Chuka’s Suits Cost the Same as his Local Council Tax Bill
Though it’s not getting much coverage, apparently this morning Labour “launched an assault on tax havens in the Channel Islands, accusing them of letting people dodge taxes by hiding behind front companies and trusts.” With Operation – Keep – Ed – Off – the – Airwaves – for – the – Sake – of – the – Poll – Ratings in full swing, it was left to Chuka Umunna to do the lap of Millbank.
You might ask how someone who cannot even convince his own mother on the issue is in any position to lecture others on it. Chuka denies that offshore trusts were used to protect his inheritance, yet the Mail reported last year that the family used a complex structure of companies based in Jersey, and traced back to one RBC Trust, to purchase a million pound home:
“RBC, also based on the Channel Island, boasts it is one of the ‘top ten’ largest wealth managers in the world, offering services to ‘high net worth clients’ including ‘planning for and mitigating income, capital gains or inheritance taxes’”
And it’s particularly grating to be lectured on the evils of capitalism by someone who has clearly done so well out of it. Chuka’s spokesman confirmed to Guido earlier that his sharp look comes at a price. He tried to justify his bespoke Alexandra Wood suits, by saying “lots of Conservative MPs” are also draped by the “up and coming” tailor. Having spoken to the shop today, Guido can confirm that you don’t get much change from a grand for their cheapest number and a two piece wool would set you back around £1,200. Wood boasts:
“We are proud to have now made half of Mr Umunna’s wardrobe, about which he is immensely happy. We started designing his suits when he was working for Herbert Smith and now it is a privelege to be making suits for the man so frequently commented upon.”
So it’s not just one suit…
The average council tax bill in Chuka’s constituency is £1,235.11, something that many of his constituents will struggle to meet, yet he can blow the same, multiple times over, on just “half” of his wardrobe…
So this tax avoidence advisor is a real man of the people?
How can Labour claim to be the party of the “Working class”?
I see Ken Livingstone is advertising on Order-order, Can I suggest we all click his advert to waste his money
It’s a great cure for insomnia. Played it numerous times and I drifted off to sleep.
I m getting one of those suits.
nice.
Only £2000.
I’ll also do some PR for them so I can claim the suit cost less than it did
.
I rather hear about any monies the labour party feels in hindsight … should not have been spent.
He still looks like a drug dealing pimp.
Or Rafiki.
Hello sailor! Fancy a bunk up?
Chukka is just another posh public school boy, “do as I say, not as I do” millionaire champagne socialist, just like Ed Balls
Obviously takes tax advice from Toynbee and Benn
Only Labour would hand the Business, Innovation and Skills portfolio to a person with no experience in Business, Innovation and Skills
Business Innovation and Skills = BINS.
So Chucky’s into bins then? Now we know where he gets all his ideas from.
WIKI:
He is the grandson of High Court Judge Sir Helenus Milmo, QC. Umunna is also the nephew of libel lawyer Patrick Milmo QC.
One would expect him to dress like a gentleman.
His offshore tax arrangements were probably arranged by his relations, not by him.
His relations all seem to be lawyers.
Arranging affairs is what lawyers do. You cannot blame them for doing a good job.
Chuka’s background is almost as privileged as Edward Miliband’s.
They don’t know how daft they sound, trying to be “street”.
Use my tailor…Marks & Sparks
I prefer mine. Oxfam! Now that’s value for money!
Yes I am Conservative and will vote UKIP!
M and S Sale Rails are my preferred choice.
The XL bargains cost just a few pounds.
It’s the ‘altering bill’ that pushes up the price.
I get mine from from my gentleman’s outfitter’s down town I have to alter the inside length for any trousers I buy, so I do not buy retail anymore I am too short and too wide in suits. Tried a tuxedo on this morning 42″, thought if it goes round the Mayor and corporation it will be OK around the shoulders no chance, would have started ripping around the armpits. Shame, it was £3. I bet Guido has problems getting suits that fit that’s probably he always seems to be in a sports shirt.
He ought to work for a white Conservative, as I guess he’s not “one of us” enough for Diane Abbott.
Correct. He clearly “doesn’t do the black thing”.
please explain what “the black thing is”
He is just as convinced of his right to spout shite and expect people to listen when it’s obvious to the population at large that he is equally as lacking in the brain department as R’Ed.
Only the wealthy or the Benefits Class (formerly known as the Working Class) can afford the luxury of socialist hypocrisy…..
What are you fucking smoking Grim Reaper? The idea that the working class don’t exist is just nonsensical.
I love this blog, but this is such a non-story. If the Guardian ran this sort of drivel about anyone – we’d all be incredibly condescending. And quite right too.
Yeah, a tax-dodger lecturing us on the evils of erm.. tax-dodging.
Non-story! Nothing to see here! Move along, comrades!
Quite right – would you like a job with us comrade?
Thank you for your money.
Now…..I wonder where the socialist Groaniad keeps it’s trust fund?
Answers on a postcard addressed to Local Socialist. (Hint: Offshore, tax, haven….)
Btw LS – Grim is one of the most respected contribs to the site you love so much, so don’t diss him……..
My brother Ed is a silly man, but I am a smoo-ooo-ooo-ooo-th man.
Which one Chucky Ed Milliband or Ed Balls?
Hang him
Too fast. Two-piece.
Cut him into several segments and put them on pikes.
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/01/15/england-to-scotland-hurry-up-and-leave/
England To Scotland: Hurry Up And Leave!
Joe Public to AC1: hurry up and get a girlfriend you creepy weirdo
lawandfreedomfoundation.org/2012/01/12/stopped-a-big-one-in-luton/
The Luton Mosque outfit who were going to take over a former army barracks right in the centre of Luton have been stopped.
Over 2,000 houses in Blackburn are registered as mosques (one room to have a rpayer mat in it) this allows them to pay NO council tax.
tell me thats a piss take….
http://europenews.dk/en/node/51190
The west’s useful idiots
When the working voter looks at car insurance to get to work that labour inflicted on the working voter the working voter may tell the labour Party to fuck off
Chukka is half Nigerian and therefore ideally placed to be in British politics in the Labour Party. Culturally, he understands bribery, corruption, tax evasion, gerrymandering and graft as essential components of successful politicians and, no doubt, he already has numerous offshore Bank Accounts.
its him that signs them letters asking for my bank account details i keep getting.
His mum has five million she cannot access without a british, er sorry you-kayish bank account. poor bloke. poor ole mum.
Shame about the bulldogclip down the back seam or does he always stand like that ?
Plonka…..could have got it for £30 down the balls Pond Road… or did he?
in his defence, those suits are SHARP
Of course you do Neo – just not made for you –
Me too
Yup…..sharp as a second hand car salesman….and would YOU buy a car from this man….or any of his comrades…..
Would rather buy a car from him than a policy…
Yes, but he has sticky-out ears and so ought to wear his hair longer.
Hair longer? Looks to me like he could do with a syrup.
He looks like a burst condom.
Up the workers..as they say
Yup….up theirs
Absolute rotters
I earn half of Chuka’s salary and I pay about half that for a suit. It’s up to him how he spends his money and we shouldn’t criticise him for dressing well just because the stereotype of a Labour MP is an ageing trade unionist with a stained brown suit!
Oh p*ss off you middle class tw*t.
The aging trade unionists are the some of the few who can afford expensive suits dont you know.
Stained brown has somebody been going through my dustbin.
Of course he can spend his money however he wishes, but he should not pretend to speak for the downtrodden when he is such a flash git himself. He would not know downtrodden or value for money if his life depended upon it.
Yeh and its up to me how I spend my money too and if i want to put it in a Jersey Offshore fund what the fuck has it got to do with Chukup? Do you see how it works?
Martin,you earn half Chuckup’s salary but your tax money is going towards his sharp suits as he’ll be claiming them on expenses. I really do wish there was some brave media hack who had the backbone to confront this arrogant bastard with his hypocrisy.
Just look at the published photographs of Chuckup. The arrogance and superiority clearly oozes out of him. This twat is so full of himself that I wouldn’t be surprised if he puts himself forward as leadership candidate if Red Ed throws in the towel. Just where does all that arrogance come from? He must be a real twat to work for.
chucca obumma the uk version of that equally useless c=unt across the pond
I earn about the same as chuka and don`t buy £1200 suits as I PAY ALL MY TAXES unlike chuka the hypocrite typical LIEBOUR do as we say not as we do ask Lord fat twat 2 jags millionaire
Only the little people pay taxes.
Chuka the Fukka ?
Don’t talk about Chucky like that!
I walked into my tailors the other day and said “I want to see the cheapest suit in the shop”, “just a moment” he said “I’ll fetch a mirror!”
Chuka a hypocrite – surely some mistake?
That all ended with the demise of that right wing election winner Tone.
Yep, Cameron and Osborne’s probably cost at least that or more. Have you not realised that they’re all the same? All of the politicians? All of them do this, not just the ones you hate.
Logic. Use it some time.
Chuka ! The next best thing to me !!
Well done Andrew Neil
Another fuckpig!
And that’s as far as my political analysis goes these days and especially with this c*u*n*t!
How dare you be so disrespectful to an MP. He deserves more respect, just like what I do.
Just another arrogant champagne socialist bum?
Form an orderly queue.
Where ??
Grammar and spelling do not seem to be Alexandra’s strong points, do they?
Another example of stinking Westminster hypocrisy to go along with Cheryl Gillan.
They really just don’t get it
“I like my clothes. But I’m rather bemused by it, because if I was in any other context than politics, like the City… Well, most people wear a sharp suit. But here…? (Laughs)
http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/11298/1/20-qas-chuka-umunna
See? The young Brutha knows what “being taken out of context” is all about!
A gentleman never pays or discusses his tailor.
My outfits for the Labour, all female shortlist candidacy came from Miss Selfridge
The honourable position for him to take, if he were to be intellectually consistent, is to disavow the trusts created for his benefit and pay full IHT on his inheritance when it comes his way. I await his announcement.
“Honourable” is not a word recognised by the Labour dictionary along with “Troughing” and “being careful with the nation’s resources”.
And yet, they don’t mind being called “the Right Honourable Fred Bloggs.”
(And they’re like the Holy Roman Empire; they’re not honourable, neither are they right.)
Expensive taste, flashy even. Few voters can relate to someone who spends this kind money on work clothes. Especially not in a time of austerity.
If he drops this much money on a suit, imagine how much he’d waste if he was in charge of a ministerial budget?
Judging by that photo, he can’t even wear them properly anyway.
Jeez the women on that mature dating site just get f*cking worse.
I dunno, I’ve seen worse.
Lovely pair of tights, though. 20 denier Wolfords, perhaps, smooth and soft
I share the same opinion as the late, great Alan Clark [talking about John Gotti's suits]:
“I didn’t know it was possible to buy one so cheaply”
Saw him on the TV the other day rambling some nonsense or other and one word came to mind….”Cock!”
Perhaps I should add anoher couple of words now “hypocritical, sharp-dressed, cock!”
Did he turn his mobile phone off?
Seconded
The question not being asked is how did Mr Umunna and/or his family obtain their wealth? Are they a local drug dealing family?
Which “half”? Does he dress to the left or to the right?
You can’t polish a turd!
And he still looks like some chap in a Tesco clothing advert…
Would that be Florence or Fred?
Looks like it could be either.
So this is what Labour mean when they talk about cuts?
I wish I had a nice suit like that.
One cannot polish a T*ur*d
Just another hypocritical little shit, like that bloody Abbott woman. I can never quite decide whether the black hypocrites are worse than the white ones, or vice versa.
What an absolute shower.
Why even bother to choose?
Operation – Keep – Ed – Off – the – Airwaves – For – the – Sake – Off – the – Poll – Ratings
or to be nit pickingly correct
Operation – Keep – Ed – Off – the – Airwaves – For – the – Sake – Of – the – Poll – Ratings
Chuka makes me want to chuck up. He is a pompous hypocritical little man.
In fact Chuka is that bad I would sooner listen to Bercow, and drink 4 pints of cold dog sick at the same time.
Chuka he’s a Fukka
Where is Ed?
Where is Diane Abbott?
She’s auditioning for a part in Rastamose.
He’s auditioning for a part in the human race.
looks like our local drugs gang baron, ‘The Suit’ he came to power under new labour and the benefits culture that sank the local estates here so is about right. He’s welcome to pop down here to the shit hole that is Bilborough and see what 13 years of new labour has done.
I’ve no objection to Chuka blowing 1200 quid on a suit – It’s his money and he can do what he likes with it. I do ,however strongly object to his politics of denying 1200 suits to those who aspire to them and to the Socialist habit of pulling up the ladder of aspiration up after them.
If someone wants 1200 suits, thats got to be some sort of mental health issue.
What twisted mind would link those two together?
She’s a strange one that lass.
A slapper?
photo/1
Twisted mindis a fair description.
Republican = US politician
republican = an advocate of a republic
Stupid cow
Yes, we should now ban all ships Sally, a very well thought out and apt observation from a shinning example of the Twitterati.
Something must be done.
A new EU directive about not running boats into coasts.
Don’t worry. I’m not joking. (compare: recent grounding of a ship in Brittany).
Well put it this way whenever an RN ship is navigating that close to land the crew would be closed up, machinery lined up in case of failure, extra bridge look outs, echo sounders constantly monitored and so on. It goes without saying that the charts would be up to date and a safe course has been plot. Ships pilots with current knowledge and years of experience of local waters exist for very good reasons.
to navigate a liner with 4000 souls on board that close to rocks even if had been daylight just beggars belief
the well stretched gash in sally’s hull ? she’d sink in seconds
Never trust anyone in a suit.
In answer to your moniker:- It was probably Billy.
i dont have a time of the month, do I Guido? Im a man, arent I? She was blocked for using her keyboard in a annoying manner wasnt she Neo? Blimey – have we had to lay off the cleaner as well? this cubicle is full of Starburst wrappers.
strawberry double-ribbed mainly. Shall i pop out and see if i can borrow a dustpan and brush Giudo?
Michael Gove – re the new royal yacht.
The Guardian, BBC News, Sky News, all got the story wrong, well as Diane Abbott would say, out of context.
They all selected part of what he actually said. Why?, just to try and get a sensational story. Why do the media never learn. Is the Guardian that short of reporting talent?
Yes
A really good tailor would have been able to hide the huge ego.
He dresses it to the left.
Which labour MP makes you want to throw up the most. Sadiq Kahn must be up there.
he is my Mp and i hope that with boundary changes he gets unseated next time. His pandering to the asian vote wont help him as the community is divided. Also he is another lawyer on the make.
What I can’t understand is how the socialist elite become so rich. It can certainly not be from practicing what they preach.
Theft.
How much would one of them suits cost if some fat bastard like Prescott wanted one? Think of the reams of material required. Enough to cover the outer lane of the M4 from Heathrow to Hammersmith, I shouldn’t wonder.
Does he get his lips done at Katie Price’s surgery?!
LOL!
He even endorses her on the AW website. Wonder what the kickback is for that?:
My suit is a true pleasure to wear, Alexandra created it to my exact specification; smart, fashionable and comfortable. I would take great pleasure in recommending her to anyone. I certainly intend on placing more orders in the near future” – Chuka Umunna, Labour MP
Chuka sounds like a Predator, Moss Bros new seasons wear.
http://tv.animare.hu/i/j/0039/22/a/1.jpg
This on Alexandra Wood’s website on the Nigerian:
“He is one of the most stylish dressers in the house, favouring expensive double-cuff shirts and silk-lined jackets for his well-cut suits. He doesn’t dress like a man rubbing along on the basic MP’s salary of £65,000, and could be mistaken for the corporate lawyer he almost became.” – The London Evening Standard, article by Stephen Robinson
If he’s Nigerian, what is he doing in the HOC?
Did he make his money from 419 scams?
Greetings! I have great news! I have 100,000 bespoke suits worth £180,000,000 ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY MILLION POUNDS STERLING in an off-shore trust and I would like to send them to you! Because of my low MP’s salary, I am unable to afford the shipping to your home, but if by the grace of God you send me your bank account details, personal details, address, phone number etc, along with a minimal payment of £10,000, I can send you the £180,000,000-worth of suits by return!
Your friend in Jesus, Chukup Umunna.
Sounds great! I’ll order some more just as soon as I regain control of the UK economy. Hope the ones Gordon and I ordered a few years ago arrive soon!
By the way, are you the same fellow who promised to double our money if we sent you all our gold? Just wondered if we’d be getting a cheque soon? We’d like it denominated in New Drachmas as we think that will be a currency to watch.
We’ll be fleshing out Labour’s economic policy in a couple of years’ time, so do let us know if you have any more great deals, won’t you?
He revels in rubbng the little people’s noses in his wealth:
“He is one of the most stylish dressers in the house, favouring expensive double-cuff shirts and silk-lined jackets for his well-cut suits. He doesn’t dress like a man rubbing along on the basic MP’s salary of £65,000, and could be mistaken for the corporate lawyer he almost became.” – The London Evening Standard, article by Stephen Robinson
Hilarious. The strategy now seems to be to keep Knob Ed in hiding and then get a bunch of talking chimps to go on the box and report to the nation what Ed thinks and says. You couldn’t make it up.
Yes I could.
aaahh when is the homopornoincestor plagiarising cock obsessed lying utter lefty c-uuuunt back work?
very little.
If the euro disintegrates and the European Union collapses what will happen to my pensions?
You will have fuck all, just like the rest of us who are not employed by the state.
We might abolish the House of Lords as well. Back to the valleys with your arse in your hand, boyo… Land of your Fathers – and your Fathers can keep you…
A fraudulent fop and hypocrite. Just like Toynbee
who has started re-appearing like a stubborn rash.
Obviously the millionaire property owning socialist has
had a nice break and needs to rejoin the workers.
Don’t forget her nepotism in getting into Oxford.
He follows in the family tradition of Miliband (and various other Liebour heroes) quietly using convoluted legal arrangements to ensure that they hang on to maximum wealth while castigating opponents who wish – openly – to do the same.
This is exactly the same sort of Liebour hypocrisy as their banning of grammar schools for ordinary folk while sending their own brats to expensive private establishments.
They get caught out time after time but they persist in thinking that if they can’t smell their own stench then no-one else can.
They must have shit for brains.
Well done Guido!
Appalling !
She’s not that bad. Really…
He’s an ugly bleck as well.
He does seem more normal than Ed Miliband.
Who doesn’t? Quasimodo looked more normal than Ed Miliband.
But on the “normality” scale, with 100 being normal, 50 being Hitler and 0 being, well, Ed Miliband, I’d put Chukup on about 0.5.
He wouldn’t be allowed in my Embassy Club dressed like that. Fucking ponce, he’d give the place a bad name.
Trainers with a dark suit of any kind just isn’t on.
Chuck is style over substance. He is a poor version of Obama! He wants to be Obama. You have to pity the plonker.
You have to pity the whole shagging Parasite Party. After the fuckup they made of Britain over the course of 13 years, their chances of getting back into power anytime soon were remote to start with, let alone with loathsome mongs like Miliband, Ballsup and Chukup making the Party less app*ealing than a dose of clap.
Obama is an idiot. Hang him.
Of modest ability and has much to be modest about – The british “Obama”? You have got to be joking.
Not sure Obama is anything to emulate either…
Oh I don’t know, Obumma’s turned out to be a useless, clueless socialist, who’s only discernable talent is reading from a teleprompter and taking expensive vacations.
So maybe Chuka might not look so rubbish alongside the soundbite messiah himself. Alongside an averagely competent politician though, he would definitely struggle.
Why does he want to be like Obama Beach ?
If only my Council Tax bill was to reduce to its 1980 level, I too might equate it to the cost of a suit!
the amount of Council tax extorted is only 25% of council spending!
Should raise it to 100% and cut other more harmful taxes (and also the size of the council).
I need a double gusset
obviously a man of the people (as long as the people are hand picked from some of the better off, less working class labour supporters)
Mind you – at least Chukka looks fit and well presented – the Labour Shadow Cabinet look like they’ve covered themselves in sellotape and run through Oxfam. An absolute disgrace.
Don’t forget Chuka will also be claiming the tax on his sharp suits.
Having read the item, I am completely convinced that this chap is *the* text book socialist.
What do you call a man in an expensive suit?
The accused.
As I often like to say…”You don’t have to live like Ghandi to be a Socialist”
Not really on topic but not really off it either:
Some posters wonder how the adverts are directed to the readers of this blog, and different posters claim to see different things; in this thread, I’ve seen adverts for bespoke suits and asset protection– I shit thee not. Maybe it has something to do with the subject matter; the longer you leave Order-order up in one of your tabs, the longer the ISP has to figure out what the subject is and direct adverts that way.
As others have said: Firefox + AdBlock = no ads
Frequent use of CCleaner makes you fairly invisible (I hope). Please advise me if this is not the case and I will investigate further.
If the advertisers had to rely on the business I give them from Guido’s website, they’d be broke in a week. I wasn’t really complaining, and anyway, if there’s a way to block the adverts, there’s a way to find out if the adverts are being blocked too, I imagine, and I wouldn’t want Guido to lose the advertising revenue when the advertisers determine it’s a waste of time to put their stuff up on Guido’s website. Guido, I am pretty sure, is not the one putting up those spots I was referring to; rather, I think he’s encoding some sort of subject code that allows the various service providers in whatever area/nation this blog is being read in to put up an appropriate spot if they have an advertiser for such products. If he IS putting up those spots, one would have to question whether the advertising tail was wagging the editorial dog as far as what stories are covered, and I don’t even want to start down that road.
The little shit never learns, E.
*Picks stuff*
Does I know u , Sugar Daddy ??
Who’s u talkin bout , babes ?
E x .
You don’t know? Who’s the jerk that forced you to truncate your name after seven years on here?
I’ll give you a clue: Fat, posh, failed blog, bad hairdo, likes teddy bears…
Got it?
It is easy to type Ewаnmе.
There.
YVW
they are all just thieving, stinking rich bastards
Yes….. but Chuka he’s a Fukka !!
Could Labour really elect the other Miliband after electing Ed?
its funny, whilst most people in the country are having to consider going begging for a living this shit faced c’unt thinks nothing of spending thousands on clothes ffs – its easy to tell how fucking austerity has affected him and the rest of the fucking politicians
Fuck off Fawkes you white racist twat. It’s typical of you whitey’s to try to divide us black people, me and my large arse have been abused for years.
If my mate Chuka wants to spend your taxes on nice suits so what? Better than pissing it away on fucked up trash kids in state schools, thank god I sent my spawn to a posh Tory private school overseas.
Now where’s that slab of lard *yum yum*
I have a feeling Chuka will cry foul and call this an ad hominem attack. However, let’s look at his own history. When questioning Osborne on the treasury committee last year, he asked if the abolition of child benefit for those earning over £40,000 would affect him personally. Osborne said yes, he has children and he and his wife would cease to get the benefit. Chucky then said “And that will affect you financially will it?” and Osborne quite rightly replied “Well, I notice you always play the man and not the ball”.
Let’s get down to hard facts. Chucky is a preening narcissist who believes his own hype and has let the drivel spouted by some about him being a future prime minister go straight to his head. He’s a political lightweight, an opportunist who’s motivated purely by fame and popularity. He’s not in politics because he has a passion for it. He’s in it because it seemed a good career move that will make him lots of money and get him lots of airtime on television. He probably thought his 15 minutes would last a lifetime but it hasn’t taken long for him to be found out, first with his tax avoidance, and now with his profligacy. At this rate, his political career will quickly end the same way as another opportunistic phony, Oona King, with a massive defeat at the polls.
typical white racist
How much is Ed Miliband worth?
What a pernicious little git.
He looks like that Fine Young Cannibals bloke
There is nothing wrong with choosing to wear expensive suits if you have the money andf nothing wrong with sticking up for hard-up constituents while you do so. What is absolutely disgraceful and worthy of our scorn is at the same time criticising conservative leaders for being posh. That’s the cheap, nauseating hypocracy.
You can tell someone using an iPad because of the random extra f’s that appear unasked. You only have to breath on it and extra letters appear. Or I suppose I might have a subconscious desire to type f*** but am too polite to do so…
Britains political class are the new ruling aristocrats. Time for a revolution – french style.
he is looking flyyyy in those suits. Leave him alone.
Don’t you ever get it?
Do as I say, not as I do.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Do as I say, not as I do.
You are making the same clickety clack clickety clack noise my train makes on the tracks. Clickety clack clickety clack..
What a cu’nt
Being a retired butler of the old school, I applaud the young person’s efforts to dress appropriately, and I am therefore impelled to put him right on a solecism which, if not corrected, will surely impede his advance in English society.
I refer to his forename ‘Chuka’. It is still not considered good form in this country to embrace the American fashion for taking the name of footwear as a personal appellation. Just as one shudders at an American woman’s being called ‘Chelsea’ after the eponymous boot, so one cannot countenance Mr Umunna’s appropriation of the name of the boot worn while playing polo.
(Permit me a digression here. Though his photograph suggests that he might possibly be fluent in Hindoostani, I venture to assert that the word derived from that tongue should be spelt with a double ‘k’.)
Mr Umunna would do better to revert to the full name of which I assume ‘Chuka’ to be a diminutive (Chester? Cholmondeley?).
Certain it is that some will question why a person of my own deeply conservative convictions should thus advise a politician of the Socialist persuasion. I can only reply that, for the time being, I can repose no hope in the Conservative Party under its current leader, who is apparently the daughter of a provincial grocer.