Keir Starmer risks being a hypocrite over freebies | Andrew Marr | The New Statesman

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The prime minister has received substantially more freebies than any other MP since becoming Labour leader.
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@veronicanicholls7132 20 часов назад

Risks being a hypocrite, he is bloody hypocrite.

@timwoodger7896 20 часов назад

It’s how they spin sht to soften the argument and sow benefit of the doubt.

@lewis123417 19 часов назад

Almost every council worker signs a strict contract about taking gifts, why is that not the case for rich politicians who actually dont need any gifts

@roger_welco 19 часов назад

Risks? He Risks being hypocrite? He already is.

@stevec6232 20 часов назад

I dont understand why civil servants and most private firms have strict policy on gifts but politicians have a constant gravy train of free gifts everywhere. Why is it legal?

@baronvontrap3325 19 часов назад

I suspect it's 'legal' because the payments are in the form of political contributions. If they were from companies to civil servants then the Bribery Act 2010 would apply. - Convenient isn't it? www.gov.uk/government/publications/bribery-act-2010-guidance.

@colbr6733 20 часов назад

Sadly we still have media professionals explaining away social issues by the lack of growth with GDP. This lack of direct engagement with ordinary people who have been directly affected by huge social change impacting their normal way of life is a real problem. Ireland shows very clearly GDP isn't an effective metric to properly evaluate conditions affecting the quality of life of all citizens.

@YesYes-xb6he 20 часов назад

Risks!!! He's a bigger hypocrite after 3 months than 14 years of Conservative PrimeMinisters managed to archive.

@jimboakimbo54 19 часов назад

That's an enormous stretch. I agree he is a hypocrite and I'm no fan of him but you cannot seriously call him more of a hypocrite than someone like Johnson.

@alanhat5252 19 часов назад

@@jimboakimbo54he also compares with Johnson on the lying 😢

@YesYes-xb6he 19 часов назад

@jimboakimbo54 Johnson never claimed to be holier than thou, everyone knew he was a spiv beforehand

@stevedavidson666 19 часов назад

Total and utter bullshit. Jeez but you people just can't stand the fact that at last England has got a PM who actually knows what he's doing and has the background to prove it. Oooh but it obviously hurts and I'm loving it.

@alanhat5252 19 часов назад

@@stevedavidson666 forecast 4,000 pensioners dead. Presumably your Gran is already dead?

@geekexmachina 20 часов назад

They should just do the conferences in the summer holidays

@crayontom9687 20 часов назад

He is a hypocrite. All that nonsense about the ‘grownups’ being back in the room and we find out that actually, they just wanted to get their hands in the till. Lower than a snake’s belly

@pamplemouse5 19 часов назад

Exactly. Who are these "grownups" (I hate that Americanism) they speak of? For me, * adults should not leave public services to private enterprises, they should not be taking gifts from massively rich 'donors', they should be repairing the country after this decade and a half of it being smashed to pieces.

@alanhat5252 19 часов назад

If we vote for children we get children 😢

@stephenholmes1036 19 часов назад

Private Eye have been discussing Mr/Mrs Starmer's gifts for some time now ! Like Horizon, Time for the NS to catch up!

@JB_inks 20 часов назад

The only person to defend Kid Starver is James O'Brien. What an absolute bell

@twonewns 19 часов назад

Labour conference where members vote for PR and keir starmers says no

@baronvontrap3325 19 часов назад

As many have said he makes enough to buy his own clothes and specs. Why the f***k does he need to make himself look obliged to anybody? He's not stupid, so it looks like he just doesn't care. Presumably all his 'media savvy' advisers were too busy bitching about Sue Gray's salary and how badly they have been treated to actually do their jobs. He reminds me of Obama. First raising peoples hopes while all the time cosying up to the financiers and wealthy then once in office leaving the poor and the middle disaffected and disengaged. Once the Tories and Reform finish their courtship, we’ll end up in the same boat with 50% turnouts and elections decided on small margins in a handful of seats. That’s how the US ended up with Trump. We have ten years if we are lucky.

@andyduggan7810 19 часов назад

Last Christmas one of our suppliers sent my team a box of Quality Street. Our HR department told me I had to fill in a form to document its receipt. And then donate it to a food bank. Value of gift: £4.50. Clearly Mr Starmer follows a different rule book.

@owentuckett938 20 часов назад

It is not a good look. Stop the Tory-like crap and start being Labour!

@FishingFan2 19 часов назад

You haven't caught on yet, have you? Labour doesn't exist anymore, it's the new British Communist Party.

@dcoughla681 19 часов назад

The party is Labour in name only. It’s owned by its rich donors with the unions donating less than they used to. It’s not been for the working class for decades.

@billyblunham66 20 часов назад

They should not have accepted these gifts, it is not as if they really need them and do people get more things done when their salaries are higher?

@alanhat5252 19 часов назад

Yes people do get more done when salaries are higher but there's a limit & most MP's are above that limit

@tobyFOTS 20 часов назад

Free gear Keir making an important speech haha sure...

@DavidCarlisle-b9f 19 часов назад

Tell a politician who is not a hypocrite. I think Starmer needs not to be concerned.

@avae5343 19 часов назад

Risks being a hypocrite? He and Reeves are unbelievable. They both are paid a tremendous amount of money, already have expense accounts and still need someone else to buy their clothes? This is ludicrous. Get real.

@CatholicSatan 19 часов назад

Party conferences are important... for external democracy? Puh-leez... I remember watching the Tory party conference just before Margaret Thatcher got into No. 10 and was convinced by the smug, fact-free, policy-free speeches that she didn't stand a chance. But the English electorate obviously took _no_ notice of that conference and voted her in anyway. Subsequent conferences have not been notably different.

@tigermax2697 20 часов назад

People often criticise Oasis for their similarity to The Beatles but that is unfair because they also rip off Slade

@djmattblack 20 часов назад

And Status Quo and T-Rex and...

@ArtSmart91 19 часов назад

Nice to see the new statesman’s non-aggression pact with kier starmer his inner circle is still rock strong. Wonder what they are going to do at the next election when Labour looses it big majority because people realise how clueless they are!

@peterwiles7953 19 часов назад

They can say no rules were broken till they are blue in the face but it’s the morality of the subject, just goes to show they all have their snouts in the trough.

@williambelford9661 19 часов назад

Hold Party Conferences during the summer recess, there is absolutely no reason to stop Parliament from functioning for Party, not Parliamentary, business.

@joshua6244 20 часов назад

Free gear Keir and Victoria sponge.

@liaminwales 19 часов назад

It's all talk, smiles. Round the back it's jobs for pals, free gifts and hobnobbing with the rich. It's clear he helps the rich not the normal people.

@mikerobb8838 19 часов назад

hypocrite defines freebie gear Kier

@predator9982 20 часов назад

It’s like his “everyone’s laughing at my dad the toolmaker” nonsense. Judgement way off.

@Red-px1fr 20 часов назад

"It's really important for ministers to realise... .... they are part of a movement of people with values" Hahaha. When's your new stand-up tour Andrew?

@peterteagleteagle9958 20 часов назад

It's the same old tosh every year, don't matter who's in power

@oliverdesvaux 18 часов назад

“Risks”being a hypocrite?! He went to a private school and “climbed the ladder,” but now wants the ladder pulled up for the generations behind him. (Plus all the other countless examples of rank hypocrisy)

@jamesgrindon8560 20 часов назад

He does not risk it he is a hyprocrite full stop

@timwoodger7896 20 часов назад

Starmer is so confident that he’s here to stay and has shown his true colours to early in the game but it doesn’t matter as he knows the next few elections will be between labour and reform U.K. reform may have an ever growing number of voters but they also have an ever growing number of people that don’t want them in power so it’s going to be if you don’t vote labour you will get reform U.K. for the next decade. Starmer has nothing to fear for quite some time.

@Linda-iy3qh 19 часов назад

I love Andrew Marr. His intelligent analysis of government and politics is brilliant. Wonderful guy

@johndean1634 19 часов назад

So if we all Club Together and buy the PM a New Suit and Glasses we can all get a Pass to Number 10. Yea Right the Suits and Glasses come with a promise to pay back in some way or another. Normal Folk call it Greasing the Palm or Currying Favour. Clear and Transparent. Only when they are Caught Out. Then its what we call trying to Limit the Damage and Avoid being Sacked or Dismissed

@DrWrapperband 20 часов назад

If I steal something, do I risk being a thief?

@ianmerry1 20 часов назад

Good Public Servants give not take

@peterteagleteagle9958 20 часов назад

Risks, Risks, bit late for that

@robertyoung8785 19 часов назад

Risks? He is a hypocrite.

@buzzukfiftythree 19 часов назад

Yes, I agree. To make such blunders risks ruining his period as PM. OK, these were ‘perks’ given mainly when he was Leader of the Opposition and, let’s not ignore the fact that, unlike the Tories, he did declare them. However, he was being incredibly naive and lacked sound judgement in accepting the gifts.

@Oldfogey2014 19 часов назад

Does he accept luncheon vouchers or gets his groceries paid?

@ryandudley3616 20 часов назад

“Risks” 😂

@ufoc700 20 часов назад

You might get more disagreement if you employed people from different backgrounds Can’t these guys focus more on some policy instead of what sounds like Westminster gossip - sue grays salary, starmers gifts, conference. None of this changes our shitty economy

@lewis123417 19 часов назад

They do talk about the economy but they also talk about politics as well. Sorry it upsets you that labours dodgy dealings are actually something the public want exposed and discussed

@ufoc700 19 часов назад

One civil servant getting 6k more than the PM and starmers 100k gift is petty politics. Political analysis of labour now could focus on the shape of the party now the left have been purged, what the main talking points at conference should be given the state of the country with reform doing all it can to take us further right. It’s the crappy gossip analysis that leaves politicians unaccountable and the public ingnorant and then ppl like you play factional games online

@MJ-tg7wv 19 часов назад

Doesn't risk - he IS

@bigtree6992 18 часов назад

Three out of touch insulated London journalists. The problems in the community are not just down to growth. It's because of no social cohesion due to mass migration

@janeknight3597 20 часов назад

Well I spent my winter fuel allowance on my glasses. I have had cataract surgery they are not an option. I don’t have more than one pair. The tickets I can deal with - although 2 sets for Taylor Swift?

@GregoryKodolanyiRitter 19 часов назад

Risks? He is.

@josephhoward3558 19 часов назад

'Risks being a hypocrite' ???

@brenglover72 20 часов назад

Risks?

@Cosmoscosmos1 19 часов назад

So we’ve got to listen to starmer snaking his way back into some sort of credibility in the eyes of voters…….lovely! Think he’s managed to sever at least a couple of million votes off his next attempt at reelection. Think he’ll walk before then though.🤞

@nuttall47 19 часов назад

Risks being a hypocrite?

@brianatkinson4407 19 часов назад

Boris number two

@julianshepherd2038 20 часов назад

Quit football spectating or quit being PM

@Marcthered 20 часов назад

Why would he need security at football match

@anonnymous4684 20 часов назад

Because not a small number of football fans are cabbages.

@Marcthered 20 часов назад

@@anonnymous4684 why security when sitting with his own teams fans

@lewis123417 19 часов назад

@@anonnymous4684none of the previous prime ministers needed a private box, is starmer really that unpopular he can't sit with the great unwashed?

@specialized500 19 часов назад

@@lewis123417how do you know? Which former pm had a season ticket?

@lewis123417 19 часов назад

@@specialized500 what difference does a season ticket make? 🤣 none of the previous PMs needed a private box for a football game did they

@stevedavidson666 19 часов назад

What a load of total rubbish. Starmer actually declared the stuff, of which only a little bit has taken place since he became PM. But of course If this is the best that the far left and far right can find. Bunch of idiots. But it does show how wound up they are. Wonderful. Keep at it Keir!!