PM says it would 'cost the taxpayer a fortune' if he didn't accept free Arsenal tickets
PM says it would 'cost the taxpayer a fortune' if he didn't accept free Arsenal tickets
The prime minister was asked about his relationship with Arsenal Football Club after the Sky News' Westminster Accounts project revealed he had received two-and-a-half times more gifts and hospitality than the next MP.
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
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
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?