The Labour Government

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Not evil, just a patheticly weak PM, who loved spending public money for his personal transport

But ok for Starmer to claim 250k expenses for transport when he was DPP

 

[TinFoilHat]

Tories: Labour are turning this country into a Nanny state!

Everyone Else: They are enacting laws your lot passed in government.

Tories: ....

 

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But ok for Starmer to claim 250k expenses for transport when he was DPP

Unless you know exactly the breakdown of that figure, you and I have no idea as to whether it was justifiable

 

[west didsblue]

Starmer? I agree.

BTW, did you actually read the article at all? Do you think accepting all these bungs whilst having spent your political lifetime criticizing the Tories for the same, is perfectly OK?

Doesn’t make him evil.

An article by ex-Labour member Corbynite Owen Jones is hardly going to be balanced.

Agree it’s not a good look to accept £76k in freebies over several years but it’s small change compared to the winner of the previous election, something that I don’t recall concerning you in the slightest.

 

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[west didsblue]

But ok for Starmer to claim 250k expenses for transport when he was DPP

Perhaps the chauffeured vehicle was necessary for security reasons. I suspect, as Britain’s chief prosecutor responsible for the incarceration of terrorists and major criminals he may well have been a target. As for flight costs, there’s no way the head of a major government organisation was going to travel economy. Even I used to go business class with work. Without more detail the headline figure means nothing.

 

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Very interesting article in the Guardian newspaper this morning about our highly principled leader. A newspaper not exactly renowned for being critical of Labour governments.

MSN

Here is a small excerpt:

“Here is a man who has clearly long had a taste for comfort: when he was director of prosecutions, taxpayers reportedly coughed up nearly £250,000 for his travel costs, including first-class flights and a chauffeur-driven car. Apparently he deemed the latter a requirement, even though he lived just five or so miles from the Crown Prosecution Service offices, which were easily accessible through a direct tube journey. Notably, he claimed nearly three times more expenses than his successor, who had the job for the same amount of time.”

It goes on to list some of the various bungs - sorry gifts - he’s willingly accepted whilst dishing out pain to struggling pensioners. Not only is he a steaming hypocrite for constantly attacking the Tories for the same behaviour, I think he’s fucking evil.

Is anyone surprised?
Socialist my arse. Just another self entitled posh boy. He is evil as is that **** of a woman Reeves.

 

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Perhaps the chauffeured vehicle was necessary for security reasons. I suspect, as Britain’s chief prosecutor responsible for the incarceration of terrorists and major criminals he may well have been a target. As for flight costs, there’s no way the head of a major government organisation was going to travel economy. Even I used to go business class with work. Without more detail the headline figure means nothing.

First class travel is a total waste of tax payers money. Business class is more than suffice. He’s just a fraud.

 

[west didsblue]

Is anyone surprised?
Socialist my arse. Just another self entitled posh boy. He is evil as is that **** of a woman Reeves.

Evil seems to be the word of choice for some of the Tories on here to describe Starmer and Reeves for accepting some free tickets.

Wonder what word they’ll use if they start illegally partying during a pandemic while members of the public can’t be with their dying family.

 

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First class travel is a total waste of tax payers money. Business class is more than suffice. He’s just a fraud.

Other than Owen Jones saying it, what evidence is there he travelled first rather than business. When public official’s expenses are published, class of flight isn’t usually in the description, and the costs could easily be business class prices.

Edit: Having looked through the expenses none of the flights were expensive enough to be first class even the £6k to Washington.