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

The Rachel from accounts name was given after Reeves lied about her time at HBOS iirc. Specifically that her position was actually not as an economist, but in retail banking.

Her crying in the commons caused a market reaction as she is the chancellor. The same cannot be said of Hancock.

“Biased to the Right” You’re having a laugh! She’s bloody incompetent!

“ Rachel from Accounts” is a promotion for that idiot given she was in Customer Services.

Never has a budget been such a debacle. So inept and insecure are Labour , that she’s been testing what markets and backbenchers would accept for the past month.
The standard protocol is a budget purdah for a month prior.

The gilt market is in a worse state now than in Liz Trusses time but you don’t hear a whisper of it in MSM.
Right wing bias …my arse!

Half of all UK borrowing each month goes on national debt repayments. A Ponzi scheme!

Then don't make up ficticious personal attacks......
Yes I reported those comments, yes I challenged them when I saw them.

She is totally incompetent. Being a woman allows for more targeted and misogynistic criticism.

Sorry but she did.

& she was right too.

It’s one thing for Rachel Reeves to call out misogyny when it happens. But today is the eve of the budget. Raising misogyny now feels like a way of deflecting from criticism when the public is seriously worried about her policies. In this context, she is pulling the misogyny card in a way that is deeply unhelpful.

They didn't accuse him of giving men in high office a bad name when he was conducting an affair in the workplace during a time of national crisis, either.

The same pp probably went for Truss anyway. And other female politicians.

This, @ChardonnaysBeastlyCat

No, she's a useless chancellor who also happens to be a woman. I don't recall people crying about misogyny for Truss, either, and she didn't stoop to claim it.

Oh for goodness' sake, Twisty. I asked you a genuine question. You could have just answered it without being snarky. That's all.

There is definitely misogyny in politics, and racism. But the criticisms levelled at Reeves are nothing to do with her gender, they are to do with the fact that people are feeling worse and worse off economically, that she seems to be going back on her word about tax increases, and that she keeps changing her mind.

How? she was a BoE economist, for 6 years, thats a matter of fact, she exaggerated her time there but I don't see quite how that deserves being called "Rachel from Accounts"

Mm. And even then.

Linked in is not a Cv and holds none of the weight of a cv

you know full well that pretending it’s a CV adds weight to the ideas she’s lied and been fraudulent- gaining a job by lying. This is not the case. Her job was not awarded due to her linked in narrative, neither would any job be.

How many male chancellors have been described in a similar way to 'Rachel from accounts'

Are you suggesting that previous chancellors haven't been referred to in derogatory ways in the media?

There will of course be misogyny directed at any woman in role, but the 'Rachel from Accounts' was very much brought on by her own actions, and would have happened to a man in the same scenario.

Well unless they are stalking my every post on every thread......

How would they know?

There always used to be budget purdah.

This budget has been nothing but endless pitch-rolling of possible policies, coming from speeches she's made, or OTR briefings by treasury officials, or from the IFS (whose policies she's linked to via Torsten Bell).

I get why, since the PLP are not interested in acknowledging that endless.benefits are a problem and think they wealthy should pay for everything, and because KS is so ineffectual he can't control his MPs or be assured of his tenure.

But none of that excuses the mayhem its caused and its not like this is the first time she's presided over this.

She's had the opportunity to gainsay what you see as media speculation but she's not done so until very late by which time the damage has been done.

To be honest I think we all.breathed a sigh of relief when she intimated that income tax would rise and be offset by NI reduction. It finally felt that the country was being put before party politics and that stability might reign. But no...

So she should aim it at her party. And we don’t need briefings every few days or every day.

It’s chaotic. And agree with your last part, people don’t like the gaslighting.

Saying a remark is passive aggressive is a personal attack now? It comes across as a passive aggressive comment.......

"Never happened", you really do have a problem with me don't you?

Was Margaret Thatcher also a victim of misogyny?

Theresa May, Lynn Truss and Rachael Reeves were all incompetent and made blunders-maybe they were victims of that.

All the recent changing of male Conservative prime ministers when they were in power-all because they had blundered or angered the party-they too were victims of their own making.

If they had all been women, would you say they had been victims of misogyny too?

All the laughing at David "Mastermind" Lammy, the sneering at Keir "Son of a Toolmaker"-if they were women, would they be victims of misogyny too? Or is because they are incompetent dicks?

Rachael was given the nickname Rachel from Accounts because she had tried to bull herself on her CV, the lie was discovered, she had not held a big job and this nickname was meant to highlight this and laugh at it, by exaggerating her lies and laughing at them. It's a comic technique.

Just as Jeremy Corbyn and his stupid schemes have led to his nickname of "Magic Grandad"

If he were a woman would that be misogyny?

When a woman is criticized by everyone-men and women (Ms Badenoch has criticized her and incidentally, Ms Badenoch has never claimed to be a victim of misogyny even though she has been roundly criticised ) and when a woman's reaction to that is to cry misogyny, she does us no favours.

RR is incompetent and laughable-that is why she is called incompetent and people-men and women-laugh at her.