Keir Starmer

Lowtower said:
What photos are behind him?
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Vic said:
Kirkstall Blue said:
Wez Streeting “I’m really proud of people who want to contribute…their money to our politics. It is a noble pursuit.”Wes Streeting lauds donors as he defends Keir Starmer’s decision to accept donations for hospitality.
Haha is he for real “just like giving to charity”
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It is a serious point. Anyone can donate to charity. Anyone can donate to a political party. Should I donate to a cancer charity to provide care or research or to a party that would legislate to provide care or research?

And we have actually come a long way since MPs had undeclared payments to speak in parliament on behalf of vested interests. I think it was Callaghan who said he was always thinking for whose interests an MP was speaking. Gwyneth Dunwoody was parliamentary rep for the fur industry! One Tory MP was in favour of fitting flue-gas desulphurisation to the local power station but then he wasn't - after an expenses-paid trip to apartheid South Africa who could supply low sulphur coal.

A lot of commercial interests (and charities) think it worthwhile paying the parties for exhibition space at party conferences (and put on fringe meetings with free catering for delegates). Is this a legitimate attempt to win friends and influence people, or just a sort of bribe?

Is it even right that an MP is beholden to voters in one constituency rather than acting in the wider national interest?
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We pay a salary for MPs to act on behalf of their constituents, in no way is it the same as giving food to a food bank or clothing to the Salvation Army for people who have nothing That’s charity not donating to a political party.
Call it what it is a “donations” a freebie but don’t confuse it with charity
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Kirkstall Blue said:
We pay a salary for MPs to act on behalf of their constituents, in no way is it the same as giving food to a food bank or clothing to the Salvation Army for people who have nothing That’s charity not donating to a political party.
Call it what it is a “donations” a freebie but don’t confuse it with charity
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The confusion is yours.

I give to a foodbank. I give to a political party. My choice.
 
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