Unable to get worked up over issues like Rayner stamp duty and Tory pandemic parties

It is actual corruption. You can't be a law maker and then not follow the rules. You can't say that the government should be collecting tax from the wealthiest in society and then not pay what you're meant to when your net worth is £5m so you are one of the wealthiest.

I didn't care about the pandemic parties - in fact, I was quite pleased they had them, because they obviously knew that the rules were nonsense, as we all did.
But Angela Rayner avoided tax, and that is pretty serious. She was a laughing stock as Deputy PM, so she had to go.

The older I get, the more I think that it doesn't matter especially if there's a left or right government in power. The moment you're in no 10, the promises you've made become secondary to external factors. Pragmatism rules and whatever political ideals you had are exonerated. I don't overly care about this, it was likely an error. I do think Angela Rayner would have used it as vicious ammunition were it a Tory MP. I'd prefer bigger issues tackled than petty squabbling. I grew tired of the council estate-girl-anyone-can-succeed shtick as while she did, and that's impressive, she's an outlier and I think it was pushed too hard to justify the narrative of "hard working families" and "anyone can do it!". It detracts from the the fact that currently the government is making very real cuts to benefits, childcare is extortionate and housing is hugely expensive.

I am with you OP. Not that they ate innocent of both scandals, but there is so much worst they have done where we should take them all to court for damaging the UK, to be honest.

It wasn't for her solicitor to sort 🤷‍♀️ they don't do that.,

I'm currently going through the same process - taking advice from a tax expert before I update will etc. She's lying about this or extremely stupid and not fit for the job.

They are the problems that affect our everyday life here in the UK. Just because other things are happening worldwide doesn't mean to say what goes on here is irrelevant.

This.

It’s a cute little distraction from the genocide that’s happening in Gaza. Let’s be honest it’s not really important in the grand scheme is it? A politician being dodgy is hardly ground shattering these days.
People should really be focussing on the thousands of people being starved and killed. Everything else just screams first world problems to me

I somewhat agree, there are much more pressing issues for this government to be dealing with.

I think it suits some interests for the attention to be focussed on the human failings of individuals, stops us asking the really big questions.

Each ‘event’ seeks to reinforce the view that ‘they’re all the same’ and it’s ‘not worth voting’. I don’t think they are and it’s absolutely vital people vote … otherwise vested interests go unchallenged. Or people vote on vibes.

This^^
I will never get over the fact that my beloved dad was taken into hospital and despite us being told he wasn’t going to pull through we weren’t allowed to see him because… rules..He and my mum spent the last 4 days of his life with her not being able to see him after 51 years of marriage because….rules.

Mainly agree with OP but her solicitor advised her to seek specialist advice, she did NOT.Do that.
It is in the report. Probably that is what buried her.

I really do think it was an honest mistake. I would have left it to the solicitor to sort. She has done some great work for women.
However she didn’t have any alternative but to resign, which she did as soon as the ethics commission ruled.
Other parties will of course use it as ammunition. It’s a sad episode.
Time will tell.
Just remember the shenanigans of the last government.

Unfortunately, we the general population are not allowed to make a human error without the strong possibility of large consequences. All examples mentioned are just people being held to the same standards as the rest of us and feeling the repercussions of their ‘human’ errors albeit in a very public way.

I think they matter just not as much as the news time given suggests. I'm more concerned about our seeming lurch to the right politically and the rise it hate, over one issue-ish.....and this might lead us down the path of selling everything that the country owns (Thatcher on speed, I'm sure she wouldn't even gone as far as we are now)...talking about the NHS, land, rights, etc.

But I still agree with you the news is repetitive and without much worth. I'm sure there are actual crimes happening but they are shoehorned into local news or police posts on social media.

And bring back the and finallys!

I would feel less exercised about Rayner if, every time the question of stretched public finances comes up, the Left didn’t respond with “we can find the money to give train drivers a double digit pay rise if we just clamp down on tax evasion by the rich”.

Oh please, do me a favour. If this were a Tory MP she would have been baying for their blood. I have zero sympathy for this type of hypocrisy! She was the bloody housing minister and deputy PM and she deliberately avoided paying her taxes. In no other profession would this be tolerated.

What bollocks! My granddaughter was born at 26 weeks and her mum stayed in hospital with her for months. She didn't sue the NHS and buy a family home with the "compo" not did she take her name off the title deeds so she could buy a third dwelling without paying the appropriate stamp duty. Any Rayner's gone now, big hypocrite that she is.

Well she's gone. Good.

Pandemic parties : medical staff were being vilified if they left their masks slip or appeared to not follow exacting hand washing advice, whilst politicians were partying and flouting all the rules. It was obnoxious.

Broadly agree. The pandemic parties were a total non event whipped up to ludicrous proportion.

Rayner probably won't survive this, and the tories will be crowing until the next time the boot's on the other foot. Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.

They've been wanging on about sleaze for as long as I can remember, yet here we are. Unless we can breed a new type of human in a test tube or something sleaze will always be with us.

If you take the bucks then you have to be prepared to explain it.

I’ll be honest if I could minimise tax I paid I would
the problem for her is she’s set herself up for this and she’s banged on for years publicly about people avoiding tax are the scum of the earth and morally corrupt
she’s called for many mp’s to be sacked or resign in similar circumstances

yet brazenly does the same herself

Yep this will be the issue, trying to blame the solicitors with lies

As for the op it’s the hypocrisy that will get Rayner after going after others, live by the sword etc

I just don’t care tbh. It’s not that big a deal. Our economy is in the bin, there is large scale social unrest due to migration, cost of living is sky high. this is not a top 10 issue