Election Year or Fear!

[Trickytreesreds]

ONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will not accept any more donations to pay for his clothing, a Downing Street source said on Friday, following widespread media criticism over thousands of pounds of gifts he has received.

Starmer, who came to power in July, has come under fire this month after it was reported he had accepted donations from a wealthy Labour donor to pay for his work clothing and spectacles, as well as high-end clothes and shopping services for his wife.

Earlier this week Sky News said he had declared more than 100,000 pounds in gifts, benefits and hospitality since December 2019, more than any other member of parliament.

The Downing Street source said as well as Starmer, the Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and finance minister Rachel Reeves would also decline any further donations for clothing.

Starmer has said he followed all the necessary transparency rules on declaring gifts, but the figures have been politically damaging at a time when his government is cutting financial help for energy bills for millions of pensioners.

I couldn't stop pissing myself at this.

After years of hurling abuse across parliament at Tory cronyism, he now says he won't be accepting any more clothing gifts

Brilliant, well done mate. Pot/black/kettle and bolted/stable/horse / door springs to mind

[Trickytreesreds]

Lol…my thoughts exactly, Sith. Maybe it was Tricky’s childhood that took place in a ‘strange bubble’…but then it was spent in Nottingham.

P.S…and yes Tricky I may have spent much of my early childhood pretending to be anyone from the Lone Ranger or Tonto to Ivanhoe, Robin Hood and Brian Statham…but Hitler Youth songs in my ****s? Not a chance…and your excuses are sounding increasingly desperate

Tell you what RA , you and Swale are quick to scream for proff over something, or refuse to believe any posts or opinions from anyone other than the Guardian or BBC.

So it's time for you to deliver in that in reverse.

Here is Farage's answer to that allogation in 2013, which got no response from the stirrer.
Over to you.

Nigel Farage has denied singing Hitler Youth songs as a ****ager after allegations that the Ukip leader "professed racist and neo-fascist views" during his schooldays.

Farage claimed that he had said "ridiculous things" in his youth but these utterances were "not necessarily racist", and described the reports about Hitler Youth songs as "complete baloney."

The eurosceptic figurehead was responding to Channel 4 News, which had aquired a letter written by one of his teachers at Dulwich College in 1981. The letter, from Chloe Deakin, was written shortly after Farage had been made a prefect at the south London independent school.

Deakin wrote to the school headmaster that staff had discussed Farage's prefecture, with one teacher saying the future politician was "a fascist, but that was no reason why he would not make a good prefect." This remark prompted "considerable reaction" among colleagues.

The teacher continued: "Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson.

"Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force [CCF] camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sus*** village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs."

Farage responded by telling Channel 4 News: "Yes of course I said some ridiculous things. Not necessarily racist things. Well it depends how you define it.

"You've got to remember that ever since 1968 up until the last couple of years, we've not been able in this country intelligently to discuss immigration, to discuss integration.

"It's all been a buried subject - and that's happened through academia, it's happened through politics and the media."

.

A young English teacher said these things, in a discussion of who was to be prefect. Mmmmmmm call me suspicious

[ramAnag]

Tell you what RA , you and Swale are quick to scream for proff over something, or refuse to believe any posts or opinions from anyone other than the Guardian or BBC.

So it's time for you to deliver in that in reverse.

Here is Farage's answer to that allogation in 2013, which got no response from the stirrer.
Over to you.

Nigel Farage has denied singing Hitler Youth songs as a ****ager after allegations that the Ukip leader "professed racist and neo-fascist views" during his schooldays.

Farage claimed that he had said "ridiculous things" in his youth but these utterances were "not necessarily racist", and described the reports about Hitler Youth songs as "complete baloney."

The eurosceptic figurehead was responding to Channel 4 News, which had aquired a letter written by one of his teachers at Dulwich College in 1981. The letter, from Chloe Deakin, was written shortly after Farage had been made a prefect at the south London independent school.

Deakin wrote to the school headmaster that staff had discussed Farage's prefecture, with one teacher saying the future politician was "a fascist, but that was no reason why he would not make a good prefect." This remark prompted "considerable reaction" among colleagues.

The teacher continued: "Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson.

"Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force [CCF] camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sus*** village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs."

Farage responded by telling Channel 4 News: "Yes of course I said some ridiculous things. Not necessarily racist things. Well it depends how you define it.

"You've got to remember that ever since 1968 up until the last couple of years, we've not been able in this country intelligently to discuss immigration, to discuss integration.

"It's all been a buried subject - and that's happened through academia, it's happened through politics and the media."

.

A young English teacher said these things, in a discussion of who was to be prefect. Mmmmmmm call me suspicious

…and your point is?

[Trickytreesreds]

This just gets funnier.

I think we have our very own love child of Joe Biden here.

First we get the clown, calling the leader of the opposition "prime mnister" 3 times at question time
Now we have to "free the sausages".
All that's missing is him trying to walk into number 11 and falling over the steps.

I am dreading what comes next when he really is under pressure and backed into a corner. It was bad enough watching Sunak destroy him in the debate. If it isn't on his crib sheet, he's screwed.
But this is what you get, when you push through with someone on the saying of "anyone but these again". Just like the yanks did.

This budget is going to be really funny. So much for the fully costed and checked manifesto, with all these wonderful promises.

[Trickytreesreds]

So I take it , no one on Starmers cheer leading team is going to defend this then?

No mention of it, until after the election. No better than the Tories and bent as a 10 bob note.

LABOUR’S appointee to a plum government job is linked with a Cayman Islands-based hedge fund which donated £4 million to the party, The National can reveal.

Rachel Kyte has been appointed to the revived UK Government climate envoy role – which when it last existed commanded a salary of at least £130,000.

She is the co-chair of the Quadrature Climate Foundation’s advisory board, which was founded by the same people behind the hedge fund Quadrature Capital.

Quadrature, which holds hundreds of millions of pounds of shares in fossil fuels, private health firms, and arms manufacturers, donated £4m to Labour ahead of the General Election, the investigative news site openDemocracy revealed earlier this month.


Not to mention the £6 million before the election ny the Green zealots

[Geoff Parkstone]

I believe the expression is "bent as a 9 bob note" since 10 bob notes were legal tender up to the late 60's.

That said I think 10/- was the easiest not to forge

[MadAmster]

Unfortunately, everything they've, rightly, been hammered for is legal. It all has to be declared and, it seems, it has been declared. Many of the Blue Tory "nose in the trough" incidents weren't, IIRC, declared until they were pushed into doing so.

When it comes to how they're doing, the main points like immigration, the economy etc won't be visible this year and possibly next as well. By the end of next year I would hope there to be some signs of the progress they have hinted at. We shall have to wait and see.

He's said quick fixes won't work which is why he won't be using any.

[swaledale]

So I take it , no one on Starmers cheer leading team is going to defend this then?

No mention of it, until after the election. No better than the Tories and bent as a 10 bob note.

LABOUR’S appointee to a plum government job is linked with a Cayman Islands-based hedge fund which donated £4 million to the party, The National can reveal.

Rachel Kyte has been appointed to the revived UK Government climate envoy role – which when it last existed commanded a salary of at least £130,000.

She is the co-chair of the Quadrature Climate Foundation’s advisory board, which was founded by the same people behind the hedge fund Quadrature Capital.

Quadrature, which holds hundreds of millions of pounds of shares in fossil fuels, private health firms, and arms manufacturers, donated £4m to Labour ahead of the General Election, the investigative news site openDemocracy revealed earlier this month.


Not to mention the £6 million before the election ny the Green zealots

Nobody cares what you post, or think is perhaps the answer?

[Trickytreesreds]

I believe the expression is "bent as a 9 bob note" since 10 bob notes were legal tender up to the late 60's.

That said I think 10/- was the easiest not to forge

I aint old enough to know.

[Trickytreesreds]

Nobody cares what you post, or think is perhaps the answer?

pot kettle black