Anonymous

We have a Horse-bolted-stable moment from Keir Starmer.

Starmer is to repay (a fraction of the) money for the gifts and hospitality he has received but only since becoming the prime minister, following a backlash over donations. (mostly from both the Tory media and also the public).

He has also committed to tightening the rules around ministerial hospitality to improve transparency.

( Had these freebies and donations not been highlighted by the media as a scandal then he, Starmer, would not have considered making these so called new ‘rules’ which now will allegedly limit and restrict benefits he once enjoyed as the Labour leader and others too in his party).

Apparently this involves ” new principles for donations” as Keir Starmer realised the public did not like his former ‘lack of principles’ .

So now he is saying ‘those were my former (lack of) principles but as you and the media did not like that I lacked any principles then I have made up some others’

( As in others he was forced to make up only to try to take the heat off him and also off some of his party colleagues).

I assume that other senior party members will also pay back their gifts and hospitality that they received also. (or are we not supposed to recall their involvement in this scandal too).

To top it all , as in to further complicate and extend the duration of this particular scandal, we now hear that one of the major donors whose financial donation was mostly for clothes, spectacles and other ‘gifts’ to the PM (his wife) and also others in the Labour party.

Well he , the donor, as in the Labour peer Lord Ali is being investigated by the Parliament’s standards watchdog over allegedly failing to register interests.

You know if you close your eyes you might just think you had went back in time to when Boris Johnson was the Tory PM and he and his government were swamped with various scandals linked to both him and his government ministers.

Scotland had the chance to get real change in 2014 but instead some people decided that the status quo was best, though I do suspect that when they voted NO in 2014 they would never, in a million years, have imagined just how much sh*t they would have to endure. Not just with the Tory party but also with Labour too.

Who knew they may well say.

Well we who voted YES in 2014 knew and that’s why we voted YES.

Hindsight is a great thing but there are times when you really have to seize the bloody moment – or you end up having to endure 10 years plus of absolute Hell as a UK citizen.