Tories accuse Angela Raynor of "doing a Basic Instinct"

Sparklefizz

Maybe the Mail on Sunday just made up the whole story???

They probably did, and the Conservatives are probably very pleased to have found this particular dead cat left on their doorstep, as it has created quite a lively distraction from certain other matters that they would much rather the public forget about.

Another dead cat story. Johnson has to go. I hope the local elections will frighten the Tory MPs.

eazybee

Angela Rayner should dress appropriately for the situation she is in, and choosing to wear very short skirts whilst facing a mainly male audience from the front bench is inappropriate.
Knees together, ankles crossed.

... do you have an practical advice for Jacob Rees-Mogg, too?

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It all smacks of the grl who gets raped because she's wearing a short skirt....its never the mans fault for not conrolling himself always the girl.If Bojo is so easily distracted he's in the wrong job ,but we all know THAT already

GillT57

If I was Angela Rayner, I would turn up at PMQs with a tartan blanket to put over my knees.

that would be absolutely brilliant

FannyCornforth

Mad Nad? She is definitely at least a little bit in love with Bodger

Me. Yesterday
And it was actually JaneJudge who pondered upon it first.

If I was Angela Rayner, I would turn up at PMQs with a tartan blanket to put over my knees.

the only problem with Johnson's tweet is that it is word for word with the tweet issued by Nadine Dorries, so probably a whips' issued tweet. So, shall we run a book on who ( if it was true) leaked this story to the idiotic journalist in the MoS? My money is on Fabricant, or maybe Nadine in a burst of jealousy.

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

volver

^Angela Rayner should dress appropriately for the situation she is in, and choosing to wear very short skirts whilst facing a mainly male audience from the front bench is inappropriate.^
Knees together, ankles crossed.

This is just abominable. Knees together, ankles crossed? She's not the Duchess of Cambridge.

Maybe she should just stay home in a burka in case she inflames any passing men.

I was going to suggest she wear a head covering or else shave her head.

I find her hair so distracting I can barely listen to what she's saying.
(I'm female, getting on a bit).

volver

Sorry if people are offended, but here we go.

Mail makes up story about Rayner and cites unnamed Tory MP.

Whole world gets angry about it.

Tory MPs start saying what an awful thing it is.

Mail makes a new article about how the Tory Party is quite nice, really. Whilst repeating all the stuff about 41 year old grandmothers.

I can't think I'm the only one who sees this? The Mail are manipulating Tory sympathisers. ??‍♀️

Me. Yesterday. 13:27

Sparklefizz

Maybe the Mail on Sunday just made up the whole story???

Sparklefizz , wash your mouth out with soap! As if such an honourable paper would do such a thing.

Over 5,000 complaints received by IPSO by this morning. Let’s hope they get more than a slapped wrist for this.

pressgazette.co.uk/mail-on-sunday-angela-rayner/

This isn't the first time Rayner has been criticised for what she wears. This is quite an interesting article from 2021:

graziadaily.co.uk/fashion/news/angela-rayner-clothes-controversy/

Maybe the Mail on Sunday just made up the whole story???

Women have been wearing short skirts since the 60s and should be able to wear whatever they want without wondering if it may be a distraction to men.
If some men didn't keep their brains in their trousers there would be no problems.

^Angela Rayner should dress appropriately for the situation she is in, and choosing to wear very short skirts whilst facing a mainly male audience from the front bench is inappropriate.
Knees together, ankles crossed.^

This is a wind up, right? Surely nobody apart from the author of that Daily Mail article believes this sort of tosh.

GrannyGravy13

Mr.Johnson has tweeted

As much as I disagree with @AngelaRayner on almost every political issue I respect her as a parliamentarian and deplore the misogyny directed at her anonymously today

I have decided to treat this article as those on GN repeatedly tell us to do with anything in the Daily Mail, Mail on
Sunday or Mail online and that is ignore it.

Thanks for posting that, GrannyGravy.
I had read it in this morning’s Times and was about to quote it.

God knows I’m no fan of BJ but it needed to be added to the thread.

eazybee I used to work with plenty of men who would openly mansplain in front of one and stand right next to me jingling coins in their pockets. I would have been shot down in flames if I had confronted them.
Many times I have tried to explain to male co workers that women are not trying to 'speak to them' with what they wear - they are pleasing themselves.

Angela Rayner should dress appropriately for the situation she is in, and choosing to wear very short skirts whilst facing a mainly male audience from the front bench is inappropriate.
Knees together, ankles crossed.

This is just abominable. Knees together, ankles crossed? She's not the Duchess of Cambridge.

Maybe she should just stay home in a burka in case she inflames any passing men.

We really have returned to the 19th Century How very dare a working class, northern lass who was pregnant at 16, and wears short skirts, have the audacity to think she has a voice!!! How low will the Conservative media sink

I worked with a woman who used precisely this tactic, a great deal of leg crossing and wearing of short skirts over stockings and suspenders. Scared of being accused of sexist behaviour it simply made the men she worked with extremely uncomfortable; they found nothing alluring about it.
Angela Rayner should dress appropriately for the situation she is in, and choosing to wear very short skirts whilst facing a mainly male audience from the front bench is inappropriate.
Knees together, ankles crossed.

Much as I dislike Johnson, I am another one who doesn’t think that this particular article was his idea. However, he does have to take responsibility for surrounding himself with brainless acolytes and giving them free range to save his sorry hide.

I don't actually think Johnson had anything to do with this. Can't say the same for his PR department though. They don't seem particularly on the ball.

Obviously the details about Angela Rayner are total fabrications but Boris’s part in the article was all 100% true!