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Starmer son finds a quiet place to study for GCSEs

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justasking111 · 25/09/2024 14:21

Can't berate Starmer for this but think some parents will be aghast.

"PM suggests £20,000 accommodation donation was for 'son to find somewhere for GCSE revision' | Evening Standard" https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-donation-son-gcse-housing-acoommodation-prime-minister-b1183972.html

PM suggests £20,000 donation was for 'son to find somewhere for GCSE revision'

Keir Starmer defends his decision to take gifts from Labour peer Lord Alli

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-donation-son-gcse-housing-acoommodation-prime-minister-b1183972.html

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Portalsalways · 27/09/2024 12:33

EasternStandard · 27/09/2024 12:28

Or is it a pile of shite like when KS pretended he was at home, while telling us to stay at home?

Wasn't he meant to you know be at home, like the rest of us

Exactly, wish he had told us that it ‘please stay at home or travel to your wealthy mates flat’ I would have a much better lockdown.

I think me and the kids would have been much happier in one of the flats owned by a friend of mine in London.

EasternStandard · 27/09/2024 12:28

Portalsalways · 27/09/2024 12:27

How many press were outside their house?

Why was it ok for the daughter and his wife to have this constant press attention and disruption outside the home.

Was the 16 year old alone? Because the flat owner wasn’t there? Why would you move a 16 year old to live alone, further away from their school for GCSEs then not bring him home for another month?

Who was looking after him? Or the daughter? I have heard KS wife works in the NHS? How was she juggling all this? With all the press intrusion outside her home?

Or is it a pile of shite like when KS pretended he was at home, while telling us to stay at home? But actually in that flat? With family photos around them? Weird to have your family photos in a mates flat.

Pretty sure other officials got sacked for being in other or second properties of their own.

Or is it a pile of shite like when KS pretended he was at home, while telling us to stay at home?

Wasn't he meant to you know be at home, like the rest of us

Portalsalways · 27/09/2024 12:27

deltabluesandpinks · 27/09/2024 11:40

I am so sick of these posts now.
There was no 20k. He had to put a value on it because he, rightly, had to declare it.
His son went and studied at the home of a friend. Because he could not do it at home due to the constant press attention and distractions. Yes Keir Starmer has rich friends. Anyone who has had the careeers he has had will be the same.
I genuinely do not understand what he has done wrong here?

How many press were outside their house?

Why was it ok for the daughter and his wife to have this constant press attention and disruption outside the home.

Was the 16 year old alone? Because the flat owner wasn’t there? Why would you move a 16 year old to live alone, further away from their school for GCSEs then not bring him home for another month?

Who was looking after him? Or the daughter? I have heard KS wife works in the NHS? How was she juggling all this? With all the press intrusion outside her home?

Or is it a pile of shite like when KS pretended he was at home, while telling us to stay at home? But actually in that flat? With family photos around them? Weird to have your family photos in a mates flat.

Pretty sure other officials got sacked for being in other or second properties of their own.

80smonster · 27/09/2024 11:58

deltabluesandpinks · 27/09/2024 11:47

I don't really understand your post. Are you saying that Labour is planning on selling the NHS off to one of these consortiums because one of their aims is to digitise it? If you are saying that, how did you come to that conclusion?

How do you suppose the NHS will be fixed? Glue, string and ideological policy? I think not.

80smonster · 27/09/2024 11:56

Seasaltlady · 27/09/2024 11:53

Same! Nasty and vindictive lot who have inflicted a lot of uncertainty across many families and pensioners all over the country…. All the while greedily grabbing all the freebies and allowances possible! Meanwhile the rest of us stress about how we are going to pay for everything let alone have any (god forbid!) aspirations!

Precisely, aspirations are only for Starmer’s and his rich mates kids. The rest of us need to use our children as state school sacrificial lambs or else be called disgusting Tories. I’ve zero interest in levelling down my child’s education to benefit my local Harris schools, which were interestingly sold to Lord Harris (Tory donor) by the previous Labour government. It’s verging on Kafkaesque.

Seasaltlady · 27/09/2024 11:53

Dollybantree · 27/09/2024 10:35

God, this is so true.

It’s actually amusing seeing them trying to cough and splutter and make pathetic excuses for what has already turned into a shitshow of a government.

Labour are just wolves in sheep’s clothing but who also try to occupy some moralistic pedestal in which they talk down to those who don’t think like them. They are the biggest hypocrites of the lot.

I can’t wait to see them fall.

Same! Nasty and vindictive lot who have inflicted a lot of uncertainty across many families and pensioners all over the country…. All the while greedily grabbing all the freebies and allowances possible! Meanwhile the rest of us stress about how we are going to pay for everything let alone have any (god forbid!) aspirations!

80smonster · 27/09/2024 11:51

deltabluesandpinks · 27/09/2024 11:40

I am so sick of these posts now.
There was no 20k. He had to put a value on it because he, rightly, had to declare it.
His son went and studied at the home of a friend. Because he could not do it at home due to the constant press attention and distractions. Yes Keir Starmer has rich friends. Anyone who has had the careeers he has had will be the same.
I genuinely do not understand what he has done wrong here?

I’m sick of Labour voters refusal to accept the political landscape we are operating in. Financial privilege has been used (by Starmer and no doubt his rich friends) to gain academic advantage for his child, after telling others this is wrong. That hypocrisy is plain for all to see. Sadly Labour doesn’t actually represent left wing politics.

nearlylovemyusername · 27/09/2024 11:49

deltabluesandpinks · 27/09/2024 11:44

No it's really not. We had 14 years of an utter shit show, the most corrupt administration this country has ever seen. The errors Labour have committed so far (and this is not one of them) are but a tiny drop in the ocean compared to what we have had to put up with over the last decade.
What do you people actually want as an alternative? Who should be running the country now?

Have they run country through Covid and war in Ukraine with all its impacts?

Sure they'd do this better?

deltabluesandpinks · 27/09/2024 11:47

justasking111 · 27/09/2024 11:00

Another poster last night led me to an interesting consortium who buy up companies, paying billions.

They've bought up pet stores and veterinary services all over the states. They've also bought up hospitals all over Asia.

Imagine if they started buying hospitals here, they would transform them both bricks and mortar, services, staffing, IT. Starmer spoke of digitising the NHS I wonder if he has some new friends, as Blair did and does.

Let's face it throwing money at the NHS is like bailing out a boat with a leaky bucket.

Things are going to change in ways we don't know yet.

I don't really understand your post. Are you saying that Labour is planning on selling the NHS off to one of these consortiums because one of their aims is to digitise it? If you are saying that, how did you come to that conclusion?

nearlylovemyusername · 27/09/2024 11:47

Notaflippinclue · 27/09/2024 10:46

Give the pensioners their fuel allowance leave the PS fees alone - draw a line under it and start governing - we all make mistakes

This is good point. If they accepted mistakes, with WFA and PS, said comprehensive IA showed no money to be gained/ impact too harsh, let's move on, they'd gained some respect and trust. But they are doubling down instead to show how decisive and strong they are, "ready to be unpopular".

Chersfrozenface · 27/09/2024 11:47

deltabluesandpinks · 27/09/2024 11:40

I am so sick of these posts now.
There was no 20k. He had to put a value on it because he, rightly, had to declare it.
His son went and studied at the home of a friend. Because he could not do it at home due to the constant press attention and distractions. Yes Keir Starmer has rich friends. Anyone who has had the careeers he has had will be the same.
I genuinely do not understand what he has done wrong here?

His son was revising at the apartment until 13th July for GCSEs which ended on 19th June?

deltabluesandpinks · 27/09/2024 11:44

MoneyNeverSleeps · 27/09/2024 11:20

I genuinely think it’s dawning on many of those who voted Labour in July - just how bad this government are proving to be.

No it's really not. We had 14 years of an utter shit show, the most corrupt administration this country has ever seen. The errors Labour have committed so far (and this is not one of them) are but a tiny drop in the ocean compared to what we have had to put up with over the last decade.
What do you people actually want as an alternative? Who should be running the country now?

nearlylovemyusername · 27/09/2024 11:43

justasking111 · 27/09/2024 11:00

Another poster last night led me to an interesting consortium who buy up companies, paying billions.

They've bought up pet stores and veterinary services all over the states. They've also bought up hospitals all over Asia.

Imagine if they started buying hospitals here, they would transform them both bricks and mortar, services, staffing, IT. Starmer spoke of digitising the NHS I wonder if he has some new friends, as Blair did and does.

Let's face it throwing money at the NHS is like bailing out a boat with a leaky bucket.

Things are going to change in ways we don't know yet.

could you share the link please?

EasternStandard · 27/09/2024 11:43

deltabluesandpinks · 27/09/2024 11:40

I am so sick of these posts now.
There was no 20k. He had to put a value on it because he, rightly, had to declare it.
His son went and studied at the home of a friend. Because he could not do it at home due to the constant press attention and distractions. Yes Keir Starmer has rich friends. Anyone who has had the careeers he has had will be the same.
I genuinely do not understand what he has done wrong here?

Why would the press be near Keir's home when he's on the campaign trail doing press events?

And the dates don't match up to the exams so it was just a lie

deltabluesandpinks · 27/09/2024 11:40

I am so sick of these posts now.
There was no 20k. He had to put a value on it because he, rightly, had to declare it.
His son went and studied at the home of a friend. Because he could not do it at home due to the constant press attention and distractions. Yes Keir Starmer has rich friends. Anyone who has had the careeers he has had will be the same.
I genuinely do not understand what he has done wrong here?

nearlylovemyusername · 27/09/2024 11:37

So what has Starmer done I return?

Not just Starmer, the entire Labour party - look at Alli's relationship with Stonewall and then Labour's stance on women's rights. That's what we know so far. As for the rest - given that civil servant who leaked Sue Gray's salary is being pressured to exit, we just don't have visibility of what's going on.

EasternStandard · 27/09/2024 11:33

justasking111 · 27/09/2024 11:12

There is no opposition at the moment, labour objectors get slung into no mans land. Conservatives in tatters which is well deserved. A mixed bag of everyone else.
The unions totally hoodwinked by Starmer, kept in the dark about WFA. Think they'll be kept in the dark for the next few years.

We just have to suck it up for now. I'm off to the shops where it will hopefully be warmer than my home.

The media is the only opposition atm

The electorate were keen on that though, so here we are

EasternStandard · 27/09/2024 11:31

MoneyNeverSleeps · 27/09/2024 11:20

I genuinely think it’s dawning on many of those who voted Labour in July - just how bad this government are proving to be.

Many are but not all

I agree with pp drop the PS VAT, accept you had zero clue, learn from it and drop the arrogance - to Keir and co

80smonster · 27/09/2024 11:29

BIossomtoes · 26/09/2024 16:26

On what?

Left wing politics?

80smonster · 27/09/2024 11:26

Notaflippinclue · 27/09/2024 10:46

Give the pensioners their fuel allowance leave the PS fees alone - draw a line under it and start governing - we all make mistakes

Correct, the dog whistle policies have to stop and real leadership begin. So far the politics of envy has been demonstrated nicely, but this has only widened the gap between the wealthy and poor and will continue to do so. Not very socialist if you ask me.

80smonster · 27/09/2024 11:22

MoneyNeverSleeps · 27/09/2024 11:20

I genuinely think it’s dawning on many of those who voted Labour in July - just how bad this government are proving to be.

A nation of sheeple.

MoneyNeverSleeps · 27/09/2024 11:20

I genuinely think it’s dawning on many of those who voted Labour in July - just how bad this government are proving to be.

EasternStandard · 27/09/2024 11:18

Dollybantree · 27/09/2024 10:35

God, this is so true.

It’s actually amusing seeing them trying to cough and splutter and make pathetic excuses for what has already turned into a shitshow of a government.

Labour are just wolves in sheep’s clothing but who also try to occupy some moralistic pedestal in which they talk down to those who don’t think like them. They are the biggest hypocrites of the lot.

I can’t wait to see them fall.

There has been a huge amount of this on here

And lo their policies are duds after all, as said pre GE

80smonster · 27/09/2024 11:17

MoneyNeverSleeps · 27/09/2024 11:09

Seconded.

Absolutely shameful. To think we used to be able to feel superior in the face of American politics. That ship has well and truly sailed.

80smonster · 27/09/2024 11:16

MoneyNeverSleeps · 27/09/2024 11:09

Seconded.

Baron Alli if you’re listening and would like this conversation shut down, I would accept 15k per year, now of course I couldn’t accept any cash directly, but you could pay the prep school directly if that works for you?