We’ll stop taking free clothes, say Starmer and Rayner
Sir Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves will not accept free clothing in the future.
No 10 sources have confirmed that the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Chancellor will make the change.
Good grief, they are well out of their depth now, not even treading water. Maybe they will try to make a virtue of it by telling pensioners to buy their own blankets this winter.
A sarcastic take on it perhaps, but nothing is off the table with this lot, apart from intelligence and integrity.
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They are like a Student Union executive. Self-important, delusional, full of conviction, yet utterly unaware of how daft they look. They didn't think how accepting bribes would be perceived, so why should they worry about how they turn the bribes down?
Sam - yes, a Student Union executive is just what they are like and hopelessly unaware of how daft they look. Whatever credibility they had has been thrown away in weeks. Entirely unfit for office.
Does this make my bung look big?
But they were not free. They were traded for favours. A successful wheeler dealer will be sure to get his money's worth - plus.
Having, in the distant past, been a Student Union Women’s Officer elected on a University Left ticket, I concur absolutely with Sam Vega’s assessment.
I think that there is an aspect to the current scandal which political commentators are either missing or deliberately ignoring, depending on their history and political leanings; the delusion and sense of moral superiority is addictive and generates sufficient dopamine to drown out any scruples or awareness of how behaviour might look to others.
Heavens forfend!
https://x.com/niall_gooch/status/1835402343397150973
decnine - ha ha, I don't have a reply to that.
Doonhamer - I agree, not free at all.
Macheath - interesting and easy to understand, suggesting the addictive nature of moral superiority infests the media too. Coincidentally, while we were out this morning we received a hand-written note from our local Jehovah's Witnesses. It's probably what keeps them going too.
Anon - at his age and with his background I'm surprised he isn't more picky about language.
Roars of appreciation.
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