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I didn’t know Liam Conlon was Sue Grey son
These are personal donations to indivisual MPs, none of them are using it for campaigning.Outside of personal holidays and clothes, there's a point about campaigning money. That's totally open to bribes the way we do it, and probably should come from a paid-for fund for all parties.
These are personal donations to indivisual MPs, none of them are using it for campaigning.
Party donations fund campaining, and they have more oversight.
This is only the tip of the iceburg too. Streeting has been getting 15 grand payments every few months from john armitage since he became shadow health minister.
Armitage controls a hedge fund with around $800 million invested in United Health.
I didn’t know Liam Conlon was Sue Grey son
I agree.Im not saying we should have a violent revolution but I will say that not all the ideas the French have are bad
Thanks. Yep that makes sense now.Indeed he is.
Hand chosen from central office, not the local CLP I might add.
There are a lot of those, and most of them are dodgy. This will be a government of endless sleaze. From streetings partner to sue gray's son, endless actual lobbyists for big pharma, oil and gas, the water industry and more, akehurst a paid lobbyist for Israel, there is no end to how starmer interfrered in candidate selection.
Like this case of nepotism, they will all come back to bite him.
There were plenty of Labour candidates who were parachuted in. Like Luke Akehurst in Durham North.Thanks. Yep that makes sense now.
Agree it’s going to be 4 long years of absolute shite.
Maybe the worst person currently in the Labour Party which is saying a lot. The parachute candidates have seemingly always been a issues even under Corbyn it happened.There were plenty of Labour candidates who were parachuted in. Like Luke Akehurst in Durham North.
Yup. Akehurst is a lobbyist for Israel. He’d support Israel even if it killed his mum.Maybe the worst person currently in the Labour Party which is saying a lot. The parachute candidates have seemingly always been a issues even under Corbyn it happened.
Although I think with Starmer there has been a big increase in lobbyists.
Are you volunteering guillotine duty?Im not saying we should have a violent revolution but I will say that not all the ideas the French have are bad
Are you volunteering guillotine duty?
Doesn't seem to be working out too well for them.Im not saying we should have a violent revolution but I will say that not all the ideas the French have are bad
Doesn't seem to be working out too well for them.
The people vote to the left and the government gets more to the right.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rd52zl018o
“I'll give you my season ticket when you pry (or take) it from my cold, dead hands."
Also there is always a tweet
You’re doing it againAre you comparing a PM who broke the law with one who, whilst greedy, acted within the code regarding gifts?
Again the rank conflation going on here. One example is of £112,000 for redecorating which Boris lied to his ethics advisor about, resulting in him quitting, hid from Parliament until he couldn’t any longer, and then tried to cover up by suggesting he lost his phone.
Then there’s also the fact that shadow ministers / leaders of opposition have to declare much more because actual ministers / secretaries of state don’t have to declare hospitality etc when ‘executing their role’.
Won't somebody please think of the code regarding gifts!Are you comparing a PM who broke the law with one who, whilst greedy, acted within the code regarding gifts?
Comparing breaking the law with not? Heaven forbid!You’re doing it again
It’s kinda important when people conflate one with the other.Won't somebody please think of the code regarding gifts!
Just pointing out the media hypocrisy.Is this a contest to the bottom?
Anything to stop the one we are currently having would be great.It’s kinda important when people conflate one with the other.
Now, should the code regarding gifts exist in the first place? That’s a very different conversation.
Absolutely!Anything to stop the one we are currently having would be great.
All of that is great so why are you pro Starmer/Labour then ?How’s that?
I’m ‘pro’ Starmer because the alternative is the Party that had Boris, Truss and Sunak ‘running’ our country.All of that is great so why are you pro Starmer/Labour then ?
I’m not particularly hopeful but maybe the next 4 years will highlight to a lot of well meaning progressives that the centrists they support aren’t really any different to the conservatives they dislike.
Fair enough. Thanks for reply.I’m ‘pro’ Starmer because the alternative is the Party that had Boris, Truss and Sunak ‘running’ our country.
I’m not generally pro-Starmer: I want UBI, nationalised water, energy, rail, housing, broadband (essentially all vital infrastructure), renters’ rights including rent control, price capping at seller level so they take the hit, not the consumer, workers’ rights including actual sick pay and implementation of the four-day working week (I’m currently championing this at my workplace, trying to convince our Directors to trial it) which is more than this Labour (or ANY UK party) is willing to offer.
BUT I also acknowledge the system we live in allows for one of two Party’s to have power in the UK. I also acknowledge that declaring £100,000 in gifts over five years is better than hiding a single £112,000 gift that resulted in an ethics advisor leaving.
So pro-Starmer? No, he’s cowardly and nowhere near ambitious enough for me, but he’s better than what’s been on offer since 2010.
This would make good sense but elements of the media have ensured it is very politically impalatable. A majority of this size is the time to do it though.So every politician it turns out is at least a little bit dodgy.
Correct me if I’m oversimplifying but would a fairer system be that the government (from its vast budget) gives each party a sum of money
(I haven’t worked out how to apportion that equitably) . For elections, campaigning, everything.
No donations possible. No gifts, no nothing.
Give the PM £1m a year or whatever is needed, give them a £20k clothes allowance or whatever. Just make it all above board.
Then anything that is accepted = dodgy.
Or am I being simple?
I’m ‘pro’ Starmer because the alternative is the Party that had Boris, Truss and Sunak ‘running’ our country.
I’m not generally pro-Starmer: I want UBI, nationalised water, energy, rail, housing, broadband (essentially all vital infrastructure), renters’ rights including rent control, price capping at seller level so they take the hit, not the consumer, workers’ rights including actual sick pay and implementation of the four-day working week (I’m currently championing this at my workplace, trying to convince our Directors to trial it) which is more than this Labour (or ANY UK party) is willing to offer.
BUT I also acknowledge the system we live in allows for one of two Party’s to have power in the UK. I also acknowledge that declaring £100,000 in gifts over five years is better than hiding a single £112,000 gift that resulted in an ethics advisor leaving.
So pro-Starmer? No, he’s cowardly and nowhere near ambitious enough for me, but he’s better than what’s been on offer since 2010.