Dave Nellist: I was a member of Parliament for nine years, my partner and I brought up three children and for those nine years, I only took the wage of the average factory worker in Coventry, less than half an MP’s salary. The rest went to charities and to strike funds and other causes. Not once did I take freebies for glasses or for clothes.
When my kids wanted somewhere quiet to revise, they had to go in the bedroom to do it.
Jeremy Kyle: For those tuning in, today Starmer is under more pressure for £20,000 worth of accommodation from Lord ‘Back Alley’.
It turns out, ladies and gentlemen, that he had free accommodation this £18 million penthouse in Covent Garden. Initially, Sir Keir Starmer said, and I quote, this was for meetings, it’s where he spent the night of the election, blah blah blah. His latest excuse is: ‘My young son used it to revise for his GCSEs’. Dave Nellist, we might not agree on most things but we’ll agree on this: he is taking the British public for idiots and they won’t buy it mate, they won’t buy it.
Dave Nellist: In Coventry we’ve had a Labour council mostly since 1937, their current latest cuts are to close four libraries and put them into smaller places with less computers, less desks and less staff. Ordinary working-class kids who want to go somewhere to do their homework and study for their GCSEs in Coventry have got less places to go to.
Now the Socialist Party which I’m a member of believes that anybody who becomes an MP or a councillor should do it because of what they can give to people, not for what they can take out of the system. So, all our representatives only take that average wage. The trouble is, people in the Labour Party, at the top of the Labour Party, they ain’t Labour anymore. They’re in it for what they can get out of it, not for what they can put in.