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shmmeee
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Zahawi set up off shore companies and avoided tax on tens of millions while threatening anyone who asked questions. To be clear about what you’re drawing a comparison to.
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Nadhim Zahawi - the whole story
UPDATE: this was written on 19 January, and I haven’t updated it. We subsequently learned (thanks to the Guardian) that Zahawi had been charged a large penalty. And we now know, thanks to Sir Laurie…
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shmmeee
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yeah if Starmers tenure tells us anything it’s that he’s terrified of upsetting the left
Sbarcher
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Angela Rayner Net Worth, Career & Personal Life in 2025
Discover Angela Rayner's net worth, career highlights, and personal life. Learn about her rise in British politics and her achievements.
www.finance-monthly.com
Maybe most of the media is wrong and Shmeee is the one who knows.
Angela Rayner Net Worth, Career & Personal Life in 2025
Discover Angela Rayner's net worth, career highlights, and personal life. Learn about her rise in British politics and her achievements.
Maybe most of the media is wrong and Shmeee is the one who knows.
Nobody, not even 'Finance Monthly', knows her net worth.
It's a pretty safe bet that it's not anywhere near £5m though
rob9872
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Yeah but whatabout them. Look at them, don't look at me they're much worse.Zahawi set up off shore companies and avoided tax on tens of millions while threatening anyone who asked questions. To be clear about what you’re drawing a comparison to.
Nadhim Zahawi - the whole story
UPDATE: this was written on 19 January, and I haven’t updated it. We subsequently learned (thanks to the Guardian) that Zahawi had been charged a large penalty. And we now know, thanks to Sir Laurie…
Pathetic. More holes than our back line on a set piece!
She earns £196k a year, why wouldn't she be able to afford a nice house?
And I thought you were all for working class people earning their money and putting it towards nice things, like private schools?
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Mucca Mad Boys
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The left of the Labour Party / Greens believe the issue with public services are underfunded because millionaires/billionaires aren’t paying their fair share. Hence, she has called for tax raises on many policy areas and to clamp down on tax exemptions.
Following her public policy positions, surely you’d expect her to be fully willing to pay the full tax bill from a moral perspective. At every opportunity, Rayner unironically seeks to reduce her tax liabilities.
I knew she’d have been on record calling on a Tory minister or two to resign on taxation.
I’m sure Zahawi’s was only acting on his tax advisors bad guidance…
Grendel
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She earns £196k a year, why wouldn't she be able to afford a nice house?
And I thought you were all for working class people earning their money and putting it towards nice things, like private schools?
She has two houses put through some very complicated trust and despises people who have second houses - -oh and is the housing minister!
She has tried to get the best tax avoidance advice possible to limit her spend at the expense of the tax payer.
Ccfcisparks
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if Rupert goes his way quite a few in here would be gone!
I haven't suggested otherwise.
eastwoodsdustman
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so she shouldn't be scrimping on her payable tax then. Every penny avoided and all of that...She earns £196k a year, why wouldn't she be able to afford a nice house?
And I thought you were all for working class people earning their money and putting it towards nice things, like private schools?
My point was that Nick was saying before that working class people can put kids through private school on modest salaries, so why is he now surprised that someone earning six figures can afford a nice house.
As for Rayner I think her position is untenable, this won't go away any time soon.
What the longest term for a mortgage these days 35 yrs?
Well we have no idea do we, it's impossible to know as we don't know how she progressed up the property ladder and how big the mortgages are.
CovValleyBoy
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George Orwell. Genius.
SkyBlueCharlie9
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She should be sacked and police investigation into text evasion. She has let party down big style.
However this is rife in wealthy Tory and Regorm MPs, so its hilarious seeing them get on their moral high horses.
A comprehensive review of all MPs should be undertaken by Government and they should eradicate all personal amd business tax loopholes, so that all MPs, businesses and people in UK pay correct tax, as we all do on here.
It's deeply harmful and unpatriotic to avoid paying proper tax especially amongst the top 10% of uk wealthy.
This to me is way bigger issue than small boats and flag flying.
The UK tax gap between what should be paid in tax and what is actually collected in tax is 40bn.
Also £570bn is held by UK residents in off shore tax havens!
We are a very wealthy country and the wealthy play the system.
Nick
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I'm sure you can see the difference between a normal working class couple making sacrifices to send a kid to private school to somebody who's apparently suddenly worth over £4 million after being in the 6 figure job for a year and spending 800k on a second home.
Actual working class people aren't getting gifts of thousands in clothes either.
This isn't just labour either, wouldn't trust any of them as far as I could throw them. It's even more random how much hypocrisy she shows though.
Actual working class people aren't getting gifts of thousands in clothes either.
This isn't just labour either, wouldn't trust any of them as far as I could throw them. It's even more random how much hypocrisy she shows though.
Sky Blue Pete
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It’s not a criminal act to underpay tax you just pay it and the interest and any penalty which is what she’ll do
She isn't worth over £4m, it's just a totally made up number.
And she was on 75k in 2015, it's not hard to see how she might have a nice house is it?
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Sbarcher
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If she has found to have evaded the correct stamp duty then this is a criminal offence.
She has admitted the amount was incorrect. It’s not normal for HMRC to accept mitigating circumstances where tax is involved.
Grendel
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It’s Dianne Abbott and the private school debacle all over again
So not worth anywhere near 5 million quid then.
Captain Dart
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Sounds more like it.
You wouldn't expect someone of her position to be worth any less would you?
The £5m thing is nonsense clickbait to get people wound up, the same people who had no issue with Sunak being worth half a billion quid.
It's just a totally made up number Rob.
Someone or some website has made it up and others have copied. There are no 'reports' as you say on her net worth because no such thing exists.
Its like those salary websites that claim Tavares was on a higher wage than Wright or some shit
We know the rough value of her housing assets, so I'd love to know where the supposed other £4m comes from.