Boris Johnson is back in the news this week, so I thought this was a good opportunity to look at what caused his resignation, compare that to Keir Starmer’s scandals and ask – who do you think is dodgier?
Boris was found to have breached Covid rules over a birthday cake.
Keir Starmer managed to get away with a beer and an Indian takeaway in Durham, and the police deemed there were no rules broken.
He is also facing questions over videos he recorded at Lord Alli’s £18million penthouse, which he clearly tried to pass off as being his own home. During those videos, he urged people to stay at home where possible.
Patrick Christys compares Boris Johnson’s reign to Keir Starmer’s first 100 days
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One major report into Boris’ wrongdoing was written by Sue Gray, who has gone on to become Starmer’s chief of staff. That raises serious questions. The media still don’t want to talk about it.
One thing that did for Boris was his relationship with Dominic Cummings, who was seen as a bit mad.
Starmer’s Sue Gray has already been accused of bringing staff to tears, and the chief civil servant Simon Case has already resigned.
A committee found that Boris misled Parliament over parties at Downing Street. A leader of that Committee was Yvette Cooper, who is now our Home Secretary.
When it comes to misleading Parliament – Keir Starmer has faced allegations of threatening the Speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, over a Gaza vote – claims he vehemently denies. He also gave the strong impression, to Parliament, that Labour wouldn’t scrap the winter fuel payment for pensioners, and he has now done exactly that.
Boris ultimately went over his support for Chris Pincher who had been accused of inappropriate behaviour. Well, Keir Starmer had no problem welcoming turncoat MP Natalie Elphike into the Labour Party, despite her being forced to apologise for negative comments she made about her ex-husband’s sexual assault victims. The general perception of Boris pumped out by the Labour Party and the establishment left-wing media is that he was a bit dodgy, elitist and cavalier with the financial rules.
Keir Starmer, a multi-millionaire, accepted more than £100,000 in donations and freebies, including clothes for his own wife. Despite telling us nothing was wrong with that, he has now handed £6,000 back. One of the claims about Boris Johnson was that he always felt he was above the rules. Does Keir Starmer not have to pay tax on the remaining donations?
Boris was slammed for having a close relationship with people like Mr Lebedev, a Russian-British businessman who found his way into the House of Lords. Keir Starmer appears to have given an access-all-areas pass to Lord Waheed Alli after he gave loads of free stuff to a lot of different Labour politicians, who now stands accused of meddling in the Iraqi election, and meeting Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad and pushing for him to not be deposed.
Keir Starmer also got into hot water immediately after several Labour supporters and donors were mysteriously parachuted into the ‘impartial’ civil service. Starmer’s Labour Party’s largest pre-election donation was from a Cayman Islands-based hedge fund that has interests in arms manufacturing, private healthcare and fossil fuels – something they did not want to declare until after the general election. Why not?
Starmer’s Labour Party is also now embroiled in a cash-for-access scandal involving business secretary Jonathan Reynolds where various business leaders could pay up to £30,000 to meet with Mr Reynolds. That’s the kind of thing that could normally lead to a resignation, but because luvvie favourite Ed Miliband has tried to make it all go away by saying let’s make sure we don’t ever do this again, Starmer’s cabinet remains intact.
Boris ran a general election campaign centred on this point: I’ll Get Brexit Done. Now we can argue about whether his Brexit deal is any good, but he did get one.
Keir Starmer did not run a general election campaign saying he’d give away a bit of British sovereign territory, remove the winter fuel payments from pensioners and borrow £3.1billion to pay the unions. So who was more honest there? May I remind you that we are not even 100 days into Keir Starmer’s premiership.
If you hadn’t been conditioned by the media to tell you that Boris is a bad guy and Starmer is a good guy and you just looked at their wrap sheets side by side, who would you say is dodgier?
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