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

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Whitewavemark2 Sun 17-May-20 08:07:10

The rag known as the daily mail has clearly been scrabbling around to try and find some dirt on Starmer.

What did they find?

The astonishing news that Starmer purchased the field next to his parents house in order that they could keep donkeys.

He did so apparently by earning the outrageous fee as barrister of £400 ph.

Absolutely shocking don’t you think?

Iam64 Mon 18-May-20 14:05:23

Man buys field so his disabled mother can look out and see the donkeys she rescued.
How very dare he be such a caring, humanitarian human being?

Furret Mon 18-May-20 08:23:54

veganrock indeed but very few on here interested in that ?

Lucca Mon 18-May-20 08:21:48

Who honestly cares?

Anniebach Mon 18-May-20 08:04:26

Does he own the field or was it a gift to his parents ?

Jane10 Mon 18-May-20 07:59:20

Sussexborn of course he can have a lake and a duck house if he wants to he's just not to charge them to expenses!

vegansrock Mon 18-May-20 07:08:26

Is it hypocritical to clap for the NHS and charge foreign born medics and freeze their pay?

Sussexborn Mon 18-May-20 02:17:21

As long as Sir Keir has added the donkey land to the list of assets there isn’t a problem. Unless he makes a lake and requires a duck house on an island in the middle. Now that would set the cat amongst the pigeons.

MayBee70 Mon 18-May-20 02:08:48

Dyson owns 25,000 acres well he did in 2014; might be more now. You know, the Dyson who now makes his rubbish vacuum cleaners abroad and recently got a huge contract from his mates to make ventilators even though he'd never made one before. Maybe that would make front page news.

MissAdventure Sun 17-May-20 21:38:44

grin
BarbRoyle

Anniebach Sun 17-May-20 21:30:08

Very much against Whitewave

Starmer was knighted in the New Years Honours List in
2014, became a MP in 2015 and does not want his title used,
why accept it . It was an honour .

BarbRoyle Sun 17-May-20 20:18:54

Psst...
I heard that Keir has a fridge and a washing machine too
What the hell else is he capable of ?

Whitewavemark2 Sun 17-May-20 20:10:23

annie I guess they are against titles.

I must say it isn’t something that exercises me too much, although I get the argument about entitlement and privilege.

Its what a person does and their policies that are important. What they are known by is totally irrelevant imo.

paddyanne Sun 17-May-20 20:08:47

you dont have to be FAR left to disagree with titles ,socialisn ISN;T communism despite what some here believe .They are't "HONOURS" they are merely a way of keeping class division alive and well in this "dis" united kingdom

Anniebach Sun 17-May-20 20:02:32

Yes Starmer’s children attend a state school but are not the far
left against titles ? There is outcry twice every year on this formula when the Queens birthday honours list and New Years honour list are announced

Glorybee Sun 17-May-20 19:46:24

WW2, yes, he does, I said that further down the thread

growstuff Sun 17-May-20 19:43:02

It's preferable to keep your donkeys in a field rather than in a cabinet.

Whitewavemark2 Sun 17-May-20 19:24:34

Your craw can be unstuck with Starmer. His children go to a state school.

Glorybee Sun 17-May-20 19:09:45

I agree anniebach and pantglas, it’s the hypocrisy that galls.

Pantglas2 Sun 17-May-20 18:50:58

Yes Anniebach- it’s the hypocrisy that sticks in the craw.

varian Sun 17-May-20 18:49:56

Starmer is better than Johnson, but Ed Davey is possibly better that Starmer.

Anniebach Sun 17-May-20 18:42:53

I don’t care who owns fields or has titles or sends their children to private schools.

Just do not vote to close private schools if your children have
attended them, - Diane Abbott, Emily Thornberry etc.

And do not take titles to sit in the Lords and yap on about
equality - Baroness Charkrabarti.

And do not keep on and on criticising people who holiday
on yachts, speak of socialism then talk about your holidays knowing many cannot afford a day at the coast.

Davidhs Sun 17-May-20 18:15:06

Some of you seem to be hung up on £400 an hour, that’s not exceptional I pay my solicitor £250 to do routine property transfer work. In any case that has to cover office space staff backup and all the other overheads.

As for £10m for a field in 1996 that’s not true, it may be true that is today’s development value with planning consent. In 1996 it was probably worth £10-20 thousand.

GagaJo Sun 17-May-20 17:16:54

Thank you for the link Grany. Good points made.

GagaJo Sun 17-May-20 17:11:48

Greeneyedgirl, Harmless grans ? Have you BEEN in the political threads? Gangster grannies more like!

EllanVannin Sun 17-May-20 16:52:56

Hee haw, hee haw, hee awnly said he owned a field. grin