Tories accuse Angela Raynor of "doing a Basic Instinct"

Saetana

This story sounds completely made up - and its in the Daily Mail, can't believe anyone is taking it seriously!

But the Mail on Sunday "did" think it was a good to waste paper and ink on it and to plaster it all over the front page. Why would it do that? It must have thought its readers would lap it up.

Urmstongran

And Keir Starmer does not know what a woman is so he is unable to comment.

oh for heavens' sake! I do remember you were one of the main posters getting terribly outraged when Ms Rayner told the truth called the Tories Scum, so maybe I shouldn't be surprised. On a sadder note, I hate to see posters who are self made, who have done well by their own efforts, turn on someone else who has done the same, all because she, and it is nearly always she, speaks differently.

Allsorts

By being common is nothing to do with money or class, it’s how you conduct yourself. Lack of money is no barrier as I can assure you, my cousin raised by a single mother in the forties, had the good fortune to be raised by a strong woman, he was taught good manners and respect to people, treat people as he would like to be treated, always cleanly turned out, once you raise your voice you lose tge argument, it’s bullying, my aunt had pride in her home and dress, he went to state school, passed for grammar school, extended family clubbed together to buy his uniform, they had nothing but were generous with the little they had, wanted him to do well. He went to University, he now runs huge company and lives a very good lifestyle, in lovely area. My own two, I was poor, both did very well at state schools, one went on to get his own company, the other did equally well. What they did have was what my cousin had.

So what exactly is "being common"? Apart from being the opposite of people who think they have good manners and a means for looking down on people who don't follow the same kind of social code?

I'm sitting here looking at my wee legs, which are frankly more Ernie Wise than Sharon Stone, and can't imagine weaponizing them.

Apart from the revolting misogyny of the article, the notion that the Prime Minister could be so nob-led by a colleague as to be actually distracted from his work - it's like something out of Carry On at your Convenience.

Grandmakath

Revolting woman. Will she stop at nothing?

who? Is this irony or ignorance?

By being common is nothing to do with money or class, it’s how you conduct yourself. Lack of money is no barrier as I can assure you, my cousin raised by a single mother in the forties, had the good fortune to be raised by a strong woman, he was taught good manners and respect to people, treat people as he would like to be treated, always cleanly turned out, once you raise your voice you lose tge argument, it’s bullying, my aunt had pride in her home and dress, he went to state school, passed for grammar school, extended family clubbed together to buy his uniform, they had nothing but were generous with the little they had, wanted him to do well. He went to University, he now runs huge company and lives a very good lifestyle, in lovely area. My own two, I was poor, both did very well at state schools, one went on to get his own company, the other did equally well. What they did have was what my cousin had.

This story sounds completely made up - and its in the Daily Mail, can't believe anyone is taking it seriously!

Having his dinner slammed down on the table, and a barrier made out of pillows to stop any fraternising in the night..

MissAdventure

I wonder what Carrie thinks about all this?
Do you reckon he's getting the silent treatment at home?

Or all the dirty nappies to change?

I wonder what Carrie thinks about all this?
Do you reckon he's getting the silent treatment at home?

Exactly! As if our dear PM hasn’t got enough on his plate with running the country without that Jezebel using her womanly wiles to distract him.

Using those disgusting legs!
All womanly and wanton; walking with them, crossing them, shaking her mane of badly done extensions....

Ooh, I must retire to my chaise and put a cold flannel on my head!

Hussy

Revolting woman. Will she stop at nothing

Brazen buddy ????

Ah, I see.
Thank you.

I think she means that AR must have been doing the leg thing because Grandmakath believes everthing she reades in the Mail on Sunday

Grandmakath

Revolting woman. Will she stop at nothing?

What exactly do you mean?

And Keir Starmer does not know what a woman is so he is unable to comment.

I have no particular fondness for Rayner, but I do get on the side of the person from an ordinary background when someone says they're not the right person for the job because they might be just a bit too common, what, what?

Well put, volver. I am no Rayner fan but I do admire the way she has progressed from a poor start in life to her current position. It takes guts to do what she has done.

It has always amazed be that Johnson was President of the Oxford Union. He must be the worst orator in the House with his continual stuttering and repeating "Mr Speaker".
I am almost 80, left school at 15 and I would love take him on in debate if only I could work out what he is trying to say.

Grandma70s

I don’t think she has a degree, has she? (Someone said she had.)

I admire her for professing so far in life from such a doubtful start, but I have to admit she makes me cringe too. I think the lack of education does show, and she lacks social graces, which do matter in a politician. I know some of the ostensibly well -educated ones, not least the PM, are utter oafs, but on the whole I prefer well-educated people to be in charge.

You don’t need to be ’well educated’ (what exactly does that mean?) or have a degree be honest, decent and knowledgeable.
In fact many supposedly ’well educated’ people have zero common sense. Not having a degree does not mean that a person is incapable of getting a degree, merely that they have chosen a different path to knowledge and experience

That's gone a bit off piste... ?

Revolting woman. Will she stop at nothing?

“Sir Lindsay Hoyle calls meeting with Mail on Sunday editor over 'demeaning' Angela Rayner story” - headline in the Telegraph just now.

Typical fodder for this grubby little newspaper! I have always been shocked that so many people seem to read it and give it any weight at all. This story should never have gone to print! With all the sleaze and accusations flying around about the Tories, and the media coming up with new tidbits every day, I sometimes wonder if there are sinister forces at work here. The population is tottering on the edge of being permanently shocked, outraged and disgusted, which is extremely destabilising for the Government and the country as a whole We are in a situation where a war is raging in Europe and peace on our continent is threatened for the first time since WW2. This is not just about Ukraine; it is also a confrontation by proxy between the West and Russia. And for the sake of democracy and our way of life, the West must succeed. Very convenient for Mr Putin that we seem to be tearing this country apart and right now there is no obvious successor to Johnson, despite a moral compass that in less dangerous would force his resignation.