Apologies, my earlier response was unworthy. You are a cynic, but I believe you when you say you don't want to be. I'm probably the opposite inasmuch as I'm too ready to ignore failings by people I really want to succeed. Starmer's freebies are not a good look, but to describe them as corrupt is way over the top, I would say. Disappointing, yes, foolish, yes, but corrupt? I don't think so.
The cynicism is a defence mechanism, but it has become my default mode which is not good. I don't know if what he has accepted is corrupt in the legal sense, perhaps sleazy is a better word, but it is wrong from my perspective, and incredibly stupid as well. A man who has spent the last five years correctly taking every opportunity to criticise Tory sleaze is caught with his fingers in the till in a few weeks (he’s been taking this money since he’s been PM!). As prime minister he is entitled to two salaries totalling £166,786, while his wife, an NHS occupational health worker, is likely to earn about £50,000. Starmer lives rent-free in No 10, has a townhouse in Kentish Town and does not send his children to private schools. I would assume that his official PM costs are covered by the taxpayer, and his costs as leader of the Labour Party are covered by the Labour Party. What the **** does he needs £50k personal donations for? Does he pay tax on it? I don’t think most of us expect special funding for the clothes we wear to work, unless they are a uniform of some kind. Even fewer would expect donations for their wife to go shopping. As for the Taylor Swift tickets, pure graft - £4K worth of treats for his family for what exactly? Being the current occupant of a public sector job? I don’t think Starmer is very bright. And Lammy in his cretinous defence of his boss is even dimmer. I hope this is used to contrast with the winter fuel allowance being taken from people with £1 more than the threshold for pension credit. Perhaps his mates could donate some of their spare cash to these people, or just give it to charity. But wait, they don’t get anything in return for that do they……. * the chosen one excepted?
Don't forget his tax free pension from his job as Director of Public Prosecution, where his salary was >£200k pa. He can't be that desperate for a few bob that a donor has to pay for his glasses, suits, wife's clothes..... it's a bad look and he's showing remarkable hypocrisy after the way he called out the previous government on sleaze..... it's all been done in record time....
So Huw Edwards gets a 2-year suspended sentence because he pleaded guilty. Yet another famous, well-off figure gets away with sod all when a normal bloke up the street would have been sent straight down for 12 years. Ffs the law in this country is a farce.
Ain't nothing normal about having dirty pictures of 7 year old kids on your phone - **** should be castrated and dragged through the streets by his bleeding stump
'US President Joe Biden has said it was a mistake for him to say "time to put Trump in a bullseye", days before Saturday's assassination attempt on his election rival. Mr Biden's remarks came in his first interview since the incident, in which he defended his rhetoric against Donald Trump and cited why it was important.' BBC after the first July assassination attempt Now a second lunatic Inflammatory rhetoric makes for bad repercussions, you'd assume politicians had more nous? You reap what you sow Joe
Sometimes you've just got to hand it to Israel, the latest op in Lebanon is like something out of a Hollywood movie... Audacious, wiping out the whole telecomms infrastructure of your enemy, and incapacitating dozens of your foe at the push of a button. Wonder how long this op was in the planning? Expect some fireworks in the next few days as Hezbollah retaliate...
apparently hezbollocks will be retaliating in a week or two just waiting for the letterbombs to go off before they walk around and visit all their fighters
Walkie talkies blowing up today....Israel planning on hitting the Lebanese carrier pigeon fleet tomorrow, and the makers of Semaphore flags the day after
I’m trying to kick this cynicism thing, but man he’s making it difficult for me…. https://news.sky.com/story/sir-keir...e-than-100-000-the-highest-of-any-mp-13217287
buy your own tickets "If I don't accept a gift of hospitality, I can't go to a game." "Never going to an Arsenal game again because I can't accept hospitality is pushing it a bit far," he added.
Within the rules apparently, but it's a terrible look and will do him a lot of damage. Probably small beer compared to Johnson, but that's no excuse. Meanwhile, Tory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch says that, although she was brought up in middle-class family, she became working class when she briefly worked in McDonald's as a 16 year-old.
Nigel Farage was on the Nick Ferrari show on LBC this morning. This was James O'Brien's introduction to his own show as Farage exited... Surely @Uber_Hoop will respond to this?
