To think that Rachel Reeves really ought to practice what she preaches?

Suzuki76 · Today 07:57
Please can we stop calling her fucking Rachel from Accounts on a forum full of women. It is unimaginably misogynistic.

Why is it misogynistic? Plenty of men work in accounts.
However, if you prefer, I’ll call her Rachel from customer complaints.

What is your point exactly? I must be thick too

No, because those could be applied to 30p Leighanne or Keirbot.

But if you must pretend to be too thick to understand my point, in support of a quote from Lee Anderson of Reform whose own CV is questionable at best, then I may as well give up.

No.

Nope. Tories were never called names or criticised. The 'MSM' never called them to account, wrote anything negative about them or gave them nicknames.
Now 'the grown ups are in charge' they are having to face criticism in a way no other political party has had to, ever.
Dontchaknow

Suzuki76 · Today 07:57
Please can we stop calling her fucking Rachel from Accounts on a forum full of women. It is unimaginably misogynistic

Did you object to the names that Tories were called such as 30p Lee and Maybot?

Britain might have been great had we not sold off every last thing we once owned. They're banging on about an AI revolution, there isn't even a British tech firm in the FTSE100. We couldn't even get our shit together to build a battery factory before it got purchased for pennies by foreigners.

Come up with a proper industrial strategy, Rachel, and then lets talk again. Making it easier for developers to put up shit boxes close to commuter train stations does not make a country great. Your plan for growth appears to be founded solely on housing building. We can't have that bubble bursting, can we? Because then we'll be in the shit up to our necks, rather than just our knees like we are now.

It isn’t misogyny. It’s the truth. She embellished her CV. If you don’t like stuff like this perhaps steer clear of politics threads.

I’d say it was more like breaking up with someone after 14 years - for the right reasons.

Then getting together with the first person who comes along. Not because you think they’re right for you but because they’re the only option and can’t be as bad as the last guy.

I’ve been quite down on the government in this thread but I actually think (and hope, even tho I didn’t vote for them and don’t agree with some of the things they’ve done) that they succeed.

They’re getting all the bad news out the way early doors in the hope that it’ll show results at the time of the next election. We’ll see.

They really didn’t come in on a wave of enthusiam, if you look at the voting data, even though they got a thumping great majority it’s clear to see Labour didn’t win the election the Conservatives lost it spectacularly. People weren’t desperate for a Labour government they just knew the Conservatives were awful and had to go.

They’ve then had to try not to say they lied to the electorate in order to win the election and that they knew exactly what they were inheriting and had always planned Robbing Rachel’s massive tax rises.

It’s not surprising to me they’re so unpopular. This isn’t the government the electorate wanted it was seen as being the least worst option.

Disappointed with Labour so far. They came in on a wave of enthusiasm and energy as people were so fed up of the Tories. I think that lasted a few days, what are they actually trying to achieve?

Here’s another gem from Rachel from accounts and Two Tier.

The UK has dropped out of the Top 10 manufacturing countries. With the likes of Airbus and Rolls Royce cutting jobs.

And energy into this country which is already the most expensive in the developed world (using the world developed loosely) is likely to get more expensive and Rachel from Accounts bankrolls Red Miliband to the tune of billions of taxpayers cash to piss up the wall.

Still waiting for Labour fanclub to come up with justification of this disaster.

Creating a false CV isn't remotely funny. Neither is Reeves' economic incompetence.

Ah, the old ‘Tory bot’ accusation again. It’s getting boring now…

I agree with all of this.
I did not vote for Labour though so I was kind of expecting things not to ge as rosy as many thought they would be, but even I am surprised at how terrible they are proving to be.
Still quite amusing watching die-hard Labour fans justifying every disaster with 'they are not as bad as the Tories' though 😂
And pretending that they would have 100% been absolutely fine with the Tories abolishing WFP, going back on WASPI women and sucking up freebies 😂😂

You’re right, she’s actually ‘Rachel from complaints’. Perhaps she would have been marginally less disastrous if she had been from accounts.

Don't know if Kwarteng had a nickname because he wasn't in position long enough but surely people haven't forgotten about Rachel from customer service's political influence, mentor and identical total omnishambles, the rightly named Gidiot.

Agreed. And the ‘Rachel from Accounts’ thing wasn’t funny the first time it was trotted out.

Awful policy making decisions makes me not respect a single thing she says

It’s another stupid thing she said because this government has ZERO political acumen (on top of very poor policies).

They are lost and trying to clutch at any straw.

@nfkl yep exactly this. and the rest of your post

I voted Labour and I find her appalling.

It is hard for us to be positive about anything when we thought we elected a competent, fairer government but we got a chancellor who is making one mistake after another and affecting the economy for the worse.

She targeted pensioners, small businesses, farmers and the disabled rather than correctly taxing non-doms (she is watering down the promises they made on this), big corporates and sorting out profiteering energy companies.

I really don't think she is up to the job and Starmer needs to put someone new in place.

I did not vote for them to have the Tory 2.0 in power with even less of a clue when it comes to the economy and how to support the vulnerable.

So no, I am not positive, I am angry...

If anything she is the one who killed any hope and positivity people had after the election by constantly talking gloom and doom and sucking whatever life was left in the economy.

It would be profoundly stupid to think that the situation RR is facing has been purely created by the previous government. There are external factors too though you don’t allude to them @Scautish.

Poll results in the papers today.

It’s another stupid thing she said because this government has ZERO political acumen (on top of very poor policies).

They realise that their doom and gloom comms has alienated the electorate, they realise that Trump is making his supporters feel energised and optimistic. And politics are more about perception than results. So they try the same (clumsily and too late). It is like Musk saying a few days ago X needed more positive content.

They are lost and trying to clutch at any straw.

They were supposed to lead a nation into finding new enthusiasm to fix things after 14y of omni shambles. They had 14 years to think about what they would do. I was sincerely believing KS had done his homework and was coming with a slew of ideas good for the nation, that he would hit the ground running.

Even when there’s no money, there a lot of things you can do to show you have a vision. Also, when you get to power, you become PM for the whole country, even the ones who didn’t vote for you.

What did we get?
“Tories this and that” (as if it was a surprise? Wtf were they doing in opposition to be so clueless???) ad infinitum
Ideological payback moves (Rwanda, reaction to riots, VAT on private schools, raping gangs national enquiry, etc.)
Self-destructive moves (freebies, Tulip, WASPI, WFA, etc.)
Shitloads of promises, milestones, key points, quangos = don’t know what else to do

They just not good enough. After 14y of opposition where they should have prepared, it’s very disappointing.

And because of all their disastrous PR moves, they have gone over the red line in terms of public perception. They have lost the majority of the British electorate and there’s no comeback. Even if they find 500 trillions or split the atom.

No it won’t but it won’t stop Labour from blaming them for everything. It’s pathetic.