Ministers rally round Angela Rayner as she fights for political survival - BBC News - eviltoast

I don’t know what people are so upset about. She only failed to pay a little bit of tax. Hundreds of bankers and multinationals so the same and nobody says anything.

Oh wait… 😅

  • tazeycrazy@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    It undermines the whole system if the stewerds of tax income themselves evade tax. They can pass a law to remove a tax or add a tax but they need to pay as we have to.

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      3 months ago

      It undermines the whole system when people who are guilty of greater crimes are able to harass people out of democratically elected office.

      If she stood for election again with this now out in the public knowledge I’m sure she’d still win her seat without issue.

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        3 months ago

        A Labour leader with backbone would use this an an opportunity to investigate the tax-evasion practices of every media-owning oligarch. In those cases, we’re talking potential billions of pounds, not £40k.