• Worx@lemmynsfw.com
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    5 hours ago

    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

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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      2 hours ago

      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.

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      5 hours ago

      This is totally reasonable and no he couldn’t buy those same tickets himself and no I’m not taking any questions

      /s

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      Because it’s absolutely essential that he’s present for the match, right?

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        3 hours ago

        Asking people to give up their lives, hobbies, and anything that brings them joy when they go into politics isn’t the way to get quality candidates.

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          Not going to a football match doesn’t mean you have to give up everything that makes you happy.

          If that’s literally the only thing that’d make him happy, he’s got much bigger problems in life.

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          No one’s saying he can’t go to the game. He just can’t take free expensive tickets as political favors or have enhanced security on the government’s dime and not be called the fuck put about it. He can buy his own tickets and hire his own bodyguards if he wants to, he’s a big boy.

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    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.

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      2 hours ago

      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.