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2 April (Part 2) - Can it get any worse?

Angela Rayner Rishi Sunak Nadim ZahawiAngela Rayner is apparently the best MP that Keir Starmer can find to be his Deputy, a lady who left school aged 15 and whose only qualification is an NVQ Level 2 in Social Care. Maybe a sop to his left wing as John Prescott was to Tony Blair.

Former Trade Union official Angela Rayner has been in the news quite a lot recently for having the good sense to take up Mrs. Thatcher’s offer of a cheap Council house. Now it is alleged that it wasn’t her main home when she made a £48,000 profit when selling up and dodged the Capital Gains Tax that might be due.

Maybe she didn’t give it a thought, probably most people who left school with no qualifications and aspirations to lead the Labour Party wouldn’t, but as I write the radio is telling me that that a “full police investigation” is being demanded. Any Conservative clamoring for such an enquiry is a hypocrite.

Their record on tax dodging is nothing to crow about.

When that destroyer of the Conservative Party if not Britain itself, Rishi Sunak, was appointed Chancellor by Clown Johnson three years ago he wasn’t even a proper British citizen. He had a USA Green Card and looked for all the world as if he intended to live there with a house ready for him in California. He paid taxes to the USA and his billionaire wife paid no tax here. However that didn’t stop him from raiding British pockets, freezing our tax allowances and generally laying the foundations for financial Armageddon.

In July 2022 Sunak was succeeded by Nadim Zahawi, a man being pursued at the time by HMRC for a seven figure sum of unpaid tax. He eventually owned up and had to pay a £1 million penalty when less well connected people may have gone to jail.

By comparison, the sale of a Council House looks like pretty small beer to me. Have the Conservatives lost all sense of proportion as well as their reason to exist?

I am unsure of my position on Labour Chancellors. Like Sunak, Rachel Reeves is Oxford university educated and in my experience some union officials talk more sense than toffs with degrees; but unlike any recently appointed Tory Chancellor, Rachel has some qualifications in the relevant field. However being an economist at the Bank of England does not inspire confidence especially after seeing Denis Healey (he was Oxford educated too) run cap in hand to the International Monetary Fund and Gordon Brown wrecking pension schemes.

But it is hard to think of anyone worse than Jeremy Hunt.

Note: When first writing the above I was under the mistaken impression that Angela Rayner was Shadow Chancellor until @tonyofsidcup put me right. Probably due to the change of direction it has lost most of its impact. But it remains the case that Hunt is such an idiot that he thinks destroying his voter base is a good idea.

 

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