Angela Rayner not returning her 17K severance payment

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MissionCreep · 23/07/2026 18:33

After a year out of gov Angela Rayner is back obviously and today saying she won’t return the 17K severance payment because she ‘will deliver again’ in government. Just seems so grubby.

Same for Liz Truss taking the PM pension after crashing the economy. Just so tone deaf. I’m sure there are loads of other examples and I don’t think they’re OK either.

I don’t want this Burnham government to appear to be one that just looks out for itself. That was terrible for us in the Boris Johnson era. We should obviously not be harbouring any corruption from those in office, but also I want politicians to do the right thing in office even where the law doesn’t absolutely force them to.

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DefiantRabbit9 · 25/07/2026 22:01

MissionCreep · 25/07/2026 12:30

I definitely don’t agree that feminism has hurt feminism more than the manosphere- (which is only the latest example of the violent misogyny that the patriarchy has been enacting on women and girls for centuries..)
but i definitely agree with you that feminism doesn’t or shouldn’t be linked only to career ‘success’ if that is the accusation against it.
I don’t really recognise that as a big feminist message tbh.

It’s definitely true that without feminism it would be very hard for women to have any (traditionally viewed as male) ‘career success’. But my view of feminism is that it should allow women broadly the same choices that men can make, except where biology doesn’t allow it, so it would be just as feminist as a woman to take on a role that you might think the patriarchy approves of, if that’s your genuine choice. And if you didn’t harm other women by doing it.

But- saying that, it’s important to recognise that the patriarchy hates all women- it hates the women who stay home with their kids and it also hates the women who go out to work.
And the reality of economic life for women in late stage capitalism in the UK and the socialisation that women get, means that we are still without the same genuinely free choices as men get. So probably no woman gets a free choice, but some women have the social and economic resources to make the best of their situation according to what they want to do.

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Would I be correct in assuming you've not been on the receiving end of a girlboss feminists misogyny?

For the most part I absolutely agree with you. However we as women do have to take note of our own problems especially when we want to use our inclusion as a herald for equality.

CurlewKate · 26/07/2026 12:16

DefiantRabbit9 · 25/07/2026 22:01

Would I be correct in assuming you've not been on the receiving end of a girlboss feminists misogyny?

For the most part I absolutely agree with you. However we as women do have to take note of our own problems especially when we want to use our inclusion as a herald for equality.

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I might have been. If I knew what it was. Could you clarify?

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