Starmer’s £100,000 in tickets and gifts more than any other recent party leader | Keir Starmer

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/18/keir-starmer-100000-in-tickets-and-gifts-more-than-any-other-recent-party-leader

by BigSargeEnergy

29 comments

  1. My workplace has a policy regarding accepting gifts from clients, because doing so runs the risk of falling afoul of anti bribery and corruption laws l. Hmmmmmmmmm

  2. Meanwhile, ‘Keir has integrity’ is how the Guardian is leading this story, thinking we forgot *how* he became party leader with false accusations of antisemitism against the previous leader, whose comments about specifically Zionists have since been pretty much prescient.

    If he had integrity then he wouldn’t have changed the Labour party into a facsimile of the Tories to get into power. He also wouldn’t have been on the take at all. The correct amount of gifts to receive as a politician is anything provided that you can eat during an external meeting.

  3. I feel like this is definitely not a good look. But lest it distract us from remembering what the Tories did during Covid.

  4. I’ll take Starmer receiving Arsenal tickets over Covid contracts and £250m being budgeted for Rwanda policy any day of the week.

  5. Ah yes, socialism for him and his pals, hard capitalism for everyone else.

  7. He couldn’t possibly afford them himself with his net worth of over £7m…

    Cash for honours, expenses scandal.

    Now we have cash for access.

    Same old new-Labour.

  8. He’s just a really nice bloke. Can’t help but offer to take him out then sadly my calendar is full but I don’t want to let him down

  9. The assistant to the regional manager is acting in line with stitch up policy.

  10. I work in the public sector. I can’t accept anything more than a box of chocolates.

  11. Why do we hold other public sector workers to such strict rules on gifts but this is allowed to continue. Imagine being able to defuse any investigation by saying it was a ‘gift in a personal capacity’. Joke of a system.

  12. I think for Starmer this looks especially bad as he has been one of the most vocal about the cronyism and questionable donations in opposition. He just looks like a massive hypocrite now.

  13. Blue soul red suit

    Every day it looks more and more of the same shit we’ve had for the past decade

  14. No UK MP should be allowed to accept gifts from anyone. It would be a very easy rule to follow, but as always, greed gets in the way.

  15. They’re all as corrupt as each other, no real surprise

  16. This is poor. I work in a customer facing role for a government agency and you can’t accept a free pen without getting it approved.

  17. Man who took part in self-sabotage of his own party (forde report, chicken coup) with the sole purpose of stopping a socialist leading the socialist party turns out to be corrupt neoliberal.

    I am shocked..

  18. Get money out of politics, anyone else would be fired for accepting so many corporate gifts, if we don’t want to become America we need to get a handle on this. Labour had big money for their election campaign and it was obvious from the number of YouTube ads I got, as it was for the Tories in 2019.

    Ban corporate gifts. Cap party donations. Ban political advertisements on the internet.

  19. Sure is profitable to be in “service” to the voters, eh?

    Getting strong “end of Animal Farm” vibes here.

  20. Honestly it’s ridiculous that in my job the FCA won’t allow me to accept gifts for bribery concerns, whereas the Prime Minister is getting over £100k’s worth and somehow that’s fine. Idiotic.

  21. Just Red Tory things.

    * Austerity.
    * Blaming the last government rather than address issues.
    * Taking a cheeky bung.

    Next, Keith will start having messy hair and begin using an 18th century thesaurus to blur his belligerence. Then the bastards will start emerging.

  22. And people get angry at me for suggesting they are basically the tories back in power again. It’s just more of the same. Decades of same old corruption and deceitful behaviour. Democracy in my view is dead. We are poorer, have fewer rights and freedoms with each passing year.

    Kier now has 4 years to see how much damage he can inflict…

  23. So Starmer is basically Boris Johnson but more right wing and more boring is what we’re learning quickly

  24. An extraordinary own goal. Don’t they have advisors or even basic common sense? Or maybe it’s just so normal for Westminster they don’t think it’s anything special.

  25. Wasn’t there a binman recently who had to turn down a group funded holiday from local residents due to bribery laws or something?

    How strange that our prime minister doesn’t hold himself or his office to the same standard.

  26. The worst thing about this is, it’s not like Kier Starmer needs free handouts. How much money does he get paid? 

    Politicians are on £90,000 a year + very generous expenses and allowances.

    Why can’t Starmer buy his own clothes like the rest of us who get paid a lot less than what he does 

  29. He thinks it’s okay because he registered them all, so is following the rules. But it’s not okay.

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