Tories accuse Angela Raynor of "doing a Basic Instinct"

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Nick??????

Imagine if Angela Rayner had

7 children by 3 men
Incl 1 or 2 secretly from affairs
Had been sacked from previous jobs for lying
Had dated a pole dancing toy-boy she diverted govt money to
Had taken a 20 years younger lover into her govt residence & got pregnant by him

... exactly this.

The really depressing aspect about it is that other women are joining forces to undermine and insult AR, because they don't like her politics.

High profile women come under so much scrutiny about their appearance and the way they dress that I wonder how much progress we've really made since the early days of 'Women's Lib'.

I remember back in the late 50s working for a then well-known company that sold nuts & bolts and various other ironmongery. One Saturday (Saturday working was obligatory in some businesses) we were told to come in to do stock-taking in the - very cold - warehouse. I wore a jumper and jeans (very 'proper' jeans as they were then... loose-fitting and not stone-washed - just plain blue jeans.

I was told off for dressing inappropriately... apparently, I should have been climbing ladders in the warehouse in skirt and jumper. Fortunately, the warehouse manager stuck up for me and told my manager not to be so bloody daft.

I really feel sometimes that women are going to be forever damned by what they wear - or don't wear. So at age 80 I'm going to continue to wear my Levi 501s and boots, and s*d the critics...

Farzanah

I can’t believe this has been published in a national newspaper in the 21st century. Why is there so much sexism in politics, is it a power thing?

Yes. of course it is.

A lot of men are afraid of, or dislike intelligent women, or see no need for women to be doing the jobs that have been a male prerogative for centuries.

If they cannot in all honesty attack a woman on the grounds that her work is not good enough, and sometimes even when they can, they will use this kind of thing instead.

On the principle that if you sling enough mud, some of it will stick.

Nothing I have so far heard about Boris Johnson leads me to suspect he can actually concentrate on anything at all for more than a very short span of time.

And a great deal of what I have heard about the man leads me to believe that anything in a skirt can distract him.

I see Johnson is turning to King Lear for hyperbolic effect when he stated that the terrors of the earth will be unleashed on the source, if found, behind the briefing against Angela Rayner?

This ridiculous misquote just reduces the whole shameful episode to a joke and another opportunity for him to show off, with zero sincerity. He he is part of the misogynist culture which pervades the whole of government, and turns away many talented women from going anywhere near politics.

Just because she attended a state school and went on to get a degree does not mean she is uneducated - this applies to housands of peopleacross a range of careers. Good for her - and I am not a Rayner fan. Her start in life does not seem good but she has overcome that

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Nick??????

Imagine if Angela Rayner had

7 children by 3 men
Incl 1 or 2 secretly from affairs
Had been sacked from previous jobs for lying
Had dated a pole dancing toy-boy she diverted govt money to
Had taken a 20 years younger lover into her govt residence & got pregnant by him

So the DM would rather have highly educated people debating for the sake of sounding clever (at which BJ fails miserably) rather than speak from their hearts and beliefs, like many Labour women, including Zara Sultana and Jess Phillips?

It was published in the Mail on Sunday - what’s amazing is that anyone is surprised! It’s what they do, denigrate women, especially Labour women.

About as classy as other women discussing her as if she is a piece of meat, I'd say.

MissAdventure

That is probably why she flashes her fanny instead, then.

Classy!!

CvD66

Think - what if she had maybe 6 or is it 7 children by different partners, cavorted with a male pole dancer, left her husband when he was ill to shack up with a man 20 years her junior and then had two more children? How would the men's reaction be to that?

Brilliant! Well said.

Some of them have dug so deep that the barrier is now under the floor.

A jumper and trousers!!!
How outrageous, the slattern!

Is it an appropriate time to post this, I wonder?

Another female MP was criticised for wearing a jumper and trousers in the House (by another woman).

... and the cardinal sin of keeping her belongings in a small back-pack instead of the traditional hand-bag.

Women just can't win can they? Even with other women.

Mollie Giles is a Barrister whose interests are Brexit, Animal Rights... and "Freedom" (whatever she means by that) - obviously not the freedom to dress in a sensible manner in what was probably a cold environment on that day.

Sometimes I think this government and certain sections of the populace have sunk so low that the barrier is now on the floor...

That is probably why she flashes her fanny instead, then.

You’d think Boris would be able to afford a decent haircut too wouldn’t you

Just saying is all. My hairdresser (entitled to make an observation as anyone is) was surprised that a woman earning that kind of salary had such rubbish extensions is all.

Your hairdresser knows what side her bread’s buttered in urmston

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FannyCornforth

She’s got gorgeous hair, but I do think that it’s extensions

My hairdresser said they are and, in her opinion ‘are shocking’.

…..so what ?

Nothing.

Urmstongran

FannyCornforth

She’s got gorgeous hair, but I do think that it’s extensions

My hairdresser said they are and, in her opinion ‘are shocking’.

and?

FannyCornforth

She’s got gorgeous hair, but I do think that it’s extensions

My hairdresser said they are and, in her opinion ‘are shocking’.

Doesn’t it say more about Boris Johnson who can’t keep his eyes off an attractive woman to keep his mind on the important job of running the country?