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Right wingers at the Telegraph are lining up to defeat each other in the hypocrisy awards as they criticise Rayner while doing worse

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Honestly the whole Rayner thing has been very frustrating.

Woman who is not a financial expert or housing solicitor engages the services of a housing solicitor to sort out a house sale (as 90%+ of people do in the UK), then follows their expert advice on what to do throughout the process.

She later finds out that some of the advice given may have been incorrect, and immediately refers herself for investigation.

Investigation says the advice she received was likely incorrect, and that she owes tax. She pays the tax.

Media and right wing agitators, many of whom have purposely avoided tax, go apeshit, forcing her to resign.

What a joke. We had an ex Conservative chancellor who dodged tax, didn't refer himself for investigation, then threatened to sue any journalists who talked about it. The media stopped talking about it after a few days. Total two-tier journalism.

Tories/Reform can do no wrong, Labour can do no right.

When I got my mortgage, there was so much paperwork, outdated processes, legalese, etc. when my solicitor said to do XYZ, I did it. If they advised me incorrectly, I'd also have had no way of knowing.

[–] TheDwZ@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No offense to the wonderful British people, but a lot of your press is trash.

  • The Sun ? Trash.

  • The Daily Mail. Largely non-sense.

  • The Telegraph ? Official newspaper of the Tory Party. Used to employ Boris Johnson. He was lavishly paid to publish non-sense about the EU.

  • The Independent ? Now owned by Saudi Arabia and a Russian mobster.

  • The Times ? Owned by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World. The CEO is Rebekka Brooks, former editor of News of the World. She is an actual criminal.

  • The Economist ? The current chairman Paul Deighton, a friend of David Cameron. He is a Tory Lawmaker (House of Lords) that was in charge of Covid PPE contracts. According to the New York Times, Deighton gave huge contracts to companies he owned.

The only two UK papers that I actually admire are The Financial Times and The Guardian.

I'm sure there are wonderful local newspapers in Wales, Scotland, and major cities, but overall the situation looks quiet grim.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Why would you assume local papers in England are awful and the ones in Wales and Scotland are better?

There's a great deal of romanticism about Scotland and Wales, but they're culturally virtually identical to England. The only major thematic difference you're likely to see from local papers from those three home nations is if you're reading a Scottish nationalist one.