Page 21 | Abhorrent comments made about a persons height

RespiceFinemKarma · 25/04/2024 10:26

"Piccaninnies with watermelon smiles"
"Tank topped bum boys"
Calling for people to be shot and accepting money from racist donors, all these are fine though, right? Get back under your bridge.
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Immemorialelms · 25/04/2024 10:25

She said "Did he realise when he stabbed Boris in the back that he was ditching the biggest election winner for a pint sized loser?"

It's a comment on the standing and impact that the two leaders have, she's saying Boris bestrode the electoral landscape like a colossus when it came to winning- he was a "bigger" leader in that regard. Sunak is small time, less impactful, more lightweight etc etc - all the metaphors to do with size relating to political success.

But yeah, he's a short man and Boris is a tall man, so it's also a personal jibe she shouldn't have made.

bombastix · 25/04/2024 10:25

What is this rarified country that everyone lives in? I mean they call each other Honourable and have actual rules via the Speaker precisely because they cannot regulate themselves and it is it an oppositional system. We are a country that likes a fair bit of satire and that is well established for hundreds of years.

If you don't like Rayner that is fine. But the House of Commons represents people. It does not mean that all of them look or sound like your average carbon cut out Tory not should they.

Sharptonguedwoman · 25/04/2024 10:24

DistinguishedSocialCommentator · 25/04/2024 09:30

Calling someone who is below the average height, "pint-sized" is abhorrent
at the very least. A person's height is beyond the person's control and calling them "pint-sized," some may even say it's an ableist comment

Yesterday, during the PMQ's the lead was taken by the deputy heads of both Tories and Labour. Standing in for the Labour leader was Angela Rayner. She called the Tory leader, Rishi Sunak a "pint-sized leader" when she was losing the arugument

This reminds me of clowns at work who had nicknames for other people who did not fit in with their agenda. Often people will make disparaging comments about another when they feel threatened because of their own inadequacies.
Should she apologise for making these disgusting comments?

AIBU to believe these comments were necessary, inappropriate and disgustingly abhorrent.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/angela-rayner-oliver-dowden-house-of-commons-rishi-sunak-labour-b2533966.html

I think you need to get over yourself here. It was a very minor jibe.

ALovelyCupOfNameChange · 25/04/2024 10:24

I thought she nailed PMqs yesterday

CelesteCunningham · 25/04/2024 10:24

A person's height is beyond the person's control and calling them "pint-sized," some may even say it's an ableist comment

No one sensible would ever say that calling a person of normal if short height "pint sized" is ableist. No one.

mysteriousspiderbite · 25/04/2024 10:23

Pocket rocket would have been far more dignified.

SnapdragonToadflax · 25/04/2024 10:23

Harvestfestivalknickers · 25/04/2024 10:13

It's such a shame the Labour front bench are such a poor bunch of politicians. The country is crying out for a new government, it should be an open goal for Starmer. Instead, I see no manifesto, a lack lustre leader and a front bench stuffed full of forgettable names and faces. Rayner is no stateswoman. I want to see leadership, competence and professionalism in my elected representatives. Not behaviour more akin to a school playground.

The Tories haven't called an election yet (for fuck's sake get on with it), so there won't be any manifesto from either party until that happens.

Sharptonguedwoman · 25/04/2024 10:22

Overtheatlantic · 25/04/2024 09:31

She doesn’t have the intellect to argue successfully without resorting to playground name calling.

Have you any idea at all about the slurs that are thrown around parliament? This is very minor and quite funny.

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DistinguishedSocialCommentator · 25/04/2024 10:21

tennesseewhiskey1 · 25/04/2024 10:02

Brave to post this on mums net considering mumsnet is super left wing OP! I mean - its rude of her, but she is usually quite rude is she not?

Read my OP and note that I'd never heard this woman talk before. No wonder Sir Kiteth keeps his distance from her.

I'm no Tory or Labour but IMO, the Labour Party is much better off without this woman as IMO, she is unstable dynamite judging by what she said yesterday

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skippy67 · 25/04/2024 10:21

Iwasafool · 25/04/2024 09:39

Were you affronted about the comments about Starmer's weight? Or the allegations about Rayner crossing her legs (how very dare she.) Politicians generally give as good as they get and if they can't they are probably in the wrong job.

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AGodawfulsmallaffair · 25/04/2024 10:20

randomchap · 25/04/2024 09:41

Just out of interest op, do you get paid by cchq for those these posts, or is it a purely voluntary role?

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MrsSkylerWhite · 25/04/2024 10:19

CountingCrones
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I suspect billionaires rarely have to nip to Burton’s for kecks”

Indeed 😂

No doubt they’ll be off to the US again post haste following the election, where his short trousers will fit right in.

Those worrying about poor Rishi’s feelings really needn’t. Egos of his size take it like water off a duck’s back.

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DistinguishedSocialCommentator · 25/04/2024 10:19

CountingCrones · 25/04/2024 10:03

No I’m not joking. (And I am fat) And I haven’t said anything unacceptable.

Hell, Have I Got New For You used a tub of lard in place of Johnson when he didn’t show up. “Calling people name is done for one purpose…” - no, it’s done for many purposes, and one is to puncture their arrogance, another to raise a laugh.

It’s PMQs. Quoting a description in a Tory’s memoir to the Tory MP it referred to isn’t abhorrent, it’s part of the cut and thrust (however blunt the instruments) of PMQ.

It’s a daft showboating tradition where no one answers anything and the best they can hope for is a sound bite on the news.

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Thank you.
However, it does not make it right, its wrong on every level and thousands of people get called names like this IRL and have to put up with ti. Many people become depressed and scared to go out, their confidence is undermined and more
It was disgusting, uncalled for, necessary and abhorrent.

Just imagine Labour gets into number ten and then the membership soon after vote this ignorant woman in as leader/pm - we will be seriously stuffed just like we were with Mrs Truss.

Just because you "don't mind" millions do and that is a fact as its wrong on every level.

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Harvestfestivalknickers · 25/04/2024 10:13

It's such a shame the Labour front bench are such a poor bunch of politicians. The country is crying out for a new government, it should be an open goal for Starmer. Instead, I see no manifesto, a lack lustre leader and a front bench stuffed full of forgettable names and faces. Rayner is no stateswoman. I want to see leadership, competence and professionalism in my elected representatives. Not behaviour more akin to a school playground.

CountingCrones · 25/04/2024 10:07

MrsSkylerWhite · 25/04/2024 10:00

Comedycook · Today 09:57
Insults in the HoC don't particularly bother me but I don't think they should throw insults about things which someone has zero control of..”

Can’t imagine multi-millionaire Rishi Sunak loses much sleep over it.

I do wonder how he struggles to find trousers that are long enough, though.

I’m sure his wife’s family have enough minions to have special trousers woven from spider silk for him.

I suspect billionaires rarely have to nip to Burton’s for kecks.

CountingCrones · 25/04/2024 10:03

DistinguishedSocialCommentator · 25/04/2024 09:53

You are joking??
So you go around calling people that are above average weight, fat? There are many more examples I and others could give, but there is no point as you know what you have posted is unacceptable.

Calling people names is done for one reason only, and that is to hurt them as the the person that is calling names has lost the arguments and or not up to their job

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No I’m not joking. (And I am fat) And I haven’t said anything unacceptable.

Hell, Have I Got New For You used a tub of lard in place of Johnson when he didn’t show up. “Calling people name is done for one purpose…” - no, it’s done for many purposes, and one is to puncture their arrogance, another to raise a laugh.

It’s PMQs. Quoting a description in a Tory’s memoir to the Tory MP it referred to isn’t abhorrent, it’s part of the cut and thrust (however blunt the instruments) of PMQ.

It’s a daft showboating tradition where no one answers anything and the best they can hope for is a sound bite on the news.

tennesseewhiskey1 · 25/04/2024 10:02

Brave to post this on mums net considering mumsnet is super left wing OP! I mean - its rude of her, but she is usually quite rude is she not?

Comedycook · 25/04/2024 10:02

MrsSkylerWhite · 25/04/2024 10:00

Comedycook · Today 09:57
Insults in the HoC don't particularly bother me but I don't think they should throw insults about things which someone has zero control of..”

Can’t imagine multi-millionaire Rishi Sunak loses much sleep over it.

I do wonder how he struggles to find trousers that are long enough, though.

I'm sure he doesn't....but it also doesn't mean it's ok.

MrsSkylerWhite · 25/04/2024 10:00

Comedycook · Today 09:57
Insults in the HoC don't particularly bother me but I don't think they should throw insults about things which someone has zero control of..”

Can’t imagine multi-millionaire Rishi Sunak loses much sleep over it.

I do wonder how he struggles to find trousers that are long enough, though.

bombastix · 25/04/2024 09:59

The comment on Rayner the more I understand how much the Conservatives hate her. She is going to beat them. That is to me very funny. And this line which certainly amused a few Conservatives (you watch the faces) is pretty good evidence of her confidence.

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DistinguishedSocialCommentator · 25/04/2024 09:58

Everanewbie · 25/04/2024 09:48

Abhorrent is a bit too strong though.

Really.

Ask my friend, freind at school that was mocked for their lack of height every name under the sun. That friend of mine laughed it off at school. Then meeting this school fried by checne when out of hols we started talking about school and the person told me they fear coming into school and taking sick time off when they were not sick - it still happened now but that person now works for themselves and doing well but admitted it still hurts when they hear or know people are cing names etc

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LunaNorth · 25/04/2024 09:57

”John Prescott in a skirt” I think she called herself. She knows exactly what she’s doing.

As a fellow intelligent, working class woman, I’d love to see us represented by someone with a bit of dignity. Alas.

Comedycook · 25/04/2024 09:57

Insults in the HoC don't particularly bother me but I don't think they should throw insults about things which someone has zero control of....

LuckysDadsHat · 25/04/2024 09:57

I can't be bothered about this. We used to work with someone called Tony who was very small and he never minded his nickname of Shetland Tony. Like in work, politics is a lot of banter like this.