to believe Lady Starmer should pay for her own clothes and personal stylists?

A little bit of light relief from Intel Lady.

If you add their take home pay to their paid expenses, housing, utility, whatever allowance, then it's a handsome amount. They're essentially being given 'pocket money' while everything else is paid for. They're paid more than enough considering how the people they're "serving" are doing.

What's Lord Alli getting out of this this?

Yep

I didn’t know Farage had promised this. I don’t think people on £20k or under should pay tax. I’d be willing to pay more so those on so little have a better life.

His wife could have said no thanks. Surely she can pick out and pay for her clothing?

The irony. Starmer is clearly a major sleaze too.

I’m already paying £310 and have been 300 plus for years - Scotland has it bad!

Just rent the clothes . . . My opinion of politicians doesn’t depend on their sartorial elegance but how they perform as elected members. Lammy’s justification was laughable. Didn’t Carrie Johnson rent her wedding dress? I may be wrong though.

If I had to attend a high profile event (extremely unlikely) I would rent a nice little number. I wouldn’t look as good as Lady S. but at least I would fit in and look the part.

@AuntieJoyce

Yes, actually, I think you might right.
I was caught up in the numbers when I posted.
It’s difficult to know precisely. Lord Alli’s been a member of the House of Lords for over 25 years. Are they friends? Then again would you value a friend’s generosity to a certain amount if they let you stay in their gaff in New York? Maybe, to be on the safe side.

And of course the right do like to hunt down Angela Rayner in particular. She seems to offend a certain sensibility of theirs.

Transparency, that’s what we need. Transparency.

Surely he earns enough to afford his wife some decent clobber. He was quick to call out Boris Johnson over the wallpaper scandal, rightly branding it as sleaze, but quite happy to have his own snout in the trough in return for favours; The word hypocrite comes to mind
....and people wonder why there is such political apathy and a low turnout at elections.............

The point is though I can’t think of any other occupation where it would be acceptable to receive this. It may be several years since my Bribery Act training but this would’ve been way out of acceptable limits even at £1,250.

At one point visiting representatives were bringing their own sandwiches for lunch FGS

Probably. But why is that relevant?

Arguably but all their main expenses, housing, energy are also paid for so there is a lot of disposable income. Tony Blair is no estimated to have a personal fortune of between £45m to £60m. It sets you up to be incredibly wealthy for life. Boris Johnson pleaded poverty as PM and now has a net worth of £2m although he bought a house for £4m with no mortgage so it is all very shady.

Hasn't he been a Labour peer for over 20 years?

Unpopular opinion but I think they are actually paid pretty poorly considering the job responsibilities.

Halve..

I seem to remember some posters repeating that Labour would have VAWG pre GE

Might be going the way of some of their other promises...

Surely you’re eligible for pension credit? You’d get help with your glasses as well if you claim it.

https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit-calculator

Or the people carrying machetes or zombie knives. Although, I think we’re going to pay them instead 🤦‍♀️
You couldn’t write it.

That was to an earlier part of the thread.

I am 79. My pension is about £300 per month as we cashed in Ni or whatever it was when young and very broke. I’ve always been a saver . I have dreadful eyesight and my glasses last year cost me £500 + . I paid for them myself not on a credit card because I am a saver ,brought up that way . Actually not true I used a credit card to gain points and then paid off immediately. My clothes are often ancient yet I’ve been greeted as someone who has been the smartest there. I buy expensive classic clothes . I’m stunned that Keir Starmer cannot pay for his own glasses and his wife on £50k pa cannot dress herself . I will no longer vote Labour

I can’t stress enough how wrong you are, I rarely say that, but you are wrong and it’s dangerous,

People were not posting “meet at 7pm to join the riot at the mosque, bring your bats” they were posting about their unhappiness at the level of immigration from Muslim countries into this country. And to say that isn’t allowed is staggering,

It is an opinion.

You do realise that he is not personally responsible for sentencing anyone. As far as I understand it all sentencing with regard to the riots is within existing guidelines.
As will Huw Edwards who obviously could pay for a legal team which clearly did a great job. For him that is. Not sufficient in my opinion

I wish he would move as swift on locking up those who commit rape and sexual assault as a strong deterrent to put these attackers off. That would be a good message to send.

Instead, they are seeing criminals including sex pests and domestic violence aggressors spraying champagne and celebrating with smoking spliffs as he lets them lose early.

Beggars belief.