While everyday people are struggling to eat or heat their homes.
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This Labour government led by the spineless Starmer will go down as the worst in political history .They had such an opportunity to actually do something after the austerity and sleaze of the Tories.
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The same thought had crossed my mind Azz.
What I am more concerned with however is Starmer.
Labour were voted in on a landslide but with very few voting.
Voters had just had enough of the Tories and their sleaze.
The first thing that happens is that Starmer and Senior Labour figures were found to be accepting freebies for themselves and their families and very expensive freebies at that.
Starmer initially refused to do anything, insisting that no rules had been broken.
That was not the point, he had been voted in to stop sleaze and change the rules not just insist that they are followed.
He is doing the same again, far too many loopholes to avoid paying Tax.
As for how she paid for the house, she could have won the lottery or had a large inheritance.
Instead she sold her share in it to her disabled son using his disability trust fund to buy it.
Unbelievable, if you have a disabled child you give them money, not sell them something they should have inherited anyway.
The whole thing stinks.
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How can a steel worker afford a second house?
I can tell you from experience that getting a mortgage for your first house is the hard part. Once you own a house the banks are falling over themselves to lend you money for the the second, third and and fourth house - you don’t even need to have paid off the first.
When I bought my second house the banks competed for my business and gave me 1% below the prevailing mortgage rate (a lot higher % than it is now)
You have to admire her for her enterprise. I would never complain about someone doing well for themselves and making good investments.
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My Politics are very similar to her Politics and I admire how well she has done for herself as a teenage unmarried mother with no qualifications, no family money living on a Council Estate in Manchester.
I have no problems at all with anyone working hard and reaping the benefits of that hard work.
That is where it ends though.
Politicians do not have financially secure long term jobs, they have to get themselves reelected every few years and often fail to do so.
They are not a good risk for a long term mortgage.
She has moved to Hove, a safe Labour Seat, which she hopes to be nominated for, rather than stick with her existing seat, which she is very likely to lose to Reform in the next Election.
That is Politics for you
It is the manner in which she has done it which causes me concern.
Labour came to power promising to stop sleaze and close loopholes so that everyone paid their share of Tax.
She has vigorously attacked Tories for their sleaze and tax avoidance and has made a great play of being an ordinary working person.
Ordinary working people are taxed by PAYE, you are taxed before you get your pay.
Ordinary working people do not routinely get perks like expensive clothing, shoes and tickets to concerts, she is registered to vote in 3 houses and roistered the house in Stockport as her main residence to avoid paying Council Tax on the free, very posh flat she gets given in London.
She has a Postal Vote on the Stockport house, as her main residence,
whilst opting to vote in Person in Hove.
Claiming that the Stockport house is her main residence for Council Tax to the vast majority of ordinary people means that the flat she has just bought ih Hove is her second home and she should have paid the extra Stamp Duty on it as a second home.
You can’t have it both ways, but she thinks she can.
Not the sort of person I want in Government.
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Why can’t Starmer say something meaningful like, “no comment”.
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Politics and career should be two distinct things.
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Because he is a lawyer and lawyers have no sense of natural justice .
They are always looking for a way out of things.
He was head of the CPS, an organisation loathed by the Police.
They are pedantic to the extreme, far more concerned with where the semicolon is rather than has a crime been committed and the rights of the victims.
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Certain jobs require De-scrupleization
that could hurt
That’s why one never went into politics 
We have a congresswoman who has amassed $30 million in about 6 years. Nope. No corruption here. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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so you dont have to give your scruplesdenation
Exactly, its all you have to take to the grave 
I read that members of the congress, both sides, typically outperform even Warren Buffet in the returns from their investments. And by factors of 3 or 4 more. We wonder if the skills that took them into high office are also applied to their investment skills. Or something else?
I do not doubt that similar “application of skills” takes place in the UK, but probably on a smaller scale. However, these current issues relate to behaviour of members of a Labour government. Unlike the US, where the Democrats are only slightly more liberal, the premise of the Labour party is to represent the workers of the country and those most in need of government support. For me, this makes the actions of Raynor (and all those that took freebies) much more disappointing and I judge them harder. That is, I expected tories and their PPE contract winning friends to be corrupt. Not Labour. Guess that is called naivety.
One has to wonder who released the info about Rayner’s shenanigans, and how they knew.
Her role as housing minister may well be untenable.
Her position as deputy prime minister may well Aldo be unsafe. Starmer can’t remove her as she was given the post by the party membership. But, given that Unite have booted her out, she will have lost the support of those who voted for her.
Not if you are careful how you hold both bricks 
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My guess is the enquiry will find she did nothing wrong and “acted in good faith” - just like the last time. It would appear she makes a lot of “mistakes” - should someone with such poor judgement be in a position of power?
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I might act in good faith when I fill in my self assessment in a couple of weeks. I’m sure HMRC will be very generous and understanding if I make any significant errors.
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Don’t bank on it Dex… 
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