To think Farage surely has to go

[OneKookyShark]

So Farage has some dodgy private company set up to avoid paying tax. Is he being pressured to resign as head of Reform? Of course not. Because he’s an entitled privileged man.

The double standards are incredible really. Here’s the story https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/05/nigel-farage-uses-private-company-to-pay-less-tax-on-gb-news-earnings

While I think Rayner had to resign, why are the same standards not being applied?

Like this?

That as much as I hope and pray you are right regarding Reforms election prospects, as less than 50% of the population are net contributors so they aren’t the biggest voting block!!

Ov course he's got a tax avoidance scheme, why wouldn't he have? He doesn't believe in State support for anything. Maybe roads maintenance, so he can get around without potholes? Otherwise taxes pay benefit scroungers and other lazy buggers. Shame so many of his supporters are claiming. If the horrible vision of him as PM happened, they'll be just as surprised as they are by the tax scheme when their benefits disappear 'I thought he meant immigrants, not me' FAFO as they like to say in USA.

Ann Widdecombe?

She didn’t make a stupid mistake. She was advised to take legal advice and made the decision not to.

Ofcourse she should have taken legal advice but you cannot deny that the knives were out for her from the very beginning.

I don’t think so. I have heard that she was popular within the Labour Party. Personally I am glad I don’t have to hear her going on about coming from a working class background, pregnant at 16 etc. It became very tiresome.

Have you read the actual report from the independent advisor?

@OneKookyShark “Do you know what though, I have sympathy for Rayner because she made a stupid mistake and was trying to do right by her disabled child.”

Was she bollocks. Tax evasion.

yes

have you?

Nor can I! It’s one of my pettest hates.

That sentence appeared aggressive but it wasn't supposed to be.

I'm afraid it's true about repurposing useless Tories, missing their expenses and 'miserable' salaries. The appalling - Boris should have given me a peerage, he knows how much I loved him -Nadine Dorries has signed up today. Reform will snatch up ex Tories as candidates as they don't have enough suitable applicants, as seen in their fumbling in local councils. Someone should run a book on most likely applicants but I expect Nige is already sorting thst out.

I do feel a little sorry for AR because, according to the Ethics Adviser’s letter, her advisers told her the higher rate tax didn't apply, but caveats this by saying they weren't tax advisers, and they recommended she obtain specific tax advice. She didn't.
While i can imagine a lot of people would be willing to just chance it and hope they’d be ok, that was a grave error of judgment for the Deputy PM (and Housing Minister) to make.

What makes it worse is that last year there was a furore over her tax affairs regarding the 2015 sale of her council house (when again she failed to take formal tax advice on a tax free gain of £48k). You’d have thought she’d have learnt from that and done everything possible to ensure her flat purchase was above board.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68885428.amp

At best both cases call into question her thoroughness & attention to detail.

But I do think her legal advisers were irresponsible in expressing a view and then caveating it away - they should just have advised her to take specialist advice.

Yes I was struck by the multiple mentions of how she acted with integrity and transparency throughout. It didn't speak of a con artist lying through their teeth for financial gain.

It’s not in their remit, they were not irresponsible. No MP could use the bad advice line as the defence anymore.

In my defence, I was using the lingo to make sure I integrated properly 😬

Tiresome for you

Inspirational to many

A single mum from a council estate becoming deputy prime minister

There are lots of people like me who were net contributors for years but lost that status when we claimed the state pension. Comfortably off currently and just as affected by the state of the economy as when we were working, if not more so. No pensioner with their life savings in investments and their pensions dependent on a healthy economy is going to fall for Reform’s unicorn economics.

As posters have pointed out evasion is illegal, avoidance isn't. Buying an ISA is a good example of avoidance which loads of people do and given how our taxes are wasted I don't blame anyone. And really fed up with people going on about AR being working class - she is a thick spiteful grifter like most of Labour who has got any money she has from the taxpayer and is not at all representative of the hard working, intelligent working class. And usually MN types despise the wc and call them thick racist bigots when the discussion is about issues like Brexit.

And the same posters are trying to use Project Fear to slow the Reform revolution. It didn't work for Brexit and it won't work for Reform. We can see what the non-reform option looks like and we don't like it.

He has done nothing wrong, most people in broadcasting would set up their affairs like this. It's common practice; you might as well call those who use an ISA guilt of tax evasion.

Very tiresome!

it clearly states she ignored advice to gain expert advice regarding tax

and the last paragraph isn't quite supportive of her acting with integrity

Don't you mean, Brexit "didn't work" for most people.