Keir Starmer

[Jupiter]

There is a whole act of parliament about his pension from when he was director of public prosecutions.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/.../contents/made

[Shetland Don]

There is a whole act of parliament about his pension from when he was director of public prosecutions.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/.../contents/made

The legislation effectively means that he was exempt from the lifetime pension savings limit of pension funds over £1.73 Million. A true philanthropist!

[TheDeeDon]

Besides there’s not a salary big enough that would stop these people still accepting freebies.

The salary they earn isn't the thing anymore for most of them.

They are mostly quite happy to slum it in the commons for a few years knowing that even a very small and brief ministerial role, will reward them afterwards when they step down/get kicked out.

We need to look more closely at the businesses and individuals donating to these parties and individual MPs in a big way.

You are not donating all this money/goods to parties and politicians for nothing in return.

[Mason89]

There’s a way out of all this you know.

Just saying like

[Jupiter]

There’s a way out of all this you know.

Just saying like

A military coup would be a bit drastic.

[57vintage]

There’s a way out of all this you know.

Just saying like

No offence meant, but I have a habit of jotting down quotes from books as I plough through them, and noted this when listening to the audio book of Andrew O’Hagan’s Caledonian Road a few weeks back.

“Just sayin’”
“What an odious, self-congratulatory little phrase”.
(Campbell Flynn, Caledonian Road).

[Mason89]

None taken. Most things I post are odious & self-congratulatory

[57vintage]

None taken. Most things I post are odious & self-congratulatory

[InversneckieDob]

Starmer has been incredibly naive/dumb since coming into office.
I don't think anyone seriously expected his mob to be anything other than a cabal of free marketeer, morally bereft neo-cons like the last four**** years.
Any notion of a "proper" Labour party has long since sailed into the sunset, thanks to the electorate within Perfidious Albion.
But to get the basic optics so horrendously wrong, seeming to be going down the justification route of "well, it's nothing like as bad, or as much, as the last lot were troughing", is mind blowing.
The far right media are under orders to go on full blown attack.
How any politician could not see this coming is astonishing.

[TheDeeDon]

I don't think anyone seriously expected his mob to be anything other than a cabal of free marketeer, morally bereft neo-cons like the last four**** years.

Where I work they are still deemed as the 'commie party'.

I sh*t you not.