Would you vote for Angela Rayner?

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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.

Nope

Never.

Agree. Apparently many of them lack the humility to realise that they owe their place in Parliament to protest votes and the first past the post electoral system.

she did an apprenticeship and went back to college.

she appears to understand basic grammar and hasn’t been caught tax dodging so…….

I have an example earlier of what she said in an interview with Beth rugby ‘I thought I was doing it proper’.
i dint care about accents, but I do want the person ultimately responsible for setting education policy to understand and speak basic grammar.

No. Never.

There are absolutely no statesmen or women in UK politics right now. And that absolutely includes Angela.

That’s a bit personal isn’t it? I am sure she gained by lawful means.

Trump calling you a plonker is quite the compliment really

The timing of finding the money owed is interesting and if she's willing to stand for the leadership I don't think it's 'personal' to know where £40K came from, whether down the back of the sofa or as a 'gift' from somebody. Farage is being investigated for the £5 million he was gifted.

@SunnyAfternoonToday, she has most probably set up a payment plan. Poor thing!

Unacceptable and unnecessary.

I'm none the wiser.

No. And as someone who grew up on a council estate & went to a bog-standard comp, I wish I could say otherwise.

Rayner has the most inspiring backstory of any current MP. She left school at 15 with no qualifications & pregnant. She became a care worker; literally wiping backsides for a living. She became a union rep & rose up through the union movement to become an MP then Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

But I still couldn’t vote for her to become Prime Minister because of her lack of education, and evident economic illiteracy. I don’t think she would be intellectually up to the demands of the job & she would be incapable of representing the country to the required standards on the world stage. Imagine if Macron, Carney et al turned a leaders’ meeting into a macroeconomics seminar, what would Rayner be able to understand or contribute? She would be embarrassingly out of her depth, and if she did become PM it would end very quickly & very badly.

Absolutely ridiculous statement.

Don’t be ridiculous. He has a clear mandate already based on recent GE when he was the leader of the party.

no one needs to go reconfirm if every 2 years. The public is clearly ok with him, its party infighting.

in no world Reform are the answer, they are complete muppets who can’t run a car wash let alone the country. We are not talking about proposing policies, we are talking about actually governing and dealing with issues like wars etc.

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I was thinking the same 😁

I think it is AB who disregards bond markets, or thinks he does, AR doesn"t talk much about bond markets, not sure what her position on anything is in fact, best way out of this is a GE and a Reform government, the country needs a break from the red team/blue team nonsense.

The public is clearly OK with him? Not sure that stands up to much scrutiny TBH, politics doesn"t work the way you want it to work, he has lost control of his party and is heading out the door, he is finished. The turnout for his election win was the lowest in 25 years or something and large numbers were voting to get rid of the Tory IMO, not for KS (although he obviously can"t process the fact that he isn"t the reason they won)

I think Angela is great but I don't think she is PM suitable. Deputy PM again absolutely

What? This Angela Rayner? No.

She was my MP and I also had the misfortune of moving to work with her for a while. She is most certainly not the brightest and not someone I would want leading the country.

No. Shouty.