to believe Rachel Reeves was crying because

Did you read what I was replying to 💔 daft reply

It's almost like individuals react differently to different events!

That’s right.

I wonder if there is some criteria for what qualifies as crying-compliant.
A ‘rough’ day at the office = OK (evidently).

Perhaps Reeves is on to something, and it will kick-start a national campaign of people openly sobbing when things don’t go their way.

Farmers,
Pensioners
Welfare claimants
Private school kids, parents and teachers
SME-Owners
Former non-doms

All of whom surely qualify for a sob-fest?

I don't recall David Cameron breaking down in public when his son died.

Investors can no longer trust Labour after its multiple about-turns, bond giant Legal & General (L&G) has warned.

Sonja Laud, the chief investment officer at L&G, said the decision to abandon key benefit reforms and reverse course on winter fuel payments had destroyed faith in the Government’s economic plans.

L&G is one of Britain’s biggest investors, managing £1.1 trillion of assets. It is one of the biggest buyers of UK government debt.

Ms Laud said: “[Markets] can’t trust that what’s been put forward will be put in place. You will see the adverse reaction. It was quite a big one yesterday.”

She did not work as an economist - she worked in Complaints. See link below which the former Director of Operation’s at Lloyd’s Bank, where RR worked, put on his LinkedIn page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/243331015137514/posts/560488350088444/

The grown ups are in charge? That’s a laugh.

As for Reeves - wallowing in her own self-pity. How utterly undignified.

Because they don’t have to make a commitment to six years of university tuition fees and living cost loans, a very hard degree, two years of basic training on a salary not much above a carers but at a variety of locations determined by lottery, followed by possible unemployment as you compete against tens of thousands of overseas doctors who have equal priority to you. And if you get a specialist training place another six or so years of training and unsocial shift work and very expensive exams you have to pay for. Plus of course the responsibility of constantly making life or death decisions. They get to avoid all that so perhaps their renumeration should reflect it?

I think carers need to be a better recognised and paid profession but it is ridiculous to suggest they should get paid the same as doctors.

Me too @JohnTheRevelator but for different reasons. Zero fucks we’re given by Rach from accounts about all the children (many with SEN) who had to leave school and friends because of the VAT increase. Cruelty motivated by 6th form ideology. I’m just hoping that bursars up and down the land are planning gargantuan VAT reclaims after capital projects that will piss all over the puny little bit of extra cash this raised - enough to run about a nanosecond of the NHS.

You honestly think we would be saying how wonderful it is if Starmer broke down in the House of Commons over a ‘personal issue’?

Because horses for courses? I’d like to be an Olympic show jumper, but I’m a very average rider, so I did something else instead. Care is bloody hard, but low-skilled. And the same remuneration as doctors? Be serious.

Try as I might,I find it very difficult to feel any sympathy for this woman. She has caused me a lot of worry and fear since the announcement in March this year about the welfare reforms, primarily the tightening of the PIP rules. I spent a a couple of months fretting about what was going to happen, fearful that we were going to given vouchers instead of money,or that the PIP application process was going to be impossibly tough. I rely on my PIP payment each month to keep my head above water. Without it,I'd be totally screwed. So sorry if I sound nasty,but I think that maybe she knows now what it feels like to be upset.

I’ve got to know though how is this worse than Boris hiding in a fridge to avoid questions? Is it becuase that’s funny for a silly man like Boris to do?

Then why should anyone bother going into care? Aren’t you seeing why it is an issue?

Do you have a link to this? Nevertheless, as I said I’ve no issue with people criticising her on that basis. It’s the next step people take to declare she’s not qualified for the role which is egregious.

Poor life decisions or lack of social mobility in the U.K.?

@Lalgarh it would be interesting to see the impact of that action re: VAT. I guess with the cost of living crisis and lack of expendable income people have it could be risky. Still something I'd like to see at some stage.
I think a huge problem is we have to scale up defence spending dramatically in a very short time frame. Conservatives didn't bother with this during their years.

Alistair Darling if memory serves temporarily cut VAT when the credit crunch hit to boost sales. If there was a rise in taxes of other sorts coming down the line a temp reduction to the old level of 17.5% might sweeten the medicine.

But you'd then be dependent on preference curves and all sorts of econometrics I only vaguely recall to assess if the cut In the former would outweigh the latter and increase revenue

I have yet to see any workable alternative funding ideas for those against the benefits bill. No sector wants to lose money. Same with the winter fuel bill. So unsustainable.

Eating their words.

Couldn't agree more, a male leader showing emotion would be celebrated. Where are all of those posters who said she'd be handing in her resignation this morning?

Nailed the point.👏👏

if it was a male MP showing “man emotion” yesterday, we would all have bloody well moved on by now.

We'd actually still be hearing about how refreshing it was to see a man show his feelings, about how brave and courageous he was to come into work under such strain etc etc. The double standards to which women in public office are held is staggering.

Because we were an English speaking country inside the European Union, so businesses could base themselves here and have all the perks and access to the Union. It was easy for business to be done between USA and Britain, and then onto Europe.
with that commerce came high paid individuals who would be paying high taxes and then onto that they would employ people / use services etc

with Brexit we lost that advantage

Did it? Why do you say that?