Tories accuse Angela Raynor of "doing a Basic Instinct"

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

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

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

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.

MissAdventure

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

Classy!!

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

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.

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?

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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

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

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.

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.

Whitewavemark2

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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...

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grabba

Thank you for commenting

Eh?

Yet we will still have droves of women on this site and Mumsnet say they are voting Tory because they 'know what a woman is'. Well it's clear now - they see women are objects to titillate men!
Utterly gross - can the Tories sink any lower? (Undoubtedly they can and will).

Dickens , I have practical advice for Rees Mogg - a face transplant, a brain implant and a healthy dose of empathy to be shoved into the man preferably via the end opposite the first two improvements!

It's a bit like a man saying that he couldn't concentrate while driving because he drove past a woman wearing tight shorts and that was why he drove into a lamp post !
Seriously in this day and age, if a grown man can't cope with a woman wearing a skirt within a few feet of them, it is a sad state of affairs and claiming that a woman is using distraction methods because they are not up to the" intellectual "standard of a man is so wrong.
Lets face it - you don't necessarily need to have brains to attend many public schools , do you? Just the required money, correct bloodline and arrogance!

MissAdventure

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

I know. I mean whoever heard of a woman wearing a jumper and trousers! I'm so shocked I need my smelling salts NOW!!

Certainly looks like they are trying to keep her in her place. Just when you think that they can't go any lower, they do. They are doing a better job to promote the opposition than the opposition.

If your going to put a post up at least get it correct and stop misguiding ppl I’ve never found anything that said senior and in fact it’s all hear say. Until scum media comes up with a name then I will believe it.

As above something for you to read

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?

His use of language is so ridiculous at times. Yesterday he was quoted as saying in an interview .."we kicked the cat a long way..." ..Pause, brain whirrs a bit ...."..not that I approve of kicking cats..."

Honestly what is the matter with the man!

Nannashirlz

As above something for you to read

Its highly unlikely that there was ever a real MP who said this. Not impossible, but highly unlikely. If there was, it'll be some minor back bencher.

The real story is that that Daily Mail took a tiny little half truth and turned it into a misogynistic rant at a senior politician who they think has got above her station.

if somebody is that easily distracted then how will a person every make logical decisions? I still can't get my head around the fact Rees-Mogg put notes on desks of homeworkers- does he not realize that staff working at home would not be able to read those notes ? It just makes the people in power look like idiots !