Keir Starmer pays back £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/02/keir-starmer-pays-back-6000-worth-of-gifts-and-hospitality

Posted by corbynista2029

18 Comments

  1. What’s the point in giving back £6,000 while you’re keeping the other tens of thousands in similar ‘gifts’?

  2. A week ago: “Its not really an issue, the press need to move on from these kinds of stories”

    Now: “Okay FINE I’ll pay back the free gifts, but I’m still not going to stop your nan from freezing to death this Christmas”

  3. GeneralPercentage570 on

    Ok, now it’s the Tories turn to pay back the billions embezzled during covid

  4. Extreme-Leg3727 on

    “kier what do you have to say to the allegations you’ve accepted over £30k in gifts and your wife has accepted 4k in gifts?”

    “Fiiine fine I’ll pay back the £6k”

  5. 99thLuftballon on

    Sounds like a pretty stupid move. Never appease the right – they never say “Oh, thanks, now we like you”, they just take it as proof that they were right, proof that they can influence you and they still hate you anyway.

  6. Shazalamadingdong on

    Having taken his 30 pieces of silver, he begrudgingly hands back one piece and some people are demanding we treat him better. Hand the rest back, Starmer, then you could REALLY sock it to the Tories.

    p.s. I’m not right wing and I don’t read the Daily Mail, Starmerites.

  7. Fuck me the Tories took millions including from the Russians but no one gave a fuck. Can we put this in perspective please

  8. It’s about sending a message. A message that says. I know I was for sale. And it was wrong. So I’ll find a tiny fraction back and hopefully it’ll blow over

  9. martzgregpaul on

    We not going to mention Tugendhat and Jenrick raking in over £100k THIS month alone from “donors”

    Or Badenoch running her campaign out of her billionaires friends house and not disclosing it?

  10. Nature abhors a vacuum. The Labour Party aren’t owning the news cycle with re-hashed policy statements like Blair did in his first years so it’s being filled with this. Starmer can stop this by actually sharing his great plan with us. Oh what, there wasn’t a plan?

  11. GeneralPercentage570 on

    Gifting a head of state 6k? Probably wrong. Robbing the taxpayer of billions of pounds during a healthcare crisis? – utterly dreadful. All corruption is bad. Agreed, But please acknowledge the monumental difference between someone gifting our PM a few k vs literally robbing the taxpayer of billions.

    It’s a bit like saying ‘violence is wrong’. Sure it is. But comparing Keir to the recent tories is like comparing a slap in the face to firebombing an entire city, and then bitching relentlessly about the slap whilst the city burns around you.

  12. UCthrowaway78404 on

    He never should have taken it.

    He’s a human right lawyer by profession he should know this is dodgy as heck.

    But then again he did say it was OK for israel to starve £2.3M civilians.

    So maybe he’s just completely incompetent. You have to worry for clients he’s defended if he is terrible with law.

  13. earth-calling-karma on

    Self-care Keir taps a week’s salary to make good part of the undisclosed emoluments he is in receipt of, keeps the TatTay Tiks.

  14. Mistakenjelly on

    Kier flip flopping again?

    Last week he said it was perfectly fine to be bought and paid for and living in your donors pocket.

    This week….. not so much.

    Useless spineless cunt that he is.

  15. They truly don’t care anymore. “Fine fine. I’ll placate the peasants and give them 6k”