No, these were gifts for the minister. They were all returned (if they came in through official channels).

Like the gifts they returned was minor shit like "here's 20 quid to say thank you for helping with my problem" from random members of the public like the FM was their grandson or something. But it all got a polite letter saying "thanks, but we can't accept gifts"

See, it's more complicated than that. It's bad *WHEN* the Tories do it, but it's ok for Labour to do it *BECAUSE* the Tories did it too.

So much for kinder, gentler politics/the tolerant left etc

watch out, she's a bit sweary!

Do schools hire teachers between July 4th and now?

Horseshoe theory klaxon

A real leftist

if it were possible to justify voting on the basis of its own merit – if i could say, "look you can vote to stop the genocide" – then i could prove the power of voting but we can't even vote to stop the most horrible atrocity of them all if voting can't stop that, it can do nothing

And then the band didn't even play...