The stench of hypocrisy coming from No.10 Downing Street can be smelt up and down the country. Remember the whiter-than-white son of a toolmaker who only a few weeks ago preached integrity in public service, pledging to root out sleaze at No.10 and stop anything like the so-called Boris wallpaper and redecoration saga?
Well now that Keir Starmer’s in office with his feet under the table, his guiding principles are all somewhat different, racking up in record time a staggering £100,000 of freebies for him and his wife, even providing a security pass for Downing Street in return for clothes and glasses, and he won’t – absolutely won’t – be giving up his free Arsenal football tickets. For he’s not like the rest of us.
At the same time as amassing this neverending supply of gifts, Starmer, below, has removed from nearly 10 million pensioners their £300 winter fuel payment.
He made no reference to doing this at the general election; worse still, Starmer sent a personal letter to pensioners in the run-up to the election, telling them how much they “have contributed to our country and the debt that is owed to them”, and how “I’ll never betray Britain’s pensioners” and I’ll “always ensure Britain’s retirees get the security and respect they deserve”. That sentiment ended as soon as he got into power.
The Prime Minister then told pensioners that they had to lose their winter fuel payments with immediate effect for fear the cost might crash the economy, while at the same time giving huge pay rises to his union pay-masters and Sue Gray, his pal at No.10 Downing Street.
Never forget, so important is a good pension to Starmer that he has his own gold-plated version of one, one that there is special regulations for (Pensions Scheme for Keir Starmer QC Regulations 2013). However, I don’t know why anyone is surprised by this rank hypocrisy and appalling behaviour.
This is what Labour is always like when they are in power. I’m often asked how I ended up being a Conservative MP rather than Labour, given that I’m from Liverpool, the epicentre of socialism.
The answer is simple – it’s precisely because I come from Liverpool and saw first-hand what Labour is like – the “do as I say, not as I do” attitude and the “means justify the end” approach to gaining power. Socialists always put factionalism and self-interest above good governance.
I grew up with Derek Hatton and woke up to him very quickly, sadly, I fear that the country is only just waking up to Keir Starmer.
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■There are many – including me – who believe the suspended sentence given to disgraced BBC presenter Huw Edwards for child abuse images he paid for was unduly lenient. While the Attorney General can appeal many sentences for being unduly lenient, this one he cannot as it was heard in a magistrates’ court, not a crown court.
This of course begs two questions. One, why was such a high-profile case covering such serious offences allocated to a magistrates’ court, rather than a crown court? Also why is it that decisions made by amateur magistrates cannot be properly reviewed but those by professional judges can?
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■Now that teachers are being offered work from home and civil servants don’t even have to come into the office three days a week under Labour, who else will be offered stay-at-home working hours? How about posties (collect your own), binmen (take your rubbish to the tip instead) and railway drivers (make your own way there by car)? Will anyone have to turn up to work under Labour?
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