Angela Rayner sacked [shock]

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So Keir Starmer chooses the one shining light in the labour party. A single mother at sixteen, the most inspiring story to come out of the Labour party. Anyone that has listened to Angela about her struggles to obtain a degree and to better herself. Starmer chooses her as the whipping girl for his failures and has sacked her as co-ordinator. He can't remove her as deputy, but how much longer is that position tenable?
I am genuinely shocked and horrified. The failures of the labour party on are on HIM. He should be resigning.

Absolutely livid. What has the Labour party come to.

She irritates the fuck out of me. Corbyn mouthpiece. Someone’s early life is irrelevantly

I never thought she was any good either.

It's not even as if Labour have the monopoly on working class backgrounds. John Major, the Conservative Prime Minister beaten by public school educated Blair, lived in a council home and left school at 16. David Davis, who was one of David Cameron's rivals for the Conservative leadership, was brought up by a single mum on a council estate. Shaun Bailey, Conservative party member who stood for London mayor, comes from a working class background and experienced homelessness in his 20s.

Class, accent, regional background. Irrelevant and unimportant. The focus needs to be on the policies. All the parties need to remember this.

In this day and age, there is nothing particularly special, inspiring or unique about Angela’s backstory, so it needs to stop getting trotted out at every opportunity. We all have our problems.

Can't stand her so happy to read this.

So Keir Starmer chooses the one shining light in the labour party.

Are you on glue?

As I Labour voter I was embarrassed at Angela Rayner and am completely baffled how she ended up where she did.

Union connections got her the MP post. She got a front bench post way above her ability because everyone competent refused to serve under Corbyn. She got deputy leader because Momentum backed her.

Starmer chooses her as the whipping girl for his failures and has sacked her as co-ordinator.

She ran a really shit campaign. Starter wants the Corbynites out but they are too popular with the rank and file so he's giving them responsibilities and sacking them for cause when they fail (see Rebecca long-bailey).

Labour used to have a shit-load of capable women MPs but many were driven out or lost seats. It's not Starmer's fault that the current crop of both sexes are very poor quality

Well getting rid of Rayner was the only positive to come out of this total shit show.

Sunak is a loser and will never be a PM

Blindly calling any woman politician inspiring is not the way to go. When you look at the calibre of women in Labour Part, they are actually making a mockery of diversity. Rayner, plenty has been said on this thread which tells you what you need to know.
Then there’s Jess Phillips, literally living up to the stereotype of a hysterical, shrill woman with nothing useful to say, her performance in parliament is terrible. Annelise Dodds looks like she will run away and hide and start crying everytime she’s being interviewed, comes out with nothing useful to say about her brief. Diane Abbot actually praised Mao on tv, I kid you not. Rebecca Long Bailey, I can remember the name and that she was terrible, but really quite forgettable otherwise.
What happened to talent and performance?

Rayner just got there as a box ticking excercise.

She pulled up the ladder behind her too.

I don't know all the details but always found her really annoying.

She’s a nasty, useless idiot. If she’s the ‘shining light’ God help the Labour Party.

To be fair, she's incompetent both as a politician and a campaign leader. Nothing inspirational about her.

Good to hear . She is a horrible person and incompetent. Her rags to riches story is not as it seems . Angela "the Tories think I'm stupid cos I'm working class". No Angela ,it's because you ARE stupid . Also has no care for other women - blocks abuse survivors on twitter asking about women's rights, didn't show any solidarity with Rosie Duffield MP when she was getting piled on and sucked up to Lily Madigan . Dim wit .

Her campaign tactic seemed to consist of calling people "Tory scum". Not very constructive.

This. I like her, I see why she's relatable, but seriously, that is sort of thing needs to stop.

There’s a big difference between assertiveness and aggression. She thinks she is being assertive, but just comes across as very aggressive. Totally out of her depth.

Rayner (and her "mate" Long-bailey who she "stood aside" for in the leadership) is useless - just shouting about stuff but never saying anything - what was the point of yelling endlessly in Hartlepool that the women who won had lived in the Cayman Islands once as her husband at the time had a job there.

I say this a Labour voter!

She's dreadful. Good move IMHO.

Rebecca Long Bailey, I can remember the name and that she was terrible, but really quite forgettable otherwise.
What happened to talent and performance?

She was so aggressive she makes Angela seem gentle in comparison.

For some reason talent isn't respected, the Labour party prefer people who will bow to worship various humans and expect this from the public, getting on their knees for men in other countries in Gold coffins, bullying people not including people who should not be included for common sense reasons and forcing celebrating choices people don't want to celebrate, they prefer people who tell you day is night and men are....

I saw some real fire in the belly of Keir Starmer for the first time today, when he was asked where he thought the party had gone wrong. He's usually as animated as an ironing board but today was different.

I think AR may be the first of many.

My parents were in local politics. It's not unusual for people involved in campaigns to have massiive fallings out if they lose.

The problem with getting rid of Rayner is it's arguably the opposite of the sort of thing Starmer/Labour should be doing.

Starmer is a millionaire toff who thinks he's superior to the people. They need to seem more like the party of the working class. Getting rid of Rayner won't help that maybe (unless she's been part of a lot of the 'political correctness' etc stuff which is a real turn off to a lot of people. But Starmer is more reknowned for that.)

I'm a Northern working class woman and I find her a total embarrassment. A prime example of overpromotion.

I don't think ordinary people care if someone is a toff. They care whether they are genuinely on their side in a non patronising way or not. That's all.

I think she's a pretty terrible politician. Having once been a northern, teen mum isn't a free pass at under performing in your job decades later.

I was a northern, teen mum who went back to Uni decades ago also so I recognise her achievement in that respect but there comes a point when you have to change the record especially when holding high public office.

I don't think it's unusual that the campaign manager is fired after a disastrous campaign. I think whoever was in that role would have had to fall on their sword. The BBC claims she is probably going to be offered a different shadow cabinet role so it's hardly the end of her career.

It is a move of course that deflects blame from Starmer but the alternative would be another leadership election and that would be even more disastrous for Labour right now.

Being generous to Starmer he's had virtually no time to establish his leadership role and the direction of the party outside of the Covid crisis. I'm no fan of Labour any longer but I am vaguely interested to see his post covid plans in the coming year or two at which point it will be clear whether he's a viable leader in the longer term.

Jess Phillips is another (self-described) "gobby" female labour MP, yet in the hustings for Labour leader she was embarrassingly bad and withdrew when she realised she didn't have a hope in hell of winning (oh sorry, "wouldn't unite the labour party" as she said)