PM accepted £20,000 so his boy could study

maddyfour

I just heard something about this today, for the first time.
Clearly something happened, but precisely what, it’s difficult to say. It appears money changed hands, but from who to who is unclear. If it was a simple matter of moving to a different house, then money wouldn’t be involved, unless of course, it was a rental.
I guess we’ll find out more soon.

Money did not change hands. Starmer was “lent” a home, he declared it, as he should, and as in all donations/gifts declared a financial amount was allocated to it, calculated based on private rental.

Of course, this is perfectly normal for a millionaire to use cash from donations.

The tribalism and double standards in here are very amusing.

Imagine if this had been Rishi Sunak. Would you have supported him? No of course not. And neither would I.

I'm not so filled with this weird attitude that one's favoured political party is akin to supporting a football team.

I'm not sure why some people think this is an issue. It was declared, not lied about and it seems perfectly ok to me to give child somewhere secret to study. I live near a cabinet minister. You wouldn't believe the security cars, dodgy looking 'journalists" hanging around and harassing anyone going in and out who are there on occasions. The children have to have escorts and cars to take them anywhere.

If I were a rich man… durdle durdle durdle door 🚪
Tra la la

I'd have beautiful accommodation if I had the money.

It would be a bit daft living in squalor.

In the UK GCSE’s ran from 9th May to the 19th of June.
The election was called on 22nd May.
Starmer junior had at the most 27 days until his exams ended.
It must have been very lovely accommodation.

makes another mental note----rich, but tight with it-

MissAdventure

A four finger one, Allira?

No, two fingers, am not made of money🤭

Yes, very succinctly put.

Non story move on. Some posters are coming across as fault finding and stupid. Nmoney exchanged hands and it was a friend helping a friend.

Ha ha 😝 MissA

So, if someone invites the Starmers for dinner, he should say no, because the offer isn't available to others???

I've heard it all, now.

Allira

Wyllow3

All he did was accept a space where his son could stay sometimes and study in peace. son, presumably, chose "yes"

And we cannot know and is it fair to judge what his feelings were about needing to do this

Then someone came along and decided it had to have monetary value, oh, call it a cash donation, and oh here we go again. Same old same old.

There is an alternative to yes.
It's called no.
Or no thankyou, best not.

But why should he say no thank you?

It wasn't a donation, it was an offer to help his son, the son clearly wanted to, this is going too far into private family life to dig out what isn't dirt at all - really scraping the barrel.

and clearly we aren't - well gfs hope so - going to question the son as to why this was important for him.

The O/P sound be ashamed - it wasn't a donation, and dragging KS's son into it, which is what this is, so wrong

Allira

dayvidg

I am slightly puzzled - did these terrible journalists not realise that the Starmer's were living somewhere else? Did they camp outside an empty house for weeks?

Perhaps they left Starmer Jnr at home alone while the rest of them moved into Number 10.

Eazybee 10.53;It was said on Today that he and family had to move into Lord Alli's 'accommodation' so that his son could study for his examinations. No price was mentioned.

Why would you say no to something that would help your child to study?
It's not a big deal, even.

Wyllow3

All he did was accept a space where his son could stay sometimes and study in peace. son, presumably, chose "yes"

And we cannot know and is it fair to judge what his feelings were about needing to do this

Then someone came along and decided it had to have monetary value, oh, call it a cash donation, and oh here we go again. Same old same old.

There is an alternative to yes.
It's called no.
Or no thankyou, best not.

dayvidg

I am slightly puzzled - did these terrible journalists not realise that the Starmer's were living somewhere else? Did they camp outside an empty house for weeks?

Perhaps they left Starmer Jnr at home alone while the rest of them moved into Number 10.

I am slightly puzzled - did these terrible journalists not realise that the Starmer's were living somewhere else? Did they camp outside an empty house for weeks?

They've ALL got to clean up their act on these sort of issues. They can't spend all these years complaining about how the opposition does these things, then go off and do them themselves. That's the real problem.

All he did was accept a space where his son could stay sometimes and study in peace. son, presumably, chose "yes"

And we cannot know and is it fair to judge what his feelings were about needing to do this

Then someone came along and decided it had to have monetary value, oh, call it a cash donation, and oh here we go again. Same old same old.

Doesn't the PM have relatives? Or a quiet room inside number 10 where the boy can go?
Bloody ridiculous!!!

maddyfour

It was nonetheless a free gift.
A gift that wouldn’t have been available to me or you unless we paid £20,000.
Labour are against independent schools but accept gifts valued at roughly the same value as many independent schools charge (for an entire year’s study) in order to give their child an advantage many other children don’t have.

How do you it wouldn't be available to me?

MissAdventure

--makes mental note--rich one here--

Previous elections didn’t have the ‘Palestine /Israel demonstrations

That seems the sensible thing to do, Parsley.