{"id":348359,"date":"2018-02-15T13:57:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T12:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-prime-minister-may-calls-for-fight-to-defeat-socialism\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T13:57:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T12:57:32","slug":"uk-prime-minister-may-calls-for-fight-to-defeat-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-prime-minister-may-calls-for-fight-to-defeat-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Prime Minister May calls for fight to \u201cdefeat socialism\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>UK Prime Minister May calls for fight to \u201cdefeat socialism\u201d<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Julie Hyland<br \/>\n    <br \/>15 February 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Prime Minister Theresa May pledged a renewed fight to \u201cdefeat socialism\u201d before an audience of ultra-wealthy donors last week at the Conservative Party\u2019s annual fundraising dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Those arriving in chauffeur-driven Rolls Royces, Bentleys and Jaguars at the Black and White Ball, held in the Natural History Museum in London, paid \u00a315,000 to get through the door.<\/p>\n<p>Once inside, the multi-millionaires and billionaires were wined and dined in luxury, while competing for prizes that included the personal attention of the prime minister and leading members of her cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>A day with May secured a winning bid of \u00a355,000 from one unnamed donor. Dinner with Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, in the Churchill War Rooms in Westminster fetched \u00a330,000 and a home-cooked dinner with Environment Secretary Michael Gove and his wife, <em>Daily Mail<\/em> columnist Sarah Vine, a distressingly low \u00a312,500.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller lots include a \u00a31,000 gift voucher and private shopping experience at the prime minister\u2019s favourite designer store Fluidity (although it admittedly will not buy much), and an original <em>Labour isn\u2019t Working<\/em> 1979 campaign poster signed by Margaret Thatcher.<\/p>\n<p>Bitter inner-party divisions that have seen May threatened with a leadership challenge were set aside for the evening. Leading advocates of a hard-Brexit lining up as possible replacements for May, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg, rubbed shoulders with Chancellor Philip Hammond, whose suggestion that the British government should minimise trade disruption with the European Union (EU) on exit led to demands for his head.<\/p>\n<p>May thanked the party\u2019s super-rich financiers for not being \u201cfair-weather friends\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/02\/15\/spee-f15.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UK Prime Minister May calls for fight to \u201cdefeat socialism\u201d By Julie Hyland 15 February 2018 Prime Minister Theresa May pledged a renewed fight to \u201cdefeat socialism\u201d before an audience of ultra-wealthy donors last week at the Conservative Party\u2019s annual fundraising dinner. Those arriving in chauffeur-driven Rolls Royces, Bentleys and Jaguars at the Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}