Rachel Reeves lied on her CV was not an “Economist”

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AIBU - it’s OK to lie to get ahead

AINBU - it’s bad RReeves very Publicly lied about her prior work. We are right to feel annoyed by this lie.

saw this headline and am feeling really disappointed. Think Rachel Reeves needs to tell public exactly her job title.
She changed job title from Economist, to “Retail Banking”
An Economist at a Bank, is a clear and specific job, it’s a economic research position. A good experience for her current position.

”Retail Banking” - is not a job title … she could have been doing anything in a branch from Bank Teller, to Branch manager, or working in back office operations putting bank notes in the plastic bags or in HR.

Yet more nonsense.

Employers don’t exist to erode their bottom line to pay more taxes. Who do you think pays for that NI increase. Employees through lower wage increases. And customer through higher prices. Business leaders have said as much.

Higher Inflation and lower wages. That’s what the budget was about.

It’s not that hard to grasp.

More super rich people trying to subvert democracy. Plus ca change? That really is the theme of the thread isn't it - how a small number of super-rich individuals interfere with democracy to serve their personal interests, whether through pushing slurs against elected politicians on the media outlets they control or threatening a flight of capital.

The previous chancellors were shit. That’s why the Tories lost the election. What’s your point?

Yet more rudeness.

Seems strange then the BoE reduced the interest rates last week...

Weren’t you the one who said Reeves made the tea at the BoE?

@dottiehens school fees are not a tax but discretionary expenditure. I would class myself as middle class and welcome a government who invests in public services.

Tru tho innit?

When are you pouring the tea?

If getting elected to parliament was conditional on having been 100% honest throughout your life, I doubt if they'd be able to fill all 650 seats.

Shouldn't we be focusing more on the budget decisions, and the previous government leaving with what the IFS had acknowledged as a gap in finances?

The Daily Mail pays for Boris Johnson to write a column each week. Probably becomes the highest paid fiction writer per word in history.

How on earth is RR an economist?

She did PPE, so let's say 1/3 was economics , 1 yr there. She did a (at the time , deemed commercial MSc at Lse) , if you were a true Economist, the BoE sponsored graduates to do their MSc at Ucl. Her masters lasted truly 9 months.

And she's an Economist?????

Go and check her face out when Beth Rigby asks her about the gilt prices.... she absolutely shat a brick.

Shes raised the debt of this country to beyond anything seen outside a war situation. And she's cries for a fictitious black hole..

And you think she's an Economist.

The increase in Employers NI goes part of the way to redress the subsidy they receive when low wages are topped up by Universal credit, often while making significant profits.

Retail banks have Compliance Departments which ensure they comply with BOE regulations. I could understand a Bank of England economist wanting to broaden her experience.

Yes, it can be vicious. It's like piling in to kick someone in the playground. It's tempting to join in when you know there'll be no personal repercussions apart from, in my case, deep guilt!
But MNers can also be very supportive and I consider it a privilege to have a huge pool of women with different views to call on when I need a bit of perspective.

It would also have been much better paid. Reeves would have doubled her salary most likely

……all the way up to Bank President, OP.

I am really disappointed. I had high hopes given her qualifications and background that we might finally have some pragmatic, evidence-based policy making. Everything she said pre-election supported that this was the intention.

I found the budget very depressing given its forecast impacts, which were very predictable and indeed she would have been informed about before she finalised it and aware of anyway given her expertise. But the issue here isn't a lack of qualification or appropriate expertise and I find these misogynistic attacks on her to discredit her intelligence or ability tiresome and extremely unpleasant and very sexist.

Perhaps we could focus on policy decisions rather than personal attacks on a highly qualified, intelligent and successful woman and calling her a "tea lady", if we are ever to manage to lobby our politicians to implement evidence-based policy that will work rather than swinging from one ideologically driven set of policies to the other, neither of which will fix the underlying issues in the UK economy.

Yes, @Ytcsghisn was indeed the PP to raise this misogynistic possibility, yesterday at 11.46. They haven’t responded to the fact that RR stayed at the Bank for 6 years and has an MSc in Economics from LSE, a true world leader in the field.

Fictious black hole? Go and see what the OBR has said about this. Jeez.

Liz. Truss.

It’s fairly unsurprising that right wing papers whose owners and senior managers own a lot of farming land (for tax reasons?) are campaigning against relatively minor reforms to inheritance tax.
Its also fairly unsurprising that they are running down a woman with a lot more relevant experience for the job then many other recent chancellors.
This is just what they do.

O I know what the OBR have said, and they all said it was about 9bn. And then RR came along and gave 9.6bn pay rises and more powers to unions getting clarifications on future stances. And then in the next 2 days the strikes again!

So yea Jeez.

True but I would argue that Boris Johnson lies are on a another level compared to all the other members of parliament… and the fact that so many don’t care about that still, and that he was able to become the Prime Minister, is one of the reasons we’re in such a mess.