He tried to wriggle out of it and cover it up - he's not an honourable man - but once he was exposed, he had to go.
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Jeremy Hunt's seven luxury flats?
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-hunt-avoids-100000-stamp-12415305
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You do understand the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion? There's no indication Hunt operated outside the rules, distasteful as those rules may be.
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I do, but I'd rather see someone trying to abide by the rules and making a honest mistake costing the taxpayer £50K which she is now going to pay back, compared to someone showing distain for the rules and exploiting them to avoid paying far more (then show no remorse or any intention to pay it). I know which I'd rather the press had hounded out via the court of public opinion.
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Yeah but Ange is a lippy Northern lass who didn’t go to Charterhouse and Oxford so she must be hounded out
The posh cunts are allowed to get away with it. And the list is very long
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Slightly more than that. He threatened legal action. My reading of the Rayner situation is that she fucked up and when she realised she referred herself
Note the Telegraph has articles on “How to avoid Starmer tax raid on your second home” and “I’m a tax lawyer and I don’t understand the rules that Angela Raynor broke”
I’ll remind myself to ask you next time I have some property tax issues.
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My advice would be to find a professional, certainly don't ask this fucking idiot.
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Seems to me that you all want different rules for people you like than for people you don't like.
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I want the press to report and treat people with appropriate levels of pressure and scrutiny, regardless of the political party they represent.
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If you’re going to wish for the impossible, I’d go a bit more ambitious than that.
But Hunt and Zadawi were widely reported, as were Johnson’s many indiscretions, and judged accordingly.
Labour spent those years in opposition shouting loudly about all those indiscretions, with Raynor pretty prominent. They can’t then expect to be forgiven easily for a bit of light tax evasion.
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No one is arguing that Ange should not have resigned. It is the manner that she has been treated by tax avoiding (and yes I do know the difference) media barons, their lackeys and the general public (remind me which of ZaHawi’s residences was spray painted and vandalised?) that is the point of discussion.
If you genuinely believe that the press (and by extension society) has treated Angela Rayner in the same way they did a litany of posh blokes, then you are beyond help. And by the way, it is not just this issue. She has faced a pathetic level of abuse for years. I imagine your buddies in Parliament and the press are jizzing into their y-fronts tonight.
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Well, they certainly aren't my buddies and I'm glad we agree on where I started, which is that she had to resign. And I also agree she's been treated appallingly.
This, if i can remind you, is my initial post that you and shady were so eager to jump all over:
What do you actually disagree with? Because it feels like you have invented what Ive said and started arguing against that.
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TalkBack 101
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The issue with Raynor was revealed on Weds and she was gone on Friday.
I’d say Labour have done exactly what they said they would and dealt with it swiftly.
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You seem to be saying “well, she had to resign, so who gives a a fuck?” That isn’t the discussion….appreciate it may be a bit subtle as you keep missing the point. The discussion is that she has been treated very differently by the press, by opposition politicians (bar Ed Davey) and, by extension, the public.
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I have sympathy for not knowing the details of the rules. Trusts are a minefield, but in her situation knowing what she knows about the press it seems a serious lapse of judgement to not pay for specialist advice.
