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

I think it’s probably his moral obligation- don’t you? Most kids don’t get a summer home to revise in - sounds like an unfair advantage from where I’m sitting.

How did his son having somewhere quiet to study help the Labour Party get elected?

If he's being bothered at school because of who his Dad is then the school should address it, just as they would with any other student. The children of other politicians and royal children manage to go to school and, I assume, use libraries on occasion.

Yup. Absolutely.

I don’t have skin in the game as I couldn’t afford private school. But it does sound like his moral obligation to me.

Surely any child whose education has been disrupted should benefit from such an advantage? Otherwise Starmer is using his own privilege to further that of his children. Which Labour believes is wrong. So wrong, in fact, that it’s their flagship (read dog whistle) policy.

Since when has Covent Garden been the location of a “summer home”? It doesn’t look like much of an advantage from where I’m sitting.

As long as we agree moral obligations are for everyone, that would be fair enough. But that’s not what we are discussing, is it? Maybe Starmer should offer a 20k donation to an under-performing state school of his choice?

Covent Garden is one of the most expensive areas in London. That makes it even worse. Maybe Starmer should offer a 20k donation to one of the state schools he wants to help? So keen he is to help them, that he himself has forgotten to ‘pay it forward’. Honestly @BIossomtoes give over will you.

Don’t buy that at all. Financial donations directly to a campaign (donations that are heavily scrutinised) is different. This is politicians using their position to procure free goods and services. It immediately makes them conflicted.
it also looks terrible because it’s this exact stuff that he has banged on about being ‘corrupt’ (rightly in my opinion).

Agree with you.

What do you mean that’s not what we are discussing.

We are discussing the (now) labour Party leader using his position to give his child an educational advantages and all the implications that come with it.

Including the fact that he believes that parents who can get their children an educational advantage should pay 20% VAT on top. So he should pay 4k in VAT for this educational advantage.

Otherwise what we are really saying is that the super rich play by their own rules and moral obligations are for the little people.

I would love to spend the summer in an expensive house in Covent Garden’s.

He's just using everything he can for a freebie ride

@Ketryne how do free glasses, free clothes, free holidays and free accommodation for your kids help a campaign.

I think the thing misunderstood is morals, principles and integrity.

Even if he offered to pay 20%, that's still not good enough. When he was asked in the TV debate whether he would ever buy his own family an advantage (eg by using a private school or private health), he uttered a crystal clear 'no'.

Maybe Starmer should pay some VAT on these luxuries?

Yea ironically Sunak was more truthful in his response then- that yes he would use private healthcare if his family needed it.

It’s obvious to everyone now that Keir would do the same.

No wonder Liar is topping out the Savanta polling

If Starmer is so worried about state schools being underfunded and privilege being bought, he too should pay VAT on all luxuries. With Labours flagship policy in mind, it would serve him and Labour peers well to donate with their aim front and centre, not blag what they can whilst in power. Surely it’s his moral obligation to pay VAT on all luxuries?

His “honeymoon” period is going so well.

Can’t get worked up over this 🤷‍♀️

Starmer is showing a previously unknown and unsuspected flair for face-palm comedy.

First, “Release the sausages”.

Then he justifies a couple of freebie months in an opulent Covent Garden penthouse by saying it was a revision aid for his son!

Top stuff Sir Keir, top stuff.

Worse probably. Starmer is more likely to have an NHS ward cleared and himself fast tracked through the VIP entrance.

i can’t believe what I am reading. I honestly don’t see what the problem is. Election was called (earlier than expected), Starmer moved whole family to a friend’s place that was empty to safeguard the privacy and wellbeing of his children (a justified worry given the tone of some of the responses on this thread), he declared it. The end.