You’ll have seen by now that unfortunate exchange at PMQs when deputy prime minister Dominic Raab appeared to suggest that Angela Rayner had no business going to the opera or drinking champagne.
Oh, and that wink, obviously.
The most disturbing, sexist part of today’s #PMQs.
First Dominic Raab WINKS at @AngelaRayner.
Then he intimates it’s absurd for a working class woman to enjoy opera and drink champagne.
If you think Raab is better than Johnson, just watch this. #PMQs pic.twitter.com/ubUXbRUIkJ
— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) June 29, 2022
But if the grinning Raab thought he’d got the better of his counterpart, well, it didn’t last long.
First up Rayner dealt with that wink (which may or may not have been directed at her) by adding the icing on the cake of this tweet by a fellow Labour MP.
Imagine how I feel! https://t.co/aLhhOw2UlD
— Angela Rayner
(@AngelaRayner) June 29, 2022
And then she turned to Raab’s comments about her attendance at Glyndebourne.
First, when she said this.
NEW: Rayner responds to Raab’s jibe at her for going to the opera
“My advice to the deputy prime minister is to cut out the snobbery & brush up on his opera. The Marriage of Figaro is the story of a working-class woman who gets the better of a privileged but dim-witted villain.”
— Nadine Batchelor-Hunt (@nadinebh_) June 29, 2022
And then, by tweeting this.
Dominic Raab won’t approve but I did indeed go the opera last week (it cost me £62).
Tom Eisner, a working-class lad from Buxton near where I grew up kindly invited me. He’s been playing violin at Glyndebourne for 36 years.
Never let anyone tell you you’re not good enough.
pic.twitter.com/7XE0GHBRPQ
— Angela Rayner
Boom.
And here are just a few of the things people said about the whole thing.
Angela Rayner best put down since Julia Gillard demolished Tony Abbott sexism “My advice to the Deputy PM is to cut out the snobbery and brush up on his opera. The Marriage of Figaro is the story of a working-class woman who gets the better of a privileged but dim-witted villain”
— Lionel Barber (@lionelbarber) June 29, 2022
They don’t want you at the opera, they want you in the gutter.
Sod that… working class people are allowed to aspire to anything!
The difference being, when they get there they remember who they are who they need to offer a helping hand to. https://t.co/xieLlLKr3I— Reece Dinsdale (@reece_dinsdale) June 29, 2022
That's how you do it. https://t.co/tmGNONJ3Ef
— Emma Kennedy💙 (@EmmaKennedy) June 29, 2022
Go girl…and Tom….👍🏼🎶🎵 https://t.co/h3rTMptT2q
— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) June 29, 2022
Whatever your politics or your view of opera, it’s pretty clear that the result here is Rayner 1 (og Raab) Raab 0 https://t.co/VMdqmJ7eCF
— Rory Cellan-Jones (@ruskin147) June 30, 2022
If @DominicRaab is going bananas that @AngelaRayner is at Glyndebourne, he is going to LOSE HIS MIND when he finds out that I – state school, working class, WELSH (!) woman – am directing a whole show there next year! https://t.co/ZZUt7b4G8H
— Adele Thomas (@__AdeleThomas__) June 29, 2022
Last word to @AngelaRayner who tweeted this before yesterday’s PMQs.
I know Dominic Raab is a karate black belt and everything – but I’ve got my kung fu pandas on and I’m ready! #PMQs pic.twitter.com/V3agJggAeT
— Angela Rayner 🌹 (@AngelaRayner) June 29, 2022
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