Angela Rayner’s glottal stops are infuriating

She isn't illiterate. Glottal stops aren't a sign of illiteracy. She is in a position of power as she was elected as an MP by her constituents and elected as Deputy Leader by Labour Party members and as Labour won the election, she is now Deputy Prime Minister.

Do you feel the same about other politicians? Reform MP Lee Anderson, for example? He sounds uneducated and ignorant.

She makes a refreshing change from all the privileged MPs and Ministers who have come up through the Oxford/Cambridge PPE route but who do not know how to relate to the lives of their poorer, more deprived constituents.

To paraphrase the Scottish doctor in Hancocks Half Hour, We're not all Rob Roys!

There is NO way on earth she will ever make PM with the way she speaks. She will not be allowed to represent Britain on the global stage, liaising with other heads of state when she speaks like that.

And I say that as someone who admires how she has forged her own path to success. The way she speaks is a glass ceiling she will not smash unless she learns to speak a little less coarsely. Doesn't mean she has to go full blown Rees-Mogg, but there is a happy middle ground where words are pronounced properly.

Thing is, in the North, many of us are fed up of being treated like second class citizens by people and institutions in the South. We are two nations: London and the South East, and everywhere else.

I'd love for us to continue being a United Kingdom. But, if Scotland ever gains independence, I'd like them to take us in the North with them. Oh, and we'll take our natural resources with us, too.

It's actually quite hard to maintain a strong accent from the north if you move south or work with people who don't the same strong accent

The secret is regular visits to the mother city to top it up and keep your hand in.

Exactly! Her accent is the least that's wrong with her.

She's from Stockport, she's my age, we were at school in the same area at the same time. The way she speaks is completely normal for the area.
Just as the way Jacob Rees mogg speaks is normal for where he's from. Why is no one telling him to alter his accent? Because he's rich and rich people are automatically right, that's why

The glottal stop is a key feature of many UK accents . Yes it is part of the accent.

If you associate it with lower intelligence it speaks a lot about your intelligence and judgemental attitudes

What makes you the arbitrator of the correct way to speak ?

Many Northerners do.

A lot of them are assuming that it's just how Northerners speak. It's not!

There's a reason she gets so much hostility from the Tories - she's a proper working class woman who grew up in a dysfunctional home, was a teenage single mother, and has got where she has through hard graft. She's the sort of person they think should know their place and stay out of the public eye.

I don't give a shit about her accent, she's one of the most powerful people in the country and potentially a future PM. I think she's fantastic and I hope she goes on to bigger and better things.

OP, you are not being unreasonable. I'm from the North and it pisses me off to the point of distraction. There is no need for her to speak like this. It is lazy and frankly makes her look thick. She can still have a northern accent without resorting to the way she speaks. If we had someone in high office who had an estuary accent, people would be up in arms.

Glottal stops are actually physiologically harder work to produce than the sounds they are standing in for.

It was on Good morning Britain, it might be on their social media.

Oh yes teen mum and isn't she also a grandma ? How dare she do well for her self

I think she's chosen to keep her accent and even emphasise it as some kind of solidarity with The Workers.
I think it's this - playing it up and she not only MP to do it.

She's just John Prescott v2.0.

Her speech doesn’t annoy me personally, it’s great that politics has people from different walks of life with different ways of speaking as well as thinking. That said, the way Jacob Rees Mogg talks pissed me off almost as much as what he actually says. It’s so put on. We get it, you’re rich and posh but his accent seemed so put on.

Also I don't think her accent sounds shocking enough for there to be this many people moaning about it and I say that as a southerner I just don't hear the issue? What interview was this I can't find it anywhere

Doesn’t bother me in the slightest, that’s how many people talk in Manchester and surrounding areas, myself included. It has no bearing on intelligence. As someone who has been a young single parent, lived with poverty and worked hard in low paid jobs, I am glad to finally have someone in the cabinet who represents people like me. It’s bloody sad that how she speaks is what people focus on about her.
The way politicians don’t answer questions is what infuriates me. I don’t care if you drop your T’s, just answer the flipping questions asked of you!

I think it’s a hugely positive thing to hear regional accents and different ways of speaking in the House of Commons. I’m not a fan of Angela Rayner’s politics, but I have a lot of respect towards her for becoming deputy PM despite her background.