Starmer son finds a quiet place to study for GCSEs

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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

What kind of man dresses another man?

A Savile Row suit can cost anything from £3,500 upwards. Richard James shirts start just shy of £200 apiece.

If a rich person wants to buy these clothes for themselves or their family or friends, then fine, good luck to them, enjoy the items.

But a politician accepting anything like this as a gift/bribe is a disgrace.

So 7 or 8 suits? Plus a shirt for every day of the month? Shoes of course. We forgot shoes and socks and ties. Frankly it’s ludicrous. This is Labour!! The ones who are anti gifts! He is on the take and more than any other MP by far. It’s appalling.

And the glasses

£2,500 worth

I really don’t think lurid rumours should be repeated.

If someone has facts they should say them and explain their evidence. Otherwise this is the sort of thing that debases life and, for what it’s worth, politics.

I do not like Labour. I do not like Starmer. But I think critics should try to do better than Labour fans did with their endless circulation of bullshit and falsehoods about the Tories.

Lord Alli bankrolls Labour. He has good connections and friends. Since 1998 he’s made 12 speeches in the HoL, so largely absent. He’s there because Blair thanked him for monetary contributions. In my view, this has to stop. His expertise, such as if is, is of no benefit to the Lords or Parliament.

In view of this I’m still of the opinion the state should give some £ to all parties via money to all candidates. We surely don’t want a USA style funding system? This giving to individuals by wealthy donors has to stop but MPs should earn more. All office expenses should be paid up to a limit. We need clarity and to stop one person having so much power. Although he’s a Labour moderate so that might explain why the info keeps coming!

It’s always the quiet ones! You do wonder what he was wearing before all of this. Tbh - I think it will blow over because they are so early in their 5 year term BUT it’s a disgraceful way to behave after being on his high horse about this sort of stuff when he was in opposition.

I suspect he will just keep stating now he is in power he will not take anymore freebies and hope it slips down the media coverage.

Worse case is that we find all parties have been at this for years. My big issue with him is he was so pompous and self righteous about it all taking the moral high ground and he is just a grifter.

Worse case is that we find all parties have been at this for years.

Undoubtedly. Ed Davey’s slipped under the radar unnoticed.

well, therein may lie the nub of this whole situation.

You do understand what a super injunction is? Facts can’t be spoken about hence rumours. I think if someone in power behaves like this then expect the worst. He is also a sanctimonious prig hence people being doubly enraged.

Yes, I do know what a super injunction is. They’re now more or less extinct. But I don’t believe that the theoretical possibility of a super injunction - against anyone - is any basis for wild rumour.

But I certainly agree with you about Starmer’s revolting priggishness and hypocrisy.

A Labour MP has quit over the “freebies” scandal that has engulfed Keir Starmer and his government.

Rosie Duffield, MP for Canterbury, said she was standing down because of Sir Keir’s “cruel and unnecessary” policies and said she was writing to the Prime Minister today informing him of her decision to resign.

Ms Duffield condemned Sir Keir in a letter for accepting gifts worth more than £100,000 for clothing, glasses and accommodation paid by Lord Alli, the millionaire Labour peer.

In the letter shared with the Sunday Times, she wrote: “The sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale.

“I am so ashamed of what you and your inner circle have done to tarnish and humiliate our once proud party.”

oof

Oh wow.

“She has become the fastest MP to jump ship after a general election in modern political history.“

As for the rumours looks it’s picking up anyway across below the line comments in the media.

No comment on that but I don’t think Starmer helps himself with his defensive and arrogant responses to questions

What with you being an expert and all, could you answer this poser for me?

Doesn't claiming a superinjunction exists, never mind muttering about relationships and the like, also breach the terms of a superinjunction if it does exist and you're not just chatting shit to try to sound important?

In all honesty, whatever the rumour is (and I don’t think it’s what most people in X are claiming) if they are true, or he is hiding something, he would be just better admitting it.

If you are PM your private life often IS in the public interest. Especially, when you use your private life to promote yourself.

But I don’t think anything good comes from speculating about what the rumour is.

I think a super injection prevents comment on a court case. Or even the existence of one. So what court case? They could try an injunction but it would probably fail as this info is in the public interest.

It’s all very well saying Conservative MPs get gifts but none, at the moment, can hold a candle to Starmer! If is the hypocrisy that’s so astounding. Utterly stupid of them.

Plenty of footballers used super injunctions so that their wives didn't find out that they were playing away. It was to gag the media.

Plenty? Ryan Giggs. Who else? It’s a rare injunction. Also they won’t cover the foreign based press or social media so these days injunctions are more likely, no super!

I recall the Australian media breaking a super injunction.

Well, my inner teenager would reply to you “whatever”. I am not trying to sound important (weird frankly that you might think that), I am merely highlighting rumours circulating in Westminster. If you wish to ignore them, then you ought to jog on.

How odd, a pile of Tories piles on. All the usual names!

Starner was wrong to accept the free goods, although it was a minuscule drop in the ocean compared to what the Tories took.

I'm more interested to know in detail what his policies are. It's become common for politicians of all stripes to be coy about those. Democracy in action.

Piling on is usually the Labour supporters go to, you just don’t notice it as you presumably agree or join

I’ve thought him a con for ages only now is the public catching up, look at the backlash

Good