[Andy McDandy]

The Times is saying 12 detectives are on the case. Hmm yes.

"Hang on, let me call the crime lab, see if they've found any clues. They got us working around the clock! In shifts!"

Cynical police officer, in The Big Lebowski.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is a genuine headline. Angela Rayner in "claiming reliefs on taxable gain" scandal. And this is a perfectly reasonable relief to claim, not a loophole. If you've spent money on your house and then sell it, your gain is obviously reduced.

[davidjay]

There's a good point made in those comments - the Tories have made so much fuss without any detail that the public will say Rayner's done 'something' and all the 'somethings' MPs get up to are all the same. Shades of Johnson breaking the law and Starmer doing nothing wrong.

[Tubby Isaacs]

It doesn't seem to be working with the wider public. Buying a house, getting married and later selling doesn't fail the smell test.

[Crabcakes]

It doesn't seem to be working with the wider public. Buying a house, getting married and later selling doesn't fail the smell test.

I think, like Major’s government, the Tories have passed the point where anyone will give them the benefit of the doubt on anything. No scheme, claim, or policy is believed as being legit, everything has an ulterior motive and that motive is always self serving. Even their supporters know it’s bullshit, and you can see it in the press shifts to supporting Labour and the tired, absurd headlines in the Mail/Telegraph etc.

They’ve not only got nothing left, but every rehashed attack they attempt now backfires on them.

[Andy McDandy]

As noted at the 2008/9 expenses scandal, for something to stick, it really has to have the WTF? factor. People can understand getting some furniture on expenses, but a duck house, or moat cleaning? Strange.

Likewise sex. As Malcolm Tucker put it, "do not do weird fucking". Consensual sex with all parties happy is not weird fucking, be it gay, straight or variations thereof. Animals, kids, corpses, objects - these are all weird fucking. Gay fucking can be weird fucking if the person in question is not known as gay, or indeed makes noises about not being gay, then is caught asking rent boys to supply him class A drugs while pretending to be a washing machine salesman. Or getting locked in a sex dungeon and phoning an old woman for ransom money.

Onto mortgages. Following the sort of advice published almost daily in the papers is not WTF. Obsessing over whether or not someone did is getting into WTF territory. Especially when you're the weird sounding one, and they're the straight talking, relatable one.

[Bones McCoy]

At least we know why there are so few male contenders for "next Tory leader".

[Abernathy]

I thoroughly enjoyed Angie putting the boot right into the Tories at PMQs this week. "Pint-sized loser" was delicious. And did you notice "3am calls from the bad men" ?

[Dalem Lake]

How long is this sodding investigation going to take? If there are "12 detectives" on the case, which I doubt there are, surely it wouldn't take nigh on three weeks to look in to it? It doesn't look like the most complicated of cases.

[mattomac]

If it suddenly concludes Friday with no further action, I’ll smell a rat.

[davidjay]

I'm starting to think Dan Hodges is a lover spurned, or something.

[Bones McCoy]

I'm starting to think Dan Hodges is a lover spurned, or something.

Freud would have a field day on his issues with strong tall red-haired women.

[slilley]

The Mail on Sunday now think they have found a new stick with which to beat her

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... party.html

Simon

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I'm starting to think Dan Hodges is a lover spurned, or something.

Freud would have a field day on his issues with strong tall red-haired women.

Rather like Toby Young and his oedipus complex?

[Bones McCoy]

The Mail on Sunday now think they have found a new stick with which to beat her

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... party.html

Simon

So far into their second gallon of Boris Kool-Aid.
The now Mail consider it suspicious when politicians appoint anybody outside their own cosy cult.

[Crabcakes]

Police will take no further action. What a fucking surprise.

I hope Labour milk the living bejesus out of this as another example of Tory money wasting.

[Spoonman]

Akin to "Hillary's email's" anyone?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Bim Afolami questioned on this by Sophie Ridge. He sees no reason for the Tories to apologise because Rayner 'brought it on herself' by refusing to answer questions about her private life...


Gods preserve us from Old Etonian Oreos...

[Youngian]

because Rayner 'brought it on herself' by refusing to answer questions about her private life...

But why do that when you can sit back a watch the Tories make fools of themselves?

[davidjay]

I await comment from the Taxdodgers' Alliance.