To think Andrea Jenkyns should not be an Education Minister

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She stuck her middle finger up at the crowd and yelled "he who laughs last laughs best. Wait and see!"

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It's so infuriating to see this country reduced to this state

It's not good at all , but Angela Raynor stayed in post after calling the conservatives scum. I feel this way out of order too , even though I've never voted for that party myself
It's what we have been reduced to I'm afraid
I don't condone anyone carrying on like this , but until there is an election we have to put up with this kind of behavior I suppose

No she shouldn't however is she going to be removed and paid off like the last one ? So many families are struggling right now and it's disgusting that one day as Ed Sec and a payout of over £16k those rules need to be changed urgently. Removing her they also need to look at those below her too 🤢

Jesus is this the best they can get?

Labour can’t believe it’s luck. That middle finger will be on a every campaign leaflet at the next election.

She's just expressing how the rest of them feel. The Tories have been sticking their middle fingers up at the British public through their lies, their willful incompetence and policy decisions that target the poor and the vulnerable for the last 12 years. Jenkyns is just to thick to hide her contempt in front of the press.

It is totally unacceptable to have someone like this in government, let alone in education.

She’s vile

I'm quite sure they say and do worse as banter in private, but I was absolutely shocked that she felt it appropriate to do that to the public as she walked into Downing St.

The mask really has slipped, hasn't it? They don't even feel the need to pretend any more.

Yes, this.

That's an actual minister of the cabinet of the United Kingdom, not some very young parish councillor somewhere.

Totally unacceptable. I wouldnt get away with doing that at work. Why should she?

She has now not apologised

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It will only be until the 5th of September at least and then we won’t see her ever again!

It is a totally inadequate apology.
As a child protection social worker I was verbally abused and physically threatened, I would have lost my job if I had responded like that.
Many public servants in different sectors have similar experiences.
It isn't right but you can't respond as she did.

Surely even if she apologised, she no longer has any credibility in a school setting? How can you imagine an education secretary who has done that ever being able to address a hall full of sixth formers without being held in contempt/ a laughing stock?

Admittedly it was very inappropriate behaviour but being totally honest I prefer that to a government who can't say what a woman is......

Absolutely vile and so entitled. Definitely one rule for them and one rule for the rest of us.
I would never vote Tory but I can remember the time when there were principled, capable and intelligent people in the Tory cabinet. It’s unbelievable how dreadful this lot are.
And Angela Raynor was criticising her fellow MPs. Which is a bit different to showing your utter contempt for the British public.

I’m assuming the next leader will take her out. Of course she can’t do that role. She shouldn’t even be an mp when she’s walking around giving the public the finger.

That tweet isn’t an apology. She has said she shouldn’t have done it but certainly not apologised, she’s simply justified.

Pretty sure the middle finger was on the way in and the shouting at the crowd was on the way out, possibly on different days. Two incidents, one lousy excuse for her behaviour. She epitomises everything about Tory MPs that makes them easy to loathe. They need a good clear out tbh and it can't happen soon enough. They've got completely out of hand with their sense of entitlement and ill concealed disdain for the working class. Thatcher would have them all sacked in utter disgrace.

It certainly will. Deservedly so. Stupid, childish woman.

Labour can’t believe it’s luck. That middle finger will be on a every campaign leaflet at the next election.

It was unacceptable, but it's not going to make any difference to Labour. The middle finger is utterly trivial compared with the endless shit the Tories have pulled, but Labour are not going to capitalise on it.

Labour are not going to capitalise on it.

I’d bet my house they do, they’d be mad not to.

No
But Johnson shouldn't be allowed to cling on as PM - she's just an example of the questionable moral standards he is finding by dredging the depths of the tory party for anyone with a moral compass so low as to not be bothered about serving a corrupt liar.

Well they will have to shut Angela Raynor up then, they would be a bit hypocritical, considering she calls people scum ,she even did it in the house of commons