The Burnham Years - Can the new(ish) broom sweep clean?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Angela Rayner on Conservative severance packages, including those to people who rejoined just months later: 

"After the mess the Tories have left our country in, they should be hanging their heads in embarrassment, not walking away with an enormous payoff.

"At a time when people up and down the country are struggling to pay their mortgages and put food on the table, it shows a staggering lack of shame for them to accept this money, but is exactly what we've come to expect from a bunch of Tories who only care about themselves."

Angela Rayner on her severance package, upon rejoining the government some months later:

"No, my severance payment was given to me at the time, I had worked in government for a period of time and then I came out of government for just under a year."

Pausing to eat some of the waffle she had just presented, Rayner said she had "unfinished business" in government. The former deputy PM, pushed into resigning after breaching the ministerial code, did not specify which free concert tickets she wants to make sure she gets this time round.

 

[The Kraken]

Ange has always been a bit of a liability to Labour. Shes pretty gobby, not all that bright, and by various counts wasn’t ever that much of a great local MP. Never saw the appeal of her being so high up other than that she was obviously working class, making a success despite an impoverished upbringing.

Would still love a go, mind.

[Farmer Saint]

11 hours ago, The Kraken said:

Ange has always been a bit of a liability to Labour. Shes pretty gobby, not all that bright, and by various counts wasn’t ever that much of a great local MP. Never saw the appeal of her being so high up other than that she was obviously working class, making a success despite an impoverished upbringing.

Would still love a go, mind.

She's got some massive norks.

[Whitey Grandad]

12 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

She's got some massive norks.

I noticed them too but unfortunately they're not real. £5,600 of borrowed money. Sounds familiar for a Labour politician. 

[Challenger]

1 hour ago, Farmer Saint said:

She's got some massive norks.

But unfortunately a face like she's permanently on a choppy channel crossing with a belly full of beer and Biryani.

Edited 8 hours ago by Challenger

[Sir Ralph]

18 minutes ago, Challenger said:

But unfortunately a face like she's permanently on a choppy channel crossing with a belly full of beer and Biryani.

Anyone that has looked at Angela Rayner in any form of lustful way has very low standards.

[Farmer Saint]

1 hour ago, Challenger said:

But unfortunately a face like she's permanently on a choppy channel crossing with a belly full of beer and Biryani.

True story.

[badgerx16]

1 hour ago, Sir Ralph said:

Anyone that has looked at Angela Rayner in any form of lustful way has very low standards.

Where do you keep your secret stash of Liz Truss pictures ?

[hypochondriac]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

Where do you keep your secret stash of Liz Truss pictures ?

Priti Patel is the one I want as head of my cabinet, 

[hypochondriac]

Not a big fan of this number ten north gimmick. It will be junked once Labour are out of power so seems completely pointless.

Edited 5 hours ago by hypochondriac

[Whitey Grandad]

3 hours ago, Sir Ralph said:

Anyone that has looked at Angela Rayner in any form of lustful way has very low standards.

Hello 🫡

[whelk]

16 hours ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Angela Rayner on Conservative severance packages, including those to people who rejoined just months later: 

"After the mess the Tories have left our country in, they should be hanging their heads in embarrassment, not walking away with an enormous payoff.

"At a time when people up and down the country are struggling to pay their mortgages and put food on the table, it shows a staggering lack of shame for them to accept this money, but is exactly what we've come to expect from a bunch of Tories who only care about themselves."

Angela Rayner on her severance package, upon rejoining the government some months later:

"No, my severance payment was given to me at the time, I had worked in government for a period of time and then I came out of government for just under a year."

Pausing to eat some of the waffle she had just presented, Rayner said she had "unfinished business" in government. The former deputy PM, pushed into resigning after breaching the ministerial code, did not specify which free concert tickets she wants to make sure she gets this time round.

 

I think it is disgraceful given the nature of insecurity of these Cabinet positions that they don’t automatically disqualify previous severance package if you then turn up again.

[Jeremy Corbyn]

2 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

Not a big fan of this number ten north gimmick. It will be junked once Labour are out of power so seems completely pointless.

Inclined to agree, also having in Manchester just stinks of Burnham wanting an easier commute.  Not sure how I'd view it if I was in one of the other corners of the country.

[badgerx16]

26 minutes ago, Jeremy Corbyn said:

Inclined to agree, also having in Manchester just stinks of Burnham wanting an easier commute.  Not sure how I'd view it if I was in one of the other corners of the country.

Probably in the same way much of the rest of the country view everything being focussed on Westminster and the South East.

Edited 2 hours ago by badgerx16

[hypochondriac]

50 minutes ago, Jeremy Corbyn said:

Inclined to agree, also having in Manchester just stinks of Burnham wanting an easier commute.  Not sure how I'd view it if I was in one of the other corners of the country.

Astonishing how they can justify spending tax payers money on a weekly private jet to Manchester -before you even mention the laughable net zero targets. 

[Weston Super Saint]

47 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Astonishing how they can justify spending tax payers money on a weekly private jet to Manchester -before you even mention the laughable net zero targets. 

Surely he's letting the train take the strain?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

3 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Surely he's letting the train take the strain?

He can take advantage of those HS2 plans from 2012, that would deliver a high speed link between London and Manchester. That must have been finished a while back now.