Why are the Tories attacking Starmer over a filmed Christmas message when other FreebieGate allegations are much worse?
The latest claim is that he passed off as his own a flat belonging to Labour peer, friend and donor Waheed Alli while filming a Christmas message to the nation in 2021.
Did he say it was his home in the video – or any others he may have shot there? Not to This Writer’s knowledge. If anybody drew that conclusion of their own accord, then that is nothing to do with him.
Personally, This Writer believes his use of a £20,000 donation from Lord Alli to put his son in a five-star hotel while studying for his GCSEs is far more damning.
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Much has been made (by Skwawkbox, if not others) of a claim that Starmer Jr was there for nearly a whole month after the scheduled end of his exams – and there is justification for such scrutiny.
But I am more concerned that this gave Starmer Jr and unfair advantage over his fellow GCSE candidates.
Sure, it was a disruptive time, when Starmer would have been taking part in his general election campaign – but this could have been minimised by the Labour leader staying elsewhere, rather than his son. Besides, the rest of us have to cope with whatever’s going on in our family’s lives at exam time – why not Starmer’s boy?
It seems far more likely to me – especially considering the hotel stay lasted until nearly a month after the exams finished – that this was a present for the teenager, provided with money Starmer had received only because he is the leader of the UK’s largest political party.
As such, it seems to have been a misuse of his privileged position to use it in that way.
Or so it seems to me.
I wonder whether anything has yet to come into the light of public knowledge.
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Why are the Tories attacking Starmer over a filmed Christmas message?
Why are the Tories attacking Starmer over a filmed Christmas message when other FreebieGate allegations are much worse?
The latest claim is that he passed off as his own a flat belonging to Labour peer, friend and donor Waheed Alli while filming a Christmas message to the nation in 2021.
Did he say it was his home in the video – or any others he may have shot there? Not to This Writer’s knowledge. If anybody drew that conclusion of their own accord, then that is nothing to do with him.
Personally, This Writer believes his use of a £20,000 donation from Lord Alli to put his son in a five-star hotel while studying for his GCSEs is far more damning.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
Much has been made (by Skwawkbox, if not others) of a claim that Starmer Jr was there for nearly a whole month after the scheduled end of his exams – and there is justification for such scrutiny.
But I am more concerned that this gave Starmer Jr and unfair advantage over his fellow GCSE candidates.
Sure, it was a disruptive time, when Starmer would have been taking part in his general election campaign – but this could have been minimised by the Labour leader staying elsewhere, rather than his son. Besides, the rest of us have to cope with whatever’s going on in our family’s lives at exam time – why not Starmer’s boy?
It seems far more likely to me – especially considering the hotel stay lasted until nearly a month after the exams finished – that this was a present for the teenager, provided with money Starmer had received only because he is the leader of the UK’s largest political party.
As such, it seems to have been a misuse of his privileged position to use it in that way.
Or so it seems to me.
I wonder whether anything has yet to come into the light of public knowledge.
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