Sir Keir Starmer has admitted that Lord Alli gave him £32,000 to pay for clothing, double what he previously declared.
The Prime Minister received clothing donations worth £10,000 in October 2023 and £6,000 in February 2024, his office said on Friday. The donations were originally declared as money for his private office, but have now been “re-categorised”.
It’s the trivial nature of the venality that bugs so much. Where’s the gusto?
As many have said on here – it is not the sums involved , it us the hypocrisy.
Things is TTK reckoned that by only being in hock by small amounts, he only needed to do small favours : a pass to Downing Street, a chance to stroke Larry etc.
Blair went in big on this sort of thing, because he had proper ambition.
TTK needs to come clean and tell us what GCSE grades his son got.
How the hell has Ali got any money left? Unless they were planning on paying him off now?
Have you seen the clothes TTK and his missus have been wearing, Rupert? They didn’t coat him too much.
So we have a prime minister who can’t dress himself.?
Julia, you mean TTK and Vic chose to pay for those things? I assumed given TTK’s morals and his training I thought he’d just nicked them from Oxfam and told Alli he’d got them from Amazon Prime…
Amazing the nature of the grift is exactly what’ll get in amongst Labour voters. The loaned accommodation they could wear. There’s no actual transfer of value. Like lending someone your caravan. But they’re not even be going to understand how it’s possible to spend this sort of money on schmutter.
Reckon this could cost Labour 50 seats at least.
Do us a favour Julia. We all know there’s very little relationship between the nature of togs & the price ticket. Generally you’re paying for label.
As I learned when I discovered my Pierre Cardin raincoat was made by a manufacturer of industrial overalls in Leicester. That said, my female associates all have Pierre Cardin handbags. If you’re buying label at least buy class. Fuck knows what TT’s wearing. You can’t the tool out of a toolmaker’s son, can you?
“The loaned accommodation they could wear.”
Maybe. It seems that rules have been broken. How many times did he have a go at the Tories for taking donations? Also, he hid behind his kids by claiming it was so they could revise for GCSEs. God knows how we all passed without penthouse flats to borrow.
The man is contemptible.
Sir Keir Starmer has admitted that Lord Alli gave him £32,000 to pay for clothing, double what he previously declared.
Does that include the custom made PVC gimp suit, or did Prince Alli (Mighty is he! Ali Ababwa!) insist Kweer buy that himself?
If you left a trail of pound coins leading to a big cage near Downing Street, how long would it take to capture the entire cabinet?
The man is scum, pure scum and unfit to be PM, but not for that reason.
He’s committed several cardinal political sins:
avarice, lying, hypocrisy and shows complete lack of common sense, judgment and empathy.
Those are not qualities you want in a PM.
And the sums involved are not trivial to the man in the street, particularly when the grasping cvnt receiving them is – by any Clapham Omnibus standard – very well off indeed
Where’s the gusto indeed? Hiding in a wardrobe maybe, along with brio, élan, joie de vivre, sparkle, vim, vigour, verve, zest and pep.
I wonder what the Director of Public Prosecutions thinks of all this.
Yeah but it’s the optics, Martin Near The M25.
What do people remember about Tory expenses sleeze? Duck houses. (Despite the MP in question never having been paid for the duck house, IIRC. It was on a list of work done on the property. Which was claimable under the rules. Most likely got included on the list inadvertently)
I doubt if I’ve spent that much on clothes in my entire life!
The Starmer problem is that he looks like he hasn’t either.
What I want to know is: Has someone been sitting on this, ready to release it at an opportune moment?
And if so, what is opportune about the current moment?
I’ve been thinking on another aspect in this. Our culture has generally smiled on givers. It is the man disbursing gifts to the less fortunate commands our respect. And people desire the respect of others.So it can be regarded as dominance game. Pschologically. And if the giver is dominant, then the receiver must be submissive. This theme is repeated all through our literature & other media. It really does not look good for the PM. The leader of the country. To be a submissive supplicant at the court of High Pooja Alli. And it’s going to be difficult for people not to think of him like that. Consider. Whoever glorified the receiver of gifts for the receiving? It’s whether they are judged deserving. And how many stories in books & films have played out like.?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/09/28/lord-alli-criticised-entitled-mps-freebies-expenses-scandal/
Incidentally does anyone know whether the family’s use of Alli Towers ceased immediately after Starmer Jnr completed his GCSE’s or……………..quite a bit later?
The Prime Minister received clothing donations worth £10,000 in October 2023 and £6,000 in February 2024, his office said on Friday.
Sir Keir seems to be preparing for a post-PM career as the mayor of New York City.
It’s clear he is qualified.
What bugs me about the venality being so trivial, compared to what you’d expect to have to pay for access to Number Ten, is that it surely implies the existence of far higher levels of venality still waiting to be uncovered.
Could actually be that they really are pissant small timers…..
“Has someone been sitting on this, ready to release it at an opportune moment?”
A lot of this was in the public sphere already. I’d clocked that TTK was pretty keen on a freebie some time ago (mainly all the events he was shown in the media as attending, its not like it was kept a secret). I thought then it was odd no one was saying anything. My guess is that then no one wanted to rock the boat, the Tories were imploding, Labour were coasting towards a massive win. But now they have power, all the gloves are off. All those who have it in for our tailors dummy of a PM now have a very good incentive to stick the knife in – they (or their section of the party) might get into real power if they can topple him. As ever its about the Left dissolving into infighting over who gets to be the big boss.
According to one source the dates for the GCSE would mean they moved there after the first exam and stayed a few weeks after the last one so the excuse doesn’t stack up
the excuse doesn’t stack up
That’s a very generous way of describing a deliberate lie. Rather like the euphemistic “mis-speaking” excuse so beloved by Democrat politicians.
BniC:“According to one source the dates for the GCSE would mean they moved there after the first exam and stayed a few weeks after the last one so the excuse doesn’t stack up.”
Indeed: “Naturally, Guido had a peek at the records. The dates of their luxury £20,437.28 stay? From 29th May 2024 to 13th July 2024. The first GCSE exam was on 9th May 2024, and the final one wrapped up on 19th June 2024. So, not only did Starmer’s son start exams weeks before they checked in, but his last paper was nearly a month before they checked out.”
https://order-order.com/2024/09/25/starmers-20000-gcse-getaway-doesnt-add-up/
Note the careful wording of Starmer’s doubtless prepared reply:-
My son was in the middle of his GCSEs
Technically correct. Once a lawyer always a lawyer.
Too bad this caring dad didn’t care sufficiently to get junior a peaceful place to study before starting his exams, say by actually dipping into his own pocket to rent somewhere quiet, rather than using it as justification to sponge off his sugar daddy for less than half of the necessary period (then staying on for nearly another month).
Still the media seem happy enough to give him a pass.
Hang on a minute, Did TTK move to the flat as well as his family? I thought the problem was that he was landed with a very short notice election campaign, which was going to interfere with his son’s quiet time for exam revision. Too many people coming and going, journalists, TV crews etc etc. Fine, I can see that. So did they all move to Uncle Waheed’s luxury pad? If so surely all the journalists and TV crews will be there instead, creating just as much disruption as they would have at TTK’s actual home?