No one could have guessed that Prime Minister Keir Starmer would get immediately embroiled in a corruption scandal due to his addiction to gifts and freebies unless they had spent two seconds looking at his record.

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Starmer just can’t get ahead of his cronyism. Why? Well, because it transpires after all his condescending moral lectures and outrage over the years he’s exactly the same as those that came before him and, that he is a hypocrite. Now claiming that ALL mps accept gifts. That’s

Jeremy Corbyn bought his own football tickets. He could not be bribed or bought. That's why the billionaires and press moguls hated him. Keir starmer on the other hand...

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Brace yourselves...

This is what happens when you don’t fund the humanities

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This is worse than Labour's suits and Sue Gray pay scandals. Outrageous that this this huge dubious offshore hedge fund donation has only been reported now, and Labour cleatly exploited the silly Electoral Commission to stop it being discussed during the campaign.

Keir Starmer has taken more corporate freebies than ALL Labour leaders since 1997 combined. There’s no such thing as a free lunch

Let the explaining-away begin.

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Keir Starmer’s parents named him after Keir Hardie. You can read the words of Keir Hardie below.