“Fair dos” Kier for getting over £30,000 in free tickets
It’s not his box though and school kids can’t give the owner of the box juicy government contracts.Poorly handled. I’m 100% fine with a PM having a box at his club. It’s a justifiable perk and does make sense from a security perspective.
Had he levered it better it would have been a celebration. All he had to do was link up with a poor school in his constituency and take several different families along for an afternoon at the football with the PM. Half the games maybe.
It’s not his box though and school kids can’t give the owner of the box juicy government contracts.
The “fair do’s” comment is obviously going to wind people up but there are going to be some perks of the job and I don’t think he should have to stop going to the footy, but could have handled it a lot better than he did.
I’m not saying he’ll be picking up brown envelopes at the ground, but nobody gives away a £5k box to someone without wanting something in return, there will be a reason for it.Under no set of circumstances is he going to be hosting meetings there to hand out contracts. He’s in full view of everyone and he really is there to watch the footy.
He’s an exceptional constituency MP, he’s lived 20-30 minutes walk from The Emirates for almost 20 years. His constituency contains London’s poorest neighbourhood and one of the poorest in the country. (It also contains the richest)
It would have been a slam dunk to reach out to these schools and get them involved. Not some trumped up ‘Meet the PM’ thing, but share the space with someone less fortunate. No suit and glad handing. Just football.
It’s the ‘I’m having all this for me’ that grates on me. He works for us. He’s entitled to down time and enjoy the football, but extending your zero cost privilege to someone who may never experience it… feels dirty not to.
I’m not saying he’ll be picking up brown envelopes at the ground, but nobody gives away a £5k box to someone without wanting something in return, there will be a reason for it.
“Fair dos” Kier for getting over £30,000 in free tickets
He really did just think lying non stop was going to work.
Yep exactly what I think as well.Got no issue with Arsenal giving him a box for security reasons. It's the private donors buying clothes and other stuff for him that shouldn't be happening.
Ah I’ve misunderstood. It was the club giving him the box? Not some other individual/company?Got no issue with Arsenal giving him a box for security reasons. It's the private donors buying clothes and other stuff for him that shouldn't be happening.
This - but there should be an allowance that is centrally funded for official duties.Got no issue with Arsenal giving him a box for security reasons. It's the private donors buying clothes and other stuff for him that shouldn't be happening.
Short money should be expanded and private donations limited if not made illegal in terms of donations direct to MPs, not parties. The current structure gives the strong odour of corruption.This - but there should be an allowance that is centrally funded for official duties.
Yeah. I mean, America's much more blatant with its use of legalised bribery (sorry, lobbying), but I've never heard of a private individual or corporate entity buying the President's suits for him. Maybe it happens and I've just been oblivious to it?This - but there should be an allowance that is centrally funded for official duties.
https://trumpsclothing.co.nz/Yeah. I mean, America's much more blatant with its use of legalised bribery (sorry, lobbying), but I've never heard of a private individual or corporate entity buying the President's suits for him. Maybe it happens and I've just been oblivious to it?
Got no issue with Arsenal giving him a box for security reasons. It's the private donors buying clothes and other stuff for him that shouldn't be happening.
This is bollocks quite frankly. What we are doing is holding Labour to the same standards we held the Tories.£100k in 5 years. Utter non story.
£20k a year is tiny money. It was all declared and approved.
We’re doing a lot of the Right Wing press bidding here.
Whataboutism is a cancer. But Johnson took £150k in a single payment for a flat renovation.
Get some perspective folks.
This is bollocks quite frankly. What we are doing is holding Labour to the same standards we held the Tories.
It’s important to be objective rather than tribal. If you were complaining about Tory embellishment, cronyism, corruption and political prostitution and are now making excuses for Labour for the same offences, regardless of scale, then you are not a serious person.
£100k in 5 years. Utter non story.
£20k a year is tiny money. It was all declared and approved.
We’re doing a lot of the Right Wing press bidding here.
Whataboutism is a cancer. But Johnson took £150k in a single payment for a flat renovation.
Get some perspective folks.
The man who bought starmer his clothes has been givenan all access security pass for 10 downing street. He holds no governmental position of any kind.
Its not a non-story. Its corruption, what we used to call cash for access.
Your talking to someone who doesn’t care how many donations Wes Streeting gets from private healthcare investors.then you are not a serious person.
I don’t care how much donations he takes. He’s a good egg. He maintains that the NHS should be free at point of use and has a good sense of how that can happen.
Haha i read that this morning.‘I’m selling 35 of my 65 rental homes – this is only the beginning under Labour’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/buy-to-let/selling-35-rental-homes-labour-not-only-one/
Tories lost the election byleaningdiving into BS populist Culture Wars nonsense, so what do all of the leadership candidate do to 'turn the ship around'? Double down on it!
Absolutely mental!
He really did just think lying non stop was going to work.
I genuinely did not expect him to show how much of a wanker he is this quickly into the job. The mask is well and truly off
Tories lost the election byleaningdiving into BS populist Culture Wars nonsense, so what do all of the leadership candidate do to 'turn the ship around'? Double down on it!
Absolutely mental!
I suspect this is all wishful thinking in the land of the....' I hate Starmer, have never liked him and if I cross my fingers and wish hard enough he will disappear'.... 'lefty' dreamers brigade!I didn't expect the party to turn on him quite so quickly. I didn't think he'd see out a term before he was stabbed in the back, he might not even make a year.
I dislike starmer, and think Corbyn was a midly left fella, so you probably think I'm marx reincarnated.I suspect this is all wishful thinking in the land of the....' I hate Starmer, have never liked him and if I cross my fingers and wish hard enough he will disappear'.... 'lefty' dreamers brigade!
He was given a temporary pass that had been returned after it was no longer necessary. He organised an event and was advising Keir on external applicants to cabinet positions. As far as I understand at least.
Plenty of temporary passes are handed out. Strictly controlled, but not some nefarious process. It just gets you through security faster.
Labour called exactly that scenario corruption when a Tory donor got a pass. Rightly as well because it is, cash for access is corruption.
You must have a strong sense of cognitive dissonance and backache from how far you're bending over for Labour here.
The public won't stand for hypocrisy it's the one thing that tends to be universally disliked. A minority like yourself might cling to Labour only needing to be less bad than the Tories but ultimately Labour will be held to the standard they demanded of the Tories.
You know Starmer would have hounded Boris or Sunak at PMQ for this behaviour.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Starmer has embraced this sort of politics to get to where he is, he can hardly complain when it's his turn to get stabbed in the back.I didn't expect the party to turn on him quite so quickly. I didn't think he'd see out a term before he was stabbed in the back, he might not even make a year.
Fair go if you can’t be fcuked to, but have you got a link to the Tory in question?
I honestly don’t see why it’s cash for access when it’s on record that this person did work for the Labour team.
By comparison, My mate had an access pass for a few weeks. Granted, he was an electrician and was also working across British embassies across the world, so had additional clearances, but it really is just a pass that sees you skip full security and not check in and out through the main process.
The right wing press calling it an ‘all access pass’ is mad. It’s not that at all. He’ll have still been radioed in and checked at the door. It’s not like he had a key to the place.
Unless I’ve got it completely wrong.
