Americans this week were baffled when finding out that Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigned from her post in Keir Starmer’s government after the prime minister’s own ethics adviser determined that she had not paid enough taxes on her apartment.

In her resignation letter to Starmer, she took full responsibility for this “error.”

Rayner also noted that she referred her own case to Sir Laurie Magnus, the prime minister’s Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards.

“I have long believed that people who serve the British public in government must always observe the highest standards, and while the Independent Adviser has concluded that I acted in good faith and with honesty and integrity throughout, I accept that I did not meet the highest standards in relation to my recent property purchase,” Rayner, who also served as housing secretary, wrote.

Asked about the case, Americans were primarily confused by what happened and posed questions of their own.

“Wait, I don’t get it,” said Cory,* 45, from Florida. “So, she did something wrong, perhaps inadvertently, and then resigned? Is that even allowed?”

Pam, a 59-year-old attorney who now works in Washington, DC, confessed that she was bewildered that Starmer’s own ethics adviser reviewed the case and didn’t sweep the entire thing under the rug.

“But they are all in the same party,” she said. “This just doesn’t make sense. Why didn’t Sir Laurie just make this disappear somehow? He could have redacted her name or never released any of the files.”

Others were confused by what, exactly, Rayner did wrong.

“This is about $50,000 in taxes?” asked Donald, 79, a former real estate executive. “That can’t be right. Did she also start a coup or spark an insurrection? Did she grope a bunch of people? Did she take classified government documents? Did she obstruct justice? Did she run a scam university? I just fail to understand how not paying taxes is even a problem. It just means that she is smart.”

Above all, Americans professed to be unfamiliar with accountability.

“England is so quaint,” said Susan, 72, from Maine. “They have those old castles and people facing consequences for their actions. It sounds lovely.”

But not everybody felt that way.

“The deputy had to resign over that?” said JD, a 41-year-old government worker. “I’m just glad I don’t live in England then.”

In other news, President Donald Trump and his family added $5 billion to their wealth this week by launching a new cryptocurrency.