Voters will never buy millionaire lawyer Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘man of the people’ pose
Humble Sir Keir a bit hard to buy
MILLIONAIRE lawyer Sir Keir Starmer has made much play of his working-class roots.
But the frontrunner to seize the Labour crown has certainly moved a very long way from his humble origins.
Apart from being a knight of the realm, the posh Trot has pocketed almost £70,000 for providing legal advice since he became an MP five years ago — working out at an eyewatering £400 an hour.
This is on top of his generous salary for his day job of nearly £80,000 a year, a combined income far beyond the dreams of ordinary voters.
His Momentum buddies might also question the legal company he keeps.
Several law firms who defend businessmen in bribery, corruption or fraud cases have paid him handsomely.
Shockingly, one that he worked for before he was an MP represented terror suspects including Abu Qatada.
The leading anti-Brexiteer, who lives in a swanky North London house worth £1.75million, even earned thousands of pounds as an advisor while Gibraltar tried to nobble Brexit.
Sir Kier may be the bookie’s favourite to become the next Labour leader.
But down-to-earth voters will never buy his “man of the people” pose.
Horribly anti-British BBC
The BBC’s inherent liberal bias is never far from the surface.
So it is unsurprising that the Corporation couldn’t resist a swipe at Brexit hours before we left the EU.
It’s disgraceful the Beeb sought to mock Britain in a film aimed at kids. Anti-Brexit comedian Nish Kumar hosted the Horrible Histories “special” song on CBBC, branded on Twitter as “British things . . . turns out there’s hardly any”.
Its desperately unfunny attempt to present a “woke“ version of history by sending up the Royal Family while highlighting the slave trade was little more than thinly-veiled propaganda.
It is grotesque that children should be subjected to such brainwashing.
China consul chaos
BRITS stranded in snake flu-ridden China have been going through hell.
So it’s bizarre that our man in Wuhan had flown back home just as the deadly epidemic swept through the area.
Consul Gareth Hoar apparently boarded a plane hours before the city went into lockdown when it should have been blindingly obvious that an emergency was developing.
So which bungler thought it was a good idea to let the consul come home before stranded Britons?