What utter dickheads we are…
Rayner fought for workers: sick pay, maternity rights, protection from unfair dismissal
Farage and his MPs voted it down
Rayner gets binned over £40k in stamp duty
Farage dodges £44k, shrugs & strolls on
The mega wealthy win again.
It’s always been a class war The poor/working class idiots that vote Reform are too thick to realise
Every govt spokesperson on the media rounds this week should answer whatever questions they are asked with the question of why Farage is getting away with this. Reform use this tactic. Deflect any questions about policy with jingoistic cries about immigration.
Yes well he is a cunt
Too late was the cry. U have shouted this government down so much that u have allowed the facists to gather wind. Media has a lot of blame to be laid at their doors
Yes! He is a hypocrite, a hypocrite that has lost his conscience.
Be part of the solution marina, understand that Labour may not be perfect but they are way better than the alternative being offered
I think you mean smug hypocrite.
Fucking piss take. 😤. Wish someone would just smack farage in the face. 🤬
The bigger the crime, the less you pay🙄
Fuck Rayner and Fuck Farage. They are no different.
Wow he’s a POS
Predatory Worm Species
The difference, of course, is that Toad doesn't give a sh*t.
Verily our heads are dicks.
I hate this double standard shit.
Its just weakness. And the Far Right exploit it 100%
They rely on the Left having the ethics that they overtly denounce as weakness, and it works every fucking time
I would love to see the article t proving Farage is the money used to buy the house in the name of Laure Ferrari who was a waitress then later worked with Farage in the European Parliament for a think tank accused of breaking rules by diverting public money to UKIP when Farage was its leader.
A continuation of the age old system. One rule for the minority quite another for the majority.
His undoubted skill (and it truly vexes me to state it) is the ability to persuade the many that he is for them when being absolutely in the pocket of the few
The way the Mail acted was that of an attack dog, clearly, it's a response for anything being done for the working classes, they could have easily not said a thing , but Ms. Rayner is connected with Unions.
They always attack lefist women, Abbott, Rayner, Reeves...any who go against the grain...
She was hounded out by the RW media. Hypocrisy, not just Farage but remember the Tories who avoided tax eg. Nadim Zahawi.
Jeremy Hunt's 7 flats. Stamp Duty scandal.
Nadhim Zahawi, £4.5m owed to HMRC and he threatened to take newspapers to court if they reported on it. On top of claiming expenses to heat his stables.
Nigel Farage, paid by GB News through a company to reduce his tax. Dodged stamp duty on second home.
Farage’s supporters are either wilfully ignorant racists or rich. Neither care about the hypocrisy.
She's done the right thing, she'd be no better than him if she ignored it, we (the Labour Party) should show we'll comply with the rules.
Why not compare Labour MPs behaviour to the right, decent thing to do rather than to the absolute dregs of political scoundrels? Just because Rayner's conduct wasn't at the Farage level of scam doesn't mean her decisions and tax avoidance weren't contemptible.
It's entirely unfair, but she, a public servant failed to pay 40 grand in tax. It's hardly trivial. Just because lots of tories have done far worse it doesn't make it okay.
Have to say, I was waiting for your take...
Did. Not. Disappoint.
White male, posh school can do no wrong. Or at least no one reports it #TwoTierReporting
A nauseating and infuriating phenomenon of modern British politics and a damning condemnation of the British establishment, media and the money men underneath the whole mess.
Did she fight against genocide?
No, she facilitated it like every other rotten cunt that forms your English Zionist ‘government’
Whatever Rayner did, she didn't register a company for £1 and profit millions of pounds from useless PPE.
Check out this hypocrisy from the Telegraph website
UK politics is totally broken
How different things could be if we had a competent & completely independent media & press not owned by billionaires
Angela Rayner getting a taste of the treatment Nicola Sturgeon had to endure for years and she didn’t do anything wrong. I remember Rayner sticking the boot in to NS when she came to Scotland it’s a pity she didn’t show her some solidarity. We might not be here if she had
They're trampling all over us and they're not even in government yet. Grim.
Indeed.
Following Trump's route to power and he's could get it.
Extremely dangerous times.
I just heard Ali Mirage introduce his programme on LBC telling us that Angela lacked integrity when the official report literally said that she acted with integrity but was judged by a higher standard. I guess he’s now just slagging off Angela. Obviously I turned off LBC as soon as possible.
This is the circle that the poor single mum aspires to move in. bsky.app/profile/mike...
A year into government, Labour partnering with private capital indicates abandoned principles and prioritisation of corporate interests
She knew who she was backing when she stabbed Corbyn in the back, cozied up to Blackrock’s Fink, and backed Zionists, a genocide and traitors like Starmer. Embarrassing, but she made her bed. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be dealing with racist, liar, tax avoider and grifter Farage.
As bad as each other. Rayner sold her principles when the temptation of wealth was irresistible. Farage never had principles to begin with
I’m old enough to remember Jeremy Hunt (the man with his own rhyming slang) and the 7 flats stamp duty avoidance scandal and him NOT resigning Not to mention Sunak and his Non Dom wife oh and Farage and his second home in his partners name do avoid stamp duty…
The vilification of female MPs wins again
This cannot be reposted enough.
don't forget his embezzlement of EU funds a few years back. he's the last person that should be questioning anyone's integrity
No argument from me
This morning my local friendly Ref voter simply shrugged his shoulders and said that his employer pays him from an offshore account to avoid tax when I said about Farage's earnings from GBN being paid to an offshore account. Presumably because, apparently, that is to be expected from rich people!
... and where's the MSM to point out this blatant and massive hypocrisy? Now THAT'S a scandal. 🤬
It doesn’t work like that. You can’t eat all the ice cream and then point the finger at your friend who shared it with you. People in glasshouses… Labour needed to be better. It needed to avoid any room for doubt.
We need to keep this up because he just gets away with it, we just shouldn't shrug this off on Farage. At least Rayner has done everything correctly whereas that guy would be a nightmare. Lets get it trending.
The tragedy is that she sold out. She failed on Palestine and she decided to join them rather than beat them. The question should be why are we ignoring the current Gaza inquiry to show arrogant Reform racists acting like clowns on a stage.
Look. We might be fuckwits, but at least we're racist.
Farage as always a charlatan, liar and conman
This never lands because Farage is anti-tax. Anti 'the State'.
In contrast, a labour Politician needs to stick to tax rules, & frankly need to honour the spirit of any rules.
Raynor had to go, to signal Labour hasn't completely lost its way as Rushanara Ali, Andrew Gwynne & Tulip Siddiq showed
Very wealthy and powerful people are clearly paving the way for a Reform government , to the detriment of everyone except the 0.1%....
She should have refused to resign - this trial by media has to stop somewhere. I feel so sad for her and hope she comes back to the top level very soon.
I doubt a woman of your intellect expected a different outcome Marina, but yes we are dickheads. They pervert every Democratic process to ensure the outcome they desire not the outcome we need & any chance of change is ruthlessly, brutally crushed and thickies cheer it on like whimpering dogs.
Absolute shit show...... the Super Rich Elite wins again 😞😞😞😞
Both should be dismissed really
And yet again they win.
Rayner was their no. 1 target- a genuine working class woman, who stood for everything they pretend to. She had to go as she threatened to expose their hypocrisy.
They did everything they could to get her gone. And they won.
Bastards.
And we fell for it.
I rather hope Starmer is preparing a list to real off at Wednesday's PMQs - all of the tax evasions and dodgy contracts the other parties have indulged in... Not sure he would have time to list them all.
Don’t think for one minute the witch-hunt had anything to do with her financial affairs - it was all about ‘putting in her place’ a formidable, northern working class single mother - sad, pathetic bastards all of them 😡
She can hold her head up high, yes she made a mistake and broke the code, but previous MPs and current have done just as bad on purpose
Rayner fiddled her taxes
.. so did farage.
Yep
Our country going the same way as usa 🇺🇸 we are fucked no matter what reform do .say the stupid amongst us will vote them in I try explaining how bad they are waste of time not listening
All while leading in the polls 🤦♂️
We are not dickheads. The Reform / Brexit Party / UKIP / Leave voters are the dickheads.
Exactly the same as the Tories….
You're confusing 2 topics. I liked Rayner but she did wrong and should've known better. She was right to resign from deputy pm. It doesn't stop her having her say in parliament. Farage and the last lot of Tories are simply immoral and wrong. Expose the truth.
People need to start treating the client journalists' intent on promoting Fagend with the contempt they deserve. Usual people will watch the likes of Laura K like sheep. Turn them off, deny them the power.
I can just see the Reform manifesto now…
“True flag-loving patriots embrace the social mobility of massive tax cuts, the freedom of not relying on public services, and liberation from the slavery of democracy.
If you don’t, you hate England and are a paedo, a gay, or a Muslim terrorist”
The difference is.. they wouldn’t resign, they brush it off as if it’s littering.
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I feel for Angela Rayner, she is a great politician and a really decent human being with integrity and morals. Not the sort of person the right wing want in the House of Commons. I give up on all British politics now. It’s an utter shit show and going the way of the US. God help us all!
If Rayner was allowed to stay on then Labour would never be able to criticise Farage or anyone else again. As it now stands, they can publicise and criticise and whoever and whenever. A sad stop to an incredible career for Rayner but she was incredibly naive in her last decision.
That’s why it’s easier to blame asylum seekers - it’s nice and simple
The mountain of overwhelming evidence of corruption is to complicated to sift through and fix on one thing that cuts through - that’s the strategy - just flood the place with shit & pay reporters so well they won’t ask questions
after a full year of incessantly platforming him and his racist droogs, mainstream media when farage does something wrong...
and while Angela Rayner pays what she owes, Farage will never pay, nor be held accountable 🤷🏼
It’s sad, but they were obviously going to pounce on any infraction. Angela knew this and really should have been more thorough.
Fuck Farage.
Imagine living in a country where someone who is the calibre of Farage and Reform are now considered to be "the last chance the country's got to get the country back on track" by such huge numbers of people..It simply proves 1 thing, that is the UK is more than likely probably beyond f🤬ked already🤯🤔
Farage is in the set that sees tax avoidance as efficiency. Angela simply can't be allowed in that set: she has the wrong background. The law is applied for the benefit of the haves.
Hear hear well said and well summarised… she’s been the victim of the usual right wing media witch hunt…
As boss/owner of the Reform party, he is beholden to no one.
Until Parliament can set and enforce a code of conduct on MP's, we're powerless.
Way too many gullible mugs walk among us
The hypocrisy in politics, especially the right, is sickening.
I hope she is back in government in double quick time.
Farage has the Reich Wing Media to Back him up ¡
The equivalent happened in the US with Al Franken (harassment in this case). You cannot hold the members of the parties to different standards or you will end up like us —you see the results. The issue that brought about the resignation will continue & get worse.
Apparently a good proportion of the electorate are drawn towards public displays of rank hypocrisy by arrogant, entitled male bullies.
The reporters who investigated Rayner should publish a list of all the MPs they have checked for correct stamp duty payments - which should be ALL MPs, not just the ones they don’t like.
What can I say... the guy is a fucking horrible person... Rayner isn't, she's genuinely lovely.
But we all know that, and yet, the prick still spouts bollocks, uninterrupted.
Dickheads, applicable to British media.They're complicit & corrupt. Farage, their lead story daily is a tax dodging traitor. He's allowed. Not reported. Ms Rayner will be back. She acted naively not thinking, the media who've been trying to take her down since her success. Ms Rayner is a huge loss!
I know, it's just so unfair but there was a report in the Sunday Times that the Tories actively plotted her downfall. I know the opposition's job is to hold the govt to account but to plot to get rid of an opponent is just dirty and spiteful.
#FarageIsACunt
Sickening
Misogyny and classism looming large.
Same here in the States. Maybe we need a flood. That won’t work. The rich will build luxury cruisers and make money taking the merely wealthy onboard.
I'm still fewmin!
The new Secretary of State for Scotland very quietly repayed £50k during the expenses scandal.
But that's all forgiven now.
I'm sorry but they should all get booted. We pay tax, and so should they. And don't I understand how politicians earning around £90k are able own multiple properties!?
The Ethics Advisor letter about Angela Rayner references the advice from the expert tax counsel she herself provided.
Her resignation letter says “I became aware that it is likely I inadvertently paid the incorrect rate for Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT).”
Why didn’t they wait for HMRC to confirm?
Let’s talk too about Jeremy Hunt’s absent minded purchase of 7 houses to avoid tax
She was one of the few bright lights in this govt and I’m sad she has to go, but maybe there is a positive interpretation to consider here? At least this is a government that takes accountability seriously. And she seems to have left in away that leaves the door open for for a future return.
It says everything about the way our system is wired: the people who actually fight for ordinary workers are torn apart over pennies in comparison, while the ultra-wealthy dodge even bigger sums and face zero consequence. Accountability isn’t for everyone — it’s only for those without power.
Angela had so many targets on her back. A woman, a woman with power. From a working class background. From the north etc. Hopefully she can recover and return to the front bench
Farage isn't in the Labour Party.
Both are fucking unacceptable
The focus is entirely wrong either way. If someone who got tax advice got it wrong, what does that say about the tax system? Have you tried calling HMRC lately? They no longer provide any help, and tell you to call a tax advisor.
The Press are a big disappointment
TIme for Levenson 2
And if needed a ban on overseas ownership / tax paying
Starting with the Mail
The rich always have, they pay for nothing themselves and avoid tax like the plague, yet we go to jail if we do it, they go to the House of Lords
Unfortunately having broken the Ministerial Code she had to go.
She has resigned with class, honesty and integrity in stark contrast to all RW politicians for as long as I can remember
It’s sad as she was one of the few Labour MPs I have any time for
She’ll be back. Hopefully as leader
The complete lack of any serious investigation into Farage or Reform’s finances speaks to the collapse of investigative journalism in the UK. Makes a mockery of the constant refrain from people like Farage that there is a left wing media bias.
Bullshit like this is how America got trump. If we follow the same path, we deserve every bit of devastation that will come with the rancid racist pos farage.
Hope she can channel her inner phoenix 🐦🔥
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And he didnt pay it knowingly and dishonestly
Different rules for upper middle class white men. Ask Boris Johnson.
Why does nobody remind Badenoch that her/truss/Johnson's party are the most corrupt in history, and all of them got away with it? Shameful witch hunt because she terrified them.
I got a spare gite in Brittany if you wanna his out for 5 years
Raynor should go. Period. They are all bad except a few local and honourable MPs. Some worse than others.
I do agree and there is a world between deliberate acts and accidental/unintentional ones but if you let it go it removes any high ground you may have to attack the other side for similar transgressions. It becomes the stick to beat you with, like you'll turn a blind eye when it benefits you.
The media make snide comments over pictures of her vaping, he uses a fag as a prop.
Maybe get rid of the Conservatives running the BBC…and Leveson?
Unfortunately I think she had to go, yes Labour are held to a higher standard, I want them to be that higher standard so that when they point the finger at other parties, they can do so with confidence.
If the Fartage house in Clacton is in his wife’s name, which property is he (or his wife ) claiming as his main residence in order to claim either tax relief or expenses?
Farage only has 4 MPs, he can't vote down anything. Bizarrely the media seem to be painting this idealess idiot as an all powerful king-in-waiting.
Her return will be welcome - I hope she decides to do so when the time is right. Milton Keynes, Bucks.
It was right she resigned. But it appears that around 30% of voters and a large chunk of the media couldn't care less what Farage does. And ultimately, a lot of these same people will be absolutely screwed if there is a Reform government.
Careful with the collective 'we'!!!
I have never fallen for Farage et als bull-shit. He's just one in a long line of racist, xenophobic and bigoted grifters.
See also Robert Jenrick 🙄
Oh come on she's gone because that's what Starmer and his red Tories want, she sold her integrity to them and they got rid of her anyway
So why hasn’t he been investigated by the ethics committee?
Why doesn’t the ministerial code apply to all MP’s?
I get the feeling there's more to it than this, did the entire Jolly Boys Back Slappers Club conspire against her?.. The press attacks on Rayner have been constant for the last few years.
Then there was Nadhim Zahawi dodging millions and then demanding to become chancellor so he could squash the investigation into it.
“The London press fawns on Farage. He could loudly break wind at a funeral and they’d run a think-piece on how elegantly he flatulates."
Neil Mackay, The Herald, Glasgow. 6th September.
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Establishment elitists are desperate to use culture war to divide us, and distract us from the class war they're beating us at
Rayner was deputy leader of a genocide party. And housing secretary. She deserved to go
She'll rise again, Farage will get his comeuppance.
We are f---ed Marina. Farage's mates in press/MSM won't stop now. He is "almost there" now in their eyes. Instant he is confirmed as PM, the horror will hit. Buyer's remorse will be immediate, yet we are sleepwalking to that time right now. Once installed, he may be almost impossible to remove.
I get your wider point but It's not the £40k, it's the stupidity. She knew she was being watched. She didn't follow the advice. She didn't check. Not sure why she needed an investigation to tell her she'd broken the rules.
His fans just claim ‘so what his girlfriend brought it.’ So why did he tell people ‘he’ brought it.
The difference is that Farage deliberately evades tax through highy dubious yet legal routes. Rayner unfortunately just failed to follow up on advice given and seek specialist help and came a cropper as a result. Labour has set the bar high. If farage wins the next GE, there won't be a bar to set.
Britain is shite. Embarrassing.
We expected better of her and Labour
The fact she is out does show they have an iota of scruples but let’s not forget she shouts loudly and viciously at anyone else that has done even less
Ah, but I'm sure he's got very clever lawyers...
They have designed the system to suit them.
If we had an independent press, Farage and his Reform Company would be recognised as impisters
