Rayner and Dowden clash over ‘working people’ definition

[@ibaneze6666]

It's like one big funny game to them all,all laughing and joking,but it's our lives that get destroyed

[@josephgunnett7715]

Agreed.

[@By-Fun-Jokes-Guitars]

You life's... VOTING for Brexit my life... Thanks to the voters 😂we don't Listen to experts 😂

[@josephgunnett7715]

@@By-Fun-Jokes-Guitars I have no idea what point you are making!

[@Missydee-72]

@@josephgunnett7715I thought it was just me.

[@susanrobinson7218]

Just like starmer. Avoids questions

[@stocktonjoans]

I'm waiting

[@DOCTORDROTT]

she is not very bright

[@serendipity1046]

@@DOCTORDROTT fits in well ‘Wiff the Layyba Par’ee’ as she would say

[@DavidGetling]

What do you expect from someone who got pregnant and left school at 16?

[@stocktonjoans]

mate, you're obsessed by heavy machinery, you're in no place to judge anyone

[@triggerfish999]

Patently false.

[@charlesdixon52]

The bulb light is gone.

[@StevenCurtis-Koi]

Move on stop using the Tories as a excuse to not answer the questions

[@alismith849]

They can't define what a woman is and now it seems they cant define a working person either . Pathetic Labour government.

[@At_the_races]

She left school with a baby and no education which is now is becoming obvious.

[@sh.4409]

This is panto for us.

[@FirehorseG]

She is odious and unintelligent.

[@deborahroberts9582]

She's also drop dead thick !

[@DavidGetling]

​@@FirehorseG Your second adjective needs strengthening: THICK.

[@DavidGetling]

@@amandamcneill6111 There's a thought that's just put me off my dinner.

[@hannannah1uk]

Deputy PM. Hard to believe. Recently gifted a seat on the Security Council. Even harder to believe. Is it a nightmare? Can we wake up, please?

[@GerryT.]

Ye, I couldn't believe Dowden was deputy PM.

[@thebritishbookworm2649]

Its a horrific nightmare.

[@WilliamSmith-mx6ze]

@@GerryT. Rayner, you spoon.

[@GerryT.]

@@WilliamSmith-mx6ze No ,Dowden you clown.

[@lasttango7522]

No Brainer with Angela Raynor. God help us.

[@rbuls]

She's so rough and common with a bad attitude It's embarrassing that she's the country's Deputy Prime Minister.

[@user-dk6jb6hq9t]

What is the point of pmq's? Every week the government get asked questions and they never answer... so it is pointless

[@Millennial1993]

This is a Labour government with candidates that have never owned or have ran businesses

[@stocktonjoans]

plenty of tories have ran business and they fucked the country good and proper, being a capitalist is no qualification to be in government, and you're a moron for thinking otherwise

[@hannahheywood9439]

Workers are the ones keeping your businesses going.🙄

[@willie2761]

Most have never actually worked for living, Union activists or public servants

[@VeggieManUK]

@@hannahheywood9439 Define 'Worker' :)

[@clivewalker5465]

Over 30% of Labour MP's were Union activists in their previous employment , and , probably , Marxist through and through .

[@PaulChapman-y4b]

Rayner is vile.

[@alanbranfield614]

Can't stand her ridiculous voice, nor bare to look at her.

[@serendipity1046]

You’re too kind

[@stocktonjoans]

torries and the scum that vote for them are disgusting

[@KPate-y5z]

I could call her a Scottish slang word but I probably would be banned from You Tube so I'll just say I agree with you.

[@timothydempsey6597]

Labour does not care about the working class

[@caroljones8201]

None of labour MPs answer a question. All we hear is £22 billion, 14 years, the last government, we are all sick of it.

[@absoluteacw]

Yes.

[@SylviaWise-k9i]

She a big mouth ,i was a worker for 45 and your government have pinched my winter fuel allowance ,what a shity government

[@micktaylor9332]

And now they're coming for the sick and disabled and mentally ill. There's no levels these sickos won't stoop too. They will make countless people living in fear take their lives. Just like the tories did and spent years hiding the figures. Except labour will be much worse.

[@stocktonjoans]

if you've been working all your life, why do you need a fuel allowance?

[@zola561]

⁠​⁠@@stocktonjoansan absolutely ridiculous statement you have come out with . Pensioners have worked a lot in low paid jobs and had not the money to invest in a private pension. The rate of pension is absolutely ridiculous look at the minimum living wage!how can an elderly person survive. Rayner soon forgets her roots she came from an estate which wasn’t well to do . Why treat immigrants better than it’s citizens 5 star hotels free council tax heating and money stop offering incentives look after your own .

[@rainbow-shine6946]

I was a worker for 51 years and they stole mine too .. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@zola561]

@@rainbow-shine6946 I understand that and so should she having a child at 16 and on benefits for years

[@samanthapage2892]

Rayner is totally clueless and is a liar

[@DavidGetling]

What else would you expect from someone who got pregnant and left school at 16 with no qualifications? It's terrifying that someone so thick is now deputy PM.

[@stocktonjoans]

you say that as if the tories aren't even worse, there are no good guys in that gilded chamber of bullshit

[@edwinflower]

You’re being very kind

[@edwinflower]

You’re being very kind

[@BiggUgg25]

​@@edwinflower surely she can remember the days and streets when she was. a working girl

[@At_the_races]

Unemployment is going to soar.

[@harishkaria5644]

Sure 🥸the wealth & Job creators are taxed to the hilt, there is no incentive to create or accumulate wealth. Not only unemployment to soar but inflation as well.

[@Adam-v5c8c]

It go back to the way it was..walk out a job on your break straight in to next one

[@lasttango7522]

Unemployment now alive and kicking. Thanks Raynor.

[@ordinarytheatreemmasheehan]

So a back street hairdressers or garage with a couple of staff members will pay more..apparently they are not 'workers' staff will be sacked and prices will go up.. bone stupid.. why does this div think she's so clever and not answer..

[@paulsawtell3991]

She doesn't answer because she cannot.

[@harishkaria5644]

Working people? You lot are just going to tax the working & Pensioners to the hilt 😳

[@katokaoula4872]

Who doesn't work and is not retired can't be taxed.

[@samanthapage2892]

Liars I wouldn’t trust them to do anything

[@evercleanhomeandoffice2839]

If you keep putting up the costs for employers, they won't be able to afford to have staff. This will wreck businesses And leave more people out of work. In my opinion they need to bring prices down....not just keep putting wages up. As this puts everything else up.

[@LoraineScoffings]

Well said 👏

[@brianstuntman4368]

Labour think they can put a bigger burden on an employers wage budget, and it won't affect what they can pay the workers?🤔

[@ray_llewe9147]

I still can not work out why the government are paying the train drives, I thought the train company's were privately owned.

[@myzamau428]

If they avoid answering questions properly then they should be removed from their position as an MP.

[@stephenharwood720]

How can Labour stand to have Rayner to represent them.. it just shows how useless they all are.

[@roynicklin7452]

Mr bean could do better.

[@philgreen8737]

Rayner is a two faced liar.

[@terrapyn99]

She's only being loyal to Sir Starvalot.

[@serendipity1046]

@@philgreen8737 more faces than the town clock

[@stocktonjoans]

the tories are worse and you know it

[@paulgadilhe5360]

Only 2?

[@jeremysmith8035]

I don't know if I am the only person to notice but as its membership becomes increasingly senile the tory party sets out to prove that stupidity is no bar to becoming party leader, between honest Bob and his desperate desire to remove the working rights of everyone in the county by leaving the court of human rights and the moron with her imported American culture wars the country is utterly fucked, happily I live in Ireland now where nobody takes much notice of uk politics and wages are about double what you might expect in little England especially for engineering.

[@Stargazer_321]

Like a bunch of school brats, what hope have we got of improvements to our country

[@ianmontgomery3041]

Pm questions with no answers

[@hannannah1uk]

She’s doing a Kamala - exaggerating her accent. Just oop from the pit, ‘er.

[@stocktonjoans]

at least she's not doing a trump

[@heatherbatty]

Just oop fromt pit😊

[@keithramsell9955]

@@heatherbatty "Yorkshire" IS English!!!

[@magspenfold6571]

Oh dear!! Can’t answer a question

[@stocktonjoans]

i'm waiting

[@hannahheywood9439]

Neither did Ritchie ballsack. All he uttered stop the boats. Talk about word salad.

[@voice.of.reason]

@@hannahheywood9439 At least he did stop boats, since Labour got in word got around that Keir was the even nicer government and they are coming in record numbers illegally.

[@hannahheywood9439]

@@voice.of.reason seriously do some actual research. Since brexshit there's more coming now more than ever. Who was in government then? I really feel sorry for people like you who believe everything torags and deform.

[@trundlebug9377]

Does anybody think the Starmerised Government will ever answer a question.

[@philliprollo1646]

I wonder if Starmer and Rayner class themselves as working people.??

[@charlie240470]

She's awful

[@mikepoulter2320]

She's not that Good !!!

[@timothydempsey6597]

She is totally backward

[@sorenbailey9888]

As awful as you?

[@karenclayton3582]

Never answers a question . They are still playing as the opposition . Pathetic . As for Raynor , how the hell can a care worker with a NVQ2 get to be deputy prime minister . She’s way out of her depth .

[@paulsawtell3991]

Box-ticking.

[@kakpraat18]

Our parliament is just like going to the theater just with bad actors.

[@raymondandrews4136]

They are bad actors.,WEF actors where Bill Gates and his mates write down the stories and they act them out.

[@gdexter8603]

Rayner not answering any of the questions asked. What a joke.

[@vizmortlock]

They're in. They got the power, the titles, the money, the perks. What do they care. Wake up Britain, but too late.

[@Nath92L]

What is the point in all of this? Not one of them ever answer a question properly. It’s just the same old slogans of slagging off the last government over and over. They should be forced to answer questions, it’s nonsense and an absolute joke to us tax paying citizens that get shafted by these clowns.

[@davesmith4614]

The definition of this woman is "Common as muck"

[@lkececi7513]

What a sham, we are sick of this nasty rubbish, childish - how can anyone trust these muppets

[@SNUSNU-lz7dh]

Did she say Interest Rates SCORING ? Just don’t ask about the Sausages sorry Hostages

[@AC-yw2qs]

This government appear clueless in every way except for accepting "gifts"

[@YvonneHaley-m5p]

This woman is so common. The unions plaything.

[@norfolkhall]

From what I have been told, anybody's plaything.

[@YvonneHaley-m5p]

You're probably right.

[@StevenCurtis-Koi]

Answer the f in questions Rayner

[@barryfrancis7421]

So it's just 63 million worth of investment then Angela ? according to old Free Gear it was supposed to be BILLIONS.

[@DeceptiveStrawberry]

I dread to think what astute, intelligent politicians like Shirley Williams and Barbara Castle would think of this circus. If you didn't laugh you would cry. Five years of this.

[@voice.of.reason]

They would be turning in their graves

[@patsymorgan6282]

I hope not. I think we can see a vote of no confidence happening...the sooner the better!!!

[@patrickobrien5066]

At least Maggie Thatcher and Liz Truss, Teresa May had a bit of class now look what we are left with

[@stocktonjoans]

class? did the lobotomy hurt?

[@mikepoulter2320]

Dross I'm afraid....

[@stocktonjoans]

hot the hell can you say any of them, especially truss, has any class? give your head a wobble mate

[@ThinWhite_Duke]

They don't know what a woman is, they certainly aren't going to know what work is

[@bernard48]

When will any PM or deputy PM actually answer a question, this has been happening for at least 20 years

[@nicktaylor4710]

The inability to answer a question is a true art form.

[@karlwilliams2703]

CLUELESS RAYNER

[@steveday7510]

What is disappointing for me, is the fact that all the Labour Party politicians are doing is referring back to what the Conservatives did wrong rather than answering the question or given an answer that goes some way to explaining what their plans are! For the general public it looks like they never had a plan and don't have a clue what they are doing. When will the new Government stop blaming the other party and start running the Country! I used to be proud to be British but now we will not even look after our own old people!!!

[@voice.of.reason]

You answered your own question. No they never had a plan and they don't have one now either

[@KenBrown-r9x]

She just sniggers and doesn't answer a question.She is an embarrassment.

[@voice.of.reason]

She's not fit to be an MP or a government employee let alone deputy PM. Look how far the UK has slid, shes an embarrassment for the UK , the thickest MP in history

[@patrickobrien5066]

What an old dog. This country used to have up market Maps now it has gone right down hill.

[@georgemcginlay5024]

Four times she was answer to the question and four times refused to answer, is she the never never woman.

[@msingh2333]

If landlords are not classed as working people, tenants should fix their own problems

[@michaelsullivan5548]

She's rough.

[@maxine1200]

🇬🇧 🤭 As a bear's ar$e

[@SylviaWise-k9i]

I wonder how she got the job in the first place ,

[@DavidGetling]

Open wide and think of England?

[@roynicklin7452]

​@@DavidGetlingspot on.

[@voice.of.reason]

@@DavidGetling One would have to be desperate or a Labour MP

[@Steve-ug6cm]

She did that at 15yrs old & left school with a baby under her arm heading for the near benefit office.!! ​@@DavidGetling

[@JL-rx6hl]

How the hell is she deputy PM she probably thinks unless you are a union member you are not a worker,

[@markharrison9323]

Is this the Best we've got to " Run " our Country.

[@leannepownall6406]

She's an evil 🤡 they have blood on there hands . R.I.P peter lynch 😓😓🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[@maxi7823]

This isnt Labour, like years ago Labour, for the working class. This Labour party is a special kind of institution!

[@amandamcneill6111]

A mental one!😂

[@maxi7823]

@@amandamcneill6111 It's, shocking , I'm lost for words, it's unbelievable 😢

[@raymondandrews4136]

They hate us and regard the working class as all Far Right.

[@LoraineScoffings]

The whole of this government have not got a clue

[@stocktonjoans]

and the last lot did? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH moron

[@janwhite6038]

They've not got a clue, they've got a WEF Agenda lead by King Charles

[@RobertRobbinsvideomarketing]

She was not intelligent at all and didn't even answer one question. She was only interested in F and playing an imaginary blame game. Could the last person leaving the UK please turn the light out?

[@TonyDoubleTrouble]

Smartly dressed MPs against a scruffy load of plebs.

[@stocktonjoans]

how dumb to you have to be to base your assessment of an MP off of their choice of suit? that's pathetic

[@TonyDoubleTrouble]

@@stocktonjoans I’ve upset you. 😩😎

[@michaeljoseph8012]

Worth a punt on an early election the way they're going.

[@DavidGetling]

They will hold on right to the bitter end, because they won't get in again for a long time.

[@michaeljoseph8012]

At the moment they can still blame the tories but after Christmas it won't cut much rug.

[@jeffersonlord4299]

Its three, not free, learn to speak properly, you're an embarrassment!

[@OvenDoctor]

Seriously who the hell voted these total incompetent idiots into power.

[@nicholasrupertswainson1168]

At the risk of falling into this mud slinging tirade the answer is people of the same intelligence as Rayner ! ( Oh s..t , where's that dictionary ? )😟

[@vivienneg9076]

Rayner hasn’t got it written down so can’t answer the questions. Blame and lies, with a horror budget with all there tax rises coming.

[@roynicklin7452]

Not one of them can give a answer.they keep on about the false black hole.there will be a bigger one after the budget that's for sure.

[@blademaiden4498]

Never known a Labour government to leave the country in a better condition than they found it. This one looks like it’s going to be worse, a lot worse.

[@voice.of.reason]

For sure

[@maureenquinn460]

RAYNER HAS NO CLUE, EMBARRASSING

[@scooter0012]

The worst thing for the public is once these prats are elected there is sadly no audit or scrutiny of their performance and we are lumbered with them for 5 years. This country urgently needs an option to oust these people from post for what is nothing short of gross misconduct in office. Anyone that challenges the fact that this Labour government has abused financial privilege and taken unauthorised ‘gifts’ is part of the problem.

[@thelatchkeykid]

I can't even listen to these theatrical actors anymore, it's like watching toddlers perform a pantomime.

[@mach7056]

A Labour government of working people?? Since when have MP's ever been proper working people??

[@SylviaWise-k9i]

They're not for the working class because thay think about ther lovely wages ,and think thay know it all when thay are think as a plank of wood

[@adrianwright8685]

"Working people" is a silly phrase. Surely, by definition, everyone that has a job, works and gets paid is a working person? But presumably 'everyone' is not what was meant! Just who is supposed to be included?

[@harishkaria5644]

This house is now full of dolly birds mostly from the Labour Party 😎

[@AileenProcter]

Wouldn't say there's any dollies among them most of them look like dog's and that an insult to dog's really. 😂😂

[@rodneyrichardson3580]

I remember dolly birds, they didn’t look like this shower. Irene x

[@mikepoulter2320]

Dolly Birds !!!! That's stretching it a bit !!!

[@AzzieTheGamerr]

she cant define any word, she didnt answer anything as per usual

[@AC-yw2qs]

Under that last government all MP's used the term "The British people" Under Labour its now "The working people" Already picking on the older people. I never thought I'd trust a Labour government less than a Tory one, but here we are

[@RossWhiting]

Seems all labour does is backtrack….if I can’t find/know the answer to the questions being asked I’ll just default back to the 22 billion pound black hole or the mess the previous government created. Labour seem to have short memories, what about the note they left saying ‘no money left’ when the conservatives came into office??

[@richardsmith5837]

Still this government or it's deputy leader can't answer the questions😂

[@RhonaDavis-lz3qp]

I am a pensioner and winter fuel has been cut from the working people of this country. This is a cheeky thing to say. Some people will have to make a decision either to heat Or eat.

[@colinmccarthy7921]

Working People are those People who WORK.There is no better Definition.❤️.

[@nickm20]

Define working people! Someone that can’t afford a property or their mortgage but works - is that a working person?!

[@V3RJdy]

It’s a disrespect that they assume we can’t think for ourselves

[@williebobs3830]

You've heard of half wit. Meet quarter wit. You can take the girl out of the village but you can't take the village out of the girl.

[@tomrigby7016]

Definitely she is not the brightest tool in the box

[@HomeGrownVeg]

Stop the name calling please. It says more about you than the target! If you think your 'working class' you probably are. Just saying.

[@paulsawtell3991]

I find myself concerned at the sight of Rayner smirking with self-satisfaction after avoiding every question asked of her.

[@jamesharrington6638]

A working class person is anyone who contributes towards keep our country afloat..god bless us all.

[@andrewdarley8988]

Labour's definition of Working People: Anyone who is a member of a powerful trade union.

[@andrewrose7800]

There was no clash. Unsurprisingly she didn't and as usual couldn't answer that or any question.

[@frankheaton5338]

just blame someone else.as per usual.

[@nicholasforman1195]

Here we are facing the most dangerous moment to the UK's existence since the Cuban crisis and all today's politicians do is exchange hot air on comparatively trivial subjects. Isn't time they grew up and realised the potential and immediate danger we are all in?

[@AndrewDavidWest]

I don't think they think that small business owners fall into their definition of the category of working people.

[@derekpowell1762]

She's very aggressive doesn't seem like a very nice person at all what's more she seems to have total disregard for anyone bar herself

[@frazzeld]

These question times are useless! neither side ever answers a question, it's a laugh and a joke to them

[@FrankCraker]

When will MPs remember they work for us not for themselves . The Houses of Parliament are more like children’s playtime

[@davidbarr5800]

She's not got a clue

[@Pondjumper1]

I’ve worked my way up from a very poor broken home, straight from school (no Uni), very lowly paid jobs, but worked hard for 43 years. I’ve never been on the dole and have paid full taxes all that time. I’ve not wasted what I earn and now have a decently paid job through 43 years of hard work. I was looking forward to retirement in next 6 years but Labour sees me as a “cash cow” and not, in their eyes, one of the “working people”.

[@V3RJdy]

It is so embarrassing that this ceremony even takes place

[@ianpetch]

when a person refuses to give a straight answer then they are never to be trusted.

[@Youremywifenkwdave]

Seeing Rayner there makes me think she’s taking a valid place in society that she’s not for for but someone else is missing out on providing representation for the masses

[@robertreid6106]

House of clowns telling people what they want to hear from a script they didn’t write look the house is full and who pays that the taxpayers enough is enough