Rachel Reeves - potential successor?

If you are so politically informed what are these policies? Or Reform policies?

Yes they do earn money. New 'transparency features' have exposed this (not specifically on this site, but I doubt MN is immune!).

Posters operate overseas (usually from the global south) and make money by posting right wing content, specifically targeting the people of the UK and US. Apparently, it has something to do with the fact we're very politically illiterate! I'm not sure how they make money from it though, but they do.

He is more than "in the wings" at this point. RR is merely a figurehead. This budget was a Resolution Foundation budget that she merely delivered.

Are you happy she fabricated figures to raise taxes? That is ok with you?

It matters not one bit where she is spending the money - "raising children out of poverty". It doesn't matter, she fabricated a situation to get that money. That is 100% wrong.

In any other arena, or business, you would be fired immediately if you had lied to such an extent

I cannot imagine a scenario when I was presenting to clients (us, the citizens in this case) and I completely fabricated figures to get a deal through where I would not be dismissed immediately

You do know what "her background in economics" actually entailed?

She literally lied on her cv / LinkedIn profile - she was in customer complaints.

She has about as much experience as my DS23 - well actually he has more because he has an economic degree and real life work experience already.

Despite what the chancellor’s supporters on MN believe, this is quite a serious matter, sanctioned by the government. So it wasn’t just Rachel Reeves.

Serious enough for the OBR to expose them!

Will she take the hit? With this government I doubt it.

'SackReeves.com' is that all the Conservatives have got..how about some real suggestions as to how they might fund the NHS, Defence and bring children out of poverty...Also so much poorly informed posting on MN just a lot of 'opinion', bits of information from twitter..and labour bashing (inter -dispersed with posters who earn a wage by posting this stuff).

I don't think there will be a vacancy for a while. Other than his or her constituents and political nerds, I doubt that whoever ends up as Chancellor will be well known to many people. John Major was not when he became Chancellor, neither was Alistair Darling, or indeed Rishi Sunak.

Can you spell out the rationale/arithmetic there?

The taxpayer is on the hook for scrapping the two child limit and rightly so as it was never justified and was political theatre from Osborne.

The min wage isn't paid by the government except for its own employees/contractors.

I agree. I was pretty dismal
about Reeves but I assumed she had been caught by her initial over-promising and then trapped by her back-benchers.

Lying about the OBR position to justify her choices on something as material as this, makes me reevaluate entirely.

She wasn’t caught in a lie by a surprise interview question, it was the core justification for a major announcement she made of her own will on TV and to parliament. And it was false.

To me that crosses a line into resignation territory.

Also, talking about the shrinking headroom and the black hole and tough choices on tax has itself caused economic damage. Causing economic damage by being truthfully negative is one thing (still unwise for a chancellor), to do it on a falsehood is wilful economic vandalism.

if she has a background in economics, she needs to get a refund from whatever university she studied at. Either that or they are hanging their heads in shame.

She's an utter disgrace and no amount of whatabboutery regarding what the Tories did or didn't do diminishes that fact.

From a UK investment perspective on the world stage, she is causing the country irreparable harm the longer she stays.

Are they? I’m on full PIP. I feel sorry for them, but feel sorry for me too,

Ive paid enough tax to receive this. I’m not expressing any concern. My concern is about greedy employers paying shit wages. Maybe they should step up to reduce the benefits burden?

This is so typical of the hard core Labour supporter. No matter how bad it gets. Blame the tories.

I'm not sure who would, or Indeed should, replace her... but both her and Starmer are well overdue being sacked. It's pretty impressive to have managed to form a government even worse than the Tories!

Ah this would be the Tory’s who allowed substantial unchecked lending during covid to company’s that hadn’t been in business for several years, totally faked turnover ( which everyone and his mother can see on companies house site) many of which went into very quick liquidation having sucked the cash out- including onessunakswife had involvement with - did no due diligence on company’s supplying PPE, paid substantial amounts to Johnson’s knock offs for a bit of random consultancy, lied about various get togethers during covid, and to be frank didn’t have the caps in for years and years.

and Unite? They hate anyone who isn’t one of their ‘are you with us brothers’ mentality -anyone who actually has a bit of commercial acumen and is a fiscal realist - personally would serve them right if they brought Wes streeting in who isn’t the most likeable person but I think is rather capable, a good communicator and would think bollocks to them .I don’t agree with everything they have done and personally I wouldn’t have lifted that benefits cap but for the Tory’s to try and present themselves as more fiscally responsible is laughable - they have cost the country£400bn on Brexit for a start by even having a referendum and decimated GDP by 6 to 8% and effectively ended the Dublin agreement on right to return of non permitted asylum seekers by default . Most of the big issues were caused by them going right back to the 80s - be it selling off social housing or utilities. They have some cheek -

You obviously aren't remotely familiar with British politics as Mel Stride ( Conservative) and Richard Tice (Reform) aren't even in the Labour party!

I don’t think she has any hand in it. She’s just a figurehead for the team behind it

Yours a small minority then, even those on benefits are starting ro express concern, that the money they are being given is from average working peiple who now can’t afford food or heating.

Oh don't be ridiculous. The King's not going to step in. Flipping heck. Read some history !

Of course Unite isn't going to support a generally right leaning Labour party. Unite is generally left leaning although it does have hard left elements too. Why would Unite support Reeves? Read some politics!