Will Angela Rayner make a bid for Starmer's job after May local elections?

 

Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner speaks with a lisp. When she was a young girl, her mother - who couldn't read or write - told her that she needed speech and language therapy. 

A Daily Mail columnist once wrote that she 'winced' when she heard Rayner demanding on the Radio 4 Today Programme, "Was you there or not at the party?" Rayner told a meeting of North West Labour members, "I'm sick of shouting from the sidelines and I bet youse lot are too." 

She's described herself as a "failing pupil" from a "failing school." By all accounts, her spelling and grammar are atrocious. One of the volunteers who worked with Rayner during her Ashton election campaign has said:

"She needed quite a bit of advice... I remember she needed help with writing statements, letters, press releases etc, because writing is definitely not her strong point. She just couldn't do it. She couldn't string two sentences together in writing, but of course she excelled verbally... Her husband really managed her campaign, in so far as anyone can manage Angela. He had the UNISON connections." 

Another former colleague has said that Rayner is good at presenting an image of competence, adding, "Quite a lot of time she was bullshitting like crazy. Someone would say something technical and complicated at a meeting, and a few minutes later, she would regurgitate it as if it were her idea."  

Like the fictional Eliza Doolittle, Rayner worked as a flower seller, cash in hand, selling roses in pubs and clubs. Angela Rayner has described herself as wild child, who from the age of thirteen, was visiting night clubs in order to spend time with older men. Rayner said her father would pick her up outside the Manchester night clubs. She's admitted herself that she likes to drink and party and is known to her children, as the "vaping dragon." But both Winston Churchill and Herbert Asquith, liked the booze. Asquith was nicknamed 'Squiffy' by some parliamentarians and I suspect that he's walked into many doors. 

I think it's preposterous to see Angela Rayner as a UK Labour Prime Minister. How would she deal on the world stage of politics with political figures like Donald Trump, Marco Rubio or the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov? I dread to think what they would make of Angela Rayner and her Star Wars shoes and her flat vowels. It's too laughable for words. Within Labour Party circles Rayner is known as the 'Diva' and there is a joke that the only test that she ever sat, was a pregnancy test.