Rayner Has Resigned

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AIBU to say it isn't unexpected, or a surprise?

I can't get my head round that either.

On one of the news channels, someone was saying that because she was a trustee, she still counted as owning the Ashton house even though she'd sold her share to the trust.

The media are fucking horrible.

What does spray the house mean?

@AmericanPaint never mentioned a ban from SM; I took it they were alluding to the pile on from the flying monkeys who would disagree even if she said it’s because Reform think the sky is blue.

I hope her children will have to move schools because of this. Give them some extra turbulence like she expected private school children to do. Vile women. Vile political party.

@LakieLady She is on the deeds for a property held in trust. She raised money based on that ownership. When the tax was due, her newly purchased flat was a second property.

Ironically, I just had one from you.

I think we can guess the answer to that one...

It’s very very very simple. As a trustee of a trust which owns a residence for children under 18 - that counts as such for stamp duty. Thus had been mentioned many many times in the press and on here. It’s not complicated and takes a 2 min look at the HMRC website.

Angela Rayner was quite happy to throw someone else under the bus to avoid rightly
being dragged under it herself.

even more unpalatable - some might say - is that she built a career based on rightly despising the antics she’s been exposed as getting up to herself.

Sometimes I do despair of the gullibility of those who read the rabid right wing press. They have been trying to get her out for over a year. The last time they said she had avoided tax HMRC confirmed that actually she hadn’t so they just kept going. Do any of of us think that the fact that she is a powerful women who managed to make it from the working class to a position of power had anything to do with that? How very dare she say the Mail the Express and the Telegraph. A woman with a northern accent as deputy prime minister. Not having that. Interestingly today the Telegraph tax columnist a former accountant seemed to suggest he wouldn’t have known the right answer either! I have in the past relied on stamp duty advice from my conveyancing solicitor nothing written down just verbal assurances. The Ethics investigation said she had acted with integrity so that seems to suggest that they knew she wasn’t just telling porkies to save money. #justsayin.

Yes Whilst we will rarely agree on anything, on this, its totally her fault and i have to say, i did think this earlier, knowing a little about HMRC rules, it does look like she thought she could save 40k.
Doubtless HMRC will act accordingly.

She was told get advice, didn't.... 100% on her own head.

Nope she has resigned as Deputy too. She is now a basic backbench MP.

Angela Out. Rayner resigns as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and as Deputy Prime Minister.

Since false statements for tax evasion are a form of fraud and a criminal offence, and resignation an admission of guilt, can we expect criminal proceedings regarding her crime?

Or will it be that senior Labour politicians are immune to the law regarding tax evasion in the same way that minor Labour politicians are immune to the law regarding incitement to violence?

It would be nice to have some clarity on how many laws Labour and their favoured groups and individuals can ignore.

I expect the plan is a swiftly concluded period of remorse, followed by a return to the Cabinet in 6-9 months, following the Mandelson template from the Blair years.

Such a pity the Judith ‘batshit crazy’ Wood article in the Telegraph telling us how Rayner is whip smart couldn’t save her, or the heartstrings tugging Mirror one about her disabled son, or the Suzanne Moore one also in the Telegraph about how nasty men are attacking her because they want to fuck her.

Not that there was a coordinated MSM defence play or anything…..

I wonder how many houses she will get in the severance package? 😂😂. -Daniel Jupp

This is a very amusing post. Angela and co hate anyone who has bettered themselves. Hence the financial pillaging of the middle class. I actually don't hate her and I think that the British political landscape is better for the population it serves if it contains a more diverse breadth of backgrounds. But she would be the first in-line to take down any Tory politician who had done the same. And she would be brutal and unrelenting about it.

Good. Another step towards the Reform Government we need to get this country sorted out. She was only there because of the unions in the first place.

The report shows that she was advised to take additional specialist advice due to the complex nature of her situation, and she chose not to do so, which demonstrates a significant lack of good judgment in complex legal situations. How on earth could anybody have ever thought she was fit to run the country, when she would not act on sound legal advice?

Do you feel the same re the media and Conservative etc politicians?

The ethics investigation concluded that she had breached the ministerial code.

It’s so much easier being in opposition

She blew it.

It was only a matter of time before the media found labour’s skeletons in their closets, it’s basically what the media do as soon as any party comes to power.

They did it to the Conservatives too and labour, including Rayner were quick to put the knife in, so what goes around comes around.

i think the media probably have a lot up their sleeves in terms of stories which they will drip feed to get rid of labour, then it will switch onto whoever is next in power.

Basically it seems very few politicians are to be trusted and are in the job for the wrong reasons, which is sad but hardly surprising.

None so blind as them that will not see.......

Who does that leave us with, then?!

Yes the Tory press will hound Lab politicians, thats a given, they have it in for Reeves too, who has a v different background.

So why the xxxx ignore advice to run by her SLDT position with an expert?

Lammy not getting a fishing licence is an oversight, saving 40k in tax needs to be checked and double checked, again and again.

She has been a bloody fool.