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I think she misled her solicitors personally. That’s my ‘gut feeling’. In fairness, there are exemptions out there for guardians of disabled children so there may have been a reason to believe an exemption could be claimed. However, there’s no evidence right now where she’s declared this to...

The guidance is on HMRC. If your child owns a property, for stamp duty purposes you are the owner of it. Rayner was She knew what she was doing, she sold her share in a property preemptively to claim she only owned one property. Let’s be honest, if it was a Tory politician, we’d all be...

That’s now £50bn after one year of Labour and it’s all because of the Tories…

The Tory part chairman is claiming that gov.uk provides clear guidance that the full second home stamp duty is payable if ‘you/your child’ owns a property even via a trust. She took her name off the deed fairly recently which raised eyebrows before this story broke. Why? It feels dodgy because...

People are only holding Angela Rayner to her own standards and her mates in government and the media (Beth Rigby) are upset about it. Avoiding £40,000 in stamp duty is more than the median worker’s annual salary and she has the temerity to cosplay as a working class hero? She is part of ‘the...

@shmmeee Ed Balls of all people has just called Rayner a hypocrite and that she should resign… 😂 It’s not looking good brav.

I respect your commitment to party politics, you can’t genuinely believe there’s no double standard here. Would you have the same sympathy for a Tory in the same situation, I suspect not. With Zahawi, he also made ‘an error’ that was ‘careless, not deliberate’ despite tax advice he would have...

Just checked again and according to the various data metrics, we were the 3rd best team in the league and massively underperformed our xG, xGA and xPTS. There were a lot of games last year where we conceded goals we shouldn’t have, missed the most big chances so this all checks out to be fair...

It’s ‘expected points’ which isn’t the same as predicting the total points tally. Last year, on expected points we should have been 3rd iirc.

Exactly. A basic stamp duty calculator would have told her she owed £70,000. If she was altruistic and consistent in her beliefs, she’d have paid it in full as a duty to the state. After all, she’s on record saying ‘tax avoidance costs lives’ and she’s already been accused of avoiding CTG on a...

People who parade as holier than thou will get criticised and publicly censured the most. It’s basic human nature. Angela Rayner has publicly attacked every one of all political colours, there’s even a clip of her criticising Sturgeon for ‘incompetence’ over COVID WhatsApp messages (rightfully...

Funnily enough, Angela Rayner was outraged enough to call for him to resign… 😂 Anyone involved in a scandal of this nature will get the heat. Rayner is no different and accusations of sexism or classism will wash.

Was she wrong to criticise Jeremy Hunt for saving on stamp duty using a tax ‘loophole?’ Or calling for Nadhim Zahawi to resign over a ‘tax error’ when chancellor? Angela Rayner did both so why should she be forgiven when she did not afford her opponents the same courtesy? I’m sure both Hunt...

‘Tory tax loophole’ perhaps Rayner asked for Jeremy Hunt’s tax advisors number in recent months. You can’t make this up, there’s tens of tweets like this and the mantra ‘it’s always one rule for them, and another for us’ was repeated ad nauseam in opposition. Hypocrisy is on of the worst...

Nah, as I said, it was a meta-joke so it’d be unfair to expect anyone to ‘get it’.

Happened to Mandelson, spend some time in the wilderness, let things boil over and make a comeback. Apparently Rayner nearly resigned over the housing targets (1.5m) and Blair intervened to convince her to stay. Labour have fallen behind even the Tory’s miserable building targets so it’s a...

As mentioned on this and/or previous threads, the words ‘fascists/socialist/communist’ get thrown around far too cheaply that they lose their meaning. Both sides of the political spectrum do this. Not my intention, it was facetious and making a meta-joke that socialists will tend to argue that...

Whilst we disagree on topics politically, you do act in good faith and are respectful. Ultimately, most people form their political views because they believe a set of ideas/policies will benefit the country. That’s something I try to keep in mind when ‘debating’ on here. Thankfully, I’ve had...

In fairness, most socialists and communists struggle to define and differentiate the terms…

The game has already begun. Keir Starmer was arguing Johnson should sacked Raab and Cummings for minor infractions. The blowback is also on Starmer for stating how strong he is and he’d sack people accused of ‘x, y and z’ - he does sack his advisors with impunity, just not political rivals...