Wow! Starmer owns a field. Clearly not fit to be leader

Goodness me I own two fields. What does that make me?
Is this the green eyed monster showing his teeth?
Still I don’t suppose Jeremy Corbyn owned a field.

Gillybob I'm glad you highlighted Starmer's term when he was with the DPP, as I'm following a " cold case " of murder from back in 1985 , a case that Starmer wasn't particularly conversant with but when he became chief prosecutor had said point blank that the "accused " was the murderer.
Prit Patel also concurred at the time, again, without knowing all the facts. How can they ?

A hearing took place in high court on May 1st and because so much information had been withheld from this crime and the case was adjourned until the 29th of May.

If this case proves that an innocent man has been incarcerated for nearly 35 years I wonder if Starmer and Patel too will offer their apologies to this man for " getting it so wrong ". I can't wait !

My favourite tweet about this story so far:

Halloween Jack
@eyepatchziggy

Can't believe #KeirStarmer built a prison for donkeys outside his disabled mother's window. Just to taunt her. And now he wants 10 million quid for it?!?!! Sick.

MoS comments I've seen aren't particularly flattering - to the MoS

Good God. Bought a field. (Might have) got something wrong in his career. Earns a lot.

The man's a monster!

Get your pitchforks out, ladies. And don't forget your bundles of faggots for the bonfire.

I could understand the Mail complaining if he made £400 per hour using his body but his brain. They should just get real!

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Ah JE, reluctant to enjoy a bit of humour I see. Lighten up, luv!

If the field he owns was bought I 1996 that was 24 years ago. I know that some people do "sit on" land before selling it at prime price for housing development but he has had a long time to choose to do this.

Just like the poster up thread, Rosalyn, many individuals own fields and have various reasons for doing it. It is fairly commonplace in the area I live in. Not one of the people I know who have fields had or have any plans to sell them for housing developments.

The story may be interesting but is it a public interest story? It could become one possibly but it doesn't appear to be one yet.

jennifer I was nursing my dying mother. She died on 13 January, with me holding her hand.

Anything else you wish to know?

Even after Starmer’s mum lost the ability to walk, she was able to watch the donkeys from her window.

I think the whole thing shows what a thorough decent man Keir Starmer is.

Trying to demean people who may like to read the Daily Mail by calling it a 'rag' is almost like Hilary Clinton calling those who voted for Trump 'deplorables'. She alienated a large proportion of the American voting population and, I believe, the Mail is one of the top selling daily newspapers in the UK, while the Guardian, which almost everyone likes to quote on here as gospel truth, has dwindling sales. Looks like the majority of gransnetters are on the losing side again. It's getting to be quite a habit now.

Anyway the point about Sir Keir Stammer is that, as he is someone who is quite rich with a posh profession, does he understand the 'deserving poor' working class he claims to represent? He also went to a Grammar School, tut, tut. Boris, on the other hand, was born a toff and is now head of a Toff Party so he has to be the devil incarnate, doesn't he!

Oh good heavens WWM2 I am SO sorry.
How dreadful for you,
Please accept my apologies and condolences.

I like Keir Starmer. I’d pay him £400 an hour. ?

There is a parallel between the Daily Fail scrabbling around looking for non newsworthy items to publish in their rag and GN posters who have little else to do with their time but to go searching them out. And then inflicting their finds on here. Both are tedious.

We have a one acre field. Still waiting for the people who normally cut it to turn up.

Anyone got a spare donkey?

Interestingly, the estate on which Rothermere's house in Wiltshire was built used to belong to the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton. The Duchess, Nina, co founder of the Animal Defence and Anti Vivisection Society, ran it has an animal sanctuary in WW2. It was to provide a haven to where well off London families could evacuate their pets.

Nina's will stipulated that the estate should be used as a refuge in perpetuity. The clauses were so stringent that, to be brief, the sanctuary moved to Chard, in Somerset.

jennifer thank you. You had no reason to know of course

chewbacca you seem to have time to read the posts.

I shall continue as will all of us on the politics thread to post with news items.

What I would like to say however.

Be careful when you descend to personal posts.

You don’t know what hurt you are causing.

Much better to address the debate. If you find it too tedious, stop reading and commenting.

Quizqueen The DM does have its uses. When I was travelling regularly between the UK and France I always picked up the freebie at the airport, invariably the DM which was the fattest of the tabloids because I had an occasionally incontinent elderly dog plus a puppy who wasn't house trained. The best use for it IMO.

I was looking for an insightful, topical discussion WhiteWave; one where the contributions were from opposing sides perhaps, but nevertheless civil and informative. It's not on this thread though. And you're a tad late to be warning people to be careful about descending into personal posts; the damage has already been done for one member.

I'm very glad that we're no longer at the mercy of the paper media. Back in the day when it was the papers, the BBC or the radio, we had far less ability to get a balanced view. Of course, the media hadn't descended wholly and totally into the complete propaganda tool that is now.

What I like about the internet is that you can read one article (in the DM since that is being discussed) and then go to Al Jazeera for example, to get a wholly different perspective. It means we're not at Murdoch's mercy anymore. Of course, some buy in whole heartedly, but then I guess those are the people that buy into that system in perpetuity anyway.

I don’t know a lot about Sir Keir Starmer other than he’s come from a working class, grammar school background and was a top QC - his skills in parliament have been self evident this week with forensic grasp of detail.

I have no problem with earning or owning a lot or a little (same goes for anyone actually).

I do question accepting the title. If you don’t agree with them and don’t want to be addressed by it, why on earth did you accept it? It’s not compulsory so I’d have thought more of him and indeed any Labour supporter for doing so.

I have no problem with anyone earning a lot either or what they spend their cash on, but this has to be across the board...
Not castigating somebody wealthy because of their politics.
It’s alright for Starmer to buy 7 acres and it’s alright for Johnson to buy 7 acres, and that’s all there is to it.

Pantglas the title bothers me too,titles and socialism are worlds apart I cant understand how anyone who believes in socialism can allow themselves to be known as SIR or any other worthless title .Its not an "HONOUR" its a way of saying I'm better than the rest of you...which clearly isn't the case with most who have them

At least he has sent his (primary school age) children to the local state school. Far more galling to me than accepting a title are ‘socialists’ who send their kids to private school. I don’t know how on earth they can make that fit with their ideals. Must have skins like rhinos.