Starmer is her boss so out goes her integrity!

A fair point. I can't help but like her, but then again something just doesn't sit right. Hopefully she is just being cute, and playing the game, before the Angela Rayner I would like to see comes out, or maybe she will morph into a career politician like many of those before her. We certainly need more people from the real world entering politics. It's regressed since that stopped happening.@@joeambaye8681 A great podcast though, and Angela Rayner came across very well. Loved the bit about council housing at the end, as for me the building of more council housing will be the backbone of what then hopefully will be a better Britain for future generations of working class people. We need to change peoples perceptions of council housing and being working class, nothing wrong with living in a council house, council houses as they were in the 1950s, not what they became from the 1970s onwards. Nothing wrong with being called working class either.

@@joeambaye8681 Yeah, that's not how politics works. How could you possibly watch this podcast and believe that you're your boss's keeper? If you're here, it seems you're not holding Rory to that standard, so why hold Angela to it?

@@braytechexoscience2790 Her rags to riches story is just a distraction. Self interest is why she is where she is.

@@joeambaye8681 shes pragmatic and realistic you'd pick that up if you actually listened and understood what she was saying

I think you are missing the point. It should be about policies not personalities. That is how it used to be until the morphing of politicians into semi celebrities. It started many years ago but in 2019 the first celebrity Prime Minister was elected. That went well, not. Client media working in hand with the Conservatives and the lack of serious news/ documentaries combined with changed viewing habits mean that there is no space for serious discourse.

I totally agree, people form opinions nowadays on 10 second sound bites, vast swathes of the population are happy to consider “Stop the boats” an immigration policy, it’s ridiculous.

@@eightiesmusic1984 I think that's a good observation, but it doesn't ever hurt to have probing interviews of politicians to try and see what makes them tick. But it does make you think - I'm middle aged, I haven't even watched the news since before lockdown because it's all so depressing and I've given up giving a shit. Until recently. If I'd known 20 years ago that I was going to be regularly enjoying a podcast hosted by Alastair Campbell, I probably would have shot myself to stop it happening (I was a Lib Dem voter back then). So the medium here is what's bringing me back to the discourse. I read Rory Stewart's recent book, and was glad I read it. I've already seen Angela Rayner on James O'Brien interview doing her life story just like here, and was impressed then. Am I risking indoctrination here from these lot because I got a bit closer to how they think and let them give me a better insight into the political sphere, or am I being unduly influenced by their nice guy personalities, while not being exposed (or have forgotten) their darker halves? It's an interesting thing to think about.

Well said 👏

@@andrewgoodall2183 The world as it lived by the majority is not necessarily the one described by the establishment. Confirmatory bias and an echo chamber of reinforcement perpetuates the same narrow set of ideas around the neoliberal consensus. Labour is as far removed from what it is supposed to be about ( allowing for the fact it has always been a broad church since its inception but no more, with the Socialist Campaign group very much in a minority on its own and without any influence, although that would change if Labour does not win a comfortable or large majority).than at any time in its history. There are good grounds to believe that the party under Starmer wants to eradicate the left. The Blairite ascendancy has a grip on the party and does not intend to relinquish it. A duopoly where both parties coalesce around almost identical policies is a sham democracy but we are being sold the idea that Labour should replace the Tories without any compelling policies to convince people it will make a difference. If the politicians of today were scrutinised as they were thirty years ago and beyond, they would be forced to provide detailed analysis for their positions. Platitudes would be given short shrift but client media and the cosy consensus renders most of what passes for interviews as nothing more than a PR exercise. The voters have been ill served by the media landscape in Britain for decades, creating a real democratic deficit. I am 53 and have given up despite bothering to set out my thoughts in posts like this. I see little grounds for optimism but it is ingrained in me since the eighties to advocate for a better society even though it is ever more elusive.

Most definitely

Don't confuse her physical attributes with her usefulness? She has not achieved anything concrete for the people!

@@dianamincher6479yet… she’s been preparing for this day. Humble. Imagine it! A humble servant to the people.

@@dianamincher6479 She hasn't ever been in government has she.. how can you achieve anything concrete from shadow government?

i totally agree , infact id go further and state that she has a future primeminister aura about her .

@@christinegivens9048 So what has she ever run? Has she been a manager or worked in industry?

She's another far-left crank...never run anything....utter dross.

Give me strength. Pathetic men just like Balls and Osbourne.

I do not see any journalist here there all lying MP from the cartel called Parliament. These are MP's that lie about everything and do not give one shit about us only the interests of big corporations

WOW! You lefties are easily pleased, their isn't one politician in any political party in the uk that I would trust to tell us the truth, Johnson and sunak are a joke, but rayner is on another level, imagine her, lammy, abbot, or even starmer on the world stage representing us. Labour became electable because the tories was such a disaster, that is the only reason, starmer and his ilk have no idea where the running of this country is concerned, that's why starmer has asked that mass murderer blair for " "help and advice" what does that tell you about labour?

That's because people like Angela can reply with confidence, knowing she isn't compelled to lie and hide behind an unreal, contrived situation like the Tories have had to do since PM Johnson showed the world how not to do politics!

🤣🤣🤣🤣 stupid moronic drivel.

Self praise is no praise. Pitiful

Just had to big yourself up didn't you. No one cares like you think we all do. 😂😂😂😂

And for the first time in almost 40 years, I'm contemplating not voting Labour.

​@@thetragicyouthim the opposite, for the first time in ages im going to vote labour...

"opposite ends" they are all centre-centre right.

why is she pulling the ladder up with starmer the starver

If she ends up PM god help us that's the final nail in the coffin of this country

@@yatesy117 how?

@@paulsawtell3991 she's great isn't she

@@yatesy117 have you seen the state of your country , sewage in all U.K. waters , time to wake up and smell the sewage

"star" 🤣🤣🤣 Has she sold a council house yet ? a real women of the people is flasher ang

She comes across as a bit of a bigot tbh. She thinks she's fighting the world, probably because she's had a lot to overcome and has done so admirably. But she's continuing to throw punches blindly and so she seems to lack judgement and i'd worried about who she's going to hit along the way, knowingly or unknowingly. Not someone to be trusted imo.

@@kaboodlefish No match for Oliver Dowden, then?

@@kaboodlefishAnother comment spouting crap. I wonder how many you’re going to write?

@@iangascoigne8231 What warmth did you see then? I give her credit for taking care of her family.. mostly.. letting her blind son run around on a bit of dodgy tarmac seems an odd choice, but whatever. But I kinda land where Rory did of her just seeming angry. I'm concerned by her apparent view of the country that it's made up of disparate competing groups, she seems to think boris (spit) was tagging maternity bras? She made excuses for 10k dead palestinian children, and was dishonest over tax cuts. No warmth here.

Up your medication,she is a joke. No ideas to how Britain earns it's living. Has nothing to offer. Just like most politicians just placed there . In her case a token white woman amongst Labour's educated immigrant women

I agree with everything you say EXCEPT - there IS something VERY special about her. She is very very clever, and yes, she has achieved all that with support, but mostly she has overtaken most people in parliament because of who she is. It takes an incredible person to be able to come up with solutions to turn the country around when you have had to rely on yourself from birth, and had to get your education when you have already left school and are a single parent. I think she's a once in a generation person: her teachers could help her because she is that very special person.

"Adore" ha ha easy ang the gran

@@millwallholdings Have you taken your pills today?

@@benlowe1701 You certainly must have forgot yours looking up to this old trout and token . oh i see the war criminal is on it as well Typical Labour scum To use grannys words .

@@benlowe1701I think he has, but they're not the pills the doctor gives you...

Since Rayner is a product of and stands for equality of opportunity how can you say you don’t like her politics? You certainly won’t get that with the Tories.

She is a real and honest person. Intelligent like the others in the Labour cabinet.

​@@iangascoigne8231 In this interview I found her to be a closed minded-bigot, obsessed with division, and as such i don't trust her (or Kier) to be for everyone.

@@grateberk6435 you mean wes the nhs privateer, and starmer the tory twat

Yeah, I agree, I was surprised by the way she interviewed so well, which for me as a swing voter, does count. Is there not a bit of a parallel however, between her (rightly) bagging the tories for stirring up radicalism on social media, and her using the language she does about them, also whipping up radicalism on the left on social media? She’s always struck me as such a polarising character, and I’m not sure that view has changed.

Yes the Maid Marian to Robin Hood. The pepper to salt compliments as a whole 😊

Indeed. ;)@@veggie42

UKIPy.....thats being somewhat delicate Rory. Shes being very authentic.

I have no doubt you’re a trump supporter…nuff said

She has incredible drive but it's the systems that existed that recognised that drive and gave her opportunities. The best part is she is astute enough to recognise both her drive and fortune and is pushing to actually make changes. I'm a young man but she should be seen as a role model for young women, if she keeps going I have no doubt that she'll become one. Maybe even break barriers and been seen as a role model for everyone from a less privileged birth.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Good one

She's the exact opposite of what we need. The fact people like you see her as "the answer" is nothing short of orwellian

Isn’t she the MP whilst in her capacity as a MP, who publicly, and on camera, proclaimed that ‘all tories are scum’? As in ALL of them. And you think that we need more like her? Really? Yep, a nice polite MP who deserves respect….or maybe as a MP, whilst in public, respect needs to be shown before it’s earned.

@@stephenbland7461 To be fair if they are responsible for both Johnson and Truss...hasn't that been proved to be correct? Either scum or intellectually unable to grasp basic human decency.

🤣🤣🤣

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yes a human on five times the Average wage , Good old Ang has had it so "hard" many boys at her school would vouch for that as well snigger

supporting starmer, she's pulled up the ladder

"Articulate" 🤣🤣🤣 she wont be getting mine, I have nothing against the Jews unlike Labour voters.

Sycophantic rubbish. Massive numbers on council estates do not work, they never intended to....cosy on benefits.

@@ReapermanUK are you a pulling to the bottom of some sorts

I thought she was wonderful. I'm the biggest cynic but I think she is authentic and in politics to help not for power itself. That's the bug difference.

She is what so many are not,genuine

What like her foul mouth calling people scum in parliament you need more than a mouth to run a country

Honest and works under the camelion Starmer!

@@joeambaye8681 Quite so, bit of a conflict there. Working for a zionist supporter of genocide. Fine words but no moral compass. An example perhaps of the most dangerous politician being the one you agree with ...

​@@joeambaye8681chameleon?

I didnt see warmth at all. I saw an angry person, who's constantly looking for division and constantly in a fight, even if no one is fighting them at the time.

@@kaboodlefishI wonder how many comments you are going to write spouting rubbish?

@@iangascoigne8231 What warmth did you see then? I give her credit for taking care of her family.. mostly.. letting her blind son run around on a bit of dodgy tarmac seems an odd choice, but whatever. But I kinda land where Rory did of her just seeming angry. I'm concerned by her apparent view of the country that it's made up of disparate competing groups, she seems to think boris (spit) was tagging maternity bras? She made excuses for 10k dead palestinian children, and was dishonest over tax cuts. No warmth here.

​@@iangascoigne8231How is someone giving their view of something "spouting rubbish"? You might disagree, but it's another perspective

@@kaboodlefish When she talked about her mother, her grandmother. As if you care about dead Palestinian children. As if the Tories do. The country is made up of disparate competing groups, started by the Tories but keep spouting your rubbish. Where did she say Bozo was tagging maternity bras? She didn’t. She was commenting on the fact that we’ve got to a stage where people arse so worse of that even the most mundane of things need security tags. But as I say keep spouting your rubbish.

Confused response. What exactly do you mean by asking if this interview will win the election for Labour? Relatively few people out of the whole country will see it and Labour is going to have to explain in a lot more detail what it will do in government if it is to attain victory.

@@eightiesmusic1984 if you read my post you will see that I was asking the question as to whether this type of "everyman" interview might be what Labour needs to make them appeal to any swing voters. It would be ridiculous to say that one interview wins an election, one interview could lose an election, but not this one. Instead of picking holes and trying to find a negative, why don't you give credit to the people who have done a damn fine job.

@@richardpentney8438 That is not what you said or meant as it would be understood by most people, except you. Moving the goalposts. What on earth are you comparing the interview to in order to reach such a hyperbolic conclusion? Maybe you are just easily impressed.

She is Labour’s secret weapon

Utterly ridiculous 😂

Rayner is as thick as mince.

She's a left-wing duffer, a barmy motormouth, never run anything or ever had a proper job. Get real.

She needed a council house? So what?

Labour is committed to the same policies as the Tories. Keep up.

@@eightiesmusic1984 No Labour are committed to getting elected, also the tories have destroyed the economy, public services, NHS, Welfare state, international reputation, coming in and opening the purse strings will put us in a worse position, now fixing things from the ground up and making them sustainable, and more difficult to break if the tories get back in is a great policy.

Understanding the issues and finding the money to pay for them are two different things. I look forward to Labour's proposals, and not the back-of-a-fag-packet costings they offered at the last election

@@terrypankhurst7601 You also need to keep up with reality. Left, right and middle ( at any given time) want to be elected. People do not devote their lives to politics for a laugh or to pass the time. Ken Clarke, Tory Chancellor under Major, has said that he would not have stuck to Tory spending plans for two years as Labour did in 1997. No idea what you mean by fixing things from the ground up and making them sustainable- I suspect you do not either. After two years of a Labour government sticking to Tory policies/ spending plans and no change, the Tories may well be able to plot a path back to power. Read Keynes- he has the answers. Tax and spend not more austerity, which is precisely what sticking to Jeremy Hunt's spending plans will mean.

Why does right wing come into it? Privileged and public school educated, sure, but being right wing doesn’t stop that.

She's a duffer and he's a dud, so just what exactly has he been saying other than spout opportunist thin gruel. He's captain U-turn.

Interesting use of the term 'far left' there. If your (small c) conservative ideals and beliefs are 'shining' through in the Labour Party then how can you also describe it or Angela as 'far-left'? The statement makes no sense. You are not left wing now because you are voting Labour. They are right wing now because they are espousing the correct politics to attract you - a right winger.

⁠​⁠@@Jack-xg1kgI think he means that in the Labour Party you will find real far lefters as you would do in any party; it is the same as acknowledging there are very far righters in the Conservative Party. He is not talking about Reyner, but literally ‘the far-left reaches of the labour party’

The remaining left wing of the Labour party were evicted forcefully as soon as Starmer took control. In the circles that I run in, Corbyn had moderately left wing policies: a good start, but not an actual socialist manifesto. The response from Labour leadership and the main stream press was to smear him and remove him and break their own procedures to remove him and all of his supporters. So when you talk about Angela Rayner being "far left", I immediately want to communicate what real left wing politics is about, and how far short any of New New Labour (Labour 3.0?) come to that goal.

She is a typical traditional (excellent) Labour politician (The vast majority of Labour have moderate views like her, in including me.) I've been in the party for a long time and I think she'd be a good PM. I hope you giver Labour a chance to govern with your vote!

given that your energy bills have shot up under a tory government for the last decade, why are you blaming labour? Was an anvil dropped on your head after childbirth or do you have some cognative disabilities?

Likewise. I'd join the party under Rayner because I like her as a leader and believe in her experience. I wont join under Starmer but I will vote Labour to ensure we get the tories out and Angela in a position of power.

Labour are electable because of Starmer! @@user-ng8gt5ow5m

she is being interviewed by labour supporters friends like they are down the pub there is no pressure on her.

It's almost like she's a tory being interviewed by Laura or fiona or the daily mail or the daily express or the daily telegraph or gb news,AMAZING

She's quite charming but many people are charming. She's been earning a huge salary for not much?

Sorry, but I'd like any Prime Minister of this country to at least be able to write their own name, and to have passed GCSE English at at least grade C.

@@jivebunny3765 Are you saying she can't? I assume you passed GCSE English at C or higher. Sorry that you can't tell the difference between "There" and "Their"?

Raynor seems like a disappointment? she doesn't seem to do much? Jess Phiilps works hard? What bridges has she built?

except when this gets posted on Tiktok

And on 5 times the national wage A real women of the people like SIR keir LOLLLLLLLLL

​@@millwallholdingsYou prefer the Tory millionaires because they are arseholes and that makes you feel better about being an arsehole?

@@millwallholdings so what?

@@ozzie2612 oh forgot your type dont have a problem with Labour mps being minted and rubbish celebs like Lineker do you, its just the Boys in Blue , sorry i forget sometimes

@@millwallholdings my type hate torys lining their own pockets in a national crisis and partying about it

Yes, people thick that she is not strong academically but she did pass a test at school. A pregnancy test.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@gurney2931 the irony is that you just failed to spell “think” correctly. Says it all.

@@nlbm I'm not sure what my spelling skills have got to with anything but glad you enjoyed it.

@@gurney2931 and yet, she’s on a handsome salary in government and you’re not! Lmao! Who’s the real loser here?

I think one big thing people have to really consider is what one wants in a political leader. A lot of us naturally want someone who is charismatic and well spoken to represent a country on the world stage, which you alluded to. But in reality, that is not really a quality necessary for a politician who does good for the people and the country. Models or actors can be very presentable, but that does not make them suitable political leaders. I think we all have the unconscious bias within us that we cannot imagine someone who talks like her and comes from a background like hers on a world stage. I hope soon enough we can all take it for granted that someone like her is just as capable of being the leader of a country.

@@ym10up Maybe... only time will tell and if she gets her chance then I hope she delivers and doesn't go down the corrupt route as so many of our politicians seem to do regardless of their political leanings. To be fair she can hardly do much worse than when Liz Truss turned up in the kremlin.

@@ijw2009 lol, Truss is a really low bar. This is almost like Angela's kid being worried about his exams and she said she set the low bar in the family. But yes, power is very corrosive. I hope she wields it well.

That’s how far labour have descended to. We need to improve the Conservative Party.

It wasn't an outburst lol. It was a comment said in PRIVATE and someone leaked it

Charlie, Labour lost many elections because the trots and communist took over local labour party branches in the 80's and 90's and let the Conservatives in.

Labour are a unionist party and they will never change.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

​@@therealrobertbirchallWhat's wrong with being an unionist party? Last I checked, majority of scots rejected breaking the Union.

@@santokun5835 support for ending the English occupation is at 55% presently and hasn't dropped below 45% for 20 years. And that's without any campaigning going on. Go on now let's hear it "you had a once in a lifetime referendum and you lost. Usual unionist bull.

R u a Tory !?

So so true.