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.

Thanks!

Any chance of a share token?

They are careful to say “fake claims” in hyphens. That is not backing this story and leaves the originator to back it up.

Reeves has no cause to respond and won’t.

Unfortunately not - we only have physical copies here and not picking up until later this afternoon.

https://www.independent.co.uk/business/rachel-reeves-has-been-straight-with-the-public-says-no-10-amid-cv-questions-b2649031.html

Buy a subscription cheeky!

Just showing off they know how to use emojies?

They send me a laughing face one via PM, maybe it was a chat up line?

Hopefully this works.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/pressure-grows-on-rachel-reeves-to-explain-fake-claims-on-cv-c98l8lf7d

https://x.com/RachelReevesMP/status/1448957709961859072/photo/1

’I spent a decade working as an economist at the BOE’

That’s patently untrue, as we all now know.

I think you may have hit a nerve!

Fat finger.

It was supposed to be an olive branch following your post being removed by MNHQ.

Well spotted. Good point.

It’s the same style of attack that occurred on Angela Rayner. That was unsuccessful. This will be too for similar reasons.

No, sadly!

Ok

Guess that hit a nerve as well then

How do we prevent cynical types who throw out obvious slurs in thread titles and then sit back happy to see them repeated each time they are rebutted from profiting from corrupting public discourse? A MN fact check function for thread titles?

No, it was simply your contravention of the Talk Guidelines.

Thanks

That’s easy actually; posters of political threads would have to make it clear in the title it represents their opinion.

Anyone can have one of those. Facts have to be established

That's a brilliant idea @bombastix I wish we could make it happen.

MN agreed with you, I am still confused why you felt the need for your fat fingered olive branch pm, but hey, you do you.

Please work on this initiative and keep us posted!

I will ask MN! If anyone else feels positive about this suggestion (which might calm these threads also) then do engage with them.

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Do we? I understood the change related to the HBOS employment.