‘Angela Rayner’s grubby hypocrisy will never be forgiven by UK voters’
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2104363/Angela-rayner-hypocrisy-voters
Posted by brutal_seizure
‘Angela Rayner’s grubby hypocrisy will never be forgiven by UK voters’
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2104363/Angela-rayner-hypocrisy-voters
Posted by brutal_seizure
48 comments
I’m a Uk voter, I’ll forgive her if the ethics referral finds that she didn’t intentionally mislead but made a bad choice based on poor advice.
She has always been vile in holding others to account.
She should go.
I’m learning now that she sold her 25% share of a house she owned with her ex husband, to a trust that she is a trustee of and used that money to buy a house for 800,000
It sounds very fishy, but not illegal, but to say the 800k home is her main residence is farcical now considering I’ve found so many soundbites of her saying the Ashton home was and still is her main residence
The question is did she disclose the trust to her advisors, if she did then it would have been as clear as day she had to pay the extra
Unless there is something else going on that she hasn’t disclosed
As her son is under 17, she still owns the house even if it’s in a trust
I think they overestimate the attention span of the electorate in this 24/7 news cycle we seem to have.
This is literally the newspaper pushing it’s agenda and not “the voters”
‘Grubby’.🤣
The author sure is easily triggered😂
It seems a fair chunk of voters have already forgotten the 14 years of Tory atrocities and that Farage is a traitor. I think one innocent and relatively minor cock-up will be forgiven by most level-headed folk
The Express hasn’t met the Redditors I’ve met in the last few days.
The advice she sought-after was the advice she wanted .she knew exactly what she was doing . It’s called riding the gravy train .
There was barely a ripple when shagger Johnson bought an £8 million house with money ‘gifted’ to him.
I’m all for holding all politicians to account (and she should be sacked), but the far right, which Johnson and Farage are part of, get an easy ride from the press which is either owned or controlled by billionaires.
Politicians have always been about do what I say not what I do.
It’s just that she was caught out so is currently the vilian despite I’d say most of not all of them doing underhand stuff.
There’s enough layers to this than any investigation will take awhile and subsequently find it to be an “honest mistake” so it can be buried in a few months time.
Like the whole MPs expenses scandal has been largely forgotten now.
They are like the pig’s from Animal Farm
Live by the sword die by the sword. It’s entirely conceivable that although she made the first property subject to a trust she still retained a legal interest. It’s hard to believe any legal advice would say otherwise. As Deputy PM she should have checked further. She was highly critical of Tories for any transgressions and rightly so but because of her position she has to be squeeky clean. I don’t know how she can stay.
Oh fuck off now
The fact people are defending her shows how far the Overton window has shifted to the right.
She will never be trusted again. How can she stand up to anyone in opposition and hold any kind of credibility.
How the hell is Starmer letting this circus play out, all the while, pledging support for this shit show of a person? Does he not know how unpopular he is already? This couldn’t be anymore damaging. The lefty cucks who take to any form of criticism like shit to a blanket, cannot do a thing to save him.
She could have made a mistake, but I think it’s more likely than not she’s trying to use legal loopholes to avoid paying tax, like most people with significant resource do. The whole trust for her son thing will not help her in the court of public opinion
Problem is, she’s crossed the line into fraud and error. best case scenario she’s been careless and poorly advised, worst case shes been fraudulent.
When you’re a very public face of a party that’s very likely about to put tax up, I’m not sure she can stay
Iirc, not the first time she tried to cheat the taxman
She 100% knew what she was trying to do. I bet she even thought about what plausible deniability she could give if it went wrong.
How did she do this? I gotta pay a huge chunk (to me atleast) of Stamp duty this month. She needs to help us fellow buyers out in her Tax avoidance skills .
“ALl tHiS hAtE ItS bEcAuSE iM a WoMaN aNd fRoMtHe NorTh!!!”
The Express vastly underestimates just how much I hate the right wing parties it’s simping for.
Am I happy with what she’s done? Not really. But she’s referred herself to IA, which is more than most Tories would ever do, so we need to see the outcome. If it’s just because of bad advice, then she needs to pay what is owed and it’s a lesson for next time about whose advice you take.
They played the clip of her on radio two calling for all conservatives to be sacked for issues just like this one. Wonder if she’s still so keen.
“Grubby hypocrisy” it was a genuine mistake, ffs… Meanwhile, Rishi Sunak was installing swimming pools into his property using money his wife has from dodging millions in tax because of her non-dom status
Something that’s not being discussed. Solicitors don’t advise on SDLT, they advise you to speak to an accountant, but the solicitors submit the SDLT forms and payment to HMRC on the basis of what they understand the clients situation to be.
Angela’s situation happens all the time and it gets resolved, the correct amount gets paid, plus penalties, and that’s it. Just because Labour’s not that popular right now, and Angela’s in a high office, so it becomes a news story.
If only they reported on the properly wealthy screwing over the populace as much.
Yes they will give it two weeks and nobody will remember.
It’s strange that Angela Rayner claiming not to know the ins and outs of conveyancing laws is apparently a lot less forgivable than Boris Johnson knowing the ins and outs of whether he’s in a room where a party is happening.
Well, polls are suggesting that voters are about to vote for the guy that bullshitted us out of the EU to our detriment. Not sure voters can be trusted
The irony from a news outlet that fawns over the Tories
I look forward to the outcome of the enquiry rather than opinions on the net.
I really don’t like her at all ( calling an MP scum et al) but let’s hear all the evidence first.
Not defending her actions, but all the up in arms hysteria and hand-wringing from the media is laughable considering what shit the Tories got into for 14 years.
People have very short memories.
The biff from the North, snouts in the trough the lot of them, and her whole thick northern lass persona isn’t going to cut it as an excuse.
People will vote for her again, don’t worry.
Hahaha ok Express, ok
Well done Angela that’s all the right wing media needed (not like they needed much) so well fucking played 👏👏👏
I mean she’ll probably have to go, cause the optics are terrible.
But let’s face it, the degree of glee / vitriol from people who couldn’t wait for the opportunity to lay into her is totally disproportionate and mainly because she’s a working class woman, not because they care about the intricacies of unpaid stamp duty.
The UK voters forgave Boris Johnson partying while they were burying Nan at a distance.
The public forgave Caroline Spelman and calls for her sacking soon fell silent. The same people quickly forgot Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper’s implied expenses fraud, when it was found not to have breached parliamentary rules.
And if she were a Conservative politician, the Telegraph would be blaming Labour and its voters for hounding and bullying.
Oh come now, the vast majority of UK voters don’t give a shit. (Or know who she is)
I mean as long as they don’t forget Rishi’s hypocrisy, Farage’s hypocrisy, Cameron’s hypocrisy, Thatchers hypocrisy, Churchill’s hypocrisy….
A drop in the ocean compared to Reform, Farage and the Tories.
Honestly no Fk’s given.
Always seem to be the case that nobody gives a shit about Tory corruption, because they’re Tories, and lining there own pockets and selling of the country piece by piece to their mates from school is just what Tories do. Seems that people are fine with corruption, just so long as you grew up in the correct post code.
The Express is such a shit rag
But everyone’s fine with billions being stolen during the pandemic by Tories and the rich Tories mates.. Or Jeremy hunts dodgy property escapades, or Jacob Rees Mogg leading industrial strategy or opportunity for investments after Brexit while still owning an investment firm, literally insider trading, or Boris taking cash from dodgy sources or going to Ex KGB spies houses for a debauched evening..
A lot of MPs are dodgy, it’s shit and it absolutely needs to stop, but the Tories take the biscuit when it comes to dodgy behaviour and always seem to be able to brush it under the carpet..
Yes it will. Get a grip.
yeah, disappointing!!
and lets never forget Nigel Farage’s trip to America this week to convince them to increase tarrifs on UK and let the tech-bros walk all over us…..lets never forget that either!!
Will we ever forgive Farage for being a traitor to the UK by inciting the US to impose sanctions ON HIS OWN COUNTRY.
Has he broken the National Security act of 2023?
Either way, he recommended that UK policy be influecnce by the actions of a foreign state under the treat of sanctions. Which he supports.
So much for his support of the common man, which would be hurt by these sanctions.
Unforgivable, and I would say considerable more damaging that not paying tax.
Although curiously the right wing media have not reported all the fun he had. Especially when a certain congressman ripped him a new arsehole.
#truecoloursfarage #faragetraitor
But people will vote for Farage who’s a Putin apologist. What the living hell has happened to the Uk.
2 things can be true at once.
1. This is a clearly a stupid decision by Raynor. A politician I respected more than any other and she should step down to the back benches.
2. This is nowhere near as egregious as half of the Tory’s were 2 years ago. And the media protected them
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