ANGELA RAYNER was the ultimate ethics girl.
The Right Honourable Member for the Moral Highground, the Labour XL bully dog who relished calling for the IMMEDIATE resignation of immoral Tory scum who went astray.
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And just look at her now.
See how the mighty Three Pads has fallen.
How bitterly ironic that the ethics girl had her own sorry fate decided by ethics watchdog Sir Laurie Magnus, the PM’s Independent Adviser on Standards.
Angela Rayner, who once denounced all Tories as “scum”, stands revealed as a tax avoider who tried to get out of paying £40,000 of Stamp Duty due on one of her multiple homes.
And as her political career evaporates, this former Labour attack dog has given the Tory “scum” the best laugh they have had in ages.
Tax avoiding and property investment?
She is practically one of us!
As recently as this week, the Prime Minister and his flunkies were telling us that everyone’s favourite socialist firebrand was the innocent victim of a smear campaign by the wicked right-wing media.
That is simply NOT TRUE. Is it, Keir?
Angela is going because she had her fingers in the till.
We know there is one set of rules for our socialist masters and another for the rest of us — but, comrades, this has been ridiculous.
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The Deputy Prime Minister has been hoisted by her own foul-mouthed petard.
Because in Opposition nobody was more viciously self-righteous calling for the immediate resignations of errant Tories than Angela Rayner.
“Nadhim Zahawi’s position is untenable!” Rayner raged when the former Chancellor was being investigated by HMRC about his own “careless, not deliberate” underpaid taxes.
“He must resign or be sacked! He’s a disgrace! The whole Government should hang their heads in shame!”
But Rayner’s own resignation was far from immediate.
Angie clung to her jobs as Housing Secretary and Deputy Leader like it was the last strawberry-flavoured vape in Brighton.
“Three Pads” Rayner was £40,000 light in Stamp Duty payable on her swanky new seaside pad — the Housing Secretary who got confused about, er, housing tax.
Rayner tried to put the blame on dodgy legal advice — this woman who had immediate access to the best lawyers and experts in her own Housing Department.
She played the victim.
Rayner and her colleagues asked us to show some human sympathy for her personal circumstances.
We were repeatedly being told that Rayner has a disabled son — and of course that is a trauma and a struggle in any family.
But I don’t recall Angela Rayner ever showing ANY human sympathy for the children behind all the Tories that she relished tearing to shreds.
She was merciless.
She did not think about the family behind the politician.
Rayner did not give a damn.
She built her glittering career on smug, spiteful sanctimony.
She has shown not one shred of compassion to her opponents.
Nadhim Zahawi took to X/Twitter to ask an excruciatingly simple question of the Labour rottweiler who demanded he be drummed from public life.
“Did you think about MY children?” Mr Zahawi asked Ms Rayner. You bet your life she didn’t, Nadhim.
And do you know how much human sympathy His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs show to the average man or woman if they are £40,000 short when it comes time to pay their taxes? None.
If Angela’s financial affairs are complicated, it is because she lives a life of luxury and privilege[/caption]
The taxman does not give a toss about your personal circumstances.
He does not give a flying fig if you made “a mistake”. It is no excuse.
We are repeatedly told that Rayner’s property affairs are complicated. Well, yes.
Most of us know nothing about trust funds, like the one set up for Rayner’s children
Most of us know nothing about trust funds, like the one set up for Rayner’s children.
Most of us know nothing about enjoying multiple homes.
My mum was a lifetime Labour voter. She would have been flabbergasted that anyone can pay £800,000 for a flat, as Rayner did in Hove.
But Hove is so posh that — like my own London neighbourhood of Hampstead — it always votes Labour.
If Angela’s financial affairs are complicated, it is because she lives a life of luxury and privilege.
And for all the ee ba gum, working-class-hero routine, for all the doe-eyed, common lass “everything were done proper!” soundbites, Angela Rayner looks like a fully paid-up member of the elite, fat-cat establishment.
Pathetic excuses
Rayner has — or had — her constituency home in Ashton-under-Lyne, Gtr Manchester, a luxury grace-and-favour apartment in London’s Admiralty House and an apartment in Hove, Brighton’s posh neighbour, which she purchased in May this year.
You can see how confusion could possibly arise about what is her primary residence, what is her secondary residence and what is not a residence at all.
About how much council tax is due here and how much stamp duty is due there. But Rayner was — surely? — in the enviable position of being able to get the best advice on taxes due from the finest experts in the land.
No, that does not include a family firm of conveyancers in Herne Bay, who buy your property and work out the Stamp Duty due on the facts YOU give THEM.
And there’s even this thing called the internet where the Government’s own website has a simple, easy-to-use page to calculate Stamp Duty Land Tax, down to the last penny.
Rayner’s excuses were too lame, her excuses too pathetic.
Starmer was too spineless to sack her immediately because the PM has a backbone of pink blancmange.
But in the end, she had to go.
How could Rayner still be sitting there looking complacent when Reeves brings in her widely expected property taxes?
And it was impossible to imagine that Angela Rayner would still be sitting smugly on the front bench when Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers her Budget from hell in November.
You know the one — the Budget that will take our taxes to historic, unprecedented levels.
The Budget when this useless Labour Government taxes everything that moves in one last desperate bid to stave off national bankruptcy.
The Budget of doom.
How could Rayner still be sitting there looking complacent when Reeves brings in her widely expected property taxes?
How could these mouth-foaming, eye-swivelling tax fanatics allow a tax-dodging Housing Secretary to sit on the front bench when they tax your home without dying of embarrassment?
And yet Labour smeared the media and tried to keep Three Pads in a job.
Starmer has a massive majority but is a paper-mache PM because his backbenchers will not allow him to touch the bloated benefits bill
Have you no shame, comrades? Do you not see what sickening hypocrites you are?
Rayner’s woes are symptomatic of a Labour Government that is hopelessly out of its depth.
Every day they remain in power drags our great country closer to ruin.
Taylor Swift tickets
Starmer has a massive majority but is a paper-mache PM because his backbenchers will not allow him to touch the bloated benefits bill.
For the first time in my life, I am genuinely terrified of the damage that a government is doing to my country.
This Government would be just about endurable if there was a level of basic competence.
But there is none. Immigration, crime, the economy — Labour are clueless.
Rachel Reeves is preparing a Budget that will paralyse the economy of this country. Like the rest of Starmer’s Cabinet, Rachel has never run a business and could not be trusted with a whelk stall.
Immigration is totally out of control and the great fear is that the natural tolerance of our country is being pushed to breaking point by totally unsustainable levels of illegal migration. And what it costs.
Like Starmer stuffing free Taylor Swift and Arsenal tickets in his man-bag, Angela’s adventures in the housing market will leave many British people feeling like they are being taken for a bunch of mugs.
Labour hike your taxes while their Housing Secretary attempted to cut her own. This useless excuse for a Government says one thing and does another.
Angela “Three Pads” Rayner stands condemned by her own spiteful, sanctimonious rhetoric.
How dare she have the brass neck to cling so desperately to her job when she has demanded higher standards from everybody else.
For underpaying tax when so many working people in this country are struggling to make ends meet, Rayner should do what she has so often loudly demanded: apologise and just go to one of her homes.
She has plenty to choose from.
This week some hatchet-faced trade union leader on TV spouted the knackered cliché that “those with the broadest shoulders” must carry more of the burden of taxation.
Mate, those with the broadest shoulders are in Dubai! Labour have driven out the wealth creators.
The likes of Charlie Mullins, the working-class lad who founded Pimlico Plumbers.
The very people who have always paid the Treasury the most tax.
Those with the broadest shoulders have abandoned Blighty.
The only suckers left to bleed dry are you and me.
And it chills the blood to see that Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour KNOW they are out of their depth in government.
How many of Starmer’s ministers are we going to see in tears in the coming years?
First Reeves, now Rayner. And they are never tears of joy.
Perhaps, like so many wealthy Brits, Angela Rayner might consider moving abroad.
It is all the rage under this socialist Government.