I’m in control, says Starmer after Sue Gray pay leaks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyvg1y170xo

by JayR_97

22 comments

  2. So because someone is paid more than the PM… that immediately means they’re in control of everything rather than the PM?

    This is another non-story in a run of non-stories the Tory media are screaming about…. the only recent actual story is the whole gifts thing, and even that’s been blown out of proportion

  3. So, anyone who used to make the argument “The BBC isn’t biased towards the tories, it’s biased to whoever’s in government at the time” – that argument’s not looking so strong, is it?

  4. She ousted one PM, immediately got a job with another where she earns more than him, and her son became a safe-seat MP. But I am sure there is nothing to see here.

  5. It’s funny because I actually believe him. I think he thinks he’s the one in charge, which just speaks of how much of a fool he is.

    Labour Together and their American backers are who actually run the country. Starmer’s just the figure head (or fall guy depending how you see it)

  6. Joffrey Baratheon “I am the king!”

    Tywin Lannister “Any man who must say, ‘I am the king,’ is no true king.”

  7. Am I the only one that assumed they would be paid more?

  8. This is such a non story. There’s roles in the civil service that have always been paid more than the PM

    But the PM also gets free houses and a bunch of other stuff as part of the “package” including the lifelong “public duty allowance” which I think is over 100k per year

  9. This is all normal guys, nothing to see here. Labour are doing a bang up job.

  10. Control is something people feel not what they are told… I don’t feel the leadership in this country has much control over anything right now.

  11. Sue Gray is such a TV show character. She comes out of the woodwork occasionally for some important plot line. Very line of duty

  12. I like how they say it is an ‘internal civil service matter’. They can send thousands out to die in a war, screw peoples finances over in a hearbeat and even authorise use of nuclear weapons but some how have no power to right this wrong.

  13. She’s just got that grindset. She’s a highly experienced person and her pay is set to match what she would get should she be headhunted by private industry.

  14. Except nowhere other than the headline is he quoted saying those three consecutive words. Classic BBC client journalism, slinging mud at Labour

  15. Someone else posted this link and someone else said the writer of the article in this link had an “agenda” – If there was an agenda, it was to warn us of who he really is, although anyone paying attention since the day Starmer u-turned on his Ten Pledges a couple of years ago, we expected maybe just a LITTLE bit of difference from the previous governments…

    [https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-lobbyists-work-for-party-undeclared-election-campaign/](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-lobbyists-work-for-party-undeclared-election-campaign/)

    He’s getting flak from all angles right now, they’ve tried to dilute it with getting Gray and Al Fayed a ton of exposure (although to be fair, Al Fayed had that coming if the stories are true). He deserves all the attacks he’s getting in the press. Strangely (sic), The Guardian isn’t saying all that much and most of the articles they are posting about anything have the comments turned off – A stark difference from six months ago, for sure.

  16. I don’t understand the kerfuffle, there are thousands of government employees up and down the country who earn more than the PM.

    The top 600 odd earn an average of £171k from latest info apparently and that doesn’t include all the others from council, quangos and fuck knows wherever else.

    sadly I am not one of them 😆

  17. The last six years Downing street has been in an uproar with leaks, rebellions and changes of personel every few months. Odd Chris Mason didnt have a problem with it then.

  18. Who really cares how much she is paid? Does she do a good job?

    If somebody offered me a job and it came with a high pay packet (fat chance) I’d take it in a second.

  19. The only question that needs be asked is “is the control getting a good return on its investment in her”

  20. “Any man who must say I am the king is no true king”

  21. Wait this is continuing? Hasn’t it been a thing for years that senior civil servants are paid more than the PM’s salary? Advisors should be as non controversial

  22. Next will come the vote of confidence from the cabinet. Or Gray.

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