Abhorrent comments made about a persons height

[DistinguishedSocialCommentator]

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

@DistinguishedSocialCommentator "Until yesterday, I'd never heard this woman speak."

Not very interested in politics, then are you!

I love your unbiased posts, so refreshing from the normal Labour bashing we have had recently and that you ve now turned your attention to the Tories.

Thank you but your comments are ignorant of the facts. I've said many times that both the Tories and Labour lot are on the whole in it for themselves and that is a fact and can be applied to every political party in every country.

I'm not easily fooled by those the Labour and Tories try to woo, IE Labour on the whole go for the unemployed and those on lower incomes and living in social housing. The Tories try to butter up on the whole those with their own homes, mid range to the above average pay and those that have worked hard, spent, saved and invested prudently. For the record and IMO, at times a donkey could do better than that lot

Liz Truss only won because of the members voting, just like Mr Corbyn won. The difference was Truss got into number 10 and trashed the economy within a week or two. Thankfully, Mr Corbyn never had the chance.

HTH

What's your point? You'd prefer a dictatorship? Or you are an anarchist?

My guess is dictatorship. The op doesn't come across as an anarchist.

I favour “the poisoned dwarf”

And what would he call you if he knew you lot called him that. Disgusting comments about another human

Probably peasant or such like...👍

Says the poster who also refers to politicians as clowns

Kinda hypocritical really...

Rishi being called pint-sized...

This is disgusting and abhorrent. He is a rat-faced, pint-sized, evil specimen of humanity:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/28/home-office-to-detain-asylum-seekers-across-uk-in-shock-rwanda-operation

The election process for leaders differs between the two parties. Educate yourself.

And misnames the leader of the Opposition. Of course they haven't answered my question on that or addressed their hypocrisy.

What a clown, right?

They don't answer questions or engage with arguments at all, just endlessly regurgitate their original point. Hence the suspicion that they are an AI.

Beg to differ.... the Tories have taxed their traditional base into the ground, meanwhile Labour are targeting these voters and with reasonable success!

My point, which you probably did get, is that whilst you say your unbiased etc you simply cannot help but praise the Tories but are somewhat under hand with your comments on Labour... i.e Labour support the poor (feckless as you'd put it) Tories back the hard working Brit, who has made something of themselves.... Just like Rayner has.... irony overload!

Do you honestly think that Sunak cannot take very mild name calling? the way your banging on about this you'd think Rayner had used the P word against him, now that really would be worthy of abhorrent.

Sunak himself is acting in an awful way over migration and in his failure to condemn the Police remarks and support the families affected by the Nottingham killings.

He really is a very nasty piece of work.

I'm sure you too understood my point and I'm standing by that.

Oh you're back.

Any chance you could answer my comments about your misnaming the leader of the Opposition?

Well I am at least a (mostly) pleasant peasant!

I'm not. I'm a revolting peasant.

I didn't even notice that this was a DSC thread before I posted on it. Its like arguing with a particularly obtuse sixth-former who's done two terms of politics A-Level and thinks they're Vernon Bogdanor.

For a social commentator on politics @DistinguishedSocialCommentator you are really somewhat unaware of facts.

In 2019 Labour's vote was pretty consist across social-economic background, whereas the Tories did best amoung C2DE and worst amoung AB.
I have seen nothing to suggest that this pattern will be significantly different in 2024.

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/26925-how-britain-voted-2019-general-election

Well done, @JessS1990 . Some actual evidence. Any comments, OP?

Although to be fair, current polling does suggest that the age cutoff has moved up very significantly - essentially, Tories are losing the older vote. This is the polling from YouGov in January of this year

I thought it was fairly well known that the Tories had done well in the last election among less well off social groups, but apparently not.

@PonyPatter44 " Its like arguing with a particularly obtuse sixth-former who's done two terms of politics A-Level and thinks they're Vernon Bogdanor."

You've given me flashbacks to family dinners with dcs taking A level philosophy and politics.I date my addiction to red wine to those days!