Angela Rayner’s glottal stops are infuriating

[Ilovecleaning]

AIBU to be so irritated by the deputy PM’s lazy speech? I was listening to her being interviewed this morning and I was distracted by her Bri-ish/righ-/wai-ed. I googled her and apparently when asking a question about the lockdown parties she said ‘Was you there or not?’
Why does it anger me so much? It is not her accent. I am northern but I don’t drop my t’s and I know when to use was and were.
Her lazy speech distracts from the content. I have my theories but I would love to hear other people’s opinions.

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.

The bad grammer though - my Mum despite us being working class what hot on proper grammer in speaking- my DGP as well. My IL are the same and they have a different dialect more nothern and bad grammar was still corrected.

It comes accross to me as overplayed and may well be why so many actual working class people we know don't rate her as high as MN - it feels less authetic as they know people from her background or are from it and it feels like it playing up to sterotypes.

She not daff though so must be helping her and does I suppose highlight her different background.

@Ilovecleaning "I definitely don’t think only RP speakers deserve to be listened to. I’d have to be an idiot to think that."

If the cap fits......

MPs are supposed to be regular people who represent their constituents. That's what she is, and was before becoming deputy PM.

Why should she change the way she speaks to fit in with the Westminster lovelies? Why would you want her to?

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.

lol 😂 Me, too. In fact, I think I think I sometimes belong in the Insufferable Boring Pedants’ Corner.
Incorrect details can give the wrong impression and can so easily be rectified.
I remember looking at the goods and services offered by a couple starting up a new small business. It was a stationery business offering all the usual stuff: wedding invitations, Save the Day, party invitations etc. They had printed STATIONARY everywhere: on their posters, business cards, everywhere… 😲

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’ve already done it.

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

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.

“struggle with comprehension” 🤣. Love it.

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

🙄

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.

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.

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.

Thank you. I have no issue at all with her accent but many posters on here think that I do. 🤷‍♀️

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

Many Northerners do.

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 ?

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

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

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.

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.