Labour have spent the week saying the Tories should pay back the £10 million they received from someone who they say said something racist. Similarly long time Labour Party donor Dale Vince has given Starmer’s party at least £2.5 million to date, including a £1 million cheque late last year. He’s recently launched an initiative calling for the youth of Britain to vote Labour. Well and truly in the fold of Labour’s funding class…
While we’re on the subject of extremist donors and returning their donations…https://t.co/rkaxVMJqZR pic.twitter.com/NxHEgrBKKz
— Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) March 13, 2024
If Labour thinks donors’ cash donations should be returned when they say extreme things, what do they make of Vince’s views? Late last year on Times Radio, after saying that Hamas should be able to defend itself, Vince stated that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter“. When challenged on the fact that saying Hamas are freedom fighters isn’t the official Labour position, Vince said: “This is my view, this is how I feel“. When can we expect Starmer to announce that the £2.5 million will be returned?
UPDATE: On Friday 4, April, 2024 lawyers acting for Dale Vince contacted us objecting to the above article claiming it would be understood to mean, that “our client supports a proscribed terrorist group”. We replied on Monday 8, April 2024 inviting Mr Vince to “to put on the record unambiguously that he does not think Hamas are freedom fighters” in which case “we will be happy to withdraw and/or amend our previous reports accordingly.” Through his lawyers Mr Vince declined so to do. They stated he had previously condemned terrorism on the record. We accept and never claimed otherwise that Mr Vince has previously condemned terrorism including saying of the specific acts of Hamas terrorism on the weekend of October 7, 2023 “I don’t support what they did”. We remain baffled therefore why he won’t even through his lawyers confirm that he does not think Hamas are, in the words he used, “freedom fighters”.
