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On Monday, Labour tried to embroil the Conservatives in a scandal over Government Procurement Cards and what they perceived as unnecessary spending. But has Starmer levelled a major blow against the Tories? Or will this just get lost in the news cycle?

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  1. @josecipriano3048

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    People didn't care. The daily mail didn't tell them to.

  2. @Wynn1001

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    Isn't it about time for a new political party to be formed in the UK, we need new blood to firmly grasp the reigns and lead us out of the shit that those damn Tories have created since they came into power over 12 years ago.
    I can only answer for myself here but I don't have any trust for either the Tories or the Labour parties and I would like to see a new political party who will show the people of the uk exactly what they intend to do for us because I like so many people had lost any trust for those two parties years ago.

  3. @mattj5391

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    TLDR is literally just another media wing of the Labour Party. I bet all of these guys vote Labour.

  4. @charlesbritten4220

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    I spend 0.014% of my money on those new white chocolate creme eggs, which really is a scandal.

  5. @markmerry1471

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    They are just like the other parteys then

  6. @jonathanbrown9870

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    U CV v

  7. @ReallyOverthinkingThis

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    I’m all for going after the Tories, government corruption, and misuse of funds BUT making this big a deal about £1200 being spent on wine (across all government departments) is asinine.

    0.014% of government spending?!!

  8. @MAS-pb2fs

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    Against was spelt wrong lol

  9. @inquaanate2393

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    Its fuck all money

  10. @peterdollins3610

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    Yes, no reaction from the journalists in the pay of the rich with monies from this and other sources splashed on the same jurnalists. Then there are the monies being funnelled through from Russia in the billions also largely ignored by these journalists–with the odd honourable exception. Then there is Sunak with his blind trust in the tax havens and his shares in a Covid medication asked by Carol Vorderman if he has insider trading. Note he also signed the cheques from the £39 billion wasted–I mean used on failed equipement for Covid for Nurses and patients with £11 billion known to have been dodgy.Rishi refused to investigate. The orders for the PPS and other 'stuff' went through a private telephone No with access restricted to mates, friends and family of Toty Ministers Tory MPs. Figure this on simple mathematics. The last figure I heard from the German Government for Covid expenses of this kind is £800 million. Say it's gone up from them to a little over a billion or een a billion a half. The Geman provisions of this varied materials was higher thn the UK as there is a larger populstion in Germany AND my English friend living in Berlin tells me all of this is still bing provided in Germany. (He was shocked on his rerurn here to find he has to pay for everything to do with Covid in the UK.). So we spen £39 billion for th same equipement Germany spends at most a £billion on. Where did our 'spare' £38 Billion go? The penguins in the Zoo or the Tory Party MPs, relatives, mates, friends and hangers on? I know where I put my bets. Also Angela Raynors main request was for openness and transparency that Labour provides for it's MPs in a call in this time of great want to set an example. Man, you need to be shamed by the lousy joutnlism you display here. This is your calling as journalists to reveal the workings of power. You shit the bed mate. Spoiled a suite of beds.

  11. @SamTaylorsVersion

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    6:52 oh yes, 'agasint'

  12. @googane7755

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    Spending taxpayer money with no limits and no oversight is somehow being misused? No wayyy that's crazy

  13. @grapetoad6595

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    Not surprised the media isn't covering it, when they are owned by conservatives.

  14. @jackygil7935

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    Are y’all gonna cover what happened to Brianna Ghey? Wider reporting on it has been disappointing and underwhelming

  15. @JasonParmenter

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    Labour critique of the House of Lords is moot because they support and defend First Past the Post, which many critics has started seriously critiquing as even democratic in practice at this point.

  16. @Lexie_T

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    How thick do Labour have to be to think a spending scandal will stick when the covid party scandal has barely stuck? People want a progressive Labour offering solutions to cost of living and what they get is these pithy nothings that centrism is so good at.

  17. @edsr164

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    Really? This is a scandal in UK?

  18. @seekingenlightenment9685

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    Don't attack Tory spending, attack Tory lies and incompetence. Including the mis-selling of Brexit. Then focus on the deceit and incompetence of many of its ministers and prime ministers.

  19. @VirtualFunction

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    uk – total fucking joke

  20. @mikez2779

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    I knew the answer before you even started talking:
    Because, as usual with government scandals, mainstream media don't touch that even with a 10-foot pole.

  21. @Schroinx

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    Because old conservative Rupert Murdoch controls like 60% of the UKs media? That old James Bond movie was about the UK, but the powers that be failed to address the issue, just like BJ failed to investigate foreign (Russian) influence in the election that brought him to power as well as in Brexit. Londongrad and Brexit did not happen in a vacuum. The UK does not have free media nor a functioning democracy nor being free from foreign influence. Maybe you @tldrNews should make a video about that.

  22. @s.williams3214

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    You used dollar sign instead of pounds in the middle of the vid

  23. @W1DO

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    Labour missed. Starmer is just like Blair.

  24. @battmarn

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    If you work for a private company, expense anything you want because your company will tell you if you're using it too much. If you're literally spending public money, having this little oversight is disgraceful

  25. @Watchtuber7868

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    That shows there's more than one Christmas Scrooge.

  26. @imranmohammed279

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    Man, i should totes become a career politician. Dont do nothing important, basically run a school council. I could literally live life in gluttony, all off tax payers money.

  27. @douglaspate9314

    December 22, 2023 at 12:25 am

    Absolute peanuts and laughably minuscule compared with the Spanish "black cards". How about a report on the corruption and fascism of the C21 in the Spanish government. Goes way beyond anything you'll find in Hungary, Turkey or Poland

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