For those who haven't read it, it will cost the taxpayer more because he'd need more security if he was sitting in a different seat
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This is totally reasonable and no he couldn't buy those same tickets himself and no I'm not taking any questions
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That does actually sound like a good point.
Sitting in the cheap seats to look like one of the people, and costing a fortune in security, would no doubt attract equal viritrol.
To be fair, his salary is ~~"only" £75,440 which isn't as much as I was expecting.~~ (see below) But he also gets £25k a year in free gifts according to the article so...
Give all MPs a pay rise of £10k and cut off all the expenses and bribery bullshit. And no, I won't be taking any questions on this one either, because we all know easy solutions suggested by people who know nothing about the problem always work first try
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-salary-data/salaries-of-members-of-his-majestys-government-april-2022-html https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48497953
EDIT having looked again, it seems like he actually gets £170k P.A. (the prime minister's salary is on top of his MP's salary) so fuck him, he can afford his own football tickets.
EDIT 2 and presumably 4 years of not paying rent or bills, so double fuck him
Prime Ministers get invited to all kinds of events, this isn't particularly remarkable in my view.
Because it's absolutely essential that he's present for the match, right?
Asking people to give up their lives, hobbies, and anything that brings them joy when they go into politics isn't the way to get quality candidates.
No one's saying he can't go to the game. He just can't take free expensive tickets as political favors or have enhanced security on the government's dime and not be called the fuck out about it. He can buy his own tickets and hire his own bodyguards if he wants to, he's a big boy.
and hire his own bodyguards
Now that's a take, Holy hell.
You're right. He should just keep accepting bribes so that he doesn't have to forgo his hobbies.
Not going to a football match doesn't mean you have to give up everything that makes you happy.
If that's literally the only thing that'd make him happy, he's got much bigger problems in life.
Thank you!
A quality candidate would be a person that wasn't a football loony.
How dare they enjoy things!
He's an Arsenal fan. Asking him not to watch them play is just unrealistic.
Starmer is going to single handedly destroy the Labour party. He's such a typical neolib thief. What exactly is the point of even voting for his Labour over the Tories? Their policy positions and tendency to corruptly profit off power has reached full parity now that Starker has purged every real Labour candidate from Labour.
I think that's a massive over reaction to the general situation. There are noticeable changes taking place to undo the Tory damage to the country. He and Labor are far from perfect, but to question the point of why you would vote Labour over Tory is just insanity.
100% agree, we are in a far better situation now. I was really hoping he would be beyond reproach, and we could completely turn a corner on the the political sleaze, even if it is just a few suits and football tickets.
Yet more austerity seems like the definition of insanity -- trying the same thing over and over, expecting a different result
Thanks Keith
So he's admitting that he would misappropriate funds?