Angela Rayner’s Twitter thread responding to a misogynistic attack in the Mail is a crucial read
Impartial comment coming up. British political parties need more women like @AngelaRayner whose experience would greatly enrich our politics. That's ALL parties. Agree or disagree on policy as you wish, but attempts to denigrate, disparage and degrade are a disgrace. https://t.co/2n07IxSONm
— Huw Edwards (@thehuwedwards) April 24, 2022
So Boris Johnson is a vulnerable & pitiable victim of his own well-documented sexual incontinence while Angela Rayner is a brazen temptress because she has legs. Surely the cheapest, most misogynistic horror show to appear in a British newspaper since Kelvin MacKenzie had a job. https://t.co/zBcK3Z2zkO
— James Oh Brien (@mrjamesob) April 24, 2022
Ffs. Please get rid of these Bullingdon Bevis and Buttheads. https://t.co/CgmQex16Hz
— Emma Fielding (@emmagafielding) April 24, 2022
Solidarity from across the political divide to Angela Rayner on this. It’s a reminder of the deep misogyny women face every day.
Tho the line about Johnson’s Oxford debating ‘skills’ is truly laughable – from what I’ve seen she can debate him out the park! https://t.co/83DyaW4bDD— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) April 24, 2022
Jesus this Angela Rayner at PMQs story is a genuine new low.
A) women sometimes move we are not mannequins
B) if women moving puts off PM maybe don't mention that while also painting him as a great war leader…our enemies will simply employ some women to shimmy.
C) WT actual F— Jess Phillips MP (@jessphillips) April 23, 2022
Someone inside Number 10 thought briefing that Rayner story was a great idea. What’s at its core? Misogyny and Boris Johnson spends his time trying to look up women’s skirts. Put that on your election leaflets Tories.
— Emma Kennedy💙 (@EmmaKennedy) April 24, 2022
Basically the Mail on Sunday story suggests Tories think that Boris Johnson is a reincarnation of Benny Hill as a dirty old man.
— Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant) April 24, 2022
I stand with @AngelaRayner – once again she like other female politicians is the subject of sexism & misogyny. These allegations show how low the Tory party have sunk to deflect from a law breaking PM. https://t.co/2ayUgfTzCs
— Paula Barker MP (@PaulaBarkerMP) April 24, 2022
Imagine if Angela Rayner
had maybe 6, 7 or 8 children by different men, cavorted with a male pole dancer, left her husband when he was ill, shacked up with a chap 20 odd years younger and then had two more children? Now, there's a story.#mailonsunday— Babs Horton (@BabsHorton) April 24, 2022
Conservatives also slammed the article. Here are two examples.
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.
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) April 24, 2022
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.
— Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) April 24, 2022
What an amazing coincidence.
BREAKING: Boris Johnson and Nadine Dorries have shown their solidarity with Angela Rayner by copying and pasting identical messages of support from their WhatsApp group into Twitter. Tories are nothing, if not sincere x
— Laura Kuenssberg Translator (@BBCLauraKT) April 24, 2022
As much as I disagree with @BorisJohnson and @NadineDorries on every political issue, I deplore this clear attempt by an anonymous Government social media account handler to make them look fucking idiots. pic.twitter.com/ywRfK6Y9Sf
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) April 24, 2022
Nadine? In your role as Culture Secretary may I ask what your views are on plagiarism? pic.twitter.com/9oXhFvPPLd
— Paul Carmichael (@PCarmichaelVO) April 24, 2022
Marina Purkiss summed up many people’s attitude to the Mail’s attempt to use the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party’s working class background against her.
The fact that Angela Rayner was a working glass girl
Who dropped out of school
Who was pregnant at 16
Who went from full-time carer to being Shadow Minister
Should make us respect her more
Not less
…and a damn sight more than politicians who arrive via Eton conveyor belt
— Marina Purkiss (@MarinaPurkiss) April 24, 2022
A government spokesperson has said they will not be investigating who briefed the paper.
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