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Socialist to my core. Ex-Labour. Keep on keeping on! Supporter of the underdog and lifelong Blade to prove it #SUFC.
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Tan Dhesi) has been the Labour MP for Slough since 2017. Tan Dhesi has been a member of the Defence Select Committee since 2020 and its Chair since 2024. He regularly attends international defence conferences and consistently advocates for increased military spending. Tan Dhesi is closely linked to the Coalition For Global Prosperity (CGP) - a right wing organisation set up in 2018 by David Cameron and Penny Mordaunt with the aim of ‘combining foreign aid, diplomacy, and defense to make the world safer and healthier.’ Tan Dhesi is a member of several All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPG) including the APPGs for the Armed Forces and malaria and tropical diseases. He has also been an advisor to the charity @mencap_charity The @ElectoralCommUK website shows that Tan Dhesi has received £14,205.39 in donations but he has in fact received much more than this. Tan Dhesi’s donations and perks include: £10,000 from Aquarius Bio Ltd - a biotechnology company that has links to the oil, gas and defence industries. £4,000 from Chaterpal Singh Jundu. £2,000 from @GMB_union £2,500 from Goldwire Financial Solutions Ltd. £2,000 from Pardeep Singh. £2,002 from Tradekraft Ltd. £5,000 from @unitetheunion £2,000 from Davinder Mahli. £2,000 from The Island Residential Home Ltd. £5,000 from Stanmore Contractors Ltd. £2,000 from S. Ghotra. £4,000 from Friends of Windsor Labour Hall Ltd. £5,000 from Raico Properties. £3,595 from the Yunus Emre Institute for a trip to Turkey. ✈️ 🇹🇷 £1,840 from the APPG for Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (MNTD) for a trip to Ethiopia. ✈️ 🇪🇹 £2,570 from the APPG for MNTD for a visit to Malawi. ✈️ 🇲🇼 £2,570 from the APPG for MNTD for a trip to Ghana. ✈️ 🇬🇭 £5,263.61 from the Chinese Government for a visit to China. ✈️ 🇨🇳 £7,762.07 from the Qatar Government for a trip to Qatar. ✈️ 🇶🇦 £3,198.67 from @BritainLeads for a trip to the USA. Britain Leads is another company funding Tan Dhesi that has links to the defence/arms industry - in this case aerospace equipment and pharmaceuticals. 🇺🇸 ✈️ £1,109.93 from The Fredrick-Ebert-Stifung Institute for a European security conference in Italy. ✈️ 🇮🇹 £3,181.92 from the CGP for a conference in Washington DC with US politicians, policy makers and defence experts. ✈️ 🇺🇸 £1,125 in tickets & hospitality from Akzo Nobel for @Wimbledon Akzo Nobel has links to the defence industry through paint applications for aircraft and naval equipment. 🎾 £895 in tickets & hospitality from Akzo Nobel for the Chelsea Flower Show. 🌺 £3,415 claimed for ‘dinners’ at seven APPG Armed Forces gatherings. With his basic £93,904 salary + increments, expenses, donations, shareholdings, media appearance fees, funded international travel and perks, Tan Dhesi has prospered in his nine years as an MP. And as an MP, Tan Dhesi initially voted to retain the two-child benefit cap, voted to scrap the winter fuel payment to pensioners, voted for the welfare changes that will impact people who are disabled and unwell, voted against an inquiry into grooming gangs, voted to restrict trials by jury and voted for the new police powers that will drastically curtail the right to protest. ‘The Labour Party - Working For You’. @UKLabour @TanDhesi #LocalElections2026 #LabourDoorstep @LabourSlough
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This is what happens when people without relevant experience intervene in complex markets.
It is no surprise that Britain is struggling; after all, they were for many years a communist country.
