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@GitGrumpygit @theSNP Thank you…the most obvious questions and yet they don’t cross the mind of the politicians. This is EXACTLY why they didn’t get the vote the last time!

Wonder how long he’ll be waiting for @theSNP to give him credible answer

She’s such a fraud, even down to the glasses to make herself look more intelligent lol . She just chats absolute rubbish!!! 🙄🤮🤬

Someone should make a Hollywood movie about this. Oh yeah, they did, and still they didn’t listen. @thenodeproject

Rayner's £182,000 Masterclass In Hypocrisy Angela Rayner spent years telling the country that MPs' second jobs were a racket. In March 2023 she wrote that being an MP "isn't a second job. It is the job." Labour, she promised, would put an end to the practice. Eighteen months later she resigned from Cabinet in disgrace over her own financial affairs. Within a year she had earned £182,376 from speeches, book advances and a severance payment she had no obligation to keep. Then she walked straight back into the job she had left. The figures are not subtle. She earned £104,000 from speaking fees in ten months, on top of an MP's salary that rose to £98,599 in April. She took £61,500 as a book advance for a memoir about her own life. She kept a £16,876 exit payment while Wes Streeting, reappointed to Cabinet the same week, is serving his first three months for nothing. One fee stands apart from the rest. Propertymark, a trade body representing the property sector, paid Rayner £20,000 for a two-hour speaking engagement. That is £10,000 an hour, from an industry lobby group, paid to a former Housing Secretary weeks before she was reappointed Housing Secretary. Nobody pays that rate for after-dinner charm. They pay it for access, and they got exactly what they paid for. This is not a speaking fee. It is a retainer with a lectern attached. The woman collecting these cheques left the department with a housebuilding record to be ashamed of. Official figures published by the Ministry of Housing in November show England delivered 208,600 net additional dwellings in 2024-25, a fall of 6 per cent on the year before. New build completions dropped from 198,610 to 190,600. Labour's manifesto promised 1.5 million homes over the Parliament, a rate of 300,000 a year. Rayner delivered barely two-thirds of that. Housebuilding did not accelerate under her stewardship. It slowed. She has an answer ready for all of it. The severance payment was earned, she told BBC Radio 5 Live, because she had genuinely left government for a period of time. That defence collapses under its own logic. The payment exists to cushion ministers against sudden unemployment. Rayner was not unemployed. She was the best-paid backbencher in Britain, drawing more from four speeches than most of her constituents earn in three years. Joanna Marchong of the think tank Onward put it plainly: Rayner built her brand attacking Tory sleaze and demanding a ban on MPs' outside earnings, then pocketed £180,000 the moment the rules stopped applying to her. Lee Anderson called her year out a good little earner. Both are right, and neither goes far enough. The deeper failure sits in the housing numbers, where the gap between rhetoric and delivery is measured not in pounds but in homes that were never built. Labour came to power promising a government that would look different from what came before it. Rayner's year off shows how quickly that promise curdles into the same old story: rules for the public, exemptions for the powerful, and a lobby group's cheque book standing in for genuine accountability. She missed her housing target by a third and was rewarded with reappointment. She broke her own stated principle on second jobs and was rewarded with £182,376. The voters who elected this government on a promise of change deserve to know that the change stopped at the Cabinet door. "Rayner's year off shows how quickly that promise curdles into the same old story: rules for the public, exemptions for the powerful"

@IngrameThomas @JohnSwinney My dad died five years ago, but prior to that for several years you could not have a conversation with him without him mentioning the ferries. He was incensed. And the money they have spent on trans ideology is ridiculous as well.

🤦‍♂️ Angela Rayner’s Radio 4 interview this morning was a complete car crash. The Housing Minister all but confessed that Labour is about to let the country down and ditch another central election pledge. She compared delivering 1.5 million homes to her personally running a marathon in under five hours — something she’ll attempt, but may never finish. She tells us not to underestimate her. Yet the last time she held this brief, planning permissions for new homes crashed to their lowest level in more than a decade. “Look, I am straight talking. 1.5m homes is a difficult target. It was when I made the target, but I’m going to keep the target and I’m not going to be defeated.” She knows perfectly well they will fall miles short. Then the familiar bravado: “People have underestimated me all my life and if you tell me that I can’t do something, I’ll go hellbent to get it done.” The problem? She has just spent the entire interview pretty much admitting she can’t get it done! Empty words, familiar excuses, and another broken promise in the making.

How on earth has Angela Rayner amassed a personal fortune of almost £5m on an MP’s salary?

@lady_valor_07 1976

Based on the entirety of this photograph, what is your best estimation of the year it was taken?

@BasilTheGreat Talk about bite the hand that feeds you…and once it all goes pear shape in the USA then what? Silly girl

🚨NEWS: People have been calling for Jameela Jamil to leave the country after she called British people the most evil in history

@JohnSwinney And how much trouble has that brought every major city in Scotland…nuisance behaviour, terrorising passengers. It’s a travelling youth centre at night…great initiative John.

There’s been a lot of talk about buses today... Our £2 bus fare cap is already live in parts of Scotland, we are rolling it out across the country, and young people under 22 travel for free under the SNP.

A good example of someone who makes more out of being in politics than she would anywhere else

Angela Rayner is the absolute definition of a shameless hypocrite. She quit the cabinet in disgrace last year over her tax scandal, pocketed a £16,876 severance payment, and has now waltzed straight back into the exact same job. And when asked to hand the money back? She refused point blank, defending it with the pathetic excuse that it was “a year ago”. Yes, Angela. It was a year ago. And now you’re back in the job. So give the public’s money back, you money-grabbing hypocrite. Even worse, she has the brass neck to claim that unlike the Tories, she and Labour are “focused on delivering for the British people” and “not looking like we’re in it for ourselves”. She actually said that while defending keeping thousands of pounds she should never have received in the first place after returning to the same role within a year. The sheer shamelessness is breathtaking. One rule for her, another for everyone else. Absolute brass neck.

Well @AnasSarwar ?

Britain gave the world the Industrial Revolution, took on massive national debt to abolish the global slave trade, stood alone against fascism, and built modern parliamentary democracy. Yet Jameela Jamil is in Hollywood telling Americans that British people are "truly the most evil people in history." The self-loathing, metropolitan liberal elite never cease to amaze. Absolute disgrace.

Zack Polanski demanding another independence referendum is like someone hammering the lift button after being told it's out of order. Clueless. Pointless. Brainless.

This scroat got paid £17 grand when she had to resign from the Cabinet last year. Now she's back there, surely she should pay it back! Pigs. Trough. Snouts. #angelarayner

🚨NEWS: Jo White has been appointed as Immigration Minister by Andy Burnham She previously was caught on a hot mic privately saying "I don't care if we stop the boats"

Both Shabana and Wes must be sacked. Now.