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Has Reeves hit a new low- saying it's misogyny?

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Christmaspuddingsss · 25/11/2025 07:59

I couldn't believe I was reading this today.

She accuses her critics of being against her budget plans because she is a woman. (But ignores the number of U turns she's done because of the criticism from back benchers)

Using the 'misogyny' card is really desperate IMO.

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Differentforgirls · 25/11/2025 12:24

NewCushions · 25/11/2025 12:15

I'm watching Celebrity Masterchef currently. Honestly, it's ridiculous. I can't discuss it with anyone as I've got not a single name right. I regularly forget the hosts' names too! As I'm tying, I know it's Grace and..... it will come to me in about 3 minutes...! So for now it's Grace and whats-his-face - the aussie guy.... Grin

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I understand. I'm the same. I'm a nightmare to watch telly with as I have to google faces I recognise to see what they were in before!

Kimura · 25/11/2025 12:17

Southernecho · 25/11/2025 10:04

Yes this is true but why the focus on 2/3 years at HBoS and not her 6 years at the Bank of England?

Jeremy Hunt broke anti money laundering rules, a far more serious thing, yet no one makes any reference to that, it was all "an admin error"

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Because she fibbed about the 2/3 years at HBOS. The joke is a specific reference to the fib she told about her job at HBOS.

Jeremy Hunt broke anti money laundering rules, a far more serious thing, yet no one makes any reference to that, it was all "an admin error"

I mean, newsreaders and presenters 'accidentally' call him Jeremy C**t on TV and radio fairly often. And he was slated all over the place at the time.

NewCushions · 25/11/2025 12:15

Differentforgirls · 25/11/2025 12:07

Sturgeon - book mark this 😂

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I'm watching Celebrity Masterchef currently. Honestly, it's ridiculous. I can't discuss it with anyone as I've got not a single name right. I regularly forget the hosts' names too! As I'm tying, I know it's Grace and..... it will come to me in about 3 minutes...! So for now it's Grace and whats-his-face - the aussie guy.... Grin

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 25/11/2025 12:14

Anyone who doesn't agree/says something against a female, even another female is automatically labelled a misogynist these days 🙄

Frenchues · 25/11/2025 12:10

I think Boris was a twat. Rishi Sunak is perfectly decent and honourable.

Differentforgirls · 25/11/2025 12:07

NewCushions · 25/11/2025 12:05

I can see how you think that. except I genuinely forgot her name for a minute there and I absolutely refer to "whats-his-face" on a regular basis - I'm not great at names and this is x100 for people in the public eye. It's endlessly entertaining to DH! Grin

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Sturgeon - book mark this 😂

NewCushions · 25/11/2025 12:05

Differentforgirls · 25/11/2025 11:56

"what's her face" is pretty misognistic.

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I can see how you think that. except I genuinely forgot her name for a minute there and I absolutely refer to "whats-his-face" on a regular basis - I'm not great at names and this is x100 for people in the public eye. It's endlessly entertaining to DH! Grin

Differentforgirls · 25/11/2025 11:56

NewCushions · 25/11/2025 10:46

What's most astonishing to me is that people can even attempt to say that female politicians don't face the most insane amount of misogynist, sexist bullshit.

We all KNOW that Boris and is his cronies were booze head party fuckers, including throughout Covid. But has any publicatoin ever posted a photo implying that makes him a lush like they did when Angela Raynor dared to be enjoying a large glass of wine in her free time? no no, it's all "Beers down the pub, one of the lads" bullshit for Boris and Rishi and all the rest, from a man who hasn't entered a pub "with the lads" in his life.

Have we ever had two male leaders at a meeting where the headlies compared their bodies as we did with Teresa May and Nicola whats-her-face in Scotland? No, we certainly have not.

Did anyone ever comment on what any of our female prime ministers' husbands wore? God no. But clearly that's not the same for every single wife of a PM, ever.

"what's her face" is pretty misognistic.

Southernecho · 25/11/2025 11:52

peanutbuttertoasty · 25/11/2025 11:05

Markets didn’t think so.

Do you follow markets? lets stop with the re writing of history and look at what happened?
Gilts went up slightly, they then dropped back to where they were when realised she was staying in post, as they believe her when she says she will not break her fiscal rules on borrowing.

Talking of markets, FTSE was 8300 when Labour took office, they are now 9500.

I ve done very well since she has been in office, as has everyone else who has an equities based pension.

dottiehens · 25/11/2025 11:47

Well this exactly what the people like them do. They either use their gender or race to get away with their incompetence. I expect Mandani to be saying people are racist towards him when he starts his cock ups just like Sadiq Khan in London. In the meantime their agenda goes through.

Goldenbear · 25/11/2025 11:17

TheNuthatch · 25/11/2025 11:11

Seriously?

You're right that women don't get many free passes. Which is why being the first female chancellor, and also being the first chancellor to cry in the house when under pressure is not a great combo.

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Yes but society can't have it both ways, the press gassed on about her crying, correspondingly has articles on the damaging manosphere culture and violence towards women especially if committed by an asylum seeker and how women need protection from this but then feeds the misogyny with the Rachel from Accounts stuff.

MikeRafone · 25/11/2025 11:17

What U turns has she done?

MrsSkylerWhite · 25/11/2025 11:15

poetryandwine · 25/11/2025 08:15

I agree with @APatternGrammar

By all means judge her results against your values. Cast your vote accordingly.

But the misogyny started the instant she moved into Downing Street, if not before. ‘Rachel from Accounts’ got a lot of traction on this very forum, which one would have hoped valued the dignity of even women one disagreed with. Her minor political slip ups were blown out of proportion.

Do the posters so rabid towards this Labour team simply have a nonpartisan wish to highlight political incompetence? Not judging by their tolerance of worse from the previous government. That adorable scamp Boris took 4 days off at the height of the Covid crisis. His government’s lack of clear thinking has now been shown to have caused an avoidable excess of 23,000 deaths.

Quite.

Of course there’s a large helping of misogyny involved.

peanutbuttertoasty · 25/11/2025 11:13

PropertyD · 25/11/2025 11:08

She was a hot mess during her crying presumably because she is realising that she is crap at her role and it all got too much.

She looked as though she was about to collapse and should have excused herself. Personal reason my bottom. It all got too much for her and Starmer was so engrossed with his own yapping he didn’t even notice!

If ONLY she realised that and spared us all the effects of her incompetence! Alas…!

noworklifebalance · 25/11/2025 11:12

MightyDandelionEsq · 25/11/2025 09:53

Quite. To add to your list, Commie Corbyn and Call me Dave.

Shes called Rach from accounts because she lied on her cv and is grossly under qualified.

Im really tired of women using misogyny as a catch all for any criticism.

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The problem it really undermines the fight against misogyny.

The bare facts are that her fiscal policies have impacted every level of society in a negative way and damaged growth.
The criticism is valid.

Starmer, Sunak, Johnson, Blair, Brown, Major, Prescott and more have all been reduced down to their looks, demeanor, personality etc.

TheNuthatch · 25/11/2025 11:11

Goldenbear · 25/11/2025 11:08

Why not, you don't get many free passes as a female!

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Seriously?

You're right that women don't get many free passes. Which is why being the first female chancellor, and also being the first chancellor to cry in the house when under pressure is not a great combo.

Goldenbear · 25/11/2025 11:10

PropertyD · 25/11/2025 11:08

She was a hot mess during her crying presumably because she is realising that she is crap at her role and it all got too much.

She looked as though she was about to collapse and should have excused herself. Personal reason my bottom. It all got too much for her and Starmer was so engrossed with his own yapping he didn’t even notice!

She did not.

PropertyD · 25/11/2025 11:08

She was a hot mess during her crying presumably because she is realising that she is crap at her role and it all got too much.

She looked as though she was about to collapse and should have excused herself. Personal reason my bottom. It all got too much for her and Starmer was so engrossed with his own yapping he didn’t even notice!

Goldenbear · 25/11/2025 11:08

TheNuthatch · 25/11/2025 10:48

The markets reacted to her crying. They would also have reacted if a male chancellor had cried in the commons, whilst sitting next to the PM, on live TV, at a pivotal moment.
This impacts all of us, and she shouldn't be given a free pass simply because she is female. That would be sexist.

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Why not, you don't get many free passes as a female!

senua · 25/11/2025 11:07

Tobacco · 25/11/2025 11:02

There's a huge amount of misogyny against female politicians. She's right.

But, as someone said above, two things can be true at the same time:
There is misogyny in politics (not least within the Labour Party), and
RR is a terrible Chancellor and worthy of criticism

peanutbuttertoasty · 25/11/2025 11:05

Markets didn’t think so.

Goldenbear · 25/11/2025 11:03

peanutbuttertoasty · 25/11/2025 10:49

There’s everything wrong with crying on the front bench in parliament when you are chancellor of the exchequer during and economic crisis and your job is to reassure the markets

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She was hardly wailing, hyperbolic nonsense.

Tobacco · 25/11/2025 11:02

There's a huge amount of misogyny against female politicians. She's right.

colorpie · 25/11/2025 11:01

I don't think that the criticism of her budget are due to misogyny but I think that her being a woman give some people a bit of extra motivation to join the pile on. I saw the same play out with racism and sexism with Diane Abbott and Meghan Markle. People love to indulge their prejudices and hatred under the guise of a (in their eyes) valid reason.

peanutbuttertoasty · 25/11/2025 11:00

Goldenbear · 25/11/2025 10:58

Tbh you sound like you are a man with that first sentence, you may as well have said, "bloody women spend what they haven't got!"

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Eh?