Even at the end the hypocrite Rayner couldn’t be honest. She said she was resigning because of the strain this sleaze inquiry had put on her family. No, she resigned because, if she hadn’t, Starmer would have had to kick her out after she’d been found guilty of breaching the ministerial code and dodging taxes. As for the stress on her family – SHE brought all this on them, all because she wanted a posh THIRD home for which she took money from her disabled son’s trust to help pay for. The whole thing stinks, which won’t stop “I’m salt-of-the earth” Ange playing the victim in the coming days even though there’s no justification for what she did.
We have a chancellor who’s about to hit the British people with THE most crippling taxes, yet our Deputy Prime Minister was trying to dodge hers. Her position was untenable, but that didn’t stop Rayner trying to cling on by blaming others for her mistakes – most notably the little conveyancing firm which she tried to scapegoat claiming they’d given her wrong advice. They didn’t.
And this is where Rayner’s lack of intellect matters. Didn’t the woman who once screamed “tax evasion costs lives” understand that, having spent years pillorying Tory politicians as
“scum” for tax avoidance and demanding their resignations, she couldn’t possibly keep her job after being caught out dodging hers?
Because who’s looking like scum now? Who’s looking like the greedy, snout-in-the-trough, immoral politician who thinks the rules that apply to the rest of us don’t apply to them? But what’s really stuck in my craw here is Rayner’s dopey union mates claiming the only reason she’s been getting flak is because she’s a working-class woman.
NO, she’s getting flak because she pretended she’d been open and honest about her tax affairs when she was actually scamming the system to the tune of forty grand. So, all this guff about her being a working-class hero who’s suffering prejudice because of her roots is sickening.
Rayner’s no hero. She’s a woman who has always looked after Number One. And the reason she’s now getting it in the neck isn’t anything to do with her class, it’s because of her rank hypocrisy in breaking the rules she spent years screaming everyone else had to live by.
Make no mistake, the working classes see Ange for exactly what she is – yet another dodgy politician on the make.
Because they’d never do what she did. To them she’s a pretender who claims to be one of them, yet many constituents in working-class Ashton under Lyne can’t remember the last time they saw her.
Rayner isn’t a hero to the working classes – she’s their shame. And it’s insulting to the collective intelligence of those people to believe they’d look up to a woman like her.
And why are we forever being told we must admire her and excuse her often vulgar behaviour because she got pregnant at 16, became a grandmother at 42 and was born on the wrong side of the tracks? That’s not unusual in this country.
And remember, this isn’t Rayner’s first rodeo with tax evasion. There was another property scandal in 2015 when it’s claimed she failed to pay capital gains tax on a property.
As for the ridiculous idea the Labour party needs people like Rayner to get working class votes, it’s not just farcical, it’s patronising. Working people don’t give a stuff where their politicians come from, they just want whip-smart, honest, principled people representing them.
They want people who know the difference between right and wrong and whose moral compass is pointing in the right direction – and that sure as hell isn’t Angela Rayner.
I’m glad she’s gone. She was a spiteful vindictive politician who brought in economically illiterate policies to hurt aspirational people for no other reason than she hates them and wants what they have.
She shouts about wanting to help the working classes – but is too busy buying her third home to make that happen. She’s nowhere close to building the 1.5 million homes for them she boasted she would, and she’s given more power to trade unions which will cripple the county.
Her problem has always been that she’s just not very bright. Had she been smarter, she’d have realised that years of soap box ranting about ethics and honesty would do for her when it became clear she had neither.