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    Dass Sir Keir Starmer kostenlose Eintrittskarten für Arsenal annimmt, sei „nicht wichtig“, sagt Jess Phillips


    Dass Sir Keir Starmer kostenlose Eintrittskarten für Arsenal annimmt, sei „nicht wichtig“, sagt Jess Phillips

    https://news.sky.com/story/sir-keir-starmer-accepting-arsenal-ticket-freebies-not-important-says-jess-phillips-13218223

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    1. Perudur1984 on

      But it would’ve been very important if members of the government were accepting hospitality and Labour were still in opposition…..

      Any public sector worker found taking bribes like this is likely to be sacked.

    2. broonmeister75 on

      Yup we are all fucked,
      May we all grieve the lower and working classes

    4. J-Force on

      I’m really not sure what the big deal is. Where’s the conflict of interest? Where’s the waste of taxpayer money in this story? I sometimes get a free upgrade on train journeys, do I now get a paragraph in the Daily Mail because I got some freebies from LNER?

      Sunak spent millions in taxpayer money on private helicopters and there was barely a peep from the press. Starmer gets free football tickets at no cost to the taxpayer and it’s suddenly the most important thing happening in Britain.

      There are far more noteworthy issues with Labour’s finances; the donations they have taken from gambling and vaping/smoking companies for example that likely mean there will be no meaningful reforms to regulate these malicious industries. But nobody gives a shit about that thing that actually matters, they’re all focussed on where Starmer sits at a home game. No wonder we’re a country in decline.

    5. Mitchverr on

      Didnt they all, imo, rightly, get upset about wallpaper “donations” for Bojo the clown when he moved in?

      …

      I was expecting better from labour, genuinely shameful.

    6. Equivalent_World_913 on

      Meh, what’s important or not is not for you to decide. You are an elected representative. 

    7. ImNotSuperMan1996 on

      I wonder if Nigel farage or Rishi sunak was to accept something like that whether or not Jess would feel the same 🤔

    8. TheDawiWhisperer on

      Get fucked, if you want to present yourselves as being morally above the Tories this isn’t how you do it

    9. LobsterMountain4036 on

      It’s quite something to accuse your political opponents of graft, to then be no different yourself.

    10. southwest_barfight on

      It literally isn’t, if you want to criticise there are plenty of areas to do so in that actually matter

    11. Shazalamadingdong on

      I am expecting this steady trickle of Labour MPs to come out in support of their leader.

      What IS telling for me is that the majority of the party hasn’t come out immediately, hoisted him on some kind of pedestal and denounced anyone criticising him as anti-Labour, anti-working class, anti-British or something else.

      One thing I am finding quite incredulous is how many people are posting things like “Sunak spaffed xxxx on choppers” and “Boris had all these donations” along with “and there was no uproar” or words to that effect. I was reading a left-leaning paper and general news on MSN (hardly left leaning if you read their selections) and these things were popping up quite a lot.

    12. AngryPowerWank on

      Listening to Tories clutching pearls after shrugging off Mone’s £200,000,000 shoddy PPE contracts and Little Lord Moggs’ £7,000,000 post Brexit windfall betting against British business is fucking glorious.

    13. Additional_Net_9202 on

      I remember when the Tories used to tell me that the thing I was annoyed about wasnt important and how I wasn’t actually annoyed about it.

    14. CluckingBellend on

      It doesn’t matter: they all do it. Always have. He’s the PM. He gets invited to things for a reason. It helps promote British football clubs, for example. This is normal stuff in a democratic, capitalist country.

    15. WoofMafia on

      Nowhere near the level of corruption of the tories, but I still find myself a little disappointed. I don’t think anyone in power should be legally able to accept “gifts”.

    16. Melodic-Display-6311 on

      I don’t want to hear Labour moan about Tory scandals ever again, why is it not important Jess Phillips? Because Labour corruption is fine is it? Just done be a member of the Tory party

    17. 0zymandias_1312 on

      it’s important when these tory bastards are implementing austerity 2.0 cos “there’s no money”

      can’t wait to see the back of them already

    18. Tony2Nuts on

      Remember not long back when that street cleaner couldn’t accept a holiday from the community? One rule for us and one for them! They shouldn’t be allowed to accept anything

    19. Much_Leader3369 on

      A fuss would be made of the Tories doing the same, why is this ok Jess?

    20. manofkent79 on

      ‘It’s not important if my team do it but believe it’s evil when anyone else does it’ says jess Phillips

    21. robdistorted on

      As a person who is registered with a significant visual impairment I am awarded about £50 towards the cost of my glasses that I need in order to be able to see what very little I can, my last pair cost over £150 due to being a stronger lens and get the right frames to fit this lens without it being too thick at the sides. My mother is in the same boat, although her last pair of glasses cost her over £500 so as you can guess the fifty pounds voucher doesn’t go very far.

      Meanwhile ol’ Kier over here with his fortune and greater position in life is being ‘donated’ glasses.

      I think government officials should only be allowed to receive the same amount of value from donations that they are willing as a government to give to the most vulnerable in our society.

      There is something very wrong when the rich are handed things they don’t need(due to being in a position to get it themselves) while those more vulnerable and so much closer to poverty are given so little. (funnily enough, it’s the rich who make those decisions)

    22. LondonDude123 on

      Right, I do not care about the Arsenal Tickets. In fact, his explanation makes complete sense.

      BUT, Starmer and his party absolutely went in on the Tories for accepting all sorts. They then completely marketed themselves in the election as “We are not the Tories”. And yet, we’re finding out that Starmer *himself* is accepting freebies, AND his party is covering for him over it.

      The football tickets, Starmer shouldve gone “Yeah im trading in my regular ticket for a box that im paying for”. Done, easy win. The WIFES CLOTHES is absolutely pathetic, and David Lammy has ruined any chance of that being lived down with his interview. But its all moot: You nailed the Tories for accepting free shit, and youve been accepting free shit.

      Its exactly what a lot of people saw coming: The establishment gonna establish. Tories in Red.

      Edit: If you didnt see Lammy’s interview, it was essentially “She needed free clothes because in America their budget pays for the First Lady’s clothes, and we dont, so she needed them”. Total clown show.

    23. narayan77 on

      Just watched the film Subservience. I am convinced Starmer is a robot. Accepting freebies he Learnt from watching Boris Johnson,  except he has taken it to a new level. Let’s see how the Starmer robot will evolve. 

    24. chainedtomydesk on

      But it does matter. This is just another example of sleaze and corruption at the highest echelons of power and it seems Kier is no different to the Tories in that regard. In fact he’s one of the worst offenders. It’s just sad because he was supposed to be this Elliot Ness type character who was ‘different’ and was going to stomp out the corruption, set an example and be the change he campaigned on but instead he’s just as culpable as the rest of them. Another self serving career politician.

    25. Vritran on

      I’m not allowed to accept a gift that is worth more than £10 at my workplace. I usually get stationary, which I use for work anyway, and calendars, which go on the wall at work.

      Never got football tickets and clothes off anybody. I could be in the wrong job.

    26. deeepblue76 on

      All of his bluff and bluster about the Tory’s removing illegal immigrants to a third country and he spends his weekends at a stadium emblazoned with ‘Visit Rwanda’

    27. tiny-robot on

      It is bad politics to accept these freebies – and it is even worse to try and defend them.

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