Rutherglen and Hamilton West – Would Michael Shanks not be ‘against’ the Shadow Chancellor’s gift handbag worth 4 months of child benefit to each of nearly 2 000 families in Lanarkshire?

Rachael Reeves, Shadow Chancellor was in the constituency with Anas and Sir Keir but didn’t apparently hang about to see the candidate who looks a bit too lefty, going by his gear there, for Sir Keir’s tastes.

Shanks is becoming famous for not being ‘against’ things like returning to the EU when he used to be and should be well for.

The handbag?

‘No case for banker tax’ Reeves accepting £1250 handbag from investors is tip of iceberg.

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves accepted a £1,250 ‘handbag and contents’ for giving a talk to an investors’ ‘forum’ run by a multimillionaire, her ‘register of interests’ reveals. As Private Eye has pointed out, the value of the bag is worth around four months’ worth of the money a family hit by the Tories two-child benefit cap loses as a result – an annual sum of around £3,235 every year.

Reeves and Keir ‘Sir Kid Starver‘ have said they will not end the Tory cap, even though doing so would instantly lift 250,000 children out of poverty and massively improve the situation of at least 850,000 others – and would actually save the UK almost £40 bilion. It is just one of the Tory measures the red Tory pair has said they will keep, including such injustices as the so-called ‘bedroom tax’.

https://skwawkbox.org/2023/08/14/no-case-for-banker-tax-reeves-accepting-1250-handbag-from-investors-is-tip-of-iceberg/

North Lanarkshire is the third-most-affected area in Scotland, with around 1 830 families hurt by the two-child cap, which the Labour leadership will not oppose and which Michael Shanks is, in effect, not able to be ‘against.’

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23668241.map-shows-areas-scotland-hit-hardest-two-child-cap/

8 thoughts on “Rutherglen and Hamilton West – Would Michael Shanks not be ‘against’ the Shadow Chancellor’s gift handbag worth 4 months of child benefit to each of nearly 2 000 families in Lanarkshire?

  1. Spot the ”Working Class ” politicians casually dressed , hands in pockets .
    Would they dress like this and appear so casual in a decidedly Middle-Class constituency ?
    Sir Kid Starver and his subordinates pretending to CARE for the people while accepting all the benefits of their privileged positions . ( Expensive handbags are the least of the ”gifts” received by the these hypocrites ! )

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  2. Yup.
    Scotland’s “slacker” party wants to make a come-back with all the Colonial mejah cheering them on.
    Starmerer asserting that Scotland could be the beating heart of the UK.
    All that cheap leckie flowing south!
    Remember Gordo Broon offering huge subsidies for renewables companies to set up on Humberside–his “ain folk” in Fife at the Bifab yard were ignored and sunk. THAT is Labour in Scotland!

    A return of Gorbals Mick, the Two Jimmies, Ffoulksakia and all the rest of the entitled, useless pocket-stuffers is being promoted daily on BEEB Scotland, the MI5-front broadcaster.

    DONT FALL FOR IT!

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    1. Absolutely. Problem is some will fall for Labour’s bluff, bluster, lies and scams.
      Starmers ‘Scotland could be beating heart of the UknotOK’, you know is laughable given that life expectancy in Scotland on their watch was way lower than rUK, wasn’t Scotland ‘the poor man of Europe’ and Labour run Glasgow ‘crime capital of the world’ or something akin. It wasn’t good to say the least and Labour’s legacy is atrocious.
      On Labour’s watch, a very scary thought, Scotland would have a cardiac arrest pretty damn quick, no life support for the majority. Cities and towns sold off, services, infrastructure, all sold, lock stock and barrel…Charter cities/towns, ‘free not free ports’. NO thanks KidStarver, Scotland has more forward looking and equal policies that the people are sticking to by voting SNP.
      Labour had years and years to improve the heart health of the people, but they chose not to.
      SNP need to come up with some really clever slogans because the BritNats rely on slogans to garner votes, and it works…

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  3. Can some of these ‘politicians not pay for their own stuff. They are getting more than enough dosh. No principles while denying others their rights. No compassion or understanding. No cool but cold. Leaving people colder and unhealthy. Undernourished. Wander they can sleep at night.

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  4. The rogues gallery will put off many voters. Totally out of place. Appearing totally uncomfortable among the human race. Feart of the people.

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  5. FiFi and Foulkes. Always the first post on the unionist website. How did they do it? Now out of it. Deleted and banned.

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