices\u201d are coming in the coming weeks, meaning that working people and low-income families are going to face more economic austerity. So much for a democratic change from the hated Tories and the supposed \u201cnew deal for workers\u201d.<\/p>\n

The warped priorities of this government (as with the previous one) can seen from the promises to boost spending on Britain\u2019s military. Starmer has vowed<\/a> to uphold a commitment to increase Britain\u2019s \u201cdefense\u201d budget from \u00a354.2 bn (\u20ac64 bn, $74.7 bn) a year to \u00a357.1 bn. That represents a 4.5 percent increase.<\/p>\n

Under Starmer, Britain will continue to donate billions of public money to the Kiev regime.<\/p>\n

This week, while the Labour government was voting to cut winter welfare for pensioners, the British foreign minister David Lammy traveled<\/a> to Kiev alongside the U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken, where they assured the Ukrainian regime that they would deliver more weapons, hinting at ending restrictions on long-range missiles to hit deep inside Russia.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Britain\u2019s defense minister John Healey will be in Ramstein, Germany, this week to meet with other military chiefs of the so-called Ukraine Contact Group. Healey, who calls<\/a> himself \u201cMr Ukraine\u201d, is to unveil another British military aid package of multi-role missiles worth \u00a3162 million. Healey is very much a deep-state figure inside the Labour government. This means a continuity in foreign policy despite the name change in Downing Street.<\/p>\n

To date, since the eruption of the conflict in Ukraine in February 2022, Britain has doled out \u00a312.5 bn (\u20ac14.7 bn) in military aid<\/a> to the Kiev regime, including the training of up to 45,000 Ukrainian soldiers.<\/p>\n

Britain is the third-biggest military aid donor to Ukraine after the United States and Germany.<\/p>\n

Starmer\u2019s new Labour government is showing itself every bit as committed to funding the proxy war against Russia as its Conservative predecessor was.<\/p>\n

Just three days after the general election on July 4, the new defense minister, John Healey, made his first overseas visit<\/a> to Ukraine on July 7. Healey vowed to continue Britain\u2019s support.<\/p>\n

So while the Labour government claims that it has \u201cno choice\u201d but to slash public spending at home, it unquestioningly keeps spending on militarism at home and abroad.<\/p>\n

This is a matter of political choice. If a Labour government were to genuinely prioritize the needs of working people, it could find the finances easily by cutting Britain\u2019s excessive military budget and the largesse it bestows on a NeoNazi regime and the reckless proxy war against Russia that could escalate into a nuclear conflagration.<\/p>\n

The insulting deception of Labour\u2019s \u201cnew deal\u201d means that Starmer\u2019s government will require close shepherding, just in case it wobbles from the inevitable public backlash.<\/p>\n

The vote this week to axe winter fuel payments to elderly citizens has sparked fury among the wider population. The anger will grow as more austerity measures against citizens kick in and while the proxy war in Ukraine continues to receive endless support with British public money.<\/p>\n

It seems no coincidence that this week Britain\u2019s Starmer is to visit the White House. The visit by Blinken to London and thence to Kiev alongside his British counterpart, as well as the Ramstein meeting for UK defense chief Healey, all suggest that a close eye is being kept on Downing Street to ensure that it does not get any notions about \u201cserving the people\u201d.<\/p>\n

To that end too, it seems significant that the former Conservative defense minister Ben Wallace has taken to whipping up public fears of Russia.<\/p>\n

Wallace wrote a recent oped in the Daily Telegraph in which he claimed<\/a> that Russian leader Vladimir Putin \u201cwill soon turn his war machine on Britain\u201d.<\/p>\n

The article was reported in several other British media outlets. The same fear-mongering has been echoed by the new head of Britain\u2019s armed forces, General Sir Roly Walker, who warned<\/a> that the United Kingdom could be in an all-out war with Russia in the next three years.<\/p>\n

Wallace, who is a cipher for Britain\u2019s deep state, claimed that \u201cBritain is in Putin\u2019s cross-hairs\u201d. He added: \u201cMake no mistake, Putin is coming for us\u2026 we must be prepared for the inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hysteria from Britain\u2019s ruling class is of course cringe-making. These claims about Russia\u2019s malign intent and comparing<\/a> Putin with Hitler are completely bereft of any historical facts, such as NATO expansionism and the weaponizing of a Nazi-adulating regime in Ukraine to provoke Russia.<\/p>\n

Russian leaders have repeatedly said they have no intention of attacking any NATO nations. They say their involvement in Ukraine is a special operation to neutralize NATO threats to Russia\u2019s national security.<\/p>\n

Sooner or later, the British and Western public are going to demand accountability from their governments on why such huge finances are being ladled into promoting a highly dangerous conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s Labour government is vulnerable to a public backlash because of its blatant duplicity.<\/p>\n

That would explain the close attention from Washington to London\u2019s policy, ensuring Starmer keeps toeing the line of NATO\u2019s hostility to Moscow. British deep state assets like Ben Wallace also need to keep writing scare stories to frighten the public away from common sense criticism of London\u2019s deranged warmongering and betrayal of working people..<\/p>\n

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Sooner or later, the British public are going to demand accountability from their government on why such huge finances are being ladled into promoting a highly dangerous conflict with Russia. While winter subsidies for pensioners are being cut back, purportedly to ‘save money’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":288791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294778,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294773\/revisions\/294778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/288791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}