Further to my earlier post, a YouGov poll question yesterday asked: “Do you think it is or is not acceptable for a senior politician to publicly call their political opponents ‘scum’?”
Here are the results:
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No surprise there with the spread, but I’m somewhat surprised as many as 36% of Labour supporters though it was acceptable. Just shows how some think out there!
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If we are against cancel culture, and in favour of free speech, then logically we should allow Angela to describe anyone in any way she wants to, including the word ‘scum’ (though it hardly befits an MP)
Then let the electorate cast their opinion at the next election…after all, it worked well enough with Corbyn didn’t it?
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Every time Raynor opens her gob she loses another 5000 votes.
Thank you God for Angela Raynor
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I thought Angela Rayner’s rude comments gave Northerners a bad name.
I’m a working class Northerner and that kind of coarse language does not represent me. I have never called a human being “scum” in my life and it has never been “banter” where I come from - it is a definite insult - and I don’t “pretend to be offended by it”, I AM offended by it!
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Me too Judd. Seems to me she moves in different circles to us. I have to wonder why someoe like Rayner have to hold people who have a different view I such contempt.
What a bunch of pussies. No wonder British politics is in such a state if a word like “scum” causes such a furore so much easier than actually having to deal with real issues. It is not even a decent insult.
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Hi
The Government are treating us like idiots.
This is simply not right.
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So that justifies her rant against the people who voted for the government?
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I’d like to know of any government that hasn’t treated the British people as idiots too?
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What has that got to do with calling people scum?
The lack of justification after Swimmy saying:
Every government has treated us like idiots in some ways at least but it still is not justification for a rant against the electorate.
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She can’t be all bad
The woman is a common as muck uneducated and potty mouthed .
Must be taking over from Diana Abbott as the Tories best bet for staying in power .
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Like maybe when she’s quiet.
" Following Sir Keir’s speech, Rayner struggled to extol its virtues – not due to political or oratory differences, rather a very sore throat. Angie apologised for her voice and joked to Politics Live viewers that she would hear cheers up and down the country at the news of her silencing."
I read somewhere today that she is trying Johnson’s tactics, never apologising and not being afraid to make gaffes and say what she’s thinking even if it does offend some people The opposite of Starmer who is so bland and trying to please everyone
It’s a dangerous tactic that could go badly wrong but I think it’s true that people want their politicians to be “characters”
I personally would rather have a politician with a bit of character than somebody bland and “grey” like Starmer for example, but I don’t think that Rayner’s method is the way to go about garnering support.
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No class. No imagination.
Think back and recall some of Churchill’s famous insults.
Would he have used the word 'scum?!
Furthermore does anyone recall his ever apologising for having offended? 
She is a loud mouthed, nasty piece of work.
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