September 5, 2025 • 14 mins
A short rant about Angela Rayners situation and the general hypocrisy of the UK Media.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, welcome to September the fifth, twenty twenty six. Here
we are in the room of action, action meaning dusting mostly,
and this thing about this thing about Angela Rainer. You know,
(00:20):
there are several things here, I mean, moving aside the
Estra matter itself. People are tired of MPs and people
in positions of authority saying it was a mistake, it
was an oversight, I forgot, and yet it's always in
(00:41):
their favor that they do these things, and they're tens
of thousands of pounds better off at somebody else's expense
hours usually, and they go, oh, it was a mistake, and
nothing happens. There's no other employer in the UK. Indeed,
there's probably none in the western world where you could
take your employer for tens of thousands of pounds, say
(01:02):
oh it was a mistake and still have a job
and still claim for various things. And they're talking about
Rainon and oh, she's a tax evader, she's this, she's that. Well,
moving that aside, the Tories were full of tax evaders.
In fact, there's not one party, possibly possibly the Greens
(01:24):
are an exception, but there's not one party that doesn't
have issues with with tax evasion or some sort of
financial peculiarity. And you look at you look at I mean,
look at the tours. You know, they raided the tax
player for something like two hundred billion during COVID and
(01:48):
none of that money's come back. That's all disappeared. Apparently
we're not we're not going to see that money back,
but nobody says anything about it. If I take Nadim
Zahawi right, a property portfolio worth one hundred and five
million pounds, and that's just a property portfolio. That's now
(02:09):
how to do with his personal wealth. So if you
look at his personal word, the guy's probably worth about
three hundred four hundred million quid. And he gets a
bill from the HMRC, becomes chancellor and allegedly puts pressure
on the HMRC to just wish make that demand for
five million quid disappear, and nobody says anything. And another
(02:32):
thing that I'm really cheesed off about, And I think
a lot of people are cheesed off in this country
because MPs and people in that sort of position, people
are in a position of probity who are preaching that
people should pay taxes to make a contribution to do
the right thing, whatever the right thing would be. I mean,
it's it's nebulous thing about British values as well. I mean,
(02:53):
if it's on a wider scope, they say Western values,
but they never actually define what those values are. But
these people who are in these positions of high office
just more or less being above the law. It's like
there are special cases, like the law doesn't apply if
(03:13):
you take your employer, for there's take an arbitrary sum.
Let's say fifteen thousand pounds, and you make a claim
against your employee for fifteen thousand pounds on expenses that
you haven't paid and you have found out, you will
not only get sacked from that job, you will get
taken to court and you will probably go to prison
(03:35):
for fraud. At least, well, I say at least, I
mean the probability is to what they would do as
they work out a payment plan, and you'd have it
against your record and you'd probably be on a suspended
sentence given the state of the prisons at the moment.
Thank you Conservatives, But the conservatives filled up the prisoners
for a very special reasoners and a lot of the
(03:55):
people who were conservative were on the fiddle and would
have ended up in prison. Johnson, go all these people,
philp Patel better, not all of them, just absolutely reprehensible people.
But that's not to say that it's a unique feature
(04:15):
of the conservative mindset to do that sort of arrangement
with finances, because labor people have done this. You know,
people in the new iteration of the Labor Party at
least have done the same sort of thing. It's a
money based thing. It's a it's I mean, if you've
got one hundred and five million quid right at your disposal,
(04:39):
you can liquefy it tomorrow. Do you know how much
that is today? That's around about thirty two thousand pounds
a day after tax as an income. And yet you
still have the brass balls to claim expenses. And here's
the other thing that really really greats me. Right, when
a prime minister leaves off, it's no matter how bad
that prime minister was, how punitive they were, how ridiculously
incommon they were. It doesn't matter that they may have
(05:02):
released a budget that actually managed to nearly crash the
economy and made people lose their houses and their businesses
went past, et cetera. Because of their inherent greed if
that none of that matters. They all get one hundred
and nineteen thousand pounds tax free for life every year,
don't even have to get out of bed. And that,
to me, that's bizarre. What other job pays you just
(05:26):
because you used to work there? What other job? But
this rain of business what it strikes me as I'm
gonna go out on a limb here and say that
it is a mistake, it's a genuine mistake. But again,
all these people have used that thing. When we had
the expenses scandal in twenty nine ten, right, they were
(05:49):
all coming out and say, oh, it's a mistake, it's
an oversight. I didn't really know what I was doing.
Oh can't I claim for that? Oh sorry, I was
informed that I could. And it's always somebody else's fault
or it's always a mistake on them. And they so
they go, oh, mea culpa, and they say what whatever,
just to get just to get past that initial But
they're still in a job of responsibility of looking down
(06:12):
on people, of making laws in this country. But there's
no law that says there's no minimum requirement for MPs.
You know, there's no sort of like you can't say well,
you haven't really done enough work this year. You need
to really get your ideas. There's no appraisal. The only
appraisal is the voting box. And people are so disillusioned
with politics, and people fill in their own pockets and
(06:35):
having second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth jobs. You know, I mean,
how many people do you know who own six jobs
and yet their main job, the one that they're elected
to do, pays them almost to you know, ninety five
thousand pounds a year plus almost half a million quid expenses,
because there's a sway of expenses that they can actually
(06:55):
claim they don't have to put their hand in their
pockets virtually anything. And yeah, and yet they say they say, oh,
well you'll have to suck up the energy bills. Oh
you'll have to suck up the water. But oh you
have to suck up the council said, oh, you can't
afford to do this, can't afford to do that. They're
swalling around in limousines and they're having their flats done
out on our expense. I mean, Boris Johnson had his
(07:17):
flat done out and it looked absolutely bloody, ghastly, but
he took a eight hundred thousand pounds loan from somebody
who had a business interest in making whatever decisions that
were going to be made by government. And that's a
compromising situation. That's that's the situation where somebody where a
leader of the country is beholden to somebody else because
(07:38):
they are personally in debt to them. But it's the
same sort of thing with a party, because if you
have people who are donating to a party, they're not
donating out of kindness or some sort of altruism or
the public good. They donating because they will make that
money back. And it's an entirely corrupt system. And the
only way to have a truly good system, you know
(08:00):
them that actually represents people, the majority of people in
this country, And the only way to do it is
to take the money right out of politics. If people
want to donate, fine, donate it to the tax office.
I heard Jacob ru Smug the other day on a
radio program and he was taught. They were talking about
tax and they were saying, you know how people are
(08:20):
being taxed to the hilt in this country, and people
really are. It's ridiculous. Somebody on an income of say, oh,
let's see somebody gets a wage check, like for a
part time job, and they were they were running, you know,
four hundred and forty quid for the month on that
particular part time job, and eighty pounds of that is
taken off them. Then the National Insurance. Then if they
(08:44):
are rolled into it, the pension scheme, how are you
supposed to where is this money going? Nobody asks where
this money is going, and they say, oh, oh, to
support the health service and public services, or it's to
support the police, or it's to support this. But we're
sending infinite amounts of money to governments that don't need it.
The starving people in the world, and those people need supporting,
(09:07):
and we should do our bit to help people who
are in a bad situation. But when it's a government
that's declaring war and we're just giving them money for weapons,
what the fuck is going on there? But this thing
with Angela Raina smells to me like a setup. It
smells to me like she's gone to somebody and say
can I do this? Can I do that? And they've thought,
(09:28):
you know, let's tell her yeah and then fuck her over.
Because to me, even though I'm not a great fan
of Angela Raina, I don't think she's the sort, do
you know what I mean? She's not the privately educated
(09:48):
and titled sort who's gonna deliberately do something like that,
particularly when she knows it's going to back for her
in her face, and particularly when she's worked so hard
to get where she is, because a lot of these
people have got there by entitlement or who they know,
but she's managed to get there through her own graft
against the odds. And I don't think. I don't think
(10:08):
she I don't. I may be wrong. I could be wrong.
It could be just one enormous grift. But to me,
it feels like a setup. It feels like somebody's told
her that, thinking, yeah, and then we can nail them,
because they're not exactly popular in this goverment. If people
can do something to put, you know, a spoke in
the wheel, then they'll do it. That's my thought. That's
(10:33):
my thought and the whole thing. But it goes back
to this thing of people saying, oh, I made a mistake.
Oh I didn't mean to kill him. Sorry, I only
meant to go minor injuries. Oh well, that's all right then,
Because where does it stop. Where does it stop? Where
you say, well, there you are. Then off you go
back to your back, to back to your grinding, and
(11:00):
then you've got far eyes popping up all over the place.
I mean that that man is just it's beyond reprehensible.
It's it's amazing. And people say, oh, Nigel, Nigel space
of fact, Well you said Brexit was a good idea
and look at the country now, we're so far around
the U bend. You're going to need one of those
special poles to pocus right into the sewer. I I
(11:25):
just feel it's a setup. I don't think I would
like to think I'm wrong, But when you look at
this iteration of the Labor Party from from Blair onwards,
because when when Blair came in and it was New
Labor and whatever, it was all shinying you. But they
put the PFI in place, which meant that it costs.
(11:48):
We've had about three hundred pounds to replace the light
bulb on a property that was built with PFI and
that sort of thing, and it's just it's just the
constant grabbing of money all the time, people and services
which don't have to budget to pay it, and the
Conservatives put the screws on that as well, and they
really nailed down on getting there last penny out of people.
(12:12):
And now we've got the Labor Party who came in,
who are much the same as the Labor Party of
the noughties. And yes, they had a tremendous thing to
clear up. They vomit all over the floor and no mops.
(12:35):
So that's the way it is. I think, you know,
I really don't know. We don't really have an alternative
in this country. And if Jeremy Corbyn or Zach Polanski
or whoever can provide an alternative that people can actually
relate to, that is actually honest, that will actually represent
(12:57):
the people of this country and not just the elite
and the billy because Labor are not representing people because
Angelo Raina has a Northern accent and she's playing more
or less the same role as Prescott played under Blair.
Because if you have if you have a northern accent,
there's a kind of implication there that you're working class.
(13:18):
You know that you're relate to people who spend dear
down mine and then go on for beans ontours And
that's not right, that isn't right. But that's the way
that people who are out of touch, and a lot
of people in Downey Street, in Whitehall and all those
places are so hopelessly out of touch because the money
(13:38):
is just so good. So they're never going to meet
ordinary people. And if they do, it's a staged event
in a factory or a hospital or a school or whatever.
But they never actually meet ordinary people. They never garnish
an opinion. And then they say, I think what people
want is but they have no idea what people want.
It's what they want, because if they wanted to know
(13:59):
what people want, they'd ask people what they wanted. Nobody
wants digital ID cars, Nobody in their right mind wants that.
Nobody wants to send money to desposit regimes in order
for them to carry out genocides. Nobody wants that what
we want is the services of what we pay for.
(14:20):
What we want is some sort of accountability and not well,
we're valuein in our piss off, because that's the attitude
Well, welcome to September the fifth, twenty twenty six. Here
we are in the room of action, action meaning dusting mostly,
and this thing about this thing about Angela Rainer. You know,
(00:20):
there are several things here, I mean, moving aside the
Estra matter itself. People are tired of MPs and people
in positions of authority saying it was a mistake, it
was an oversight, I forgot, and yet it's always in
(00:41):
their favor that they do these things, and they're tens
of thousands of pounds better off at somebody else's expense
hours usually, and they go, oh, it was a mistake, and
nothing happens. There's no other employer in the UK. Indeed,
there's probably none in the western world where you could
take your employer for tens of thousands of pounds, say
(01:02):
oh it was a mistake and still have a job
and still claim for various things. And they're talking about
Rainon and oh, she's a tax evader, she's this, she's that. Well,
moving that aside, the Tories were full of tax evaders.
In fact, there's not one party, possibly possibly the Greens
(01:24):
are an exception, but there's not one party that doesn't
have issues with with tax evasion or some sort of
financial peculiarity. And you look at you look at I mean,
look at the tours. You know, they raided the tax
player for something like two hundred billion during COVID and
(01:48):
none of that money's come back. That's all disappeared. Apparently
we're not we're not going to see that money back,
but nobody says anything about it. If I take Nadim
Zahawi right, a property portfolio worth one hundred and five
million pounds, and that's just a property portfolio. That's now
(02:09):
how to do with his personal wealth. So if you
look at his personal word, the guy's probably worth about
three hundred four hundred million quid. And he gets a
bill from the HMRC, becomes chancellor and allegedly puts pressure
on the HMRC to just wish make that demand for
five million quid disappear, and nobody says anything. And another
(02:32):
thing that I'm really cheesed off about, And I think
a lot of people are cheesed off in this country
because MPs and people in that sort of position, people
are in a position of probity who are preaching that
people should pay taxes to make a contribution to do
the right thing, whatever the right thing would be. I mean,
it's it's nebulous thing about British values as well. I mean,
(02:53):
if it's on a wider scope, they say Western values,
but they never actually define what those values are. But
these people who are in these positions of high office
just more or less being above the law. It's like
there are special cases, like the law doesn't apply if
(03:13):
you take your employer, for there's take an arbitrary sum.
Let's say fifteen thousand pounds, and you make a claim
against your employee for fifteen thousand pounds on expenses that
you haven't paid and you have found out, you will
not only get sacked from that job, you will get
taken to court and you will probably go to prison
(03:35):
for fraud. At least, well, I say at least, I
mean the probability is to what they would do as
they work out a payment plan, and you'd have it
against your record and you'd probably be on a suspended
sentence given the state of the prisons at the moment.
Thank you Conservatives, But the conservatives filled up the prisoners
for a very special reasoners and a lot of the
(03:55):
people who were conservative were on the fiddle and would
have ended up in prison. Johnson, go all these people,
philp Patel better, not all of them, just absolutely reprehensible people.
But that's not to say that it's a unique feature
(04:15):
of the conservative mindset to do that sort of arrangement
with finances, because labor people have done this. You know,
people in the new iteration of the Labor Party at
least have done the same sort of thing. It's a
money based thing. It's a it's I mean, if you've
got one hundred and five million quid right at your disposal,
(04:39):
you can liquefy it tomorrow. Do you know how much
that is today? That's around about thirty two thousand pounds
a day after tax as an income. And yet you
still have the brass balls to claim expenses. And here's
the other thing that really really greats me. Right, when
a prime minister leaves off, it's no matter how bad
that prime minister was, how punitive they were, how ridiculously
incommon they were. It doesn't matter that they may have
(05:02):
released a budget that actually managed to nearly crash the
economy and made people lose their houses and their businesses
went past, et cetera. Because of their inherent greed if
that none of that matters. They all get one hundred
and nineteen thousand pounds tax free for life every year,
don't even have to get out of bed. And that,
to me, that's bizarre. What other job pays you just
(05:26):
because you used to work there? What other job? But
this rain of business what it strikes me as I'm
gonna go out on a limb here and say that
it is a mistake, it's a genuine mistake. But again,
all these people have used that thing. When we had
the expenses scandal in twenty nine ten, right, they were
(05:49):
all coming out and say, oh, it's a mistake, it's
an oversight. I didn't really know what I was doing.
Oh can't I claim for that? Oh sorry, I was
informed that I could. And it's always somebody else's fault
or it's always a mistake on them. And they so
they go, oh, mea culpa, and they say what whatever,
just to get just to get past that initial But
they're still in a job of responsibility of looking down
(06:12):
on people, of making laws in this country. But there's
no law that says there's no minimum requirement for MPs.
You know, there's no sort of like you can't say well,
you haven't really done enough work this year. You need
to really get your ideas. There's no appraisal. The only
appraisal is the voting box. And people are so disillusioned
with politics, and people fill in their own pockets and
(06:35):
having second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth jobs. You know, I mean,
how many people do you know who own six jobs
and yet their main job, the one that they're elected
to do, pays them almost to you know, ninety five
thousand pounds a year plus almost half a million quid expenses,
because there's a sway of expenses that they can actually
(06:55):
claim they don't have to put their hand in their
pockets virtually anything. And yeah, and yet they say they say, oh,
well you'll have to suck up the energy bills. Oh
you'll have to suck up the water. But oh you
have to suck up the council said, oh, you can't
afford to do this, can't afford to do that. They're
swalling around in limousines and they're having their flats done
out on our expense. I mean, Boris Johnson had his
(07:17):
flat done out and it looked absolutely bloody, ghastly, but
he took a eight hundred thousand pounds loan from somebody
who had a business interest in making whatever decisions that
were going to be made by government. And that's a
compromising situation. That's that's the situation where somebody where a
leader of the country is beholden to somebody else because
(07:38):
they are personally in debt to them. But it's the
same sort of thing with a party, because if you
have people who are donating to a party, they're not
donating out of kindness or some sort of altruism or
the public good. They donating because they will make that
money back. And it's an entirely corrupt system. And the
only way to have a truly good system, you know
(08:00):
them that actually represents people, the majority of people in
this country, And the only way to do it is
to take the money right out of politics. If people
want to donate, fine, donate it to the tax office.
I heard Jacob ru Smug the other day on a
radio program and he was taught. They were talking about
tax and they were saying, you know how people are
(08:20):
being taxed to the hilt in this country, and people
really are. It's ridiculous. Somebody on an income of say, oh,
let's see somebody gets a wage check, like for a
part time job, and they were they were running, you know,
four hundred and forty quid for the month on that
particular part time job, and eighty pounds of that is
taken off them. Then the National Insurance. Then if they
(08:44):
are rolled into it, the pension scheme, how are you
supposed to where is this money going? Nobody asks where
this money is going, and they say, oh, oh, to
support the health service and public services, or it's to
support the police, or it's to support this. But we're
sending infinite amounts of money to governments that don't need it.
The starving people in the world, and those people need supporting,
(09:07):
and we should do our bit to help people who
are in a bad situation. But when it's a government
that's declaring war and we're just giving them money for weapons,
what the fuck is going on there? But this thing
with Angela Raina smells to me like a setup. It
smells to me like she's gone to somebody and say
can I do this? Can I do that? And they've thought,
(09:28):
you know, let's tell her yeah and then fuck her over.
Because to me, even though I'm not a great fan
of Angela Raina, I don't think she's the sort, do
you know what I mean? She's not the privately educated
(09:48):
and titled sort who's gonna deliberately do something like that,
particularly when she knows it's going to back for her
in her face, and particularly when she's worked so hard
to get where she is, because a lot of these
people have got there by entitlement or who they know,
but she's managed to get there through her own graft
against the odds. And I don't think. I don't think
(10:08):
she I don't. I may be wrong. I could be wrong.
It could be just one enormous grift. But to me,
it feels like a setup. It feels like somebody's told
her that, thinking, yeah, and then we can nail them,
because they're not exactly popular in this goverment. If people
can do something to put, you know, a spoke in
the wheel, then they'll do it. That's my thought. That's
(10:33):
my thought and the whole thing. But it goes back
to this thing of people saying, oh, I made a mistake.
Oh I didn't mean to kill him. Sorry, I only
meant to go minor injuries. Oh well, that's all right then,
Because where does it stop. Where does it stop? Where
you say, well, there you are. Then off you go
back to your back, to back to your grinding, and
(11:00):
then you've got far eyes popping up all over the place.
I mean that that man is just it's beyond reprehensible.
It's it's amazing. And people say, oh, Nigel, Nigel space
of fact, Well you said Brexit was a good idea
and look at the country now, we're so far around
the U bend. You're going to need one of those
special poles to pocus right into the sewer. I I
(11:25):
just feel it's a setup. I don't think I would
like to think I'm wrong, But when you look at
this iteration of the Labor Party from from Blair onwards,
because when when Blair came in and it was New
Labor and whatever, it was all shinying you. But they
put the PFI in place, which meant that it costs.
(11:48):
We've had about three hundred pounds to replace the light
bulb on a property that was built with PFI and
that sort of thing, and it's just it's just the
constant grabbing of money all the time, people and services
which don't have to budget to pay it, and the
Conservatives put the screws on that as well, and they
really nailed down on getting there last penny out of people.
(12:12):
And now we've got the Labor Party who came in,
who are much the same as the Labor Party of
the noughties. And yes, they had a tremendous thing to
clear up. They vomit all over the floor and no mops.
(12:35):
So that's the way it is. I think, you know,
I really don't know. We don't really have an alternative
in this country. And if Jeremy Corbyn or Zach Polanski
or whoever can provide an alternative that people can actually
relate to, that is actually honest, that will actually represent
(12:57):
the people of this country and not just the elite
and the billy because Labor are not representing people because
Angelo Raina has a Northern accent and she's playing more
or less the same role as Prescott played under Blair.
Because if you have if you have a northern accent,
there's a kind of implication there that you're working class.
(13:18):
You know that you're relate to people who spend dear
down mine and then go on for beans ontours And
that's not right, that isn't right. But that's the way
that people who are out of touch, and a lot
of people in Downey Street, in Whitehall and all those
places are so hopelessly out of touch because the money
(13:38):
is just so good. So they're never going to meet
ordinary people. And if they do, it's a staged event
in a factory or a hospital or a school or whatever.
But they never actually meet ordinary people. They never garnish
an opinion. And then they say, I think what people
want is but they have no idea what people want.
It's what they want, because if they wanted to know
(13:59):
what people want, they'd ask people what they wanted. Nobody
wants digital ID cars, Nobody in their right mind wants that.
Nobody wants to send money to desposit regimes in order
for them to carry out genocides. Nobody wants that what
we want is the services of what we pay for.
(14:20):
What we want is some sort of accountability and not well,
we're valuein in our piss off, because that's the attitude
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