Brilliant photo that sums it up perfectly 
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Can we still say snigger?
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Oh dear, if anyone is vulgar, it’s these prurient sleaze journalists and their smutty insinuations
Nothing to say on the debates, of course, because she’s a woman, how could she possibly have anything important to say😡
Just misogynist crap about how she looks
But it might give a clue where the story came from. Mucky pups stick together
We need more free cash to stimulate the economy, these MPs are so Mingy. 
Twat, no need to look that one up.
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No indeed, you don’t need to look far to find one of those!
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Guilty as inferred.
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Its the only way to maintain TL1 Status all these years. 
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I don’t mingle with them Maree.
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It’s becoming clear this is a story made up by Angela Rayner herself.
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I think there might just be a tad of jealousy going on with the ladies of the house.
Behind the headlines of cake, beers and growler gate is layer upon layer of lies and corruption.
The establishment is a sewer
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It seems that the right-wing press is turning on Angela Rayner and asserting that she is the source of the “Legs-Gate” story. They’re also making much of her appearance in the “Beer-Gate” story.
The Tory propensity for mud-slinging is, seemingly, being ramped up in the run-up to local elections in which the Tories are forecast to lose 800 council seats.
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Oh come on! They’re all as bad as each other!
I had to switch off Labour Shadow Secretary of State, David Lammy this morning, as he tried to be comical and make light of the Keir Starmer/Angela Rayner’s own ‘party-gate’.
He had lied when previously questioned about the matter, then today, he had to admit that he had lied.
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Nobody’s as bad as BJ … 
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Head in sand again Omah? That left wing bias of yours just shines through in virtually everything you post, objectivity is so obviously not your strong suit… 
POLITICS
REVEALED: Source of ‘Basic Instinct’ story was… Angela Rayner
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner
BY GLEN OWEN AND DAN HODGES
A CONSERVATIVE Party inquiry into the ‘Basic Instinct’ furore over Angela Rayner has concluded that the Labour Deputy Leader was herself the source of the story.
The report in last week’s Mail on Sunday triggered a storm at Westminster, after Ms Rayner claimed that ‘Boris Johnson’s cheerleaders have resorted to spreading desperate, perverted smears in their doomed attempts to save his skin’.
The uproar forced the Prime Minister to release a statement condemning the ‘misogyny’ which had been ‘anonymously directed’ at Ms Rayner, and to order his whips to try to identify the Tory MP quoted in the article. Mr Johnson also vowed that he would unleash ‘the terrors of the Earth’ on the person responsible.
But within 24 hours of the investigation starting, the whips had spoken to four Tory MPs who testified that Ms Rayner had herself raised the issue with them during an evening on the Commons terrace.
According to one of the MPs, she told them that during PMQs she liked ‘to do my Sharon Stone trick. I cross and uncross my legs and give him a flash of my ginger g******’.
A second MP also recalled the phrase. A third MP told the whips they hadn’t heard the entire exchange, but had overheard the vulgar colloquialism, while a fourth said: ‘Angela was telling us how she distracts Boris.’
The investigation concluded that the exchanges had been lighthearted and good-natured.
When this newspaper put the story to the Labour Party last weekend, a spokeswoman had insisted that the claims were ‘categorically untrue’.
The resulting row led to Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle condemning the article as ‘unsubstantiated’, ‘misogynistic’ and ‘offensive’, and inviting The Mail on Sunday’s Editor, David Dillon, to a meeting at the Commons. The request was declined.
After the row broke out last week, the Daily Mail revealed the contents of a podcast recorded in January in which Ms Rayner volunteered the fact that her appearance at PMQs that month had drawn comparisons with Miss Stone, and that it had sparked an internet meme of her crossing and uncrossing her legs.
The interview came 18 days after the Daily Mail’s Amanda Platell had likened Ms Rayner to Miss Stone in her column - without receiving a complaint.
The revelations that Ms Rayner had herself propagated the story she was supposedly furious about led her supporters to try to reframe the row as an indictment of the ‘sexist’ and ‘classist’ culture at Westminster and in the media. A senior Tory source said: ‘We soon realised that Rayner’s story wasn’t quite all it seemed.’
A leader article in today’s MoS calls on ‘Britain’s political and media classes’ to ‘relearn old rules such as the one which advises waiting for the facts before passing judgment, and that trial comes before verdict, and verdict before sentence’.
It concludes: ‘If they do not, and if they continue to allow themselves to be stampeded by social media mobs, then freedom of speech, freedom of the Press and democracy itself are in danger.’
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Why it it the Daily Mail, the Sun and GBNews that are “pushing” this story - izzit cos they’re “fascist rags” … 
Of course, “four Tory MPs” wouldn’t lie, would they … or would they? If lying’s good enough for the PM it’s good enough for his MPs - monkey see, monkey do … 
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You’re not the only one to do that this morning, Art. I record the programme specifically so I can FF over bits like this.
Spot on, Barry.
If you look more deeply into this story, you’ll find that Rayner started the story herself back in January.
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It’s still just a “story” though … and only the right-wing press is running with it … 