Angela Rayner dancing whilst on holiday in Ibiza

eazybee I’m from a poor background and have three degrees, all achieved well into adulthood.

I’m not one iota more intelligent, competent, capable or ‘cultured’ than I was before I took them. I did lose my accent along the way (which I deeply regret now) and the new one impresses a lot of foo…folk.

I agree with your mum, paddyann,

I was referring more to Angela's upbringing, and the difficulties her mum had.

MissAdventure was it a BAD start or just a difficult one? My late mum used to say it was silly trusting girls who got pregnant. to young men who used the “if you love me you will”plea. Bad girls in mums opinion knew how to avoid pregnancies even during the war when she knew a few girls who slept around with visiting forces personnel

ronib

Cossy happy to be a bucket. I wonder how hung over AR is today and how prepared she is for the working week ahead?
Also I don’t buy into the AR lifestyle - son and daughter in law are definitely not doing very useful jobs in my book.
Yes happy in my bucket.

What?? What do they have to do with AR? They are adults in their own right!

I don’t even know anything about them!

Exactly.
Angela is like herself, and that'll do nicely, thanks.

Angela Rayner makes a feature of her poor upbringing. Snobbery is cited; there is certainly plenty of inverted snobbery on this thread.
The assumption that:
There is some snobbery about northerners from some. If they haven't lost their accent then they are looked down upon.........
..... resentment from some that she has "overstepped" boundaries and not stayed in "her place", as they see it....it unsettles them.
Nonsense.
My parents came from Manchester, left school at 14 and had accents all their lives. Never held them or their families back.
What horrifies 'some people', is Angela Rayner's ignorance, lack of education, and the fact that she has no intention of remedying it.
There is no comparison other than hair colour between her and the well-educated, intelligent and ferociously hard working Barbara Castle; she is nothing like 'Red Ellen' (MP for Jarrow) who also came from a very impoverished background but fought tirelessly to improve her education, ending her career as Minister for Education 1945. John Prescott had few educational qualifications but studied at Ruskin College and Hull University; John McDonnell studied A levels at night school then for a degree from Brunel University. There are many more.
Rayner has gained her prominence in Parliament purely due to the influence of the Unions, not by her abilities and at present Starmer cannot upset them.

I googled her don. He works as an assistant manager in a nightclub?

Can’t you give it a rest Ronib its getting ultra boring we do get it that you don’t like her

I definitely don't like her or her politics, but she's entitled to enjoy herself.

You seem to be more than a little interested in our Ange.
Moreso than anyone else, in fact.

Cossy happy to be a bucket. I wonder how hung over AR is today and how prepared she is for the working week ahead?
Also I don’t buy into the AR lifestyle - son and daughter in law are definitely not doing very useful jobs in my book.
Yes happy in my bucket.

Good on Angela a real woman with courage amongst all the misogyny and snobbery of politics (and a few on here)
I hope she had a great holiday and enjoyed a drink and a boogy

MissAdventure

We must have a few Buckets on here.

More than a few 🪣🪣

aonk

I’m not a fan of Angela Rayner but I feel that she and others in public life are entitled to privacy in their leisure time. I couldn’t care less what she does when on holiday, only what she does or says when she’s at work. She hasn’t done anything wrong. The press in this country is shoddy and irrelevant.

Absolutely! Being an MP is a job, it is a tough job, there are certain professional standards MP should be met, but holiday choices and dancing are not two of them!

I’m not a fan of Angela Rayner but I feel that she and others in public life are entitled to privacy in their leisure time. I couldn’t care less what she does when on holiday, only what she does or says when she’s at work. She hasn’t done anything wrong. The press in this country is shoddy and irrelevant.

Good on this glamourous granny is what I say!

😂😂 I’ve just watched the video, what a fuss about nothing!

Ibiza is quite upmarket now isn’t it? I know we looked at renting a villa there and it was extortionate

Well as a working class woman I am disappointed in AR. She should be drinking pints of Fosters and flossing in Rhyl. The woman doesn’t know her place

Oh no, that's pessimistic 😯

And equally to the bottom.

There's more than one route to the top.

I'm glad Rayner has risen above her bad start in life.

Cossy. It might not have ever occurred to you that some of us had an even more traumatic childhood and teenage experience than AR. We obviously though didn’t pick up the skill set to hoodwink 20 per cent of the Uk electorate to vote for a very strange bunch of politicians. Yes so shame on me.

Some people didn’t like it when she went to the opera either, for, of course, exactly the same snobbish reasons.

For those fretting about drugs: she could probably score as, or more, easily in Parliament if she was minded to.