Rayner Has Resigned

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

What evidence do you think shows that he is?

I’m sure your claim would be as valid as I suspect is the claim of many of those coming this way.

Another stooge showing us the supposed purity of the wealthy British middle/ upper class. Sure, I totally believe you would be so pure if you came from Britains northern gutters. 🤔

If she’d been born into wealth like Farage and Trump and bloody princes Andrew and Harry she would have been given the money for that weeks pocket money or drinking money.

Yep, this pretty much sums it up.

I thought the foreign office was the place Lammy could do the least damage to the UK.

In his old job he had no real ability to deviate from established UK positions and the civil servants would have been able to keep him on a tight reign.

Many on here would shove her out too....

You what now? No idea what you’re talking about

Giving dc privacy is a basic consideration

I had a degree of sympathy for her until she tried to throw a small conveyancing firm under the bus to save her own skin. Really shitty behaviour, and I'm glad she's gone.

Does anyone seriously believe that Farage is not a racist?

There was how he was percieved in school by all his peers as a hitler loving, unapologetic racist - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2024/jun/14/he-was-a-deeply-unembarrassed-racist-nigel-farage-by-those-who-have-known-him

• That time that he expressed his "discomfort" at hearing foreign languages
• His love of Enoch Powell
• The "Breaking Point" Brexit poster
• His referral of a "Jewish lobby" and "A New World Order" and other anti-semetic rubbish

He is a clear racist, that tempers his views in public.

She was asked to be transparent about her tax affairs, the purchase of the property, her living arrangements.

Its idiotic to suggest she could have done that without talking about her son, his disability and the whole reason for the trust.

Prior to this, the trust was supposedly a vehicle for her to avoid IHT, she had no choice in the matter, with the support of the childs father.

just pp using everything they can to attack her.

...and his use of a Nazi era poster, during the Brexit campaign.

Hunt bought property which was dealt with under Labour’s 2003 Finance Act property definition, but i guess that doesnt fit your nasty Tory nice Labour narrative? It’s automatically applied; he wouldn't have even needed to tick the (wrong) box on a form. Despising somebody who has enough money to invest reflects far more poorly on you than on them; he's living rent free in your head (ironically) 🤣

She was advised to obtain specialist advice. She didn’t follow advice.

F*ck me.
Keir really hates the British.

David Lammy is deputy now.

I mean, it might be something that you don't like hearing. Doesn't mean that it's not true though is it? Doesn't mean that it can't be backed up coherently by multiple things he's done and said?

She is a coarse and divisive class warrior who clothed her cynical opportunism in the guise of authenticity and relatability. It was the latter that got her elected as deputy leader of the Labour Party.

She is also, alas, just not intelligent or credible enough to be the Deputy Prime Minister and while moving Lammy there may actually strengthen the government, Rayner's departure is devastating for the country as a whole. Reform will organise a recall election in Ashton, which will succeed, and Rayner will lose her seat to Reform so we'll see more pandering to the Faragiste doctrine.

But worse than that, the narrative that all politicians have one rule for them and another for us becomes even more entrenched.

She did say that she ‘followed legal advice’ which seems to be untrue.

No.

Yup. David "men can grow a cervix" Lammy himself.

How very disappointing this is. You'd hope that our leaders would demonstrate honesty and integrity, but if not that then at least show enough sense to realise such an action would be easily found out, and so not do it.
Stupidly on top of a shortage of integrity is really unforgivable

Exactly. Plus whatever those MPs said in defence eg Streeting below was kaput. They couldn’t repeat that now.

‘Jeremy Hunt received a “bulk discount” on seven flats bought from a Conservative donor, the Guardian can disclose, as parliament’s watchdog opened an investigation into the health secretary’s admission that he breached money laundering rules.
The health secretary was forced to apologise for failing to declare his part-ownership of a company, which bought the luxury seaside flats in Southampton.’

www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/18/jeremy-hunt-investigated-breach-money-laundering-rules-luxury-flats

Come back Angela, all is forgiven!

Seriously, Lammy??? The man’s a buffoon. We really are scraping the barrel.

Good riddance. Anyone, of any party, fiddling, needs to go. 👍