Angela Rayner lashes out and calls Sunak “pint sized loser”.

She's showing her roots. She makes personal remarks and flashes her knickers at the opposition (actually there seems to be doubt as to whether she was actually wearing any)!
This is the woman who might be the Prime Minister very soon, if Starmer is forced to step down.

I've never seen anything to suggest she was knickerless.
Where did that info come from?

MissAdventure I think the rumours started around the time AR crossed and uncrossed her legs when sitting opposite Boris Johnson in the HoC.
Although I wish time and energy went into the important topics of the day….. it all feels very unprofessional.

I have just listened to her screeching in Prime Minister's Question time.
Oh dear.
To think this woman might be representing Britain as Deputy Prime Minister, achieved purely by Trade Union pressure.

Thanks.
That's what I remembered the furore being about - the fact that she crossed her legs.

As you say, its baseless, and not real news.
Suppose it keeps the gutter press in business though.

Curtaintwitcher

She's showing her roots. She makes personal remarks and flashes her knickers at the opposition (actually there seems to be doubt as to whether she was actually wearing any)!
This is the woman who might be the Prime Minister very soon, if Starmer is forced to step down.

Her roots? Do you by any chance mean she's not Eton educated and from landed gentry stock. Do you feel those qualifications preclude MP's from being liars, thieves, rapists and serial adulterers to name but a few of their many vile activities. If so, your theory doesn't exactly hold water does it?

If she wasn't wearing knickers perhaps she thought she'd save the opposition the effort of ripping them off when they tried to sexually assault her, as they have with innumerable other women (and a couple of men).

But it's all perfectly acceptable because they have the right connections.

Her roots, she lived in a council house oh the shame , how can
anyone who lived in a council house be allowed to be in
parliament, oh yes her constituents voted for her

The snobbery towards Rayner by Primrose and Curtaintwitcher to name but two, isn’t surprising even if it’s slightly dispiriting

Showing her roots, flashing her nickers (if she was wearing any ) - says more about the people commenting than it does about Angela Rayner
‘Roots’ - she wasn’t well cared for, nurtured or surrounded by good role models as a child. Is that what you mean? That you can take the girl out of poverty but never take poverty out of the individual.
Angela may be a bit rough for some but she’s inspirational to others

If the remark fell off her tongue, then what other personal put-downs is she likely to come out with as deputy PM in highly charged situations?
If she planned the remark all along, doesn't that just prove her lack of confidence and her shallowness - that she has to resort to insults about personal appearance to get attention?

Personally, I don't want everyone to become desensitised to offensive personal insults referring to their bodies. It crosses a line for me.

Cross posted there with Annie and flapper girl. Good to see others challenging the criticism

Joseann - I’m not keen on insults directed at looks . This was clearly scripted like so many of the insults hurled during pmq

Nothing to do with snobbery for me, I just think it's verging on being hurtful.

Iam64

Joseann - I’m not keen on insults directed at looks . This was clearly scripted like so many of the insults hurled during pmq

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Joseann that’s how I feel, our PM is unable to do anything about his stature.

Contrary to what is written on here.

The general opinion is that Rayner wiped the floor with Dowden.

This was largely reflected in the absence of support from the backbenches.

Does anyone wonder if Angela Rayner is hurt by the things that are said about her, and her Mother?

Iam64

Joseann - I’m not keen on insults directed at looks . This was clearly scripted like so many of the insults hurled during pmq

Clearly scripted, so she had time to consider if it was a good idea.
I know PMQ’s is a rough and tumble, but what if Dowden had said an Opposition MP was obese or similar?
I can’t help feeling that AR in a really senior position is an accident waiting to happen.If only Keir was allowed to choose the deputy leader himself.

Criticism of her voice, not accent’ criticism of what she says,
but mocking her from coming from a council house and had was a child carer is sickening

Whitewavemark2

Contrary to what is written on here.

The general opinion is that Rayner wiped the floor with Dowden.

This was largely reflected in the absence of support from the backbenches.

Well, I watched this exchange and thought tho Angela came out fighting, it didn’t go all that well.Dowden hit back and managed to look amused.
I also thought that the pint sized loser remark, delivered with an excited triumphant grin was cringeworthy.

Like many of the comments on here, then.
Cringeworthy.

Anniebach

Criticism of her voice, not accent’ criticism of what she says,
but mocking her from coming from a council house and had was a child carer is sickening

I agree, but those things aren’t said in the Commons to her by MP’s.

They are said by women here, probably mothers

It’s one thing defending her roots, which I would always do, but that doesn’t mean defending everything she says.

MissAdventure

Does anyone wonder if Angela Rayner is hurt by the things that are said about her, and her Mother?

My opinion is resorting to insults, especially those of a personal nature, height, weight, looks etc. are unnecessary.

I imagine lots of politicians and others in the public eye might smile and shrug off insults but who knows how they feel on the inside?

I know how I would feel and that is hurt!

Because of Angela Rayner Labour will have lost the little man vote 😊