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Would you vote for Angela Rayner?

587 replies

WildEnergySupplier · 14/05/2026 06:42

Sounds like she's throwing her hat in the ring.

She says she's paid off the tax she owes and is no longer under investigation.

This apparently means she's free to run - and is going to.

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peachescariad · 14/05/2026 09:18

Never

ArabellaScott · 14/05/2026 09:19

WhatNextImScared · 14/05/2026 09:18

The public are not tolerating Starmer - look at the local election results!

It’s both true that a leadership contest is the last thing Labour needs and also perhaps the only thing that could now save us from PM Nigel Farage.

I don't know that playing musical chairs will be enough to save the country from a democratically elected PM, tbh.

PropertyD · 14/05/2026 09:19

KatiePricesKnickers · 14/05/2026 06:57

@WildEnergySupplier “If Labour finally had a left wing Prime Minister it would be the first time this century - and imagine what she could achieve.”

She would only achieve pushing the country closer to bankruptcy.

What on earth do you think she would achieve? If she has paid the £40k SD it means she misunderstood the rules (in her favour of course!) as HOUSING Minister.

She lives a chaiotic life with various on off boyfriends, dipping into her disabled son's trust fund to go live with her latest partner who was sacked by the Labour Party for standing on picket lines. She is a compelte disgrace and how anyone can think she is fit for any sort of office is truly beyond me,

TemperanceWest · 14/05/2026 09:19

DoggerelBank · 14/05/2026 09:06

  1. Burnham
  2. Streeting
  3. Miliband
  4. Starmer
  5. Rayner

Carns?

fairmaidofutopia · 14/05/2026 09:19

No. Never in a million years. She is dishonest and an adulterer.

beguilingeyes · 14/05/2026 09:20

I think Starmer should stay. I can't believe the media driven campaign to get rid of him as if he's the manager of a football team who haven't quite won the league yet. This merry-go-round of Prime Ministers needs to stop. It didn't do the Tories any good did it? They just went from bad to worse.
I couldn't vote for AR, she's not my MP.

Lou7171 · 14/05/2026 09:20

Yes

GenialHarrietGrouty · 14/05/2026 09:20

WhatNextImScared · 14/05/2026 09:18

The public are not tolerating Starmer - look at the local election results!

It’s both true that a leadership contest is the last thing Labour needs and also perhaps the only thing that could now save us from PM Nigel Farage.

Do you seriously see any of the likely candidates as potential winners of the next election?

Poor mid term council election results are absolutely par for the course. There was bound to be a bounce back in any event after Labour did so well in the last set of elections.

WhatNextImScared · 14/05/2026 09:21

PacificState · 14/05/2026 09:07

But (in my case) I have previously voted for incompetent men to lead Labour, so it’s not such a bar 😂

There just isn’t a slam-dunk candidate. Wes is a good communicator and I really liked the way he handled changing his mind on the gender/sex stuff, but I have absolutely no idea what he would do differently from Keir. Burnham has always been a lightweight IMO. I like Miliband but the electorate hates him. All of these people would probably lose the next election unless they pull off something extraordinary.

Might as well vote with my sex for once.

I generally fall in with this analysis of everyone too

Feis123 · 14/05/2026 09:21

The tax evader?

Monty36 · 14/05/2026 09:21

I do know it is Ed. And that David is not an MP. But he was by far the most suitable of the two. Just shocked you had Ed at 3.

PropertyD · 14/05/2026 09:23

NorthXNorthWest · 14/05/2026 09:01

Would I vote for an (ex) Housing Secretary who introduces taxes and policies that reduce, limit and undermine ordinary people’s ability to own a home or achieve long-term security over the roof above their heads, whilst simultaneously promoting socialist policies that place the financial burden of poor leadership and damaging economic decisions onto those same people?
All while reportedly using loopholes or technicalities to minimise their own tax exposure to the very system they advocate for others.

And apparently being wealthy enough to pass assets and property to their own children, whilst ordinary people who want to help their children onto the housing ladder are increasingly shamed for doing so, because suddenly inheritance and intergenerational support are treated as morally wrong.

I mean… sign me up.

Just another political grifter: criticising capitalism publicly whilst privately benefiting from the same asset growth, tax structures and property advantages they seek to restrict for ordinary people..

Well said

Monty36 · 14/05/2026 09:24

Monty36 · 14/05/2026 09:21

I do know it is Ed. And that David is not an MP. But he was by far the most suitable of the two. Just shocked you had Ed at 3.

Was supposed to quote whatnextimscared ‘s post!

WhatNextImScared · 14/05/2026 09:24

GenialHarrietGrouty · 14/05/2026 09:20

Do you seriously see any of the likely candidates as potential winners of the next election?

Poor mid term council election results are absolutely par for the course. There was bound to be a bounce back in any event after Labour did so well in the last set of elections.

No, not really. I don’t. That’s the worst thing about it.

Starmer will definitely lose the next election. But all the current candidates will also probably lose it (although I think if Streeting won and then was faced with something massive like another pandemic he might come out of it well, and Burnham might do ok if the economy suddenly rose by 2028).

But overall I think both Labour and the Tories are in a desperate state and British politics is about to enter a new and horribly dark chapter

I hope I’m wrong, but I doubt that I am.

MurkyMo · 14/05/2026 09:25

UniquePinkSwan · 14/05/2026 06:43

Absolutely not and she would be far more unpopular than Starmer. She is on a level with Corbyn to me.

She is so NOT Corbyn! However she is funded by Israel so absolutely not.

WildEnergySupplier · 14/05/2026 09:25

KatyaKanani · 14/05/2026 08:50

That's not how the system works. We vote for our MPs at a General Election. The party with the most MPs forms the government. The leader of that party becomes the Prime Minister. We don't vote directly for the PM because we're not choosing a President or a Head of State.
So every Prime Minister has been elected, by their constituents. The party choose the leader.

That's true, but in reality most people vote for their MPs on the basis of who the leader of their party is

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Tontostitis · 14/05/2026 09:26

Catsandcheese · 14/05/2026 08:33

According to the BBC she has been cleared of any wrong doing in terms of deliberately seeking to avoid tax, so no crime committed.

Thats the BBC take on it the truth is she failed to pay the tax for investigated tried to argue it got told no pay so she finally coughed up and HMRC dropped it.

KatyaKanani · 14/05/2026 09:28

WildEnergySupplier · 14/05/2026 09:25

That's true, but in reality most people vote for their MPs on the basis of who the leader of their party is

I understand. As I said, I was just challenging the "unelected Prime Ministers" comment.

StressedLP1 · 14/05/2026 09:28

Whatever the question is, neither Streeting nor Rayner are the answer.

KatyaKanani · 14/05/2026 09:29

MurkyMo · 14/05/2026 09:25

She is so NOT Corbyn! However she is funded by Israel so absolutely not.

She's funded by Israel?
Do you have a link?

Tontostitis · 14/05/2026 09:29

Labour would be better making a stand against the infighting that's means we keep chopping and changing PMs Boris, May, Truss now Starmer it needs to stop we are being ruled by media campaigns. Raynor will never be voted in by the electorate we voted Starmer in for better or worse we should stick with him.

Latinglow · 14/05/2026 09:30

No. I want to like her as a fellow ginger who became a mum at 16 but she is just too left wing even by labour standards

Duvetdayneeded · 14/05/2026 09:30

I would rather suck my son’s socks after a football match every season than vote for her.

twilightermummy · 14/05/2026 09:30

I think Raynor, Streeting and Starmer are all tarred with the same brush now.
Labour needs to decide whether they're left or right as politics is too divisive at the moment for any centre-acting mind to be viewed as new and hopeful.
I like Lisa Nandy and Ed Milliband. A lot of Labour candidates I like have left. It's a shame the Green party aren't very "green" anymore. They'll probably still get my vote though as I lean very left.

Tontostitis · 14/05/2026 09:31

KatyaKanani · 14/05/2026 09:29

She's funded by Israel?
Do you have a link?

If course they don't it's one of the stupid Gottyas used by imbeciles to 'mike drop' and I can't stand Raynor.