Is Reeves the next one to go?

[olderandnonthewiser]

Her not getting whatever licence she needed doesn’t sound particularly corrupt but somewhat incompetent.

Apparently Starmer is reviewing ‘new information’. If there’s even a whiff of sleeze or being economical with the truth she’s got to go too.

For someone who banged on about sleeze and standards, Starmer isn’t doing well with his ministers.

Starmer won’t sack Reeves until after the budget

I do agree that women are held to a higher account than men in their position are. So I agree that gender politics play into the public & media’s response & the term “witch hunt” has even more resonance in this context. Even so, lying is not a good look.

Surely you don’t give the handling of very senior government minister’s letting to someone so junior. Everyone knows it should be handled by someone senior just in case. Suddenly that person left…

I just don’t believe it.

Did she lie or just get it wrong?

The PM has given her the green light, reprimanded her for lying or being wrong... and i don't want to be party to the fact that women in public office are held to a higher account than men.

The media in this country are fucking awful, they turn on public figures like vultures... supported by the baying mob that is the "public" who then go "nothing to do with us" when things go v wrong.

The media/public directly caused Carolyn Flacks suicide in my opinion & they simply don't care so long as it sells....

@jasflowers no I agree they are out for blood & how anyone copes I do not know. Poor Caroline Flack was failed on many levels & her being a woman & a celebrity very sadly impacted the tragic outcome of her case.

I just think that even the PM having to say publicly well it wasn’t great Rachel that you maintained otherwise & didn’t do your due diligence before initially denying to me of any knowledge of the need for a licence, is not a good look for any MP, male or female. Coupled with her CV embellishments & denial that her tears in parliament were down to a personal matter & not the tumultuous events of the day prior & the opposition she faced as a result - which again seemed simply unbelievable. All suggest unreliability, or maybe an unsuitability for the mercenary nature of what must be an impossible role.

My argument is that the media highlight her and other women's failings in a way they simply do not do to men.

Take for example Rayner, media banging on about her teenage pregnancy, yet little criticism of Johnson, indeed we get nice fluffy pictures of his new babies.

If Reeves was Robert Reeves, he wouldn't be called "Robert from Accounts" would he? CV embellishments ignored.
RR cried, so what? is it a crime?

Her resigning would lead to an increase in gilt yields, which will cost us all dearly, the markets think she is stable and will do what is required, that is a better measure of her.

I'll judge her and the Govt on how they manage the economy and deal with our collapsed public services, which are nothing to do with Labour, the Cons caused that.

She lied to the PM about knowing they needed a license, we now know the agent told them they need one and her husband responded, proving he knew.

KS described this as "regrettable", because he doesn't want to fire her, despite claiming to "smash the sleaze, and the causes of sleaze."

Firing her would probably trigger a market collapse, and RR knows this.