Working Class Hero, Angela 'Three Pads' Rayner Is Finished!

It's impossible for her to come back from this. Her position is untenable.

Let’s not mince words… Angela Rayner, Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary, is a walking embodiment of the hypocrisy that’s rotting Labour from the inside out. For years, she’s positioned herself as the no-nonsense working-class warrior, railing against Tory sleaze and demanding the highest standards of integrity in politics.

Remember her thundering calls for resignations over the slightest whiff of impropriety? Well, the tables have turned, and it’s deliciously ironic that the woman who built her career on holding others to account now finds herself dodging a £40,000 stamp duty bill on her swanky £800,000 seaside flat in Hove. If this were a Tory, the headlines would scream for blood. It would be non-stop wall-to-wall 24/7 rolling coverage. Instead, we get softball sympathy from the usual suspects in the media. But make no mistake, Rayner’s position is utterly untenable. She must resign, or be sacked. She made the rules with her holier than thou preaching about ‘integrity’. She should be held to her own standards.

Rayner admitted she underpaid stamp duty on her second home in Hove, blaming it on “inaccurate legal advice.” Except, in a twist that would make even the most jaded cynic chuckle, her own law firm has come out swinging, insisting they “did not and never have given tax or trust advice.” That’s right, the very solicitors she threw under the bus have publicly declared they were never consulted on such matters, with one stating they’ve been made “scapegoats”.

Rayner’s lies are crumbling before our eyes. She claims it was an “honest mistake,” but tax experts warn she could face fines from HMRC on top of the outstanding bill, potentially pushing her liability even higher. For the Housing Minister to admit dodging stamp duty is bad enough. But lying about the advice she received? That’s the final nail in the coffin.

Adding insult to injury, it’s emerged that Rayner used £160,000 from a trust set up to care for her disabled son - funded by his NHS compensation after an 11-year legal battle - to help purchase that very same Hove flat. She sold a 25% share of her Ashton-under-Lyne home to the trust for £162,500, then dipped into those funds for her luxury seaside pad. While no one begrudges support for a vulnerable child, using compensation meant for his long-term care to bankroll a second property reeks of poor judgement at best and raises serious questions about her tax arrangements.

This isn’t Rayner’s first brush with property scandals, of course. Cast your mind back to her infamous council house saga, where she was accused of dodging capital gains tax by claiming a Stockport property as her main residence while allegedly living elsewhere with her then-husband. Greater Manchester Police initially dismissed it, but after Tory complaints, they reopened the investigation - only for it to drag on inconclusively.

The hypocrisy is eye-watering, isn’t it? Rayner and Starmer swept to power on a wave of sanctimonious promises to “clean up politics” and restore “integrity” after the Tory years. Starmer positioned himself as the anti-sleaze crusader, vowing zero tolerance for rule-breakers. Yet here we are, literally the day after Keir Starmer announces “Phase Two” and Labour’s top brass are mired in yet another scandal. Rayner herself has spent her career demanding resignations. If she’s to be held to her own standards - and why shouldn’t she? - then she has to go.

And don’t get me started on the predictable cries of “classism” and “misogyny” from the left…