Where is Angela Rayner?

[Pigeonqueen]

So vocal and present during the campaign and haven’t seen her anywhere at all today 🤷‍♀️😳… just being nosey. 🤔

PS But I'm also pleased to see so many people supporting her

Round of applause and or drinks for @prettybird !!!

Loving the cartoon. 👏🏻🥂

Fwiw, I think Angela Rayner is perfect for the Levelling Up portfolio. She's shown grit and determination and has achieved high public office based on hard work alone. She had a rotten childhood, although she did have support from her grandmother. She understands what growing up in poverty is like and, I have no doubt, that an awful lot of people haven't the faintest idea what that actually means/is like and, indeed, look down on her for her accent, her way of speaking, for being a woman who speaks out, etc, etc. She's an inspiration and she's also human and has made mistakes along the way.

Really well said @prettybird

... and also to you @NigelHarmansNewWife

Angela Rayner has matured and is a far more professionally polished than she was five years ago. Starmer is running a very different party to the one under Corbyn

I have been impressed by her in the last few months but there is no doubt any member of the cabinet (it’s great no longer typing shadow cabinet) will be back on the back benches if they are unprofessional or leaning to far to the left

Starmer doesn’t need to rely on another cabinet member the country have voted to get rid of the Tories not for Labour personalties

How dare they have done well in life? They didn't know their place, did they?

It’s a bit ridiculous to make that comparison- AR should be AR but that doesn’t mean people have to think she’s a good politician. Let’s see what she’s capable of - hopefully she will get her head around basic biology fur a start (as many others need to as well).

@BlueLimeRun hopefully she’s already got her head round basic poverty and social inequalities. I think that’s what her target group are more concerned about.

We all know women bear the brunt of poverty. the issues are not separate.

Absolutely this. I’ve just listened to her on The Rest is Politics. She’s so good.

Rayner accepting transwomen as women does not preclude her from understanding how poverty impacts biological women, given she has experienced it first hand.

Much of the poverty experienced by W/C women was thanks to the tories for the most part who up until the GE were the darlings of some GC middle class affluent feminists.

ha- absolutely not a Tory fan. I really agree about equality and poverty being priority (amongst the hundreds of other things).
However, accepting biology isn’t being GC and it’s important to me and many others.

@9GreenBottles Ange isn't full on TWAW

m.youtube.com/watch?v=RWIYzAPiRjw

She gets it.

What are the qualifications needed to be Deputy PM?

Keir Starmer is highly educated, hugely experienced in the professional world and in politics.

He could choose anyone to be his deputy and he chose Angela Rayner.

For me, that speaks volumes about her.

That was the video that sealed my opinion of her. She wouldn’t apologise for calling WPUK and the LGB Alliance hate groups - why not?

Anyone see Hoyle getting reinstated as Speaker? His friend and fellow MP, also a Lancastrian, spoke about the way they both speak, joking that it's the rest of the house that have accents. I don't recall anyone having a go at Hoyle for sounding Northern and not sorting out his accent to fit in more.

Surely this can't be misogyny, doing the same for Angela Rayner?

I really enjoyed that joke and thought of here and this thread in particular when I heard it!

I really like Rayner and think she’s more than capable of the job, but Starmer didn’t choose her. In the Labour Party both Leader and Deputy Leader are chosen by a secret ballot of the membership.

Now they are in the real electioneering and infighting can start.

Angela is probably marshalling her forces.

Electioneering? For what?
And what forces? I don’t know what you are concerned about, genuinely.

Glad it's not just me!