Why did Starmer settle out of court Give a grovelling apology and pay out six figure sum?

Please post details of the £250,000 raised by Blair and
Mandelson , not twitter

All I know is there was Blair and Mandelson actively working against Corbyn £250,000 fund raised to fight against a Corbyn win. And as was said broadcasters and newspapers joined together reporting negatively Corbyn and positively Johnson

So Johnson had the Broadcasters and Billionaire newspapers on his side And vote rigging a Tory firm, lots of votes went uncounted.

Anyhow Starmer is Leader now let's hope he does some good for the many.

Blair was young, he was attractive, articulate, persuasive, people warmed to him, he told them what they wanted to hear, and initially he delivered. That's why, as far as the public were concerned he won three G.E's in a row.

Blair was the only Labour Leader to win three consecutive
general elections Grany

Corbyn had the worse general election defeat since 1935

Exactly Annie, 'We love your politics but we're not voting for you!!!.?' (in droves!)

If the policies were much liked by the people why didn’t the
people vote for them ?

You are wrong there the polices were very much liked and needed by the people.

Blair got in by being bought by Murdock not his polices.

I think it will take him years, he has a momentous job ahead of him.

Will see how Starmer bridges that gap and so unites the Labour party

I don't think anybody worked to ensure that 'Labour' didn't win, it was in fact to make sure that Jeremy Corbyn and sidekick McDonnell didn't win! I find it incomprehensible that the far left cannot or will not understand that to many voters, and at the end of the day, it's votes that count, the politics of J.C and comrades will never win an election, the politics of Kier Starmer will, as did Tony Blair, it's as simple as that! Boris didn't win that huge majority if doorstep reactions are to be believed, which they must be, Labour under J.C virtually gave it to him!

You were doing it wrong Iam64, dont you know door knocking, leafleting etc are old hat, you needed to write JC across your forehead to facilitate electoral change and improve the lives of people. Thank goodness the adults are back in the room.

Apologies my above post was to Grany not Grant as stated in first line.

Again apologies Grany.

Grany

^Apparently, Corbyn and McDonald are to take up prominent positions in Dont Leave Organise (DLO) so as to try to bring to an end the thousands leaving the Labour Party every week now^
That's good Grandad1943 Corbyn and McDonald still working for the many not the few for Labour

Grant, Corbin and McDonald would have attended and spoken at many DLO rallies already but the Covid-19 crisis has ensured those events could not take place.

Meanwhile the reported avalanche of members leaving the party continues and with that, the gulf between the Parliamentary Labour Party and the affiliated Labour movement also continues to move.

Yes Iam64, the right in the Labour Party worked to absolutely ensure that Corbyn was toxic to many potential Labour voters at both the most recent General Elections.

Apparently, Corbyn and McDonald are to take up prominent positions in Dont Leave Organise (DLO) so as to try to bring to an end the thousands leaving the Labour Party every week now
That's good Grandad1943 Corbyn and McDonald still working for the many not the few for Labour

I expect you include the people like me in that dismissive "people on the right of the party" working against a Labour government. That is so offensive to the many of us who were door knocking, leaflet posting, phone calling to work for the Labour government our areas need so much. Deny, dismiss, accuse others but we know what we were told on those doorsteps. Corbyn was toxic.

Never any responsibility, it must be lovely, the fault of the right of the labour party, the fault of the press, the fault of anyone but the leadership of the worst labour defeat I have ever seen.

Anniebach

So Corbyn made the Labour Party the largest and wealthiest
political organisation in Europe

Giving the worse general election defeat since 1935

Yes, funny old world, but not for those who needed a Labour
Government

Perhaps he will write his memoirs and explain -

I was there but I don’t think I was involved

Had those on the right of the Labour Party got behind Corbyn in 2017 and 2019 instead of working against a Labour victory then you may well have got the electoral victory you state you needed aniebach.

Apparently, Corbyn and McDonald are to take up prominent positions in Dont Leave Organise (DLO) so as to try to bring to an end the thousands leaving the Labour Party every week now.

Such is their commitment to the Labour Movement that even now they are not prepared to sit back but still work for the benefit of the organisation.

Agree with Grandad1943 and Trisher

Yes Jeremy Corbyn did make Labour the largest and wealthiest political party in Europe.

We very nearly won the 2017 election

And we know those at the top in Labour were working towards a defeat.

Thousands came to Corbyns rallies across the U.K. Young people with JC written on their foreheads.

But the Establishment broadcasters and newspapers joined all together to defeat a Labour government winning they would make sure Labour didn't get elected.

Yes funny old world when money and membership are seen as more important than being in political power and being in a position to improve the lives of people you profess to care about.

So Corbyn made the Labour Party the largest and wealthiest
political organisation in Europe

Giving the worse general election defeat since 1935

Yes, funny old world, but not for those who needed a Labour
Government

Perhaps he will write his memoirs and explain -

I was there but I don’t think I was involved

growstuff, the trade unions in 2018 were responsible for approximately sixty percent of total Labour Party funding and one hundred percent of general election campaign funding in 2017.

The above annual general funding percentage was at a time when the Labour Party had obtained by way of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership a direct membership of over half a million subscription paying members making it the largest political organisation in Europe.

However, that total by way of membership subscription only accounted for forty percent of the Labour total income with the rest coming almost entirely from trade union funding.

Labour Party membership is now falling dramatically if reports are correct, with perhaps as many as one hundred and fifty thousand not renewing their subscription since Starmer's election as leader. The foregoing makes the trade union funding even more important to Labour and an even higher percentage of total income.

However, if Starmer and persons such as yourself growstuff do not appreciate or wish to receive such contributions, why not just tell Unite and all the other affiliated trade unions as such and doubtless they will no longer force that money on the Parliamentary Labour Party.

By the way, Corbyn made the Labour Party the largest and wealthiest political organisation in Europe but is seem by the right wing of the party as a failure.

Starmer since his election as leader has brought the party to the brink of a financial abyss, dramatically falling membership and a severe breach with the wider Labour movement and yet is viewed by some on this forum and elsewhere as a success

Funny old world is it not. ??

Link to election funding can be found here;-
www.politicshome.com/news/article/labour-gets-election-funding-boost-after-unite-donate-3m-to-party-war-chest

Perhaps it’s time the Labour Party cut the cord with the likes of Len McCluskey. He wields too much power. He is the Dominic Cummings of the left.

Grandad1943

The entire Labour party general election campaigns of 2017 and 2019 were funded by the trade union movement with three million of which was donated solely by the Unite Union alone in the last campaign with similar being contributed in 2017.

A percentage of that money which came from the subscriptions paid by those often poorly paid union members was it is alleged, diverted away from the support for a leader elected by the entire Labour movement and into "low life schemes" that would work against that leader and the party winning those elections.

And then there are those that state that Len McCluskey should "clear off" out the party.

What a joke those that state such are.

So what did Labour do with the rest of its money?

In 2017 and 2018, it was the wealthiest political party.

The unions are responsible for a fraction of the Labour Party's income.

www.electoralcommission.org.uk/financial-accounts-larger-political-parties-great-britain-published

Who says I support those who it is alleged carried out illegal activity in the LP central office?
Disliking McClusky's attitudes, concluding that Corbyn was a disastrous leader, reporting on what we found when campaigning for a Labour victory does not equal supporting alleged illegal activity.