Angela Rayner went to the hairdressers at the weekend and got herself a bouncy new hairstyle – some say in readiness to be our new Prime Minister.
Which is beyond terrifying. But now with the resignation of Starmer’s right-hand man, Morgan McSweeney, the talk in Westminster is that Starmer won’t be far behind, which leaves the door open for yet another bunch of losers, and Rayner is at the top of that dodgy heap.
How did this once great country come to this? How can it be that we might soon fall into the hands of one of the most intellectually bereft people ever to enter politics?
Is Angela Rayner really the kind of woman we want representing us on the world stage? Is this vile, uncouth woman the PM we want when the world is closer to war than it’s been in decades?
I’m sorry, but being a class warrior just isn’t enough. The fact is, Rayner might be wily, she might be street smart, but she’s always got ahead in politics because the unions – who finance Labour – insisted she was always part of the picture.
Ditto John Prescott. She was the bridge between the unions and the Government.
But whatever her talents might be, they’re nowhere near enough to lead a country. She’s loud, she’s vulgar, she accepts expensive freebies, but much more importantly, she has no clue about economics or foreign affairs; she’s renowned for being light on policy, she’s not a strategist, and as we’ve seen time and again, she’s incapable of diplomacy.
And doesn’t the fact that a woman like Rayner is even being considered for PM tell you how degenerate and debased our politics have become?
Ten years ago, just the mention of it would have been seen as a (sick) joke. But today, after nearly two years of the most catastrophically incompetent PM, we might be about to get one that will break all records for incompetence.
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The tragedy here is that Rayner wouldn’t stand a cat in Hell’s chance of the top job if there were any other decent candidates in the running, but there aren’t. The only half-decent contender was Wes Streeting, but he’s now out because of his association with Mandelson.
Let’s not forget Rayner is the same woman who, while the Tories were in power, routinely screamed abuse about them (often after a few bevvies), claiming they were “scum". Not a good look.
But worse of all of that is the fact that she had to resign after failing to pay £40,000 stamp duty.
This is the woman who was first out of the traps with the abuse of a Tory who didn’t pay tax.
And this is the woman who’s very likely to be our next PM.
But it’s not just incompetence that’s Rayner’s problem. It's her rank hypocrisy. In opposition, she banged endlessly on about integrity and ethics and how the lack of them cripples governments, not realising she has neither.
She’s the politician who campaigned against the right to buy whilst profiting from the sale of her own council house. She didn’t want other people to make any money on council houses – as long as she did.
She also charged the taxpayers for her personalised AirPods. She took free clothes from Lord Alli. She stayed in his New York apartment. She also presented taxpayers with a bill for £7,000 for two beds in her government flat in Admiralty Arch.
Yet still she tries to sell herself as an honest and authentic politician who is totally uninterested in money when she’s got her snout firmly in the trough.
She’s like all those other so-called class warriors - the union bosses on sky-high salaries and obscene expense accounts – they hate the rich, but they don’t see why they shouldn’t grab some of the spoils.
Remember, Rayner also bought an £800,000 flat in Hove, hundreds of miles away from her constituents in Ashton Under Lyne. So how useful is she to her working-class constituents?
Whenever she’s criticised for anything (much like Starmer), it’s never her fault. She always falls back on the old trope that people go after her because she’s a working-class woman who lived on a council estate and got pregnant at 16.
It’s nothing of the sort. She still doesn’t get that voters don’t give a stuff about where their politicians come from, they just want them to be intelligent, capable, principled people, and Angela Rayner is none of those things.
And for the record, it’s not the working classes who support Raynor anymore because they see right through her. It’s the middle classes who think they’re being right on in supporting her “refreshing honesty”.
The working classes see her for exactly what she is – a chancer. And they resent the fact that they have no choice but to pay their taxes and can’t be doing with people much richer than them (Rayner) making pathetic excuses for not paying them. Especially people who have three homes, as Raynor did at the time she was sacked.
So, no, she’s absolutely not one of them.
She’s also a chancer who’s not very good at her job. Look at how, as Housing Secretary, she vowed Labour would build one and a half million homes in this Parliament.
The Government is nowhere near that, and the target won’t be met, and it wouldn’t have been met even if Rayner hadn’t been fired.
Also, her radical Employment Rights Bill will cost employers between £1billion and £5billion a year, and if she does get to be PM, she’ll give the trade unions exactly what they demand, and she’ll raise taxes even more than Reeves has.
Stories last week were that Rayner now has a £1million war chest to fight Starmer for the PM’s job, and she’s apparently strutting around offering cabinet roles to various MPs. That's how arrogant and certain she is that she’s going to be PM.
And if she does, this country will be a laughing stock on the global stage.
God help us!
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