Would you vote for Angela Rayner?

[WildEnergySupplier]

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.

@WildEnergySupplier my vote on your list yesterday of potential Labour leaders, would be

1. Starmer
2. Streeting
3. Burnham

It blows my mind that some people think that Reform are some shiny new clean sheet when about 90% of them are failed Tories.
Do we really want Jenrick/Dorries/Braverman etc back in government? Are they suddenly capable new people? Lee Anderson and Andrea Jenkyn FFS!

Oh, we dont need any more posts now. This is the perfect and only answer!

Does not matter. He won, according to the current laws. We don’t need to re-run elections every 5 minutes.

one of the reasons people voted Tories out is they were tired of party leader changes and wanted a consistent direction.

Exactly, it was ridiculous. Far rather some stability for a change.

No bloody way lying, scheming and really not very bright.

Because "literally everything" is "transphobic “?????

Angela - People forget but the internet never forgets....

And Labour are shiny new and capable? This is AB"s THIRD attempt to lead the party FFS!

All Carney did was cut rates to keep the Bankers Bubble flying, he isn"t as smart as you think.

He’s a lot smarter than you if you think letting the banking sector collapse would have been anything less than catastrophic.

Sure, he was doing it for 20 years though, and also in Canada, at what point do you realise that the banking class are farming us?

If you prefer Five Million Farage I have no words.

Voters knew about that before the recent elections, KS would kill for that kind of voter connection. The media is giving far too much attention to this circus, the main thing that affects life in the UK, namely Iran, seems to have slipped off the headlines?

So a five million bribe is absolutely fine?
The house bought for £1.4 million cash? Nothing to see here.

He has a DPhil in economics from Oxford, so yes he really is an extremely smart person.

No

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/73421/nigel-farage-5m-donor-unfit-for-power

'A more sceptical response came from Fraser Nelson, the former Spectator editor, who doesn’t do gullible. He pointed out in his Times column that Farage’s promise of a “Big Bang” reform could add tens of billions to crypto companies’ market value.
“All this would greatly help Tether, a crypto giant in which Harborne holds a 12 per cent stake,” wrote Nelson. “Farage says the company is worth $500bn. If he’s right, then Harborne could afford to give away £5m a day, each day, for the next two years and barely eat into 1 per cent of his fortune. By the standards of UK politics, Harborne’s donations are enormous: no living man has ever given as much to any party. Two-thirds of all the money Reform spends is wired from Thailand. But in crypto world, it’s a bar tip.”

Meanwhile, we have that other billionaire expat admirer of Farage, Ben Delo, who made his fortune as the co-founder of BitMEX, a cryptocurrency trading platform, and says he will move back to the UK from Hong Kong to keep donating millions to Reform and avoid Labour’s new cap on donors abroad.
In 2022, Delo was given 30 months’ probation and a fine of $10m (£7.3 m) after pleading guilty, along with three others, to a violation of the US Bank Secrecy Act by failing to establish, implement, and maintain an anti-money laundering (“AML”) programme at BitMEX between 2014 and 2020. '

Before reading this article I didn't know that one of the main donors to Reform had been given probation and fined for violating the US Bank Secrecy Act. This is the sort of detail which just doesn't get covered in the mainstream media - which allows Reform to get away with saying that the £5m donation was legitimiate even though it very much looks as though it broke the rules. Farage changes from - the money is for security to it's a gift to him for getting Brexit done and for devoting 27 years of his life to doing this. The idea that it's okay to get money for public service is beyond belief but this is portrayed in such a way as though it's fine - and if not fine well it's just Nigel and kind of baked in to who he is a la Trump.

Farage being given £5m for getting Brexit done shows who he was doing it for, and it wasn't Joe Blogs who now has a river full of chicken shit.

What is so demoralising is that the calibre of all of them is so poor with Angela being the bottom of the pile.

I don't care about the sex, race, age of the candidates, but I do care about their ability to do the job and to have a basic understanding of economics and not just ideology.

No. I wouldn’t. She’d be another Truss and trash the economy.

Makes sense, I guess the people who borrowed all the cheap debt money are the dumb ones?

The economy is already trashed, higher interest rates are the wake up call people need, we have to start making and producing instead of pretending to be celebrities with debt tokens.

But I thought all the Reform bashers said that Brexit wasn"t really done and we were conned?