O/T:- ⚠️Impressed with the leadership [The UK Party Politics Thread]

[SmiffyPie]

It'll be alright now, Rachel Reeves says it is right they stop taking donations now they are in government. Bit of a green flag for all other non-government parties to do what they like then?

[DomdomPie]

It'll be alright now, Rachel Reeves says it is right they stop taking donations now they are in government. Bit of a green flag for all other non-government parties to do what they like then?

It should be illegal. Gifts are bribery by another name. Nobody gives anything for free. It's a rule not to accept them across many industries, including my own. I don't know many people who could accept lavish gifts in a work context without serious questions being asked.

I realise that in some jobs it's part of the culture, but surely government ministers need to be setting a higher standard - and not give any impression that they're just making decisions based on keeping a few sugar daddies happy.

[OP67]

It'll be alright now, Rachel Reeves says it is right they stop taking donations now they are in government. Bit of a green flag for all other non-government parties to do what they like then?

Now that they've been busted she means. They wouldn't have stopped otherwise!! It's a massive disgrace and £66k of tax payers money spent on a photographer to make Raynor look good. She should ask for her money back as it didn't work

[magpie_mania]

Now that they've been busted she means. They wouldn't have stopped otherwise!! It's a massive disgrace and £66k of tax payers money spent on a photographer to make Raynor look good. She should ask for her money back as it didn't work

She's not the first though.

Even the Daily Mail reported this:

'Official Downing Street photographers are a relatively recent phenomenon. David Cameron, who was the first to appoint one, had his paid for by the Conservative Party.

More recently, they have been funded by the taxpayer.'

She had a good chance though to say that she was going to change the way things are done but she hasn't, although I would ask when are we going to find out what the Conservatives benefitted by when they were in power?

[OP67]

She's not the first though.

Even the Daily Mail reported this:

'Official Downing Street photographers are a relatively recent phenomenon. David Cameron, who was the first to appoint one, had his paid for by the Conservative Party.

More recently, they have been funded by the taxpayer.'

She had a good chance though to say that she was going to change the way things are done but she hasn't, although I would ask when are we going to find out what the Conservatives benefitted by when they were in power?

We all know the Conservatives ripped the tax payer off. What I'm saying is the hypocrisy of the Labour party who spent 14 years having a dig at the Tories only for them to doing exactly the same themsleves!!! As I've always said all MP's are the same regardless of what party they belong to. They become polititians for one reason, to line their own pockets!!