Sir Keir Starmer declares gifts and freebies totalling more than £100,000 - the highest of any MP

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Perhaps the Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire needs his freebies because MPs aren’t paid enough. Or perhaps he’s just the knight commander of the most astonishing hypocrisy.

Still rather have him than any of his five predecessors.

Sad but true. Its depressing to judge the Government's performance just a bit less shit than the previous.

This will have taken the shine off but the real test will be growing the economy

Why can’t we just have a single fucker in charge who is there for the public greater good and not some grabby cunt out for themselves every single time??? A single solitary person with integrity. Why is it so rare?

He’s worth something like 7 million, he can buy his own bloody glasses. He just looks grabby. Loads of people have to watch football on the tele.

The point is that he sold himself on being different, ethical, above it all having the moral high ground etc.

I don’t think it’s the amount as much as the hypocrisy. The Labour Party try and portray themselves as the kind decent party who try to do the right thing.
Unfortunately when it comes down to it they all have their snouts in the trough they are just as bad as the tories.

Exactly

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I live in Scotland where uni isn't just for the rich.

For now..

Because they are the rules we have collectively voted for. If we don't like it, we should lobby the MPs to change the rules, not moan about people implementing the rules correctly.

I disagree. They are working within the rules. Nothing wrong with that. I don't recall them ever saying that no gifts would be accepted.

Honestly don't care. He's the leader so of course it would be higher. Over 5 years, it's not that excessive.

PR is part of the job and anyone who thinks it isn't is mistaken.

If he was arseing around and not doing his job then yes I would care.

Sadly they have proven they don't interpret the rules correctly time and time again.

dont see that he’s any better than rishi at the moment. Although I didn’t vote for either

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What are you alleging re “Tory corruption”? Receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds of gift could well influence policy- that’s clearly the intention

If a donor wants to give a P.M. an extravagant gift I don't see that that makes the P.M. a grabby cunt.

That isn't unique to Labour though. They're all guilty of that. Conservatives most of all.

No they aren’t. He didn’t declare the donor’s money used to buy his wife’s clothes.

People in business have protocols where there are conflicts of interests or integrity is seen to be in question. My DH has in the past refused World Cup tickets, expensive bottles of whisky, corporate favours etc to be seen to be above board professionally. No one even knew about it. But it was the right thing to do morally.

If Starmer was decent, he’d have said ‘thanks but no thanks - donate it to charity.’

Breaches in Parliamentary rules of conduct are investigated by the Commissioner of Standards, a role independent of the House of Commons. We don't collectively vote for the rules.

Yep it does. He's a grabby cunt who exchanges freebies from wealthy donors for inappropriate access to sensitive places.. It's cronyism. He allowed a donor unfettered access to Downing Street because he paid for Vicky Sponges dress and Free Gear Keirs glasses. He and his sponger wife have their snout firmly in the public purse and they don't seem bothered about the shockingly bad optics....they are as corrupt as the tories were. Their shameless attempt to portray themselves as a party of decency and public service has failed...now we all see them for what they are....just another greedy dirty corrupt PM and his assorted corrupt hangers on...

The hypocrisy stinks more with Labour though. They take everyone for mugs when they claim they’re for social justice and equality. Are they fuck. They are in it for what they can get.

Yes he did. He missed the deadline as he was verifying the category and exactly what needed to be declared, and in fact it had already been declared while this was in progress. He wasn't trying to hide anything.

so he didn’t follow the rules then, did he? He missed the deadline!!