Angela Rayner, Boris Johnson & Scum. A term both have used
Nye Bevan called the Tories ‘lower than vermin’ and Angela Rayner’s description of Boris Johnson as ‘scum’ at a Labour conference event in Brighton is a relatively mild term by contrast. Johnson has been frequently called ‘scum’ and ‘racist scum’ over the years and seems to have survived perfectly well.
Actually as Johnson’s biographer Sonia Purnell notes he has used the term himself (2009)to describe bankers when London Mayor. He did qualify the point by going on to note that nevertheless the City played a central role in the economy.
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