Angela Rayner in shock return as housing secretary

Words fail me
How many housing ministers does that make 🤔

There is a real positive here. We will see more content from Intel Lady. YouTube search “no brainer with Angela Rayner”

Poacher turned gamekeeper?

Maybe she can teach us a thing or two about stamp duty and how to avoid paying it..

Is it just me or does it feel like Groundhog Day?

She resigned due to her own tax mistakes…and gets a £17k severance payment? Legal maybe but that is bang out of order. How do these self-serving charlatans sleep at night?

Maybe she can prosecute Reeves for her s95 Housing Act strict liability offence.

Wont hold my breath

Reply to the comment left by Jason at 21/07/2026 – 10:33
Didn’t take her long! https://youtu.be/H9w4d708bFs

Andy Burnham has said that what we’ve done over the last 40 years is wrong and that he intends to deliver radical change. But he hasn’t been elected, he’s been avoiding media scrutiny and he doesn’t have a mandate for radical left-wing changes. Angela Rayner is a radical left-winger.

Yesterday we saw some media coverage of Andy Burnham’s first cabinet meeting in which they discussed the Russian warship firing its guns off the South West Coast and described it as “performative”. But the whole televised cabinet meeting was performative….a stunt designed to try and reassure the money markets that Andy Burnham’s government wasn’t going to spend more than it receives in taxes, and that it was at least going to able to cover its interest payments.

Not only can the country not spend what we need to spend on defence, if Andy Burnham doesn’t get economic growth he can’t spend what he wants to spend on anything else. Labour came to power promising economic growth but then Rachel Reeves’ two budgets inflicted extra costs on small businesses that stifled growth….Angela Rayner was behind trying to extend workers’ rights to day one, which also did a lot of damage. Labour SAY one thing but they DO something else. I haven’t heard anything coherent from them yet on how they are going to deliver economic growth and despite their stunt on TV this week, the money markets will see through their performance, especially if Andy Burnham keeps talking “spend” and doesn’t talk “economic growth” and “encourage investment”.

Andy Burnham can’t get economic growth if he makes it harder for businesses to grow, discourages investment and attacks capital. This labour government has a history of SAYING one thing (economic growth) but DOING something else. Early on people will give him the benefit of the doubt, although not for long if he keeps avoiding the media. But putting Angela Rayner in charge of housing is a very high risk thing to do for Andy Burnham…..as soon as Angela Rayner opens her mouth, doesn’t produce words that mean “encourage investment in housing” and instead says something that means “rent control” then everybody will be able to see behind the performance and know that Andy Burnham is a fake.

So a minister can under pay their taxes, get severance payment from the job that they resign from, in shame, & be reappointed & rewarded with a fabulous salary. Yet a landlord can make an innocent mistake & can be fined thousands of pounds.

I’m not political in any way, but this doesn’t look like the Labour party I saw growing up during the major strike years. It seems there’s one standard for politicians & another for the rest of us.

Are we really that short of intelligent people to take up governmental postings?

Are we all really that stupid to allow this farce to continue? I can’t wait for an election. And yes, I will be urging my tenants to vote for whoever gives us all a reasonable deal. And that will not be the current bunch of lunatics that reside in the seats of power.

Reply to the comment left by Landlord Phil at 28/07/2026 – 15:55
Andy Burnham is very keen on devolution, apparently. But for devolution to work you need the people in control of local government finances to have a high degree of competency. Even when I look at the central government that I’ve seen over the last two years I’m not seeing a team of high-calibre people (in terms of competence, not intention). And the really big problem then comes when you look at the calibre of people who are labour councillors and somebody decides to give them a lot more power to tax YOU, to tax YOUR FAMILY, and to spend what is YOUR money.

Hardly any labour MPs have ever had any experience of business. Anybody with any experience of business or understanding of it would not come to power promising to grow the economy, then increase the rate of employers’ national insurance, reduce the level at which that kicks in and simultaneously propose giving everybody employment rights on day one. What this does is to make it high risk to employ people, especially new starters in the labour market, and disproportionately punishes the people on the margins in the employment market. Nobody who genuinely understood business and also genuinely wanted economic growth would have done this.

What the Labour Renters Rights Act does is to decrease competition in the private rented sector, increase the cost and risk of renting to people, drive rents up, and make it too risky to house some people at the margins. In a market with a shortage of rental property, nobody competent would have done this.

And if you genuinely wanted to build 1.5 million new homes and there were already difficulties financing that building programme, no government that genuinely understood either investment or the money markets would penalise investors for investing in it.

Why would anybody who cared about economic growth and giving more people a chance to get somewhere in life through hard work and effort want to give more of their taxes to these people?