Posted on 09/05/2025 6:33:48 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has resigned following a scandal over her failure to pay the correct amount of property tax, adding to the woes of the country’s struggling center-left government.
Her departure is another headache for the United Kingdom’s increasingly unpopular leader, Keir Starmer, and deprives his cabinet of one of its brightest political stars.
In a letter addressed to Starmer on Friday, Rayner said that she was stepping down as Britain’s deputy prime minister and housing minister, as well as the deputy leader of the Labour Party.
Despite securing a landslide election victory in July 2024, Labour is now facing a rising challenge from the upstart anti-immigration Reform UK party, which currently leads national opinion polls and is holding a national conference in Birmingham on Friday.
Rayner had been fighting for her political survival after it emerged that she had not paid enough property taxes on an apartment in Hove on England’s southern coast, which she bought earlier this year.
Rayner claimed her mistake was unwitting and based on poor legal advice. Yet opposition parties and right-wing British tabloids quickly labeled her a hypocrite, due to her history of mauling Conservative ministers in the previous government over similar “sleazy” incidents. Her actions soon snowballed into a national scandal.
Starmer initially stood up for his deputy, but his support grew more anemic day by day. Defending Rayner became ever more challenging, given that Britain is wracked by a housing crisis and that Labour is considering raising taxes, including on property. Critics said her position had become untenable.
In her letter on Friday, Rayner wrote that media scrutiny had meant that staying in her post was “unbearable,”
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Fascinating. A Labor politician forced out by “Media Scrutiny’.
She resigned after her lawfirm threw her under the bus.
Now the UK’s Xeep State is going after Nigel Farage and is trying to equate tax avoidance with tax cheating.
Good luck with that.
BTW, my bet is Rayner was paid to go away and keep shtum.
Likely with taxpayer money.
It wasn’t from media scrutiny.
It was the Scooby gang on social media.
The internet’s Baker St. Irregulars.
Which is why the UK’s Deep State is going all in on online censorship.
Well she was a minority in the labor party.
She was white and a woman.
Only checking those two boxes in labor make you a minority and expendable.
That makes sense.
The BBC is all in on the vanguard of the proletariat making their own rules.
“Property taxes on an apartment”???
“center-left government”
LOL!!
This!
THIS!
So, Labour in Mediocre Britain (no longer “Great”) is looking at US fraudsters such as Lisa Cook, Letitia James, and Schiffty the Human Lemur for their mortgage fraud advice.
In Europe, it is common to own an apartment, similar to a condominium in the US.
And she would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids!
Memes and tweets are internet era broadsides.
Everything old is new again.
I GET A BILL FROM THE COUNTY.
I PAY WHAT THE BILL ASKS FOR
I NEVER DO MY OWN CALCULATIONS
HOW DOES THE UK DO THEIR PROPERTY TAXES???
ALSO: ON AN APARTMENT????? IN A BUILDING WITH OTHER APARTMENTS???????
NOW—IT MAKES MORE SENSE.
Female names resonate in our news too. Lisa Cook. Letitia James. Ketanji Brown Jackson. Stacey Abrams. The female Pelosi and the co-president Clinton.
As to "poor" Rayner who managed multiple properties while working in politics (in the Bernie Sanders style), the " teenage mum" is CNN-highlighted, but there's no mention of the father. And, looking at her PR photo included in the article, she's got that "Chelsea Clinton" thing going for her. Or against her....
More disarray than usual?.....................
The UK’s Deep State says sorry, not sorry with her replacement...
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2104710/angela-rayner-live-keir-starmer-stamp-duty
...David Lammy.
Which is a giant bleep you to the British public.
See my reply #18.
Less disarray than a beatings will continue until morale improves move.
The Left is like the Borg.
All exactly alike, no difference except their names.............
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