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68 sats \ 7 replies \ @xz 28 Oct \ parent \ on: Uk: Labor Intervening In US Elections Politics_And_Law
I see. I just listened to the updates.
What I heard was that it's not interference if there's no monetary donation to political party/candidate from external source. As they are doing the olde NGO/think tank thing, I thought that might be 'above board interference'.
Surely Stammer government/Harris are not that stupid?
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NGOs are so corrupt and venal, often used for money laundering.
Labour Party is not a think tank which are also money laundering vehicles.
Labour Party volunteers understand American voters better than Kamala? Probably but Kamala is a very low bar.
In response, UK prime minister Keir Starmer said that party officials volunteering for Harris ahead of the US presidential election on 5 November were “doing it in their spare time” rather than in their capacity working for Labour. Speaking to reporters travelling with him to the Commonwealth summit in Samoa, Starmer said: “The Labour party … volunteers, have gone over pretty much every election. They’re doing it in their spare time, they’re doing it as volunteers, they’re staying I think with other volunteers over there.
The letter goes on to request an immediate investigation into “blatant foreign interference” in the election in the form of “apparent illegal foreign national contributions made by the Labour Party of the United Kingdom” and accepted by Harris’s campaign committee.
The complaint references a social media post, which appears to have been deleted, in which Sofia Patel, head of operations at Labour, posted on LinkedIn last week that 100 current and former party staffers were headed to the US to campaign for Harris.
The letter refers to a “volunteer exemption” in US elections which means foreign nationals can volunteer, but the letter states: “They may not be compensated, foreign nationals may not make expenditures, and they may not direct or control activities of US campaigns”.
“I have nearly 100 Labour party staff (current and former) going to the US in the next few weeks heading to North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia,” Patel wrote. “I have 10 spots available for anyone available to head to the battleground state of North Carolina – we will sort your housing. Email me on labourforkamala@gmail.com if you’re interested.”
Under Federal Election Commission rules, foreign volunteers on US campaigns are permissible as long as they are not compensated for their work, and in Patel’s message the Trump campaign detected evidence of such remuneration in the form of sponsored accommodation.
But this is not the first time this issue has blown up. In 2018, the Bernie Sanders campaign agreed to pay a $14,500 fine (£11,190) to the FEC after the agency ruled that his 2016 presidential campaign had accepted an illegal contribution from the Australian Labor party.
The FEC found against Sanders on the basis that the Australian volunteers had received a stipend from the Labor party and had their flights paid for. There is no suggestion that anything like that happened in this case – but the row continues.
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not to mention.. posted on Linked in that
100 current and former party staffers were headed to the US to campaign for Harris.
Like, that's the UK public paying for 100 politicians to meddle in US affairs and presumably, yknow, spend some more money than would have been necessary, for, say a delegation of 10 to visit AFTER the election.
Next week. Labour budget. "There's going to be some tough tax hikes. Austerity, austerity, austertity!!"
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