Tommy G

Anyone watched Atomic? It’s got Theon from GoT in it

Another competition winner

Steve Bracknall? Tik tok slaphead footy manager?

Good grief can barely string a sentence together. WTF

Hopefully you picked up on the humour of the film reference

Chicken Run?

How come? Was it to do with her comments at the french open?

You're on a hiding to nothing here...

If you've ran out of ideas fair enough - I can keep going as long as you like

BBC: Her allies have said she sought advice of three people, described as a conveyancer and two experts on the law on trusts. But a conveyancer specialises in property law and is unlikely to have been able to provide tax advice. It is similarly unclear whether the trust law experts were qualified to advise on tax law, particularly as it relates to stamp duty. Rayner’s team have declined to clarify anything further about who they were. So who were they, and was it fair for Rayner to think they were equipped to provide specialist tax advice? And if they were, did she provide enough information about the trust and the ownership of her former family home for them to do that? It’s those questions Sir Laurie Magnus, the government’s ethics adviser, will be probing. And the answers will likely decide her political future. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Show me anywhere who they were, and if she paid them as that's what you've stated above? All I've seen is people distancing themselves from it.

Lako will be getting a virtual guard of honour when he returns.

You can parrot your graphs all you want, but its deflecting from the real issue here, and you know that. If you think something is only punishable if its rubbed up against a previous example of another wrongdoing on a larger scale then what precedent does that set for public office? ''Yes officer I did assault someone in the street but I definitely didn't hit him as hard as somebody else did a year ago'' It's still assault.

Even if it isn't clear - I suspect if a solicitor/legal firm have advised her, given her profile, it would have gone through MULTIPLE checks to make sure it was watertight. If it had been negligence on their behalf wouldn't she have a claim against them? Either way she is staring down the barrel of finding a further £40K and a penalty on top. If she hasn't sought proper advice that is on her, she has the means to, more than most of the working class she represents. She could quite easily publish proof it wasn't her fault, that isn't forthcoming yet, as labour PR are spinning it first. It's really that simple. EDIT: She has demanded resignations from other politicians in the past so I'm not sure why she thinks she is any different.

It is understood the deputy prime minister consulted one individual experienced in conveyancing and two experts on the law around trusts before the purchase. However, it is unclear if any of those people were experts in complex tax law and it is not known if they knew about the full details of the trust, which was set up to help fund care for her son. ''Understood'' and ''consulted'' does that mean she paid for advice or just spoke to 3 people that she thought knew what they were talking about? We are yet to see any law firm come forward and accept there was a mistake......

This isn't a loophole though Stan, that's the difference. The tax is due and she hasn't paid it - and we are yet to see the fall out of the advisors - Shoosmiths have already distanced themselves from it, so the next step is it should come into the public domain, one way or another, who advised her and they need to hold their hands up it - but we haven't seen this fall out yet but it's coming. I can't believe a reputable law firm will of mis-advised the deputy PM, even with its complexities - if that was the case the whole piece of work would of been checked by multiple senior people. No-one is buying it. Agree with your first bit though.

Just imagine the uproar if this was Kemi Badenoch, Farage etc - the double standards. The only positive is this will keep her well away from any leadership role when KS has to step down.

Well it should be zero tolerance - that’s what the party said when coming into government, that’s not really a debate.

Come on you’re an intelligent guy - this isn’t about the attention it deserves - this is black and white, caught tax evading. “we’ll clean up politics” was the strapline bleated out last summer - this isn’t cleaning up politics. The fact is she must resign or be sacked, if you are on the other side of the fence you are agreeing that as long as the offence is in the tens of thousands this is ok, as long as it’s not millions - in the highest public office in the land! How you can hang your hat on that opinion is beyond me. @Greg2607 made some good points earlier on this. I couldn’t give a toss what rag runs a story on who and how much media coverage it gets, that’s pure deflection.

This is deflection from the real problem isn’t it? No one asked about media coverage - the fact is she should be resigning and if KS had a backbone he would sack her. What’s your source data for the graph? Please tell me you haven’t spent all afternoon cobbling it together…to substantiate your argument that the other examples you could think of, where substantially more money was involved, is the right basis to set standards and that she shouldn’t be fired for tax evasion because it’s only £40,000 which is higher than a working class salary that she squawks about every times she’s in front of a camera. The double standards

The two gobshites from Nuneaton have been arrested on public order offences- the ones being racist whilst swigging a pint in front of their kids - brilliant

As you say both have positives and negatives. I think now, and it's been like this for a while, the financial burden of going to Uni is putting people off - and as the financial squeeze continues to hit working parents they will have less and less free cash to support their kids through university - especially when a kid is looking to go into a career that doesn't require a degree as a non negotiable. I've found graduates in the past 5 years to have much poorer communication, confidence and attitude - not sure what it's down to, maybe it can be traced back to lockdown.

Foxestalk single handily influencing the share price of EEE

Can you elaborate?

On balance you can want controlled immigration whilst at the same time wanting a satisfactory level of SEND provision for all children, and you don't have to be a reform voter either, unless I've misunderstood your point.

Finally something I can wholeheartedly agree with you on, bravo.