Wow – Keir Starmer is the prime minister who loves to take freebies on top of all his other pay, perks and expenses, it seems.
This Writer wonders how he manages to fit any work in between Taylor Swift concerts, Arsenal football matches and who-knows-what-else.
The latest revelation is that Arsenal FC is making two seats available to the prime minister in the corporate area of Emirates Stadium, so he can continue to attend matches without incurring the extra cost of policing if he continued to watch from the stands.
My question is, how does a prime minister of the United Kingdom have time to physically attend football matches at all? Doesn’t he have important affairs of state to manage?
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Also, considering the cost attached to keeping him safe, wouldn’t it be better all around if he just watched it on telly like most of the rest of us – preferably while he was working on those aforementioned state matters?
Starmer’s freebies have become a scandal since it was revealed that he had failed even to declare that his wife had been gifted clothes by Labour peer Waheed Alli, who is himself at the centre of a scandal after being given a temporary Downing Street pass for no apparent reason after Labour won the general election. Perhaps it was so he could pass gifts on to Starmer?
According to the BBC, it seems Lord Alli has donated to Starmer £20,437 for accommodation (where?), £16,200 in clothes and “multiple pairs of glasses” worth a total of £2,485 – along with the clothes for the prime minister’s wife.
Starmer has also declared four tickets worth £4,000 from the Premier League for a Taylor Swift concert, amid a freebie haul totalling nearly £66,000 over the last year alone. One can only imagine the value of the stuff he has raked in since becoming Labour leader in 2020.
What next – a free holiday on Mustique, funded by some business donor?
People are angry about this – and rightly so.
Starmer has been sucking up all the freebies he can get his hands on since becoming Labour leader – during times when the rest of us have had to tighten our belts severely, going without some of life’s necessities in order to make ends meet, in many cases.
He should be setting an example – but instead he is showing us how low he can go.
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Keir Starmer is the prime minister who loves to take freebies
Wow – Keir Starmer is the prime minister who loves to take freebies on top of all his other pay, perks and expenses, it seems.
This Writer wonders how he manages to fit any work in between Taylor Swift concerts, Arsenal football matches and who-knows-what-else.
The latest revelation is that Arsenal FC is making two seats available to the prime minister in the corporate area of Emirates Stadium, so he can continue to attend matches without incurring the extra cost of policing if he continued to watch from the stands.
My question is, how does a prime minister of the United Kingdom have time to physically attend football matches at all? Doesn’t he have important affairs of state to manage?
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
Also, considering the cost attached to keeping him safe, wouldn’t it be better all around if he just watched it on telly like most of the rest of us – preferably while he was working on those aforementioned state matters?
Starmer’s freebies have become a scandal since it was revealed that he had failed even to declare that his wife had been gifted clothes by Labour peer Waheed Alli, who is himself at the centre of a scandal after being given a temporary Downing Street pass for no apparent reason after Labour won the general election. Perhaps it was so he could pass gifts on to Starmer?
According to the BBC, it seems Lord Alli has donated to Starmer £20,437 for accommodation (where?), £16,200 in clothes and “multiple pairs of glasses” worth a total of £2,485 – along with the clothes for the prime minister’s wife.
Starmer has also declared four tickets worth £4,000 from the Premier League for a Taylor Swift concert, amid a freebie haul totalling nearly £66,000 over the last year alone. One can only imagine the value of the stuff he has raked in since becoming Labour leader in 2020.
What next – a free holiday on Mustique, funded by some business donor?
People are angry about this – and rightly so.
Starmer has been sucking up all the freebies he can get his hands on since becoming Labour leader – during times when the rest of us have had to tighten our belts severely, going without some of life’s necessities in order to make ends meet, in many cases.
He should be setting an example – but instead he is showing us how low he can go.
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