To think allisons pearsons rant about Angela Rayner is full of nasty stereotypes about girls who are 16 and pregnant?

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Well I’m not a fan of Angela Rayner and have never voted labour but Pearsons rant in the telegraph yesterday was half assumptions that Rayner must have been a bully who thumped classmates for doing their homework and distracted the class by talking about how many boys she shagged.
And of course reading books and having a child at 16 is mutually exclusive.
I don’t think Rayner has ever said she was like this Pearson has just made a load of assumptions because she was 16 and pregnant.

Anyway it’s behind a pay wall so I had to copy and paste the nasty part:

“I have noticed a tendency among politicians and commentators, particularly the posh ones, to praise Rayner’s flame-haired “authenticity”. That’s because they didn’t go to school with an Angela. Those of us who did know the harm that the Angelas do to kids from poorer homes who want to work hard and do well but whose lessons are permanently disrupted by those who don’t. The Angelas sit in the back row of the class putting on make-up, doing their nails and chatting loudly, throughout readings from the set book, about who they’ve sh---ed. They disdain the teachers who are rather scared of them.
Angelas have sex by the age of 13 (they mock those of us who are saving our virginity for later). Pregnant at 16, they leave school without any qualifications and work behind the till in Mac Fisheries before embarking on a romantic life which features at least two injunctions and a restraining order. By the age of 37, they are grandmothers (as Rayner was).
Believe me, all the kids who want to get on in life breathe an almighty sigh of relief that the Angelas have left school because now they can hand in their homework and try to pass their exams without being ridiculed or thumped by an Angela.
So you’ll have to forgive me if I don’t join in the applause for Angela Rayner’s vibrant “back story” and her ascent to the top of government through militant trade unionism. The working-class kids I admire often came from difficult council-house homes, as Rayner did, but they clung on to education like a life raft. Or they saw a job opportunity and grasped it with both hands. They did that old-fashioned thing called bettering themselves”

You wonder if Pearson's 'article' was timed to detract from the breaking story about Farage receiving a massive lump sum 'gift' from Christopher Harbourne.

Harbourne hands out millions to Reform and the Tories from his home in Thailand.

I bet the view from his window is interesting.

That's a very good point, actually. It's certainly distracted people from Farage's dodgy finances and Tice's tax dodging.

Being for remain doesn't magically make anyone good. And being for Brexit doesn't make anyone bad.

Can confirm. My former inlaws voted Remain and they're a right pair of cunts.

I suspect Pearson churns out shit posts most weeks doesn’t she?
And the Telegraph always did enjoy blaming teen mums for all the ills of world.

JP Morgan just shifted jobs back to London from Paris

6-8% knocked off GDP.
Jp Morgan doesn’t touch the sides.

I’ll bet it is.

How are the Labour Party finances btw? Oh dear.

Again. Different economists say different things. The consensus didn't predict GFC in 2008.

We have a free trade deal with the EU.

Did they now? How many?

Which economists are saying Brexit has has a positive effect on the UK GDP?

We have a FTA with Australia and New Zealand as well, they laughed at the deal we negotiated.

And under a Labour government,

The NBER seems pretty well informed.

Is this employees who moved to Paris because of Brexit coming back now because the 'inpatrates' 8 year favourable tax exemption the French government offers has come to an end?

I recognise the ‘type’
Went to a fairly rough school in Glasgow in the 80s
Some of the girls did all the smoking/ drinking/sex
I was clever, went on to Uni,only girl from my year
But nobody was ever mean to me,and when I occasionally bump into one of them in town they ask about my job and tell whoever they are with how clever I am (actually I am not especially clever, just did well at school!)
I think the whole experience meant that I can now get on with anyone
I admire how well AR has done

Who on earth are you talking to? What life choices are you talking about and what favourable outcomes should these people who you obviously despise be precluded from? Are you saying that girls who have a baby at 16 should never be able to go into politics or have a successful and fulfilling career?

Your posts are consistently unpleasant and sneering and the fact that you think that you are better than Angela Rayner is risible.

Another thing the Telegraph might be using this rubbish to cover up is
Kemi Badenoch's day out at the Heythrop Hunt.

The huntsman she's pictured with has been given a caution for assaulting a woman who was filming the hunt (he pinned her to a fence with his horse). He's also been charged three times with illegal hunting. On one occasion the police recovered the dead fox's body parts.

The fact the Tories are so cosy with the hunt might not go down too well on the eve of the upcoming elections, especially as two thirds of the electorate support the hunting ban.

Well there are a lot of visitors to MN, one of them must have been at school with AR.
If it’s you spill the beans.

YANBU, but that's how Allison Pearson acts about everyone and everything,

Again I mentioned other economists and research groups.

Again. This is completely different to the topic of the thread.

Angela Rayner isn't some moral beacon for supporting remain. I don't find her an inspiration at all. Though I feel sorry that she has a child that's disabled.

ManageAn - Threads stray off topic.
I have never suggested Brexit is linked to morality - it was predicted that it would be economically damaging and has more than lived up to that.

You argued that Sunak as a hedge funder was in a good position to assess economics -Brexit indicates otherwise.

Pearson has indulged in a spot of creative writing to titillate the readers of the Telegraph. She should stick to fiction although it probably doesn’t pay enough to pay off HMRC.

Given the Telegraph has recently had to withdraw an entirely fictitious report I don’t suppose we should expect anything less from them.

Lol! You can't even answer a straightforward question! You are just spewing bile and vitriol at posters who disagree with your hideous and classist opinions.

Vainglorious with illusory superiority.

Yes he knows a lot about economics. A lot more than Angela Rayner. He's had a successful career in finance. One mistake (even if you call it a mistake) is just that. He was a great chancellor and did his best in the pandemic.

He created the Windsor framework which helped reduce frictions for NI. And helped with new trade deals and deregulation. People do make mistakes (if you consider it a mistake)

Many well trained economists with PhDs didn't see the GFC coming and ejected the housing bubble. I don't think they are stupid. They just made a mistake.

Brexit was widely predicted to be economically disastrous - of course that was dismissed as Project Fear. That’s more than a mistake, it’s hubris.
I guess the wealthy could afford to play with the country’s future. The Telegraph of course played its part. I don’t see anyone celebrating it now.
And Russia cheered - rarely a good sign for the UK.