JNugent
2024-04-12 15:29:10 UTC
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/12/angela-rayner-tories-targeting-labour-deputy-tax-class-shaming>
The Graun manages to accept that she should be investigated by the
police in respect of her residence and CGT affairs, but really, only as
long as she is exonerated.
The author manages to insinuate that Boris and Rishi were fined (they
weren't) for a Covid breach and also that this is somehow less bad than
tax evasion, which is a big departure for that publication. Normally,
tax evasion, whether real, alleged or even just a mere suggestion, is
next to being a capital offence.
And let's remember, Boris and Rishi were judged by a then-undeclared
prominent acolyte of the Labour Party, whose impartiality and judgement
on those matters is now so discredited as to be totally worthless.
OTOH, when that nice Mr Starman (and Ms Rayner) were accused of exactly
the same things, they were magically deemed not to have broken the rules
- by a police force under the control of a Labour PCC.
Who'd have thought it?
But there's another side to the latest issue. A very common factor in
couples residing at separate and different addresses is the existence of
a social security claim by someone representing themself as a lone
parent (a situation which leads to more or less automatic receipt of
benefit with no more questions asked). Let's hope that the police have
enough gumption to make enquiries of DWP's archived records. After all,
no-one wants Rayner to have that sort of unresolved suspicion hanging
over her, eh?
The Graun manages to accept that she should be investigated by the
police in respect of her residence and CGT affairs, but really, only as
long as she is exonerated.
The author manages to insinuate that Boris and Rishi were fined (they
weren't) for a Covid breach and also that this is somehow less bad than
tax evasion, which is a big departure for that publication. Normally,
tax evasion, whether real, alleged or even just a mere suggestion, is
next to being a capital offence.
And let's remember, Boris and Rishi were judged by a then-undeclared
prominent acolyte of the Labour Party, whose impartiality and judgement
on those matters is now so discredited as to be totally worthless.
OTOH, when that nice Mr Starman (and Ms Rayner) were accused of exactly
the same things, they were magically deemed not to have broken the rules
- by a police force under the control of a Labour PCC.
Who'd have thought it?
But there's another side to the latest issue. A very common factor in
couples residing at separate and different addresses is the existence of
a social security claim by someone representing themself as a lone
parent (a situation which leads to more or less automatic receipt of
benefit with no more questions asked). Let's hope that the police have
enough gumption to make enquiries of DWP's archived records. After all,
no-one wants Rayner to have that sort of unresolved suspicion hanging
over her, eh?