Labour has been raising much hue and cry over the Owen Paterson debacle. The party’s MPs have lined up to attack the Tories for taking second jobs, with some pointing to the last Labour manifesto, which declared that ‘we will stop MPs from taking second paid jobs, with limited exemptions to maintain professional registrations like nursing.’
Cantabrigian Corbynista Richard Burgon is meanwhile using the debacle to push his private members’ bill to ban second jobs for those in the Commons, a practice he decries as ‘MPs cash grabbing from corporate interests and short changing the public.’
Strong stuff. But Mr S would suggest that the flatulating anti-Zionist might want to get his own side’s house in party before launching another attack on the establishment’s ‘rigged system.’ For just today, his own leader Sir Keir Starmer has had to declare more than 100 hours of work, totalling some £25,934 of payments for ‘legal advice given before 2020,’ having previously jugged legal work alongside his MPs duties earlier in his parliamentary career.
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