Rayner Has Resigned

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

@Judashascomeintosomemoney

Farage is "probably racist"? Probably?????

Thanks for this comment. I needed a good laugh.

She rightly resigned. She didn't pay the tax due and didn't follow the legal advice to get expert tax advice. She is clearly stupid or so arrogant that she envisaged she would never get caught/held to account.

Far worse for me is the fact that, as trustee of her child's trust fund, she sold to her son's trust 25% of the house in Ashon Under Lyne. The house was clearly not worth anywhere near £650,000 and she sold the quarter share for £162,500. That can not be a mistake/error. I hope she is held to account for not acting in her son's best interests. She should be removed as a trustee, I certainly would not want her acting as trustee for me.

I bet Starmer is overjoyed. I think they were never aligned with their views. She winged it most of the time. The intelligence just wasnt there with her i'm afraid..

Hopefully she can’t, and she’ll have to sell it ……….just after the new budget which is rumoured to include a new tax when you sell a property! She’d try and find a loophole to get out of paying that too!

I just think she's been really stupid.

All MPs know that they are under scrutiny and the media is out to get them. If you are female, Labour and working class, that is all magnified a million times.

Therefore she should have made sure that there was nothing for the Tory press to find.

Actually it’s sleazeball (unhyphenated). And yes, she is one.

At last.

God help this country if Reform get in. I hope we can then get small boats over to continental Europe and claim asylum!

As she has done to others so has been done to her.
Good.

Not in possession of the legendary ‘critical thinking’ of the left we’re always being told about on mumsnet

Now we need to know about Dr.Kemi and the course that never was. Not quite as bad as Angela who should have asked Tony Blair the correct way to avoid the stamp duty

Living under a Reform run council is bad enough.

Surely that is illegal!

And should she not then cared about the more left wing press, e.g. The Guardian?

I understand the sentiment but in reality, who would be left, of any party!

You see, I think they always get this mixed up? The Left generally have thinking which can be easily criticised

But his is above board and legal. That's the difference. I find it unbelievable that Rayner did what she did thinking she would get away with it. Clearly a dumbarse in emperors clothes. You can fool some of the people some of the time I guess...

I bit like most governments, of all shades, we oldies remember the shenanigans of the Wilson governments of the 60s and 70s!

Surely Jeremy Hunt?

Bought 7 flats and in doing so avoided any additional SLDT, using a loophole he himself had just introduced.
Of course no faux outrage from the 'right over this...... guess he was in he correct lane....

What on earth was Rayner thinking?? Get the law changed first, then you can avoid tax lawfully.....

She did get advice. Just not good enough advice.

The story wot she wrote?

Unnecessary and inaccurate. There is not a single person here slating Rayner for being female and working class. Just the fact that they feel she has been intentionally dishonest and is now discovering why we don’t throw stones if we live in glass houses (whether owned by a trust or not).