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
ContributionOrnery29 on
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.
Memes_Haram on
I feel like this is definitely not a good look. But lest it distract us from remembering what the Tories did during Covid.
Exact_Umpire_4277 on
Workers will be forced to pay more taxes. Pensioners will freeze to death this winter. Multimillionaire Starmer gets free hand outs from his wealthy chums. He’s more corrupt than the Etonian Tory PMs
BuQuChi on
I’ll take Starmer receiving Arsenal tickets over Covid contracts and £250m being budgeted for Rwanda policy any day of the week.
DrIvoPingasnik on
Ah yes, socialism for him and his pals, hard capitalism for everyone else.
masons_J on
Politicians lie like we breathe air, comes naturally.
Purple_Plus on
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.
No-Ninja455 on
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
Emotional-Ebb8321 on
The assistant to the regional manager is acting in line with stitch up policy.
CarlMacko on
I work in the public sector. I can’t accept anything more than a box of chocolates.
lookatmeman on
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.
Aspect-Unusual on
You know whats funny…. I don’t care anymore and it’s the Tories side of things that made me like this.
When all the corrupt bullshit was coming about about the Tories when in power and people just brushing it away saying nothing wrong here we investigated they announced it now so its all good. All of this that happened in the past by the end of the Tory government made me not give a shit about them doing it as I had enough and just gave up.
Now its coming about about Labour that apathy hasn’t gone away and I’m just saying “i dont care, what ever” and I really hate that I feel this way, I should be bothered that the corruption is still ongoing, I just can’t care anymore as they’re all just as bad as each other while pointing the finger.
I wish and hope that Starmer will be held to account and something changes but I know it wont and I just give up with all this bullshit, The Tories won, they’ve warn me down so much that I dont care anymore.
hoodha on
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.
karpet_muncher on
Blue soul red suit
Every day it looks more and more of the same shit we’ve had for the past decade
BlueMoonCityzen on
Yes it isn’t a great look and most of us plebs wouldn’t get away with this stuff
But I don’t remember seeing much of this when tories were in charge, and they obviously had these gifts too.
Yet here we are with this story refusing to leave the news cycle
Fairly obvious it’s a smear campaign
jeffereeee on
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.
mountain4455 on
They’re all as corrupt as each other, no real surprise
Sufficient_Mess_5830 on
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.
Lonely_Level2043 on
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..
Fit_Olive_924 on
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.
Odd_Ninja5801 on
Sure is profitable to be in “service” to the voters, eh?
Getting strong “end of Animal Farm” vibes here.
Apez_in_Space on
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.
dandotcom on
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.
cougieuk on
I mean everything has shot up in price so we shouldn’t be surprised?
And I don’t recall big business falling over Corbyn anyway so it’s not a shock.
Comparing it to the last few PMs would be more realistic.
CatchaRainbow on
Yep I’m a Labour supporter and a Starmer supporter , hes doing an excellent job but he must refuse all frebbies.
TheAdTechHero on
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…
BobBobManMan1234 on
So Starmer is basically Boris Johnson but more right wing and more boring is what we’re learning quickly
Careful-Swimmer-2658 on
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.
ThreexNines_x on
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.
zwifter11 on
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
BigDuckJohnson on
> What right does a man who complains he can’t live on £150,000 a year and asks Tory donors to fund his luxury wallpaper habit have to lecture someone trying to survive on £80 a week?
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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
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.
I feel like this is definitely not a good look. But lest it distract us from remembering what the Tories did during Covid.
Workers will be forced to pay more taxes. Pensioners will freeze to death this winter. Multimillionaire Starmer gets free hand outs from his wealthy chums. He’s more corrupt than the Etonian Tory PMs
I’ll take Starmer receiving Arsenal tickets over Covid contracts and £250m being budgeted for Rwanda policy any day of the week.
Ah yes, socialism for him and his pals, hard capitalism for everyone else.
Politicians lie like we breathe air, comes naturally.
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.
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
The assistant to the regional manager is acting in line with stitch up policy.
I work in the public sector. I can’t accept anything more than a box of chocolates.
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.
You know whats funny…. I don’t care anymore and it’s the Tories side of things that made me like this.
When all the corrupt bullshit was coming about about the Tories when in power and people just brushing it away saying nothing wrong here we investigated they announced it now so its all good. All of this that happened in the past by the end of the Tory government made me not give a shit about them doing it as I had enough and just gave up.
Now its coming about about Labour that apathy hasn’t gone away and I’m just saying “i dont care, what ever” and I really hate that I feel this way, I should be bothered that the corruption is still ongoing, I just can’t care anymore as they’re all just as bad as each other while pointing the finger.
I wish and hope that Starmer will be held to account and something changes but I know it wont and I just give up with all this bullshit, The Tories won, they’ve warn me down so much that I dont care anymore.
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.
Blue soul red suit
Every day it looks more and more of the same shit we’ve had for the past decade
Yes it isn’t a great look and most of us plebs wouldn’t get away with this stuff
But I don’t remember seeing much of this when tories were in charge, and they obviously had these gifts too.
Yet here we are with this story refusing to leave the news cycle
Fairly obvious it’s a smear campaign
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.
They’re all as corrupt as each other, no real surprise
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.
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..
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.
Sure is profitable to be in “service” to the voters, eh?
Getting strong “end of Animal Farm” vibes here.
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.
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.
I mean everything has shot up in price so we shouldn’t be surprised?
And I don’t recall big business falling over Corbyn anyway so it’s not a shock.
Comparing it to the last few PMs would be more realistic.
Yep I’m a Labour supporter and a Starmer supporter , hes doing an excellent job but he must refuse all frebbies.
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…
So Starmer is basically Boris Johnson but more right wing and more boring is what we’re learning quickly
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.
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.
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
> What right does a man who complains he can’t live on £150,000 a year and asks Tory donors to fund his luxury wallpaper habit have to lecture someone trying to survive on £80 a week?
[Angela Rayner, 3 years ago](https://x.com/AngelaRayner/status/1431199560362336256)