Keir Starmer has agreed to pay back some freebies (Image: PA)
After weeks of insisting he’d done nothing wrong by accepting £107,000 worth of freebies – more than two-and-a-half times more than any other MP – says he’s decided to pay back £6,000 “to restore trust in ” and because “it’s the right thing to do”. If this bloke was any dumber he’d be inert.
Is he really so dense he doesn’t get that its people like him and his cabinet liggers who’ve helped destroy our trust in politics by being so damn greedy.
As for “doing the right thing”, Starmer wouldn’t know the right thing if it smacked him in the face. Because if it’s right to pay back (some) of the freebies he’s trousered why wasn’t it right a few weeks ago? Why keep saying: “I’ve done nothing wrong” and then say he’ll pay some of it back – a clear admission that what he did WAS wrong.
And if paying back is the right thing to do why not pay the whole lot back not just a piddling £6,000? Because that’s just five per cent of everything he’s trousered in gifts, hospitality, and benefits since 2019.
And if it’s “right”, why isn’t telling all the ministers and MP’s who’ve also been at it – , ,, Brigit Phillipson, Lucy Powell etc – to cough up, too?
No. 10 insiders say he’s leaving it to his top team to decide what they do.
Why? He’s the boss for God’s sake. And if he thinks taking freebies is wrong – he needs to tell them they must repay what they’ve taken. And if they refuse he should sack them and remove them from the temptation to milk the job for personal gain. Because political power cannot be used to feather the nests and enhance the bank accounts of the politicians who rule over us.
But, no, he’s actually told them they can carry on bagging gifts and hospitality – a kamikaze decision because the media will just keep on exposing them and embarrassing his government. Maybe Starmer’s hoping their consciences will force them to do the right thing in which case he really IS certifiable. Rayner and Co have waited too long to get their greedy snouts into the trough and they’re not going to be giving up the perks of power any time soon – even if Starmer does change the rules to make gifts and hospitality more transparent.
Because the fact is those people who cheated with the old rules will find a way to cheat the new ones. And next time Rayner gets caught, she’ll just trot the same tired old tosh about being working class (like that entitles her to be greedy) not understanding that the working classes despise her kind of greed.
What this freebies row has made crystal clear is that we’re being ruled by a bunch of disingenuous, opportunist shysters who will only be transparent when their backs are against the wall. They will deny, deny, deny until the immorality of whatever it is they’ve done is indisputable. That is the essence of this Labour government.
Have you heard one of them say sorry? Nope, all they’ve done is tried to justify why their kids should get free Taylor Swift tickets while other hard working families have to pay for them. These chancers aren’t in politics for the British people, they’re in it for themselves.
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Akala, left, is dating Angelina Jolie (Image: Getty/PA)
Everyone is asking what Angelina Jolie sees in her new activist boyfriend – the self-proclaimed “Black Shakespeare” and Corbynista rapper, Akala.
It’s simple. They’re every bit as weird and self-absorbed as each other. And at least if they are together – they won’t spoil another couple!
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According to a new think tank children a third of children who grew up in lockdown are arriving at primary school in nappies, sucking dummies and still in buggies unable to walk.
The Centre For Young Lives says kids were considered “not school ready” because their speaking abilities and their social and physical skills were also not what they should have been. I’m sorry but what the Hell does lockdown have to do with kids arriving school in buggies because they haven’t been taught to walk or talk?
This is the fault of lazy parenting, not , not schools and certainly not the Government.
It’s not a teacher’s job (or the State’s) to teach a child to walk and talk. It’s not a teachers job to teach toilet training or social skills. They’re all parents’ jobs and during the pandemic many of them who were unable to work because of lockdown had way more time than usual to devote to the wellbeing of their kids. So why didn’t they? What’s clear is that there are lots of lazy, unfit parents who can’t be arsed to teach their kids basic life skills and who depend on schools and already overworked teachers to do it for them.
And why the Hell are there so many apologists for these awful parents who clearly believe their kids are the state’s responsibility not theirs. They have cruelly hindered their own children’s life chances and we’re expected to feel sorry for them?
I’m sorry if you can’t be bothered to teach your kids to walk, talk and go to the toilet – don’t have them!
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Line of Duty actress Anna Maxwell Martin says she has a sandwich phobia and doesn’t allow actors or crew to have them on set. How very selfish of her.
She says: “If I’m on set I have to say, ‘Get those out’. Sorry other actors, you’re not eating those. Or if you want to – step outside.”
Here’s an idea: why doesn’t this starry, self-absorbed little madam “step outside” herself, instead of inconveniencing everyone else? And if she really does have a sandwich phobia (she also has a thing about open fridge doors) don’t inflict it on everyone else.
Get some therapy and sort it. Because what it sounds like is that she’s using her not inconsiderable star power to behave like a diva.
If she wasn’t quite so well-known, I suspect cast and crew would tell her to go stick her phobias where the sun don’t shine.
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Rachel Reeves has jazzed up her wardrobe – and her hair (Image: PA)
Does Rachel Reeves think dying her hair ginger is going to detract from the fact that she’s the most incompetent chancellor ever?
Since she’s been in the job she’s jazzed up her previously lacklustre wardrobe (courtesy of Lord Alli). It’s rumoured she’s had speech coaching to help her deliver speeches that don’t send us all to sleep (she’d have been better getting her adenoids fixed) and now she’s dyed her dull brown bob a vivid shade of ginger presumably to make her more attractive to the electorate (it doesn’t). None of the above are going to make her a competent chancellor. That would require intelligence and an understanding of economics and not even Lord Alli’s cash can buy that.
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Might we all dare to hope that the arrogant – paid way more than he’s worth with our money – is about to be booted off Match of the Day? The Corporation won’t confirm or deny the rumours but there’s the little matter of a leaked email which reportedly announces the £1.3million-a-year star’s departure.
I really do hope he’s off. Lineker has consistently abused the vast public platform afforded him by the to push his own, often offensive, political agenda when its specifically against the terms of his contract. And in doing so he’s not only embarrassed and belittled his bosses but he’s made it clear he doesn’t care about the viewers he offends. In fact he seemed to relish in it believing it gives him some kind of political gravitas when he just comes across as a (not very bright) politics student.
Sacked or not, he’s never going to be short of money but at least he might not be making any more on the backs of licence payers.
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One notable absentee form the Labour Party conference last week was London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan. And where was our crime-ridden capital’s hopeless mayor when the conference was actually discussing crime? On a jamboree in New York. Course he was…
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Read a great definition of war this week. “War: It’s when young men die because old men are too proud to talk to each other.”
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Now, this is where Starmer and his idiot Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, become a clear and present danger to us all. In an act of staggering self-sabotage this moronic pair have
surrendered the Chagos Islands upon which sits Diego Garcia – one of Britain most strategic and vital security assets – to the Chinese puppet state of Mauritius.
And they’ve done it at a time the world is teetering on the brink of World War Three. This island has been under British rule for 200 years and is where American bombers took off to drive Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait in 1991. It’s from where the war against the Taliban was waged in 2001 and again during the second war against Saddam in 2003. Its importance cannot be overestimated not least because China has been building air bases on every island it can yet Starmer, a close pal of Mauritius chief legal advisor, Philippe Sands KC, has just given it away.
This is a complete and utter scandal which leaves Britain much less safe.