‘One Rule For Us Another For Them’ comes to mindfirlandsfarm wrote: ↑Fri Oct 31, 2025 8:04 amI swore to myself I would reduce posting on this thread but this Government seems to be able to create endless material.
Reeves should have had a 'lettings license'. She said she didn't realise the need (ignorance is not a defence for the common person but clearly she felt it is for her).
She writes to the PM apologising, confirming she was not aware.
The PM accepts her apology putting it down to being an unintended mistake and asks his standards adviser to urgently 'take a look' (it could not have been a full investigation in the time, they must have accepted Reeves' version of events.
At around midnight the standards adviser clears Reeves of intent and declares it as a simple mistake and the PM says "nothing to see here"
The letting agent puts their hand up saying it's all their fault, they should have applied for the required license but became distracted by a change of staff. (it is the landlord's responsibility to obtain the license, they cannot blame a third party.)
Emails come to light clearly advising that a license was required. (Interestingly it was her husband who revealed the emails!)
Reeves claims she was not aware of the emails when she originally wrote to the PM claiming it was a simple mistake.
The PM 'forgives' her a second time accepting that she was not aware of the emails when she claimed she did not know of the requirement of the license.
This raises questions
If it wasn't for the upcoming budget would she still be in post?
Would a member of the public have been so leniently treated?
How does this fit with the PM's mantra of "lawbreakers cannot be lawmakers"?
How many more MPs have covered up their own non-compliance?
Remember how they attacked the Conservatives for similar transgressions and promised to clean up politics! Maybe a more appropriate title for this thread would have been "Liars, Damn Liars and MPs"
Oh, did I or did I not work as an economist at HBOS
Oh, did I or did I not work for 10 years as an economist at 'The bank Of England'
Oh, did I say in the Labour manifesto that I wouldn't increase income tax