THE deputy prime minister’s stamp duty has provided a valuable warning to the working-classes never to get clever with their money.
Rayner may lose her job, have to repay £40,000 and pay a fine on top, which middle-class journalists have explained is the fate of any former comprehensive school pupils who try to use tax dodges.
Solicitor Julian Cook said: “Come on. You ate in front of the television and enjoyed the adverts. Blind trusts aren’t for the likes of you.
“It takes a certain amount of sophistication to set yourself up as a corporation in order to avoid tax on your wages, and in our experience those who grew up in one-car families don’t have it.
“Look at Angela. She had advice from seasoned professionals, but ultimately she vapes and is partial to a blue WKD and that’s what matters in the end.
“Same as those footballers in the documentary this week. Something about them just creates fatal flaws in their carefully-arranged financial instruments that wouldn’t happen if they had grade six piano and their children enjoyed focaccia.
“A current account’s just about good enough for that sort. Maybe a savings. An ISA smacks of hubris.”
