[Politics] Sir Keir Starmer apologises for 'administrative errors'

[chickens]

@Is it PotG? I’ll get off the fence in a minute and tell you how I really feel about it.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

So Camilla, the royal correspondent of the DT and contributor to GB news doesn't like Starmer. Clear the front page we have a devastating story here.

 

[nicko31]

Pfff…

 

[Lever]

Interesting article from the eloquent Camilla Tominey:

Starmer

You endlessly use irony. By now I really would have thought you could employ it a bit more effectively; this is pathetic and not at all interesting.

 

[A1X]

Well thank goodness he failed given the hugely popular, roaring success that Brexit has been

 

[Is it PotG?]

Been accused of hypocrisy.

Who'd have thunk it?

Hypocrite

 

[rogersix]

Been accused of hypocrisy.

Who'd have thunk it?

Hypocrite

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seems like bullshit, to me

 

[Is it PotG?]

seems like bullshit, to me

If you say so.

 

[rogersix]

If you say so.

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cash in the attic on later! meanwhile, i'll desperately trawl the internet for some sophistry cos i'm OUTRAGED

keep on, keeping on, fellah

 

[e77]

Man taking part in entirely legal pension arrangement shocker.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

the OP is not very good at this

 

[JBizzle]

Been accused of hypocrisy.

Who'd have thunk it?

Hypocrite

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Would that be the pension plan he got when he left the DPP under the regulations created by the then-Tory Government under David Cameron?

I only ask because surely it's only hypocrisy if a) he earned enough during that period to exceed the allowance and b) we're saying that he should have opted out of a Government-sponsored pension plan on the off chance he ended up in opposition to a Government that makes a living robbing from the poor to give to the rich?

 

[chickens]

Been accused of hypocrisy.

Who'd have thunk it?

Hypocrite

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It’s nice that every month you pop up with a bit of whataboutery regarding Keir Starmer.

Can I ask, when you talk about this pension, are you talking about the one he got when stepping down as Director of Public Prosecutions in 2013? The one that was determined by the Civil Service?

Jobs rarely have a PYO pension scheme, he got the pension associated with the role at the time, in line with the rules decided upon by the government of the time. He was Director of Public Prosecutions, not head of Civil Service Pension Policy.

The straw-clutching is just incredible. Starmer’s point regarding the removal of the cap on all private pensions stands for the following reasons:

1. Only the extremely wealthy benefit from it.

2. At a time when our public services are on their knees, and our government keeps turning out it’s pockets and claiming that there’s no money to do anything about it, the government has made a deliberate choice to allow those with the most in society to take advantage of an unnecessary tax break that further reduces our ability to pay for public services without borrowing. It’s utterly irresponsible, and further proof that this Conservative Party can’t be trusted with the economy. They’re fiscally illiterate.

Edit: @JBizzle has largely beaten me to it, but ye gods @Is it PotG? you’ve got nothing.

 

[dazzer6666]

Been accused of hypocrisy.

Who'd have thunk it?

Hypocrite

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Was subject to the rules, agreed by others, for the job he had. Where’s the hypocrisy exactly?

 

[Bold Seagull]

Been accused of hypocrisy.

Who'd have thunk it?

Hypocrite

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Imagine being accused of hypocrisy by Conservatives. Are they being ironic?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Been accused of hypocrisy.

Who'd have thunk it?

Hypocrite

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Oh dear, you are repeating silly claims from CCHQ. Sir Keir Starmer's DPP pension is too small to take advantage of the new rule, and he hasn't paid anything into it, since 2013.
His MP's pension will be far more when he stands down.

Try again.

 

[WATFORD zero]

I really do feel that I have to defend @Is it PotG? here and point out these posts aren't down to pure stupidity as some people are insinuating.

There is a huge amount of desperation there as well

 

[Seecider]

Would that be the pension plan he got when he left the DPP under the regulations created by the then-Tory Government under David Cameron?

I only ask because surely it's only hypocrisy if a) he earned enough during that period to exceed the allowance and b) we're saying that he should have opted out of a Government-sponsored pension plan on the off chance he ended up in opposition to a Government that makes a living robbing from the poor to give to the rich?

Starmer, comes across as decent, but dull, but in reality is he just another skin deep socialist ?

 

[aolstudios]

Starmer, comes across as decent, but dull, but in reality is he just another skin deep socialist ?

Maybe read the half dozen odd posts before yours?..

 

[A1X]

Wait, his political opponents have accused him of something?

Well that's it then, he's toast now. Everyone knows that as soon as your political opponents accuse you of something then that's it, you're 100% guilty. Even Starmer would agree with this as a former director at the DPP. Straight to jail, if he's lucky, else they might bring back hanging.