Angela’s ambitions in ashes? – politicalbetting.com
Angela’s ambitions in ashes? – politicalbetting.com
Blistering statement from the law firms that acted for Angela Rayner Joanna Verrico tells the Tel they never gave tax advice.“We probably are being made scapegoats for all this and I have got the arrows stuck in my back to show it.“
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BREAKING: Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries defects to Reform UK.
https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1963666273503490084
No doubt, there will have been pride at seeing their MP become DPM, now it looks a certain Farage pick-up.
Looks like she really is toast. Sad, really.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/04/its-a-disgrace-rayners-constituents-call-for-her-resignation-after-stamp-duty-row
Still, the world of politics is not fair, and having criticized others for tax avoidance she has to be like Ceasar's wife with respect to her own tax affairs. I don't think she can survive this. But I hope she will be back after a suitable period in the wilderness, because she is a fundamentally decent and honest person with a compelling backstory and an all too rare working class voice in politics.
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Brace for lots of angry tweets about how rubbish Euston station is on here.
Spoiler - Reform Party conference is in Birmingham.
The lobby have to get the train from Euston station.
Am I to be the first to "congratulate" @TSE on another awful, excruciating pun in the header? It almost makes me want to cut my own legs off (too soon?).
As for Dorries, I'm agog with indifference.
As for Stamer having "a good day", it's never good for a leader to lose a deputy because it leaves the way open for a more ambitious challenger to move up the hierarchy. I doubt Starmer wants to lose Rayner whose role is analogous was that of Prescott under Blair but she does seem to be running out of road.
Obviously, he can appoint a Housing Minister but there's no requirement to have a Deputy Prime Minister so perhaps that part of the role will just fall vacant until, so we are led to believe, incoming PM Farage puts Tice in post.
So why hasn't he already sacked Angela Rayner!
https://x.com/timmyvoe/status/1963622935857340794?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
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https://x.com/telegraph/status/1963642234475065671?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/stamp-duty-land-tax-buying-an-additional-residential-property
Of course, in principle, Tories defecting to Reform is bad for Tories and good for Reform. But if any signing can mitigate the impact it surely has to be a raging narcissist like Mad Nad.
The problem is the way she dished it out to the Conservatives when they faced similar allegations is coming back to bite her and a reminder Opposition is one thing, Government something else and if and when you are found out doing something you shouldn't, you can expect neither quarter nor mercy from your opponents who will have longer memories.
As I said yeaterday, however, what will force her out isn't the vitriol of her opponents (though they may claim the credit) but the inaction of her friends. You can rely on your enemies but the moment you can no longer rely on your allies your goose is well and truly ready to be taken out of the oven.
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I’ve watched 100s of congressional hearings over 55 years. Rarely if ever have I seen a witness so thoroughly destroyed as RFK Jr has been today.
https://x.com/LarrySabato/status/1963642629112881359
His company pays tribute to its ‘tireless driving force’ who pioneered soft power dressing and built a global empire"
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/sep/04/giorgio-armani-celebrated-italian-fashion-designer-dies-at-91
Trustees are normally accountants or lawyers, and they are rarely paid particularly well for the legal risks they are assuming. For this reason, I've never seen a trustee be anything other than ultra cautious: they simply have nothing to gain.
Now, it may be the case that Ms Rayner is herself the Trustee. In which case there is a serious conflict of interests here, as well as a potential misvaluation. But if the trustees are accountants or lawyers, then I suspect that they will have taken professional advice on valuations.
Would she have gone without a nod and a wink from him?
Now that defection would be really interesting.....
I very much doubt he would want to have anything to do with Farage on that basis alone.
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Those who already thought he was a crackpot will have had that confirmed.
Those who drink the kool aid will think he did well.
... evaporating as it becomes clear that it doesn't matter.
Those who are brazen enough can survive all sorts of things, and those who aren't don't survive even when they objectively ought to.
If he were to defect (massive IF) he would stand a signicantly better chance of ending up PM again than if he remains in the doldrums on the holed below the water line HMS Tory.
But will it affect his behaviour? Nope.
Rightmove has currently three houses for sale for over £600k in Ashton and one of them hasn't even been built yet.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?searchLocation=Ashton-Under-Lyne,+Greater+Manchester&useLocationIdentifier=true&locationIdentifier=REGION^61&radius=0.0&minPrice=600000&_includeSSTC=on&index=0&sortType=2&channel=BUY&transactionType=BUY&displayLocationIdentifier=Ashton-Under-Lyne.html
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In which 'Loose Onions' is very much the 'Insert Text Here'.
Is this how I am perceived by the world? Onions? I've railed for years against Big Everything Knowing Too Much, and it turns out this is hiw Big Everything sees me? A man who loves buying loose onions?
I'd almost be less disappointed if it was intimate lube and Mars bars.
Evidence is mounting, showing that the Ukrainian SEAD campaign gathered success.
First, Ukrainian Air Force resumed Bayraktar MALE strike missions. ..
https://x.com/Ath3neN0ctu4/status/1963572287774376272
If a surveyor used the comparators in that article to calculator fair price they wouldn't have a leg to stand on were they to be sued... A 3 bed semi definitely isn't a reasonable comparison to a 4 bed detached especially 1 adapted at vast expense to meet someone's particular needs.
What you are then left with is the difficult question of how do you value a property especially adapted for the needs of someone who needs a property to be adapted. Which if £80,000 of adaptions would be required to your typical £550,000 home may make a £630,000 valuation reasonable under the circumstances...
https://youtu.be/e54fB9lDUiQ?si=ikwIRK0fcbzY3cAt
I wouldn’t be surprised if they have just added £80k to the value on the grounds that’s what they spent (and perhaps used a value from the time of the divorce)
I’ve been to Stockport once, on a stag do. A notorious hotel I believe, name escapes me
That would surely be a more interesting inquiry into misogamy than yet another investigation into men trying to weedle their way into womens toilsts for a perversion that no one has ever come across.
There are some sick rightwing journals and TV stations around at the moment that hate the idea of an uppity lefty woman with a bit of spirir. We've seen it with 'Rachel in accounts' and we're seeing it with 'Angela from Ashton'.
For what it's worth I can't see who in her position would have done anything differently. She had no financial interest in her old house so would have just paid what her conveyancer had told her she owed.
If you added an aquarium room for your tropical fish and it cost £250k it doesn’t add £250k to the house value.
Adaptions could theoretically reduce the value as any buyer might have to spend a lot to remove or reverse the adaptions.
Swimming pools is another where it might cost a lot to put one in but rarely adds to the value and sometimes acts as negative.
About a decade ago it was the lowest ranked/dirtiest hotel on Tripadvisor.
It quites different to go around saying I did everything proppa that my lawyers told me to do and they were wrong compared to i did everything proppa that my lawyers told me to do when the lawyers we said no such thing nor were we asked.
Do you think maybe people just don’t like politicians who might have been stupid, especially ones who have spent years attacking opponents fiercely and demanding resignations non-stop for errors etc, regardless of sex or background.
https://www.fineandcountry.co.uk/bawtry-estate-agents/property-sale/4-bedroom-detached-house-for-sale-in-dn10-6qz-south-yorkshire-doncaster-austerfield-high-street-the-manor-house/2667698
Given that it was the home of William Bradford, leader of the Pilgrim Fathers, they should have been advertising it in Massachusetts and Connecticut rather than Doncaster and Retford.
I can see reasons why the trust might value the property at a higher value than anyone else does and justifiable reasons for doing so because remember the trustees (lawyers being paid money to act as trustees) have to justify their decisions.
Sad to know that there is human detritus on the surface.
The OP literally quotes Angela attacking Tory politicians for something similar, but when she's held to account it must be misogyny, not politics.
An investigation has begun into how the phone was planted near the front bench in a serious breach of parliamentary security
The Times has been told that the phone was planted near the front bench and was intended to go off as Sir Keir Starmer faced Kemi Badenoch in the Commons. It was due to play a sexually explicit audio recording
https://www.thetimes.com/article/bd68c8a8-3ee2-423c-941e-7a7d6724c7f0?shareToken=2b923f3c6807e62538dff9b1aa00591c
But the way she has responded has been disastrous and made the issue much worse. She'd have been best advised to shut up after admitting the initial error and referring herself to the Ethics Advisor. It's certainly what I'd have advised her to do.
It does not surprise me that she's made a mess of her response because what is guaranteed, in my experience, is that senior people when they or their firms get into trouble and panic. Which is why you need people like me to keep a cool head. She may also feel under political pressure. But she has undoubtedly made her position worse by her response, even if the stamp duty mistake was a genuine error.
Maybe you should read the statements from the solicitors involved before making comment
The idea had been to promote racing's argument against the proposed harmonisation of betting duty and remote gaming duty in an early October bUdget but by the time the Budget actually happens, it will have been forgotten by most.
I think racing should abandon next Wednesday's proposed "strike" in favour of a date closer to the Budget to gain greater political impact.
It's a bit late for that now. Throwing mud at everyone else involved is only a good look if you're 100% blameless.
It seems the Telegraph and the Guardian are getting tipped off. And who ever is doing it knows a hell of a lot of different pieces of the jigsaw about Rayners life.
Ashton would like to be the next Stockport. I wouldn't say it's impossible - it's cheap and close to Manchester, which is how Stockport's renaissance started - but it has a long way to go. It always feels desperately sad and rainy, and though it may uave been handsome once now seems to be full of angry ring roads driven through the remains of the town at unsympathetic angles.
Edit: already sorted by @eek .