Rachel Reeves crying in the House of Commons

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Evidently the first thread full of utterly foul comments wasn't enough for some posters.

Who has set up there narratives of weak women and their emotions and if you are a woman why are you reinforcing them?

Personally I feel sympathy for her, but she has to resign. You can’t cry on the front bench, male or female, you just can’t. Particularly not the chancellor or the PM. Her literal job is to inspire confidence.

i have a senior leadership position at work and I don’t believe it would be appropriate for me to cry in front of my team. That’s not to say I’m confident it will never happen - maybe it will - but if it ever does it will be a serious fuck up. (And me crying doesn’t have the power to influence the markets!)

This. She’s hurt people a lot.

Remember when he cried when the first Covid jab was given? Nobody believed him.

She’s caused that exact state of tears to others. I know someone who works at a private school. A few staff have been made redundant (VAT/NI) and were crying in school. The person I know hasn’t been made redundant, but has had to sign a new contract agreeing to more hours (was already more than full time). All due to Rachel Reeves and her VAT/NI bashing of that sector. When we literally see people we know with job losses in tears, I don’t know why we would be expected to feel sorry for RR. Even if she gets kicked out of the cabinet, she’ll still be an MP and have a job - unlike the teachers who were just told that they’ll have to fuck off as the school has no money to pay them with.

It's vanishingly rare for me to say anything good about Johnson, but his sleeping around didn't risk casting thousands of vulnerable people into poverty.

Yes agree on Starmer. Plus he’s so awful to women, see PMQs

Might be nice if Matt Hancock cried about the old people who died following his COVID decisions.

RR crying?

Big deal, boo hoo..... She's a serial liar - lied on her CV, lied about her jobs, lied about her work history and hasnt a clue how the economy works. And now its all coming undone - on HER watch. Incompetence in full display for all to see.

Quicker she is sacked off the better. Not that any replacement would be an improvement.

Out of her depth, out of tricks and out of time. Like all politicians, she can get to fuck.

I also feel sorry for RR. Difficult stuff to watch. Even without knowing if there’s anything purely personal in the background.

But, if there isn’t any personal issue, and a barney with the Speaker isn’t a ‘personal issue’, then I’m afraid that a need for thick skin comes with the very powerful, very high profile job she’s in. In those circumstances criticism of her lack of resilience is nothing to do with misogyny.

I suspect we’ll find out that Starmer has kicked the confidence and spirit out of her. He’s so appallingly ambitious and yet so woefully talentless it’s horrible to see.

Last week, we had a PM who by his own admission was 'too distracted' to focus on the welfare bill and we now have a chancellor who is clearly unable to perform adequately in the job. That's hugely concerning.

Absolutely agree.

She has made poor decisions and not given a shit.
she can cry me a river!

Maybe. Doesn’t matter though does it- something has pushed her to such a state of stress and anxiety that she has cried on a public stage, and that is a horrible thing to happen to anyone. Impossible to do her job well - she’s damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t on any decisions. People being glad she cried or glad she is upset - it’s beyond my comprehension.

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And women full stop. Plays into us 'being emotional' whereas men are called passionate.
If it had been a male politician crying what would have been said.

I’ve cried at work before: if I am angry or frustrated about something then it comes out as tears. I can’t really help or control it but I do stay rational etc., it’s just a physical response And there is a suggestion that an argument with the Speaker prior was to blame, so who knows. Another report says it’s a personal matter.

Should she have just not showed up for work? I think it’s pretty brave to sit there knowing that you’re about to have a zillion horrible headlines written about you, regardless of what you think about her decisions or politics. Can’t have been a nice day at work for her.

I think she is her own worst enemy. She magnified her record of working in the bank .Struggled to read the room when WFA was taken away and it has been a shitshow TBH.She should resign ASAP.A decent Accountant from Surrey could have done better. Being upset is hard for her .it would have been better to have had a day off.today

Crying does not mean you can’t make rational decisions.Crying simply means your emotions are showing.
This times 1000

It’s more likely her own party causing upset.

As long as she's not one of those people that can dish it out, but can't take it, I'm sympathetic. PM's questions plays out like a pointless weekly pantomime serving mainly to keep political media types in jobs, anyway.

I feel very sorry for her to be honest. I find people have been vile on social media. Perhaps she should have found a reason not to go rather than become emotional at that point, but it can happen to anyone under pressure.

I cannot help but think of a dignified Diane Abbott standing and being ignored 40 times in that chamber listening to people discussing a death threat against her.

I don’t remember this outpouring of sympathy for that.