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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social

But she's a woman and working class and, plainly, not content with "her lot". Remember the furore about her going to the opera? Rayner is where sexism and class prejudice intersect. If she ever came out as bi, the Telegraph front page would be a black box with a red "AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHH!" on it.

aug 24, 2025, 6:57 am • 577 85

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social

Guess she's got some catching up to do

Mirror story from August 2024, headlined: Inside Nigel Farage's £3m four home luxury property empire – all bought since Brexit
aug 24, 2025, 12:03 pm • 6 0 • view
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Dave Lee @ihatepineapple.bsky.social

Is the X on the end of Brexit like a chefs kiss because it's so good?

aug 24, 2025, 12:12 pm • 2 0 • view
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Equiton Press @equiton.net

Talk about clutching at pearls. It's so overdone one would say the outrage over Rayner was vaguely 'camp'... *grin*

aug 24, 2025, 7:36 am • 3 0 • view
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MarkNew @marknew15.bsky.social

just put this here to show how in one instance they are outraged.....in another "oh it's fine!"

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aug 24, 2025, 7:37 am • 1 0 • view
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Fozzie @chrisfoster67.bsky.social

The box would be blue surely?

aug 24, 2025, 7:34 am • 0 0 • view
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Spanglish @spanglish51.bsky.social

She will never be the equal of the men in suits … & they largely , don’t care ☹️ As a country we seem to prefer the Lucy Connollys as our heroines 😡

aug 24, 2025, 9:23 am • 4 0 • view
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Cilantro @coriandersoap.bsky.social

The more they attack her, the more I like her. But OMG, my evil twin reeeeally wishes she was doing 'Strictly' this year. Oh the larks guessing who would spontaneously combust first! 🤣

aug 24, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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HOTOL Vuh @hotlineaguirre.bsky.social

Chalk up another L for Britain’s insufferable accent-based ‘class’ system. Rayner’s not working class, she’s a member of the government, not to mention a homeowner twice over.

aug 24, 2025, 8:11 am • 1 0 • view
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Andrew 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 @buchanan101.bsky.social

Her politics aren’t quite mine, but the abuse she receives from the right are absolutely disgusting. It says everything about them.

aug 24, 2025, 7:57 am • 6 0 • view
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PhilT602 @philt602.bsky.social

Rayner lives rent free in most of these chauvinist's heads! She is a successful, independent, working class woman, so their tiny minds cannot cope with this alternate reality!!

aug 24, 2025, 9:42 am • 7 0 • view
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Stevie D @stevieinselby.bsky.social

How dare she live rent-free, bloody cheek of it, typical communist, she should be paying them the full market rental rate with interest 😉

aug 24, 2025, 12:07 pm • 2 0 • view
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Janey Llou @janeyllou.bsky.social

She should never have apologised. They are scum and they always will be.

aug 24, 2025, 8:05 am • 1 0 • view
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stephena77.bsky.social @stephena77.bsky.social

So, not "Working class lass done well"? There has been, and always will be, a narrative around Labour that it is anti aspiration (socialism, innit?) So frustrating and completely wrong, but until the govt tackle the press head on with this, it will continue to be like this.

aug 24, 2025, 7:50 am • 3 0 • view
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firstprinciples.bsky.social @firstprinciples.bsky.social

She should say that, just to troll them

aug 24, 2025, 10:30 am • 2 0 • view
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Frankie @wakeylass.bsky.social

Remember that time that she had the nerve to wear a suit! 🫣

aug 24, 2025, 8:19 am • 3 0 • view
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TheCodeBlackDirective @codeblackdirective.bsky.social

Gentle reminder that Jacob Rees-Mogg has a "property empire" in the EU. Yes, the EU.

aug 24, 2025, 10:18 am • 4 0 • view
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Conradknightsox @conradknightsox.bsky.social

IMO no-one should own more than one property- just not fucking necessary.

aug 24, 2025, 9:54 am • 0 0 • view
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Dan.G 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @dangurden.bsky.social

The Opera... as if tickets to the Football isn't equally problematic...

aug 24, 2025, 9:19 am • 0 0 • view
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falconer59.bsky.social @falconer59.bsky.social

Working class people know your place, even if you are clever good looking and a high achiever! Privelidged white guys entitled to every tax dodging scheme increasing wealth but contributing nothing. Oh for the 60s and 70s when the working class became artists actors and academics.

aug 25, 2025, 12:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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Lee 🇪🇺 UK @tastyburger.bsky.social

A working class norhern woman with an accent that is looked down on by Torygraph devotees Absolutely love her! Breaking through that snobbery

aug 24, 2025, 7:55 am • 5 0 • view
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neil @sitepages.bsky.social

Has she even thanked Margaret Thatcher yet?

aug 24, 2025, 7:22 am • 8 0 • view