Friday 1 July 2022 11:39 AM JANET STREET-PORTER: Dom's wink made my blood boil: Why should women put up ... trends now

Friday 1 July 2022 11:39 AM JANET STREET-PORTER: Dom's wink made my blood boil: Why should women put up ... trends now
Friday 1 July 2022 11:39 AM JANET STREET-PORTER: Dom's wink made my blood boil: Why should women put up ... trends now

Friday 1 July 2022 11:39 AM JANET STREET-PORTER: Dom's wink made my blood boil: Why should women put up ... trends now

A rowdy night in my local pub seems preferable to an afternoon in the House of Commons. Judging by the performance of the Deputy Prime Minister at the Despatch Box this week, there would be less chance of encountering dodgy jokes and creepy body language.

In 2022, post #MeToo, is it really OK to be seen on National television proudly smirking as you offer a saucy WINK to Angela Rayner, a working class woman who has fought long and hard to claw her way to the top in the horrible bear pit that is British politics?

We’re not talking about a random bloke on a building site here. Some neanderthal who just arrived from Mars, or an ill-educated oaf who has spent his life in seclusion reading out of date copies of Penthouse, possibly hoping to meet a Pet before he dies.

No, the winker in this case attended both of Britain’s most prestigious universities- gaining degrees at both Oxford and Cambridge. A man who claims to have ‘women’ as his friends.

Sadly, Dominic Raab doesn’t understand that modern females have different expectations to his granny’s generation. We’re not grateful to be acknowledge with a wink- the exception being Amanda Holden, who seems to be living in her own time warp, telling reporters she’s thrilled to be whistled at by builders at the ripe old age of 51.

Dominic Raab’s scummy gesture to the Deputy Labour leader during Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday marks a new low for the boors running Britain, but- after Partygate- is anyone surprised?

Pictured: Interchange in the commons today between deputies Dominic Raab and Angela Rayner. Raab winked at Rayner and calls her a champagne socialist because she enjoys opera

Pictured: Interchange in the commons today between deputies Dominic Raab and Angela Rayner. Raab winked at Rayner and calls her a champagne socialist because she enjoys opera

One Labour MP tweeted ‘I will never unsee Raab’s wink from the Despatch box. I feel soiled.’

To which Rayner tweeted ‘Imagine how I feel’.

Why should women have to grow skins that are twice as thick as mens’? Pretend they can take a joke and a spot of low level banter in order to fit in?

Exchanges between our two main parties have degenerated into cat calling and class war of the most infantile kind. Politics is now about posturing and posing- with the real policies which might affect our lives left by the wayside.

It’s so much easier for Ministers to wink, make funny faces and turn the whole show into a circus act in the vain hope that voters will be satisfied with the shlocky cabaret and temporarily forget that they won’t be able to afford to fill their cars, heat their homes and do the weekly shop without maxxing out their credit cards.

With the Bank of England threatening another rise in interest rates, personal debt at a record high and food prices soaring- what does it matter if Angela Rayner managed to cross the chasm that still divides the posh people from the workers, attending an opera in the Sussex Countryside?

Anyone would think she’d broken into Windsor and nicked the Queen’s Corgi basket.

According to Raab, she was guilty of sipping bubbly at Glynebourne while fellow lefties were on the picket lines supporting striking rail workers. Cue (extremely flat) joke about ‘champagne socialists’ back in the Labour party.

Labour Party Deputy Leader Angela Rayner speaks during Prime Minister's Questions

Labour Party Deputy Leader Angela Rayner speaks during Prime Minister's

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