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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (14 children)

For those who haven't read it, it will cost the taxpayer more because he'd need more security if he was sitting in a different seat

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Because it's absolutely essential that he's present for the match, right?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Asking people to give up their lives, hobbies, and anything that brings them joy when they go into politics isn't the way to get quality candidates.

[–] radicalautonomy 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

No one's saying he can't go to the game. He just can't take free expensive tickets as political favors or have enhanced security on the government's dime and not be called the fuck out about it. He can buy his own tickets and hire his own bodyguards if he wants to, he's a big boy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

and hire his own bodyguards

Now that's a take, Holy hell.

[–] radicalautonomy -5 points 1 month ago

You're right. He should just keep accepting bribes so that he doesn't have to forgo his hobbies.

[–] Zorque 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not going to a football match doesn't mean you have to give up everything that makes you happy.

If that's literally the only thing that'd make him happy, he's got much bigger problems in life.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A quality candidate would be a person that wasn't a football loony.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

How dare they enjoy things!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He's an Arsenal fan. Asking him not to watch them play is just unrealistic.

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