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Lammy

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FriedGreenTomatoes2 Sun 15-Sept-24 22:13:10

You want public funding to buy clothes so that you look nice?
Beggars belief.

You already get free breakfasts, travel and your heating paid for.

I'll take a bucket round at the next pensioner bingo session and send you whatever gets put in it. You can wear that.

It's called using your wages....just like everyone else! You are trying to defend the indefensible and it makes you look stupid Sir.

Galaxy Thu 19-Sept-24 21:29:04

It's also possible to worry about number of things at once. And actually the integrity and honesty of those leading is is quite important.

Mollygo Thu 19-Sept-24 19:44:35

There are lots more things that are important Maybee70.

It would be great if Starmer didn’t do things he has previously condemned, so that the focus would be on those more important things.

MayBee70 Thu 19-Sept-24 19:41:17

Mollygo

The determination to defend Starmer et al can do anything wrong is childish and pathetic
Why not just acknowledge that the LP MPs do what they said was wrong when the other party did it?

I just happen to think that there are far more important things to be worrying about. The state of our maternity hospitals for a start. And our prisons.

pably15 Thu 19-Sept-24 19:38:54

yes Starmer was late declaring his freebies, but quick off the mark stopping wfp.

ronib Thu 19-Sept-24 08:14:06

So interesting point - Mrs Sunak paid £20 million to stay here and relinquished her non dom status- quite an expensive misjudgment even if she could easily have afforded it. Quite a difference with the latest bunch …..

eazybee Thu 19-Sept-24 07:41:04

No, Sunak's wife wan't given cruel nicknames or openly criticised (she was privately) and I think I know why but I am not putting it in print.

Mollygo Thu 19-Sept-24 00:46:36

The determination to defend Starmer et al can do anything wrong is childish and pathetic
Why not just acknowledge that the LP MPs do what they said was wrong when the other party did it?

LizzieDrip Thu 19-Sept-24 00:15:55

This name-calling is so childish and pathetic.

I don’t remember Sunak’s wife being called cruel names when she avoided paying almost £20 million in taxes!

Spinnaker Wed 18-Sept-24 23:23:09

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Apparently KS wife Victoria has a nickname now,
“Victoria Sponger”.

Along with his new nickname - Free Gear Keir grin

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Wed 18-Sept-24 22:06:41

Apparently KS wife Victoria has a nickname now,
“Victoria Sponger”.

eazybee Wed 18-Sept-24 16:06:38

It is the rank hypocrisy that shocks. Five years of Labour denigrating the Tories for everything they did, but immediately the prospect of power is in their sights, quickly revealing themselves to be just as venal.
Waheed Alli seems to exert a sinister amount of influence, (as well as indulging Rayner's execrable taste.)
Apparently Diane Abbott has announced she will oppose Starmer on key issues. Obviously she hasn't been bought any new frocks.

Oreo Wed 18-Sept-24 15:55:08

Lovetopaint037

To be honest I so wanted him to win that I would have sent him a pressie if I thought he wanted one 😂.

So would I, before the last 6 weeks.

Oreo Wed 18-Sept-24 15:54:03

FriedGreenTomatoes2

This story rumbles along. It’s tarnished his reputation.

😄I saw a joke in the paper that was a woman holding a baggy suit on a hanger saying to hubby ‘ do you still use this old suit? Am getting a bag of clothes together to send to Downing St.’

Allira Wed 18-Sept-24 14:46:51

FriedGreenTomatoes2

This story rumbles along. It’s tarnished his reputation.

He needs to get out the Duraglit and shine up his halo again.

GrannyGravy13 Wed 18-Sept-24 14:31:15

Angela Rayner declares acceptance of freebies, doesn’t make it right when she made numerous statements in and out of the H of P ridiculing Conservative MP’s for accepting freebies.

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Wed 18-Sept-24 13:20:48

This story rumbles along. It’s tarnished his reputation.

Lovetopaint037 Wed 18-Sept-24 11:13:09

To be honest I so wanted him to win that I would have sent him a pressie if I thought he wanted one 😂.

Mollygo Tue 17-Sept-24 23:45:52

GrannyGravy13

eggplant if KS and his fellow MPs hadn’t been so busy pulling up the last Government on their freebies then they would not be under so much scrutiny for their freebies

No red herrings, just 21st C politics.

Yes but that’s what makes it so interesting. Saying one group were in the wrong for doing something more often than another group doing the same thing has never made it right for the second group before.

Now it appears that wrong-doing on a smaller scale is acceptable.
Who knew?

ronib Tue 17-Sept-24 23:44:15

Grantanow Lammy seems all over the place - I would prefer him to stick to his job spec.

Grantanow Tue 17-Sept-24 22:30:45

Lammy today seems to have migrated from clothes to climate change: a better choice.

GrannyGravy13 Tue 17-Sept-24 20:49:09

eggplant

Really, I can't be bothered any more. Take a look at the latest from the Middle East.

Would that be Hezbollah and exploding pagers?

eggplant Tue 17-Sept-24 20:43:49

Really, I can't be bothered any more. Take a look at the latest from the Middle East.

GrannyGravy13 Tue 17-Sept-24 20:41:21

eggplant if KS and his fellow MPs hadn’t been so busy pulling up the last Government on their freebies then they would not be under so much scrutiny for their freebies

No red herrings, just 21st C politics.

eggplant Tue 17-Sept-24 20:25:44

The whole clothes thing is just a massive red herring. God help us really. Lammy and KS have more to worry about ( as do the rest of us).

What is to be gained by this snipeing and belittleing and one up man ship?

I don't know anything about the wife of KS. She keeps herself and her family under the radar, somehow.

Wyllow3 Tue 17-Sept-24 20:20:53

Fried Green tomatoes, what Starmer was gifted is trivial compared with past gifts/governement in the Johnson era and also the habit of bennies for friends on contracts awarded etc.

We now have moved on politically and say, for th first time historically "no, it was wrong in principle", those supporting the Labour Party in GN have said so: beating a tired drum.