[Politics] Sir Keir Starmer’s route to Number 10

[Bob!]

Keir Starmer has accepted more free tickets to events such as sports matches, concerts and parties than the combined total of every other Labour leader since records began in 1997, openDemocracy analysis has found.

He has accepted gifts from donors including multi-millionaires, gambling giants, the online shopping app GETIR and the construction giant Mulalley & Co on 28 separate occasions. The gifts include days at the races, hospitality at Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur matches, an Adele gig, and two separate Coldplay concerts. In total, they are worth nearly £30,000.

That is an average of around a £1,000 a ticket.

But if his policy was in place that'd be 30 x £50
not 30 x £1,000

 

[knocky1]

But if his policy was in place that'd be 30 x £50
not 30 x £1,000

That's not accounting for the prawn sandwiches.

 

[Weststander]

Just watching KS’s speech, now Q&A in Dudley. Hoping for policy meat on the bone, I didn’t hear any, just cliches . Guess I’ll have to learn to be patient.

Obviously an echo chamber audience, but the feeling was clearly that Labour will have power within months.

 

[knocky1]

Great fact in Private Eye this week. Keir Starmer's father was a toolmaker.

 

[borat]

Keir Starmer has accepted more free tickets to events such as sports matches, concerts and parties than the combined total of every other Labour leader since records began in 1997, openDemocracy analysis has found.

He has accepted gifts from donors including multi-millionaires, gambling giants, the online shopping app GETIR and the construction giant Mulalley & Co on 28 separate occasions. The gifts include days at the races, hospitality at Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur matches, an Adele gig, and two separate Coldplay concerts. In total, they are worth nearly £30,000.

That is an average of around a £1,000 a ticket.

Almost sounds like a form of corruption....

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Keir Starmer has accepted more free tickets to events such as sports matches, concerts and parties than the combined total of every other Labour leader since records began in 1997, openDemocracy analysis has found.

He has accepted gifts from donors including multi-millionaires, gambling giants, the online shopping app GETIR and the construction giant Mulalley & Co on 28 separate occasions. The gifts include days at the races, hospitality at Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur matches, an Adele gig, and two separate Coldplay concerts. In total, they are worth nearly £30,000.

That is an average of around a £1,000 a ticket.

Your point being? Do you expect the imminent PM of the UK to be down with the kids in the regular seats? Unworkable given the security he’d need.

 

[timbha]

Your point being?

I would answer “draw your own conclusions”

 

[Chicken Run]

Great fact in Private Eye this week. Keir Starmer's father was a toolmaker.

My old man was a dustman

 

[Titanic]

Great fact in Private Eye this week. Keir Starmer's father was a toolmaker.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Great fact in Private Eye this week. Keir Starmer's father was a toolmaker.

I thought that his father being a toolmaker, his mother being an NHS nurse and him attending State school and Leeds University were all commonly known facts. It appears I was mistaken

 

[knocky1]

Your point being? Do you expect the imminent PM of the UK to be down with the kids in the regular seats? Unworkable given the security he’d need.

I posted that 12 days before Private Eye mentioned it yesterday. I'm a genius.

 

[knocky1]

I thought that his father being a toolmaker, his mother being a nurse and him attending State school were all commonly known facts. It appears I was mistaken

Whooosh!

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Great fact in Private Eye this week. Keir Starmer's father was a toolmaker.

As ever, the fella is only talking to disaffected Tory voters, who might, just might switch their allegiance and for the first time are actually listening to what the leader of the opposition has to say

 

[Jackthelad]

As ever, the fella is only talking to disaffected Tory voters, who might, just might switch their allegiance and for the first time are actually listening to what the leader of the opposition has to say

Loads will switch.

 

[vegster]

Just watching KS’s speech, now Q&A in Dudley. Hoping for policy meat on the bone, I didn’t hear any, just cliches . Guess I’ll have to learn to be patient.

Obviously an echo chamber audience, but the feeling was clearly that Labour will have power within months.

If he has any good policies the Tories will steal them shamelessly. Any other policies will be ruthlessly submitted to forensic examination by the right wing press and the right wing thinktanks until they can find anything negative. So, he keeps it light on policy.

However, he's going to have an awful inbox to deal with when he gets in, 2 terms before we things really start to improve

 

[abc]

I thought that his father being a toolmaker, his mother being an NHS nurse and him attending State school and Leeds University were all commonly known facts. It appears I was mistaken

Repeated every time Starmer wants to sound like one of the people. Thatcher did the same with her father having been a shopkeeper. Just a silly example of attempted spin that has no relevance to the individual's ability to lead the country. Stalin's father was a shoemaker and I'm not sure how much that helped the Russian people.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Just watching KS’s speech, now Q&A in Dudley. Hoping for policy meat on the bone, I didn’t hear any, just cliches . Guess I’ll have to learn to be patient.

Obviously an echo chamber audience, but the feeling was clearly that Labour will have power within months.

While this incompetent cabal, in a complete state of panic, are manically charging around shooting one another in the feet and stabbing one another in the back on a daily if not hourly basis, would it really be a good idea to throw a few targets in the air and distract them

 

[WATFORD zero]

Repeated every time Starmer wants to sound like one of the people. Thatcher did the same with her father having been a shopkeeper. Just a silly example of attempted spin that has no relevance to the individual's ability to lead the country. Stalin's father was a shoemaker and I'm not sure how much that helped the Russian people.

Well I would imagine someone who wasn't born with a silver spoon in their mouth, heavily financed through public school and then fast tracked into a political career, may have a better understanding of how the average Brit lives.

And I'm not sure what is 'spinning' about stating simple facts, but probably sums up where we have been dragged to in this post truth world today

 

[Brian Fantana]

I suppose he feels that the Tories are doing such a good job of losing the election on their own that he doesn't really need to put forward anything concrete himself.

 

[Is it PotG?]

While this incompetent cabal, in a complete state of panic, are manically charging around shooting one another in the feet and stabbing one another in the back on a daily if not hourly basis, would it really be a good idea to throw a few targets in the air and distract them

Nice use of 'cabal' there.