Angela Rayner resignation rumours emerge over Labour’s 1.5 million homes pledge

she still can…please leave Ange.

There is no way she is going to leave this Gravy Train until she’s pushed.

Angela is currently useful to Labour (who are just another version of the Tories really) just as John Prescott was, as a link to the actual working classes Labour purport to represent (but at the same time a bit of embarrassment). I think the plan was always to dump her at some point after the election so a situation has been engineered to make her resign.
One way to do this is to give her an impossible task. It is obvious that unless the Government plough loads of money into house building the target is never going to be met and no way can they afford to do that. Developers already have a surplus of former Green Belt land that they have not built on and giving them more will not encourage them to build. They are not charities they want top whack for what they build. What is the Government going to do fine them for being unwilling to lose money?
Perhaps Angela should have considered all angles before accepting the task. She will be a scapegoat.

Does the book name who came up with that rediculous target?

Reply to the comment left by Paul Essex at 30/04/2025 – 12:58
the tooth fairy

Reply to the comment left by northern landlord at 30/04/2025 – 11:56
The U.K. would need to import builders and materials to meet the 1.5 million target and ignore planning laws.

Reply to the comment left by Cider Drinker at 30/04/2025 – 17:56
I’m not a fan of Angela Rayner but it isn’t just her fault. The Telegraph just reported that “independent businesses will die under labour” .

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/05/02/telegraph-readers-businesses-thrive-under-labour/?msockid=0b8a4155c7db6ba1058955b1c6196a07

Commenting on Rachel Reeves’ maiden budget it says “British businesses are feeling the heat in the wake of Rachel Reeves’s Budget…less financial backing to stay afloat….National Insurance increases, cuts to business rates discounts and restrictions on tax relief…For some, the changes to business rates under Labour has been enough for them to consider moving overseas.”

Growth in the UK economy has ALWAYS come from the small business sector. You can only hand out 4 day weeks and £70K per annum to train drivers without agreeing any performance changes for so long before you have to pay the bill, and the money to pay the bill comes primarily from private businesses and individuals.

In terms of Angela Rayners’ meaningless ‘target’ a disproportionate number of small builders go bust in a downturn as well… the margins on building can be tight. The changes that Rachel Reeves introduced don’t just damage small business, they also damage the building industry.

The ‘engine of the economy’ in the UK is small business and its balance sheet is built on residential housing stock. If you hit both at the same time you can’t keep on handing out easy jobs and unaffordable pensions to a small cabal of unionised public sector workers.

And in 2025 with many small businesses operating online it isn’t just the likes of Apple that can offshore all or part of their activities.

Any competent government that understood the British economy, economics and business would not come to power saying that they were ‘going for growth’ and then done what labour has done.

I can’t stand the Jolly Green Giant.
Dreadfull woman