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Rushanara Ali a touch of hypocrisy?

(10 Posts)
Mollygo Sat 09-Aug-25 06:06:03

In her resignation letter to Sir Keir Starmer, she said she is quitting "with a heavy heart". Really?
She presumably didn't have a heavy heart when she ejected her four tenants.
She'd previously spoken out against "private renters being exploited" and said her government would "empower people to challenge unreasonable rent increases".
The now former minister was charging her four former tenants £3,300 a month. Yet after they moved out, she charged her new tenants £4,000 - a rent increase of more than 20%.

keepingquiet Sat 09-Aug-25 07:54:44

She did the right thing and resigned.

Mollygo Sat 09-Aug-25 20:29:29

keepingquiet

She did the right thing and resigned.

Agreed, but if she hadn’t, would she have been sacked? That’s the question.

keepingquiet Sun 10-Aug-25 07:22:58

That's irrelevent- she did the right thing and resigned. She's gone.

Mollygo Sun 10-Aug-25 11:52:34

keepingquiet

That's irrelevent- she did the right thing and resigned. She's gone.

Not irrelevant at all. Did none know when she was appointed to that position, that she has a vested interest in doing the exact opposite of what the government policy was claiming to do.
As school governors we have to declare any possible conflict of interests.
Thank you for answering and thanks for the pm responses.
I suspect the silence is because others besides those who have pm’d me think the same, but don’t want to criticise the government only to be shouted down by those supporters.

Ilovecheese Sun 10-Aug-25 11:56:13

Well no, I think it is probably because people have already commented on topic on the other thread about it that was started a few days ago.

LizzieDrip Sun 10-Aug-25 12:01:55

I suspect the silence is because others besides those who have pm’d me think the same, but don’t want to criticise the government only to be shouted down by those supporters

What???

Have you read all the posts on various threads criticising the government to the Nth degree! The fear of being disagreed with doesn’t usually stop anyone from commenting on here.

Maybe folk just can’t be bothered with this one🤷‍♀️

Chocolatelovinggran Sun 10-Aug-25 17:07:24

This has already been discussed on another thread, so I'm not sure why you reached the conclusion that you have, Mollygo.

Spinnaker Sun 10-Aug-25 17:44:22

So adept are many politicians (of all parties) at keeping their snouts in the trough, the right thing is never thought about - until they get caught and then cries of oh it's ok because they've done the right thing and resigned as though that makes everything right, which it doesn't.

Grantanow Wed 13-Aug-25 11:37:33

She was probably 'invited' to resign by No. 10. It was more than 'a touch' of hypocrisy. Good riddance in my opinion.