Vandals Graffiti Rayner’s Seaside Home
Angela Rayner’s seaside apartment has been vandalised with graffiti branding her a “tax evader”. The Telegraph has the story.
The £800,000 flat in Hove was sprayed with the phrase overnight after Ms Rayner revealed she had dodged a £40,000 tax bill the property.
One message reads: “Tax Evader Rayner!” while another says: “Tax Evasion” on the wall outside her apartment. There is no suggestion that Rayner has evaded paying tax.
Another piece of graffiti on the wall reads: “B—-”.
Residents living close by said they were “shocked and appalled” by the vandalism.
One said: “What a disgraceful thing to do. I simply can’t believe it. I hope the police catch them. I’m sure there’s CCTV nearby.”
Another said: “I woke up and went for a jog and saw it. It’s a right mess. I’m appalled to be honest. It raises many fresh questions about the safety of MPs again.
“I’ve seen Angela Rayner around and she said hello and was very pleasant. I’m so astonished really.”
It comes after the Deputy Prime Minister referred herself to the ethics watchdog after admitting on Wednesday she failed to pay a £40,000 tax bill on the purchase of the Hove flat.
Ms Rayner, who is facing growing pressure to quit, triggered the inquiry days after the Telegraph first disclosed that she had avoided the extra stamp duty normally applied on a second home.
Worth reading in full.
It has also emerged that Rayner used £160,000 from a trust set up to care for her disabled son following an NHS compensation payout to buy the Hove property. The Deputy Prime Minister sold a 25% share of her Ashton-under-Lyne house to the trust for £162,500 – though she insists this was done to ensure her 17 year-old son had “stability in the family home”. Read more here.
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Rayner Evader appeared on television yesterday to paint herself as a victim. And she had the sheer delirious effrontery to blame her advisers and subordinates for her own choices and actions. It was like watching politics from a parallel universe.
Didn’t see her but the stumbling umming and erring attempt at support by Robber Reeves is hysterical. She looked terrified.
I thought that! I told Mr. Croc that she looked like someone was holding a gun to her head.
The thing about advisors is their advice depends on what they have been told. If salient details have been left out in order to elicit the advice wanted, then that advice might be incomplete and flawed.
We are witnessing Labour politicians incapable of telling the truth about anything.
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus
It raises many fresh questions about the safety of MPs again. Does it?
Do MPs really have a right to protection from criticism?
I don’t condone graffiti, but I understand why it might have been done, if anyone else but an MP or other protected group had done what she’d done they’d probably be facing a custodial sentence!
I do not support damage to property any time any place. Sad the left don’t follow that.
however surely no one can be “astonished” this happened. The article says she did not evade tax but she did. By submitting a false tax account she was guilty of evasion.
Property is theft, donchano?
Don’t worry. The taxpayers will clean it off.
Shoked! Shocked, I say!
Anyone would think they’re in Hove.
I can almost feel the pearls being clutched. To suggest that this is appalling, is a bit over the top. I wouldn’t like it to happen to my home, but then I pay my taxes. I am at least amused that they have used rainbow paint.
Its only a hour with a tin of masonry paint to fix, and if the good lady would like to admit her wrongdoing and resign, instead of denying responsibility, I have a feeling there wouldn’t be any more of this disgraceful behaviour from the local yobs.
Meanwhile, while this shameful episode has been going on, I know of other crimes being perpetrated for the last 20 years against our children which apparently no-one in Hove thinks is appalling, or would dare to say as much. Perhaps they dont think the victims are worth as much as Angela.
100% agree. She lives (yeah right) in a flat so that graffiti is on other people’s homes too. I’m sure the residents are delighted with their new neighbour.
Should it have been vandalised? Of course, not. Appalling, as in causing shock or horror? Give over.
Exactly. If Hove residents are that appalled by graffiti I assume they’ve never been down the road to Brighton?
True, there’s none as queer as folk
I can’t even find a place close to £650,000 for sale in Ashton-under-Lyne, so that 25% stake looks a bit flamboyant too
And good luck with the “police catching them”… Oh, sorry, yes, the police will probably pull out all the stops to find out who did this
Armed no doubt
Trying to avoid paying taxes is perhaps the one thing I sympathise with Ms Rayner over.
I’d be in favour of all.of us paying less taxes rather than insisting on her paying more.
Yeah, the real problem is that Rayner is an advocate of increasing the taxes that she so shrewdly tried to escape.
Maybe she’s converted to being anti-tax now…:-)
Except she didn’t avoid tax, she evaded it. The former is legal the latter isn’t.
What a terrible thing to do to a poor working class girl from Up North with a disabled child… I’m filling up. Sniff.
Yes, she’s such a doting mama that she’s moved/moving 267 miles away from them.
😂😂😂
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Wow, first kier’s place targeted, now Rayner’s. What is going on? You would think they have enemies. Can anyone understand why?
Well quite.
Not vandals, patriots calling out one of our country’s destroyers!