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[Number_25]

Ah, the passes for glasses scandal...

Excuse the Express link: https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1940892/keir-starmer-passes-glasses-lord-alli-asos

 

[Blue 1]

The right wing press would hammer him for looking like a tramp if he didn't dress expensively, and will hammer him for being a "champagne socialist" if he wears nice clobber.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Trip to Berlin for Keir boris Starmer. I wonder who parrots farage and enoch first with their criticism.

 

[Xizor]

I think people are talking about this:

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Yes. About £16k on clothing and £2.7k on glasses is what I read elsewhere. Close enough to £20k to report it as such. That's not £60k just on suits though, is it?

That glasses figure is puzzling I'll admit, I wear glasses and have paid about £250 for a pair (well 2, because Specsavers). Even with a designer markup I don't know why you'd need more than 1 pair, a spare and maybe prescription sunglasses too so can that be close to £1000 per pair?

 

[Kurt.]

I`ve been wondering about Joeys claim of 60k suits too and I can`t find anything anywhere to verify it.

If I was getting a 60k suit made, I`d want it to be lined with gold and have platinum trim for that price tbh.

Do they even exist ?

I’d want a built in bollock tickler too

 

[Xizor]

I’d want a built in bollock tickler too

 

[COYBL25]

Yes. About £16k on clothing and £2.7k on glasses is what I read elsewhere. Close enough to £20k to report it as such. That's not £60k just on suits though, is it?

That glasses figure is puzzling I'll admit, I wear glasses and have paid about £250 for a pair (well 2, because Specsavers). Even with a designer markup I don't know why you'd need more than 1 pair, a spare and maybe prescription sunglasses too so can that be close to £1000 per pair?

Stop reading the Daily Mail Joey

 

[Harryflashman]

wealthy man spends money on clothes after getting high profile new job in the public eye .

Perhaps he’d have been better asking a donor to pay for his new clobber then losing his phone when quizzed on the details .

In one photo Sunak has a suit for nearly £5k and prada shoes for another £500 and I don’t think there was half this reaction .

 

[Joey66]

Stop reading the Daily Mail Joey

It's all over the news mate - I would not eat fish & chips out of that rag ...

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I broadly agree, I think, but the alternative isn't sunny uplit lands where EU comes begging. They could give us some long term plans. A vision of what they want to achieve.

That's in the" build the foundation". It will be well timed policy release as and when. If all policy drops at once most will be lost and labour get accused re- announced policy... Look at Avanti trains poor service. Labour Government looking into ending Tory negotiated contract early. Good governance...

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

It's all over the news mate - I would not eat fish & chips out of that rag ...

Gbeebies news is essentially the same just with live botoxed presenters.

 

[Xizor]

It's all over the news mate

It literally isn't anywhere on the news, let alone "all over it". At best you misheard "16k" as "60k" and still misconstrued what the money was actually spent on.

 

[davek]

wealthy man spends money on clothes after getting high profile new job in the public eye .

Perhaps he’d have been better asking a donor to pay for his new clobber then losing his phone when quizzed on the details .

In one photo Sunak has a suit for nearly £5k and prada shoes for another £500 and I don’t think there was half this reaction .

That's just it...He doesn't pay for them.

 

[COYBL25]

It's all over the news mate - I would not eat fish & chips out of that rag ...

Joey, if he had a 60k suit on, he’d look like Huggy Bear.

Cease and desist this nonsense please.

 

[Joey66]

Joey, if he had a 60k suit on, he’d look like Huggy Bear.

Cease and desist this nonsense please.

Plus his designer Glasses donated too - some socialist - his pension with the DPP must have been a pittance .....