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faldO wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 3:38 pm David Lammy has suggested that multi-millionnaire Keir Starmer and his wife accepted thousands of pounds worth of clothing and gifts from Lord Alli because there's no way to get taxpayers to pay for them.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/david-lammy-c ... 34432.html

"I’ve just come back from the United States, where US presidents and First Ladies have a huge budget, paid for by the taxpayer, so that they look their best on behalf of the US people. We don’t have that system over here."
His snout is buried so deep in the trough he doesn't even realise what he's saying.
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Max B Gold wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 4:17 pm
faldO wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 3:38 pm David Lammy has suggested that multi-millionnaire Keir Starmer and his wife accepted thousands of pounds worth of clothing and gifts from Lord Alli because there's no way to get taxpayers to pay for them.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/david-lammy-c ... 34432.html

"I’ve just come back from the United States, where US presidents and First Ladies have a huge budget, paid for by the taxpayer, so that they look their best on behalf of the US people. We don’t have that system over here."
His snout is buried so deep in the trough he doesn't even realise what he's saying.
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Starmer keen to learn from the Italian far right and is interested in their policy of sending illegal migrants abroad for processing.

Surprised nobody in the UK has suggested it before tbh

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgddpq44qjt
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I see that Khan and Labour are now conspiring to pedestrianise Oxford Street, making the area more pleasant for the majority of people and reducing harmful emissions. How awful of them.
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I love shopping on Oxford Street for all my American sweets and knock off Harry Potter merchandise.
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And when it's pedestrianised, you'll be able to walk freely to generic chain stores that you find on every other high street up and down the country too.
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Walk, while dodging deliveroo drivers and Lime bikes.
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Dunners wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2024 9:41 am I see that Khan and Labour are now conspiring to pedestrianise Oxford Street, making the area more pleasant for the majority of people and reducing harmful emissions. How awful of them.
This kind of tribalism in politics is really off putting.
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