Rayner Has Resigned

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

I didn’t say no male politician ever has been scrutinised. I said a male politician wouldn’t have been so scrutinised.

About time too! 🙌🏼

Average BBC Guardian response

If you can’t see the different between those two scenarios then I worry for your critical thinking skills.

Doing something that reduces your tax bill within the rules is a world away from ignoring how the rules apply to your circumstances. And if you’re going to tweet about MPs of the opposing party to disgrace them for using the SDLT rules that Labour introduced (which Raynor has done in the past), then you better be sure you’re AT LEAST following the rules yourself, if not going out of your way to pay more than the rules require.

And I don’t often defend Farage…

True.

Dunno, thats a requirement isn't it?!

Yes - did she really not understand the difference between the solicitors and taking tax advice? When she has been setting up a trust?

If she didn’t she seems a bit scatty to have an important job like DPM.

Jumped before she was pushed. Position totally unsustainable.

All political careers end in failure.

Why would anyone ever want to go into it?

That has got nothing to do with her family or children.

If I make a mistake, intentional or otherwise, nobody would harass my children about it.

There is absolutely no need for the media to dig up the medical history of a complex needs child, or rake through someone’s divorce.

Spray the house is threatening behaviour, and it’s out of line. She’s been frightened out, and it’s disgusting.

Also. I live in the next constituency to AR's. There is no way that house was/is worth 650k!

Neither could I and I say that as someone who has lived in the area. A lot more will come out about this in the next few days of that I'm sure.

Would I be sympathetic if Rayner was advocating to reduce taxes on property? Probably not. But the irony of this is breathtaking given she has been calling for an increase to property taxes. You could not make this up!

@ilovesooty no! Nigel is a man of the people! Look, he goes to the pub and shouts about the evil EU and boats and everything! He can do no wrong.

Her sin it seems was that although she had advice about the consequences of ownership of the Ashton house on stamp duty for Hove it was caveated that it was not expert advice and that such advice should be sought.

It was not and that was a breach of the Ministerial Code.

Well I think it's shame.

She was hounded out by a bunch of tory hypocrites and their media flunkies.

I have zero interest in her dc, she should have maintained their privacy and not tried to use them to stay in.

I like how Nigel was in Washington DC 48 hours ago, testifying before Congress that he wants the US to put economic sanctions on the UK (his own constituents) because the UK doesn’t allow free speech. Priceless.

That’s the problem though. She didn’t have working class credibility or any values to chime with her electorate. She just shouted a lot, name called and now it appears looks v grabby and unintelligent at best.

Come on labour voters/supporters - get behind someone who is worth your support. AR is not that someone. You need a conviction politician - with brains and a background external to simply unionist shouty rhetoric.

I feel like a (very) small amount gets into politics with good intentions but it always end up becoming a self serving game. It’s a pity, really.

Agreed.

CONGRATULATIONS to the DT.

Keep up the excellent work.

She was bullied into disclosing that information by people, and the media, “demanding answers.”

I hope you’re not a mother. Because if the media was taking pictures of the faces of my children, when they’d been asked not to, I’d be doing more than crying about it.

She lied and got found out. After hounding others too.

If you had gotten sympathy from HMRC would you have had sympathy for Angela?