Angela Raynor (and the Lock her Up! Brigade)

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So Angela Raynor allegedly gave the wrong address to the post office or something, and underpaid her tax bill ten years ago by the cost of a big shop, and this gets the Tories excited. Meanwhile, one of their MPs is defrauding campaign funds and other folks, they know, and don't tell the police for three months. James Daly MP must be furious. Am I right?

Her surname is Rayner not Raynor!!!

I heard Angela Raynor once forgot to preheat her oven. And she didn't even apologise. I heard that during COVID she once went on an extra long walk for 'exercise' tsk. I heard that while working as a carer she served lukewarm tea. The entitlement of some people. I think Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson should give her a lecture on how to work hard and pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

I think Sir Michael Take has a point

Rob Roberts
Julian Knight
Imran Khan
Dave Warburton
Neil Parish
Chris Pincher
Peter Bone
Crispin Blunt
William Wragg
Mark Menzies

All Tory MPs caught up in sex scandals.

Yes, one could say ‘A Tory wall of shame’
But ONLY ONE wall.
Not TWO WHOLE HOUSES like Angela Rayner!

https://x.com/MichaelTakeMP/status/1781585521203945558

Yes, you are right. She shouldn't be using that name either, she stole it from a man.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/65766/no-wonder-the-tories-are-out-to-get-angela-rayner

The "There are, it seems, three sets of people out to get Rayner" is interesting.....

She's rock solid Working Class - that fact alone is enough for "Our Betters" of the Tory party to try to have her sent to the guillotine.

Maybe James Daley hasn't heard that having respectability and having respect are not at all the same thing.

Mark Menzies MP could probably advise him all about that......

If there’s wrong doing all sounds extremely ropey

what will probably clear her will be a paper trail but we all know just because your names on the electric bill doesn’t mean you lived there

but the tories have done worse isn’t a defence

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That’s a good piece from Alan Rusbridger in Prospect magazine. Thanks @DuncinToffee.

When he left the editorship of the Guardian in 2015 it all really went to shit.

There’s a hit piece in the MailOnline today on Rayner and an alleged ‘smoking gun’ document signed by her old neighbour, which however appears on the face of it to be in the realms of Schrodinger’s evidence.

Do you think they realise that it's backfiring. It was a great piece by AR. It's true that the Guardian has gone downhill.

So have the Tories sorted out all the £millions pandemic scams? Got the £60m back from Michelle Mone? Sorted out the track and trace money that Dido Harding squandered? I must have missed that.

The Tories are a busted flush, aren’t they? And I suspect that this Rayner story may well be too.

I finally thought ‘what a crock of shit’ when the vacuous Penny Mordaunt tried to ‘take aim’ about it in the House of Commons. Yet Mordaunt can’t even get her own origin story straight. And Mordaunt’s not remotely witty or incisive - just venal, scripted and cruel, but with fairly pleasant hair and a tea-room fan club.

At about 340am last night, I could hear a helicopter circling. I live in her constituency. I wondered, 'What has she bloody gone and done now?'

It really looks like a vicious pre-election witch hunt.

The right wing press are on the attack, and have Rayner in their sights because they are shit scared of her coming into power.
They don't mind the odd working-class MP in government, so long as they are deferential to their 'betters', like the non-dom tax-dodging owner of the Daily Mail (Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere).

Not only is she working class she is Northern, female and ginger. It couldn't be worse. I also heard she likes clubbing but own your own a la Michael Gove but proper dancing an everything. How dare she.

If you haven't already listen to her on the Campbell and Stewart podcast Leading. She is so impressive.

It's such a typical tactic if you look at election history. Just praying it doesn't work.....sadly think it will give a certain cohort of the election the cover they seek to revote Tory.

I've never liked her. But what a hypocrite. New revelations today seem to confirm the suspicions that she has been lying. Trouble is in her position and with her 'principles' she has to be extra vigilant.

Don’t forget she dared to be what the Tory party have historically most reviled: a young single mother. She’s done brilliantly at moving away from what sounded like a very challenging start in life.

Just because it is in the Daily Hate Mail or another Tory rag, doesn't mean it is true.

The right wing press is dumb at times. If Rayner has broken the law, it would be very difficult to prosecute her due to the insane media coverage.

I find it shocking that people choose to see right or wrong according to which political party they support.

You see no wrong because you vote Labour. You only only see wrong in others that you don’t share political beliefs with.

For society to work, a civil society calls out the wrong of others based upon their actions and not on their politics. If she has done wrong, then people shouldn’t be afraid to admit that.

This won’t be decided by political will or support from the far left. It’s now a police matter.

This is just like the SNP supporters claiming a witch-hunt of Peter and Nicola, suddenly they’ve become quiet. I suspect you lot soon will too

@Solgrass not true. People see no wrong because it's a dirty tricks campaign. Perhaps you cannot see that because of your own biases.

For society to work, a civil society calls out the wrong of others based upon their actions and not on their politics.

Fair point. Why aren't the right-wing press calling for the prosecution of Tory MPs who have been accused of illegal activity?

@Solgrass I think you’ve misunderstood. What most posters are decrying here is the “trial by media” that has become apparent over the last few days and pointing out the reported level of alleged wrongdoing by AR compared with what has or hasn’t been reported in the past about MPs (especially male ones) in the other parties.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/21/tory-mps-lucrative-second-jobs-stand-down-commons

But Angela Rayner.