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Angela Rayner tells BBC she will not repay severance payment (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 6 days ago by mannycalavera@feddit.uk to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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What would you do with £16k of tax payer's money? I suppose pay your tax bill maybe? 🤔

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[–] Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

This is where we diverge. Enforcers of ‘should’ even if they just recently inherited the responsibility should do as their own rules oblige them to do

Didn't I say that she should have paid the tax? That's what their own rules oblige them to do. I think we agree on this point too. Could you expand on why you think we diverge here?

If I found a score on the pavement I wouldn’t stick up any posters about it. 16k in notes? I might have that as well, no need to trouble the constabulary

You don't think this happened. You don't think this is analogous to what happend. If you were sacked from a job, given 16k, rehired for the exact same job, I wouldn't expect you to give the 16k back.

Of course the sticking point exists in both the tax avoidance & reward for failure and of course I wouldn’t turn down the cash if it were me.

Why craft farcical hypotheticals about a point you already conceded?

[–] like@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's very possible that it's late and i'm talking a lot of shit. But I think the point was that if you are appointed housing secretary and you get sacked for fucking up your own housing affairs, then you get paid off to the tune of sixteen grand (still on backbench salary mind you), then less than a year later you're made housing secretary again, it looks pretty grim to keep the cash and the flat and go i'm alright cunts, how about you?

[–] Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Agreed, but I think the problem is all the stuff before paying the 16k back. We have already agreed on this. She should have paid the tax. The golden parachute was ridiculous.

Paying the 16k back is such a non-issue. I wouldn't act differently about the 16k, you wouldn't act differently about the 16k. Even the quantity, 16k, is such small potatoes when it comes to dodgy politician's finances.

[–] like@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

alright i agree man