to believe Rachel Reeves was crying because

That depends on the income of the OAP surely? Some are pretty wealthy tbf.

good points!

You won’t be so jubilant when Reform wins the next general election.

It’s Rayner’s incessant bullying.

The strong arming, plotting and leaking to the press. Rayner is an absolutely nasty individual.

To borrow from W. Churchill.

Reeves has the opposition in front of her, and the enemy behind her.

On that, I shall bid you all goodnight.

Absolutely not. My school friend's DH is an MP - returning. Before he was an MP, he had a very good job. In the "in between times", he had a very good job. Both were much higher paid than his current salary.
He is an MP because he has a very strong social conscience and wants to do what he can: but the UK political system is shot (as are most other democracies):

• short term-ism. Politicians are voted in for five years and meant to "change the world" - to make real change you need a clear run that policies aren't going to be derailed for at least a decade
• Some policies are going to be "pain before the gain". But the electorate doesn't see that
• For some reason, politicians put very complex decisions to a public vote (yes, this is Brexit). Politicians were minimal on the truth and it hasn't solved the more more complex problems

Reeves joined the Bank of England in September 2000 as part of their graduate scheme.[10] In a 2021 interview with Stylist magazine, Reeves said she had spent a decade working as an economist at the Bank of England, however her LinkedIn CV listed six years at the Bank, from September 2000 to December 2006,[12] and during one of these years she was pursuing a master's degree at the LSE.[10] In February 2025, BBC News reported that Reeves' LinkedIn CV had also been incorrect, and that she had left the Bank of England by March 2006.[13]

In 2006, Reeves moved to Leeds to work for the retail arm of HBOS.[14][15] In 2024, due to criticism of Reeves saying she had worked as an economist at HBOS, her LinkedIn CV was changed, and her role at the bank was updated to "Retail Banking".[10][16] The Times reported her actual role was "running a customer relations department dealing with complaints and mortgage retention".[10] The report led to the media and opposition politicians nicknaming her "Rachel from accounts".[17][18]

Yes the Conservative Party did not do this to her, did they? But you can expect them to point it out.

It’s her own actions and her own party.

The last time the media/armchair critics were shocked about a high profile woman being human, it turned out she had cancer. (Catherine)

Do you really think op that if Reeves just received a cancer diagnosis or got a message to say a relative had died that she owes you an explanation!?

A lot of people need to get over themselves.

Not sure who your post is in reply to but would you say that Reeves has shown ‘empathy and humanity’ to the following?

SME owners
Farmers
Pensioners
Welfare claimants
Private school parents, kids and teachers

Await yours, please.

What fraud, deception and lies? Your comments would be laughable if they weren’t so ridiculous.

Same. She’s been that upset for a while.

I think it's very clear Starmer is also fighting for survival tonight.

Dont you think it is interesting that the first time a woman got to do this job was in the middle of the complete balls up left behind? I thought the same about May as PM - women often only get their chance when no man wants to chance it.

I'll try again, clearly my last reply hit a nerve.

Yes you are being unreasonable.
Speculating on why someone is clearly upset, after it has been made clear by others close to them that it is due to a personal reason, is, in my opinion a despicable way to behave. It shows in my opinion, a lack of empathy and humanity.

Yes I think so too. She does know.

That is nonsense. Oaps are more vulnerable and they took away their miserly £200 fuel allowance without any qualms whatsoever. They make me sick. I doubt I will ever vote for them again

Yes, very odd that.

A cabinet colleague, and a ‘sister’ after all…

It's interesting, isn't it, how suddenly it's 'her' budget and 'her' fiscal rules, like the rest of the cabinet had nothing to do with it.

This is the glass cliff in action: give a woman a senior position when everything's fucking up and then point and laugh at her when it goes down the pan. Men emerge squeaky clean.

I think Reeves has most likely been wounded more by members of her own party rather than anything Kemi said.

Funny that, because I saw contempt from Reeve’s own colleagues - Starmer and Rayner.

Watch the footage again - see if you can spot it too.

She is an obscenely overpaid incompetent individual who was perfectly happy to take the money but didn’t ever expect to have to work for it. At her level this is all part of the territory, male or female, makes no difference. She has coasted through life getting away with fraud, deception and lies (I’m sure her previous colleagues can absolutely verify this) and thought the gravy train would continue.

Rachel from accounts - the chickens have finally come home to roost - it’s judgement day. No amount of self piteous tears is going to help her now - and neither should they. You take the gold shilling, you pay the price.

Whatever it was hadn’t just happened. Her eye bags were huge! She’d clearly been up all night. I think she’s been fired. I don’t know why someone didn’t help her to discreetly leave and compose herself :/

There may have always been Vitriol in politics but that doesn’t make it right.

Oh, I heard something really interesting about this - how a lot of his weird look is to disguise how elderly he would look otherwise - like the orange tan and weird hair colour are a means to an end, and his suits are built up to disguise how frail he can look.