Probably because MPs will always find a way to benefit themselves. Remember when the smoking ban came into effect in pubs and clubs? Turns out the bar at the House of Commons was exempt. Wonder why that could be? Just one example of many I’m sure.
Far be it for me to defend politicians, but here goes. They can only claim a heating allowance either for constituency offices, or their second home if needed for work. You can only have a second home if your first home is out of London and of course we need them in parliament. Now the second home thing is interesting. I have worked in London over the years and always got a hotel. The difference I suppose is safety of MPs in the current climate. Mind you they could all share a house and we could make a TV show out of it. Be like a cross over between the young ones and big brother
What a depressing Sunday morning. Should just rename this thread same old same old. Starmer taking gifts from donors again and not declaring them. Clothes and a personal shopper for his wife apparently. Lamy defending him on TV saying they followed procedure. Maybe, but gifts from donors is the optic here. What is that wordy Labour loved - cronyism. Just for balance Tories still not prepared to state they wont take anymore donations from Hester. Maybe politicians really all are the same after all, they certainly seem determined to keep up with each other. Much more importantly more dead trying to cross the channel last night. This really is a modern day tragedy unfolding in front of our eyes. Sadly I almost feel like I see these stories and gloss over them they are so frequent now. Bloody tragic.
It’s a bit like the news coverage in the USA during the Vietnam War. The viewing public just got so used to it that hearing about the deaths of soldiers became normal, nothing out of the ordinary and not even the first headline.
A bit like Northern Ireland mate, if it came on I just switched to another channel, couldn’t be arsed with it anymore.
Haven't really watched the news for years. It's mostly spoon fed drivel and depressing shìte anyways. In fact I don't really watch any telly except the odd binge watch of a series. Or if am sat in the same room as the ball and chain and she's watching place in the country or Aussie gold cúnters ,
Are the BBC taking bungs from Labour, they seem very quiet on the boat people or am I just missing it?
I voted tory, and will again. HOWEVER. Starmer makes some good noises. I am a pensioner, fairly comfortably off, so won't miss the winter allowance. Root and branch change of the NHS to make it efficient ... big tick. Send illegals to Albania for "processing". Work with Europe to control illegal migrants. Support Ukraine against the wan a be emporer. But why do I think it is just noise ... let's wait for the action. Being PM is not easy ... "events dear boy."
Thing is ‘smashing the gangs’ isn’t going to work and Starmer knows it’s just a soundbite which he hopes will appease the public who are becoming very vocal about the issue. Until the UK is made an undesirable choice for illegal migrants, the boats will just keep coming. We’ve both seen it with drugs. Get rid of twenty dealers and there’s a hundred more to take their place. The gangs on the other side of the channel are onto a lucrative little number at the moment playing on the desires of others. Why should they give it up? Starmer must honestly despise the British public.
PMs have to be accountable to the public who voted them in. He talks the talk as they all do, but he's already been found 'with his hand in the till' over his specs and his missus's posh dresses and he slated the Tory 's when found doing the same. He's so two faced but aren't they all, my mother used to say more faces than the town hall clock. All his big words and ideas amount to jacksh1t it's actions that count and what the public will remember him for at the next election.
I think the snidy twats smiling face is worse than Blair's and that takes some doing. Fancy going to work when the public just ridicule you with jokes and laugh at you as a lying c unt every day. Imagine the rumpus on here if Boris had took the Winter allowance of the pensioners. Total silence!
Passes for Glasses . I am so resigned to politicians doing this sort of crap I just laugh at the headline writers now. Sad really. But in all seriousness he gave a downing street pass to the man who paid for all of this stuff. It is utter madness. He has proven in quicker time than even I thought he would to be cut from the same cloth as the last lot we had in charge. Then you get Lammy saying it is important that our PM and his wife look good when representing us british citizens and all PMs do this sort of thing. God knows who was paying for Boris wardrobe if that is true
Starmer was gifted £2,400 to buy his glasses. That is a lot of pairs of specs in the 2 for 1 offer at Specsavers! Could be as many as 68 pairs . Imagine having 68 pairs of specs. Imagine having 6. You would need a big old bedside table for all them
It's been a horrendous few months since our illustrious leader, Kim Un Starmer, has taken charge. One of his own, who he sat with in opposition for many years under the Corbyn regime, has publicly come out and vilified him. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05gg2v5p98o Still no response from the hypocrites who called out sleazy politics on the other thread. I wonder why. Clearly all Liebour supporters
Two Tier Kier is right up there with Liz Truss as a disaster for this country. It looks like it’s took him all of a few month to blow a 20 odd point lead that Labour had over the Tories. Has he told us when all these big companies are going to be paying more of their fair share or are we still relying on raiding the pensioners? Has our chancellor had the goodwill to return her expenses for energy that she has claimed over the last few year now that she is making pensioners go without? I see Two Tier Kier can’t go to the football now for security reasons so that is why he needs cooperate tickets from Arsenal to be able to do so. Rishi Sunak sat with the fans as PM. Why can’t Two Tier sit with the fans in the stand and why can’t he pay for his own tickets instead of relying on handouts? Frankly, him and his wife are acting like a couple of bums and it’s highly embarrassing for the UK.
Two Tier has squared all the train drivers off with big pay rises. The Conservatives wouldn’t do this without reform. Labour have listened to their masters (unions) and handed out the pay rises without reform. However, me, you and our families, might have to carry on suffering and being delayed waiting for operations because Two Tier has stated the NHS will have no money without reform…
