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Angela Rayner - 3 homes now

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Primrose53 Sun 24-Aug-25 20:12:07

www.heraldscotland.com/news/25413474.angela-rayner-occupies-three-homes-buys-seaside-flat/

Since I can’t see a thread about the Deputy PM and Housing Minister, Angela Rayner I am starting one. 😉

All the main newspapers are headlining this story but most have a paywall and this one doesn’t.

There’s no doubt she has come far from her humble beginnings but this demonstrates to me that she is very out of touch with people.

Allira Fri 05-Sept-25 14:43:56

StripeyGran

ronib

Nigel isn’t the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Housing etc. And boy isn’t he going to capitalise on this fiasco?

Nigel....the word makes me puke.

Yes , he will.

Ah, not kind. ☹

We have a couple of lovely friends called Nigel and one of my best friends at college was a Nigel.

AGAA4 Fri 05-Sept-25 14:44:39

Nothing more to say now as AR has gone. I wonder who the next victim will be.

Allira Fri 05-Sept-25 14:48:54

PaynesGrey

It’s been rumoured that now Nadine seems to be over her grand passion for Boris, Nigel has had to hire an extra bodyguard to keep her at bay.

She could be a spy, of course. She’s not known for her discretion and is likely to put whatever she sees going on at conference into a book.

😁

Boris is history so Nadine's moved on to pastures new.

Allira Fri 05-Sept-25 14:53:31

PaynesGrey

It was a joke because of her exposé of what went on in Tory circles as described in her last book. Excerpt from the blurb:

^From group sex sessions organised via WhatsApp, to the King being stood up at the Privy Council and the real reason why Rishi Sunak left the D-Day celebrations early, the accounts are raw, unvarnished and brutal. Everything is worse than it seems.^

Well, if she dishes the dirt on her fellow MPs like that, then I don't feel a bit sorry for her any more! She deserves all she gets.

Now she knows how it feels to have the finger pointed at her. Not nice, is it, Ange?

Oreo Fri 05-Sept-25 14:58:09

AGAA4

Nothing more to say now as AR has gone. I wonder who the next victim will be.

Victim?
If you choose to look at it that way then Nigel Farage may be next.

Oreo Fri 05-Sept-25 14:58:53

Allira

PaynesGrey

It was a joke because of her exposé of what went on in Tory circles as described in her last book. Excerpt from the blurb:

^From group sex sessions organised via WhatsApp, to the King being stood up at the Privy Council and the real reason why Rishi Sunak left the D-Day celebrations early, the accounts are raw, unvarnished and brutal. Everything is worse than it seems.^

Well, if she dishes the dirt on her fellow MPs like that, then I don't feel a bit sorry for her any more! She deserves all she gets.

Now she knows how it feels to have the finger pointed at her. Not nice, is it, Ange?

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Witzend Fri 05-Sept-25 14:59:01

Primrose53

AR makes much of her poor start in life and KS also always backs her up on this.

There are plenty in Politics who can say the same …. Just a few I can think of Jon Ashworth, Nadine Dorries, former Home Secretary Alan Johnson. There are doubtless more but they behave and act more professionally than her.

Not to mention John Major.

westendgirl Fri 05-Sept-25 15:07:24

Allira I think Paynesgrey was talking about Nadine Dories.

PaynesGrey Fri 05-Sept-25 15:17:13

Yes, I was talking about Nadine Dorries.

Allira Fri 05-Sept-25 15:19:16

westendgirl

Allira I think Paynesgrey was talking about Nadine Dories.

Ah! Got it.

Sorry, Ange!

Allira Fri 05-Sept-25 15:20:18

Oreo

Allira

PaynesGrey

It was a joke because of her exposé of what went on in Tory circles as described in her last book. Excerpt from the blurb:

^From group sex sessions organised via WhatsApp, to the King being stood up at the Privy Council and the real reason why Rishi Sunak left the D-Day celebrations early, the accounts are raw, unvarnished and brutal. Everything is worse than it seems.^

Well, if she dishes the dirt on her fellow MPs like that, then I don't feel a bit sorry for her any more! She deserves all she gets.

Now she knows how it feels to have the finger pointed at her. Not nice, is it, Ange?

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

It wasn't Angela, it was Nadine.

She always knows how to let the side down!

RosieandherMaw Fri 05-Sept-25 15:20:54

Perhaps this should be renamed
“Angela Rayner -Three threads now ! “ 🤣🤣🤣

Mollygo Fri 05-Sept-25 15:32:41

RosieandherMaw

Perhaps this should be renamed
“Angela Rayner -Three threads now ! “ 🤣🤣🤣

Are you sure that’s accurate? 🤣🤣🤣

Stormystar Fri 05-Sept-25 15:35:18

Transport secretary resigns for fraud.
Homeless minister resigns for making tenants homeless.
Corruption minister resigns for corruption.
Deputy PM resigns for tax evasion.
Business secretary lied about being a lawyer.

Starmer restoring honesty & integrity to government.?

growstuff Fri 05-Sept-25 15:38:03

Mollygo

RosieandherMaw

Perhaps this should be renamed
“Angela Rayner -Three threads now ! “ 🤣🤣🤣

Are you sure that’s accurate? 🤣🤣🤣

It's more than three. Even the one headed Nigel Farage is about Angela Rayner.

Wait until the Wordle answer is ANGEL - there'll be another one too.

Primrose53 Fri 05-Sept-25 15:44:58

growstuff

Mollygo

RosieandherMaw

Perhaps this should be renamed
“Angela Rayner -Three threads now ! “ 🤣🤣🤣

Are you sure that’s accurate? 🤣🤣🤣

It's more than three. Even the one headed Nigel Farage is about Angela Rayner.

Wait until the Wordle answer is ANGEL - there'll be another one too.

Oooh thanks for the heads up! 😝will pop over there right now!

Allira Fri 05-Sept-25 15:45:35

growstuff

Mollygo

RosieandherMaw

Perhaps this should be renamed
“Angela Rayner -Three threads now ! “ 🤣🤣🤣

Are you sure that’s accurate? 🤣🤣🤣

It's more than three. Even the one headed Nigel Farage is about Angela Rayner.

Wait until the Wordle answer is ANGEL - there'll be another one too.

And the Angela threads included chat about Nigel.

Perhaps we need to invent a name for these threads, such as Brangelina?

Nigella? (no, already taken)
Angina? (perhaps not)
Annigel?

Allira Fri 05-Sept-25 15:46:35

Wait until the Wordle answer is ANGEL - there'll be another one too.
I might use it for my starter word tomorrow!

AGAA4 Fri 05-Sept-25 16:03:46

David Lammy has quickly jumped into Angela's role.

ronib Fri 05-Sept-25 16:06:48

Foreign Secretary is a more important role than Deputy Prime Minister so downgrade for Lammy?
Nice tactics going on…. AR well contained for the time being. Glad Yvette Cooper is Foreign Secretary.

woodenspoon Fri 05-Sept-25 16:09:57

Glad David Lammy is no longer foreign secretary!

AGAA4 Fri 05-Sept-25 16:12:25

ronib

Foreign Secretary is a more important role than Deputy Prime Minister so downgrade for Lammy?
Nice tactics going on…. AR well contained for the time being. Glad Yvette Cooper is Foreign Secretary.

No. Deputy PM is more important as they can stand in for the PM and have other duties.
Foreign secretary is one of the senior roles below PM and deputy PM.

Maremia Fri 05-Sept-25 16:24:52

Yes Nadine is making a comeback. Unfortunately someone on Facebook has resurrected a post Farage made about her some years ago. OOOOPs. Not a nice man.

Mollygo Fri 05-Sept-25 16:30:19

Deputy PM is a constitutional rôle Constitutional position. Deputy prime minister is a title

It brings with it no salary and the holder of the title has no right to automatic succession to the premiership.

Allira Fri 05-Sept-25 16:45:51

There are two new threads about the reshuffle