Rayner Has Resigned

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

I really dislike how she always plays the ‘working class I had a child at 16’ card. I am from working class. background, had a child at 17 and worked my way to a senior role (not as senior as her). Does that mean that I don’t have to pay all my tax?

Rayner's departure is devastating for the country as a whole

It most certainly is not.

@usernamealreadytaken SDLT levels changed in 2016, Hunt bought 7 flats in 2018, taking adv of the 6 flats rule introduced in 2016....

Prior to this, he would have paid an extra 100k in tax..... nothing i wrote is wrong but you are.

Ah, the notorious Leona ('Queen of Mean') Helmsley: "We don't pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes." She too had her difficulties with property and tax 'complexity'. She even did time for tax evasion.

Someone I knew who became a Labour MP in a struggling area bought all the furniture for her constituency house second-hand, mostly from charity shops, rather than capitalise on her job. I wonder if there's any left like that in the HofC now.

I don’t think he’ll ever live that down!

Ha ha careful what you wish for then!!

Lammy is a hit with Trump and Vance, they went fishing together and get on very well, in Trumps uncertain world, not a bad move by Starmer.

As do, I suspect, most freelance journalists in the UK.

The grown ups in the government never materialised, as proven by we never hear that mentioned now.
Still, we have the consolation of brains arriving, in the form of David Lammy.

I'm Labour but I never particularly liked Angela Rayner. There was a story at the very outset of her career about her using parliamentary notepaper to bully a independent shop where she wanted to buy a pair of shoes. That kind of stuff tells.

There was a lot to admire about her too, but I think she and her mates were holding Labour back. I've no sadness over her resignation.

Careful, jan2310 ... if everyone who criticises Rayner is supposed to be classist, misogynist and the rest, it won't be long until we're told the least adverse comment about Lammy is entirely down to racism

Can they organise a recall election? This situation doesn't appear to meet any of the criteria?
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn05089/

You're right: on the face of it this doesn't appear to meet the criteria at the moment.

But it won't take long for Farage to publicly ask why there is no criminal prosecution, why there is no suspension from the Committee on Standards, and so on. Like with the asylum hotels, Reform and their chums in the media have a knack of making stories like this grow legs of their own and will make her position as an MP untenable. I mean, she's already given up her constituency home and bought another one 250 miles away; how committed can she be to Ashton-under-Lyne?

I hope this happens

It worries me greatly that the impact that the press can have. Both left wing and right wing though. It’s politically destabilising. I felt the same over Boris’s party though, whereas probably you didn’t.

Wonder why Lucy Powell was sacked? She hasn't been Leader of the House for long.

Her political career was built on her leveraging her working class roots and personal struggles. People voted for her because they thought she represented them.

Unfortunately she’s turned out to be a grifter, taking freebies and avoiding paying her fair share of tax.
The country is broke, she’s loaded, and she’s robbed us of 40K taxes. She’s a hypocrite, as they all are.

Glad she’s gone, but TBH I can’t think of one decent politician. They are all toxic and have their noses in the trough.

Probably for being ready to push Kier Starmer under the bus first opportunity she got, all the better to bring back her beloved Andy Burnham.

@AutumnOffGrid the difference is they think they are morally superior

Her interview is just staggering it's very simple.
She's either so incredibly thick she doesn't understand what she did in which case why is.she deputy pm or she's duplicitous and i think now the legal firm has come out fighting
...I think we know which way it goes.

Long enough to show herself up by stupidly mouthing off that the grooming raping gangs scandal was a dog whistle, thus causing a media, political and public fuss, embarrassment to the government and all in all a bit of a scandal of her own. That was just a few short months ago. I'm sure Starmer felt stung and still remembers it.

Can't it be both? Thick and duplicitous?

ETA: Priti Patel managed both at the same time!

Can somebody wrap Starmer in cotton wool please? If anything happens to him, Lammy will be running the show.

If we'd listened to Lammy on Brexit the country would be a lot richer.

I'd be very happy to see him in charge.

@AutumnOffGrid Name names then! Or do you just not like their expenses system? Do you want them to do the job for nothing?