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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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TizerorFizz · 28/09/2024 00:38

There’s more! They have just reassigned £30,000 plus from his office expenses to his personal gifts declaration! More clothes! It wasn’t even office expenses. This is just smelling of corruption. Dreadful. It’s just no 10 access in return for money. Utterly hypocritical. Starmer has had well over £130,000.

justasking111 · 28/09/2024 00:41

TizerorFizz · 28/09/2024 00:38

There’s more! They have just reassigned £30,000 plus from his office expenses to his personal gifts declaration! More clothes! It wasn’t even office expenses. This is just smelling of corruption. Dreadful. It’s just no 10 access in return for money. Utterly hypocritical. Starmer has had well over £130,000.

Gawd it's a slurry pit at Westminster.

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Portalsalways · 28/09/2024 05:25

I think what shocks me is the stupidity or audacity that he had to keep banging on about How corrupt/ sleazy the Tories are whilst doing exactly the same. The Tories are sleazy and corrupt. But the point is so is he and his party.

But is he so arrogant he thought no one would find out OR so stupid he thought it wouldn’t matter if he did it as well.

It’s like the winter fuel allowance. He knows what he and his party said about the Tories getting rid of the winter fuel allowance. He and his party kept talking about how it would kill 4000. Yet is doing exactly that at a time fuel prices are higher. But won’t answer why he thinks it’s acceptable to do it.

So was it bollocks when he said it about the Tories? Did they lie knowing it wasn’t true or do they just not care?

When he banged on about Boris wallpaper, whilst doing the same thing, did he assume he would continue getting away with it? Or that people wouldn’t care cause it was him? Or that it was perfectly acceptable because it was him?

Surely he knew he was being a hypocrite and carried on anyway? Surely he knew that if he ever got into Number 10 this would all blow up in his face?

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 28/09/2024 07:39

TizerorFizz · 28/09/2024 00:38

There’s more! They have just reassigned £30,000 plus from his office expenses to his personal gifts declaration! More clothes! It wasn’t even office expenses. This is just smelling of corruption. Dreadful. It’s just no 10 access in return for money. Utterly hypocritical. Starmer has had well over £130,000.

I’m beginning to think he didn’t have a single thing in his wardrobe.

That’s an awful lot to spend on clothes.

Arafon · 28/09/2024 07:59

I'm wondering what cost so much, he just seems to wear dull suits. Maybe the clothes are all hanging in his wardrobe unworn, with labels on, 'tis very odd.

JustSpeechless · 28/09/2024 08:31

Starmer's own biographer, Tom Baldwin writing for the Observer published that he had been with the Starmer family himself on July 4th as "They tried to show they were relaxed in this upmarket house Starmer had borrowed from a friend."

Starmer has tried to spin this house as being borrowed for his 'boy's' GCSEs - but the GCSEs were well over and done by July 4th.

iwishihadknownmore · 28/09/2024 08:34

justasking111 · 27/09/2024 14:14

Trump has connections, Kamala doesn't.

Fuckin 'ell its all a conspiracy!

Got anything on microchips and vaccines?

Maurepas · 28/09/2024 08:48

What were his ''boy's'' GCSE's results after all the quiet revising? I can only find one item saying he did not do well at all and his father shouted at him!

MichaelandKirk · 28/09/2024 11:25

This doesn’t seem to be going away. The worst thing is that he criticised the Tories and stated scrapping the WFA would kill the oldies and he is doing exactly the same.

Does he really have no idea how this looks, it reminds me somewhat of Abbott and her criticism of private schools until it came to her own son…

I saw the Beth Rigby interview and she was very good with him. He was defensive and came across like entitled prig.

His family don’t seem onboard with him
being PM either. I do wonder how long he will last with sort of do as I say not what I do.

JRSKSSBH · 28/09/2024 13:15

Apparently there is worse to come. Rumours in Westminster of a super injunction to hide an inappropriate relationship and ultimately Keir resigning. One has to wonder if the foot dragging over the definition of a women, the proposed definition of Islamophobia are examples of someone’s undue influence. The amounts given must surely be buying him a lot of control and soft power. Lord Alli has links to President Assad, by the way.

Xenia · 28/09/2024 13:51

It reminds me of that time decades ago when the Tories were going on about family values and then it was found a good few who had gone on about it were having affairs. Keir S was head of the CPS which has very strict rules on gifts and he is not like Alison Rayner who probably has not had the same background in terms of training on how it looks if you take gifts, but KS knows full well so why did he think it were okay to take all the stuff from Lotd Alli. Baron Alli. Why not just say - actually I can afford my own clothes - so give the money to that homeless man over there who has no clothes. I just don't understand it.

Chersfrozenface · 28/09/2024 14:04

..KS knows full well so why did he think it were okay to take all the stuff from Lotd Alli. Baron Alli. Why not just say - actually I can afford my own clothes - so give the money to that homeless man over there who has no clothes.

Or just get him to make donations to the Labour party as an entity. It is allowed.

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 28/09/2024 14:04

JRSKSSBH · 28/09/2024 13:15

Apparently there is worse to come. Rumours in Westminster of a super injunction to hide an inappropriate relationship and ultimately Keir resigning. One has to wonder if the foot dragging over the definition of a women, the proposed definition of Islamophobia are examples of someone’s undue influence. The amounts given must surely be buying him a lot of control and soft power. Lord Alli has links to President Assad, by the way.

This worries me greatly.

We’ll end up with union darling Angela and we’ll be begging to get Keir back.

EasternStandard · 28/09/2024 14:22

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 28/09/2024 14:04

This worries me greatly.

We’ll end up with union darling Angela and we’ll be begging to get Keir back.

There do seem to be rumours not that I know much about it as not on X but I agree Rayner or anyone else really would be beyond dire

JRSKSSBH · 28/09/2024 14:24

EasternStandard · 28/09/2024 14:22

There do seem to be rumours not that I know much about it as not on X but I agree Rayner or anyone else really would be beyond dire

Cooper’s name coming up as replacement PM

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 28/09/2024 14:26

I do t know anything about the rumours, but it seems KS’s position is not very stable.

There are leaks and drips every day.

EasternStandard · 28/09/2024 14:30

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 28/09/2024 14:26

I do t know anything about the rumours, but it seems KS’s position is not very stable.

There are leaks and drips every day.

I don't know the detail tbh about rumours just that they seem to be going around

But I think he'll battle through with his polling in the ditch?

We'll see I guess

justasking111 · 28/09/2024 15:12

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 28/09/2024 14:26

I do t know anything about the rumours, but it seems KS’s position is not very stable.

There are leaks and drips every day.

But who's leaking and dripping I wonder?

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JRSKSSBH · 28/09/2024 15:13

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 28/09/2024 14:26

I do t know anything about the rumours, but it seems KS’s position is not very stable.

There are leaks and drips every day.

From what I hear this is the sort of scandal which career wise is unsurvivable, and if there has been a super injunction obtained to keep it under wraps then there is even more reason for him to go. Mr Rules has in short order revealed himself to be at least as bad as BJ. What the electorate is supposed to think/ do will be interesting.

JRSKSSBH · 28/09/2024 15:14

justasking111 · 28/09/2024 15:12

But who's leaking and dripping I wonder?

Extreme left - they want control back, anti-Russia/Syria forces disgusted by Alli’s agenda, disaffected party workers…

TheNuthatch · 28/09/2024 15:23

Surely they can't expect us to just accept a new prime minister being catapulted into No10 within 3 months of an election? Are there any rules around this?

justasking111 · 28/09/2024 15:26

Just had a peek on X god so many opinions.

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justasking111 · 28/09/2024 15:27

Jeremy Clarkson said super injunctions are a waste of time and very expensive. The foreign press aren't bound by them.

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NoWordForFluffy · 28/09/2024 15:28

I lost a good while to X-trawling! 😮😬

TizerorFizz · 28/09/2024 15:30

The declarations of gifts is in the public domain. They don’t need to leak that.

I might have been misleading earlier. It’s a further £16,000 on clothes that was originally assigned as his office expenses. So over £30,000 on clothes!!! He’s not Mme Macron wearing Chanel is he?!!