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.

Seems unlikely someone with a PPE degree from Oxford would want a job as a tea lady...for 6 years!

Is that the book she was accused of plagiarism for?

She is a real piece of work.

And anyway organisations like this have internal hospitality teams who bring coffee and teas to their desks - no-one is hanging about in the staff kitchen waiting for the kettle to boil

Yes - that's the book.

Well, she didn't deny that she made mistakes.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/26/rachel-reeves-labour-denies-plagiarism-new-book-female-economists

I expect she was on that hospitality team then. But not very high up. Probably just responsible for washing up the cups and saucers.

No. just the saucers. The cups were allocated to a higher grade.

An examination by the Financial Times of the book found more than 20 examples of passages from other sources that appeared to be either lifted wholesale, or reworked with minor changes, without acknowledgment.

The sources cited by the paper included an obituary from the Guardian, several Wikipedia entries and a passage from a fellow Labour frontbencher.

Marvellous!

And definitely not the silver spoons. You need to be properly qualified to do those.

Yes and isn't it refeshing that she admitted the mistakes

And she didn't even get her lawyers to send threatening letters to the FT

Yay

A public flogging would be too good for her!

Needs to walk around naked, with a nun saying shame whilst ringing a bell

Or in charge of importing flat whites from Starbucks … an economist job.

The problem with the left is that they try and defend the indefensible. Then their luvvies keep making the same mistakes, leaving their supporter with egg in their faces. But the ideological tribalism means that these supporters cannot step back and admit that they backed a dud. And just keep going, looking more stupid: Another way of explaining the definition of insanity.

Yep, filling up the thread with nonsense as a deliberate ploy is really quite lame. Give it six months when unemployment has risen due to the Budget measures and I'm not sure people will be quite so supportive of her credentials.

And no, I'm not an economist (unless you count A level economics and an ACA) but then again, you don't need to be an economist to understand why it's a bad Budget at both the macroeconomic and corporate level.

It’s also so poor behaviour which has been raised before disappears. I am embarrassed for them.

And the latest inflation numbers out showing inflation is rising again.

What a disaster the ‘economist’ chancellor is. Totally incompetent and calling her an economist is an insult to the profession. But hey let’s find the tenuously embarrassing argument that she is the first female chancellor. Comes decades after the first female PM.

Economic growth down, inflation up, taxes also increasing. Next will be unemployment increase.

But the ideologically driven will still try and defend this. Yeah but, no but, yeah but…..

A Labour MP on radio trying to defend the pensioners pushed into poverty

Utterly hopeless

Economic growth down, inflation up, taxes also increasing. Next will be unemployment increase.

How they spin this good who knows

Here’s the latest gem. The minister for food and rural affairs yesterday was telling the farmers and other MPs, like directly telling them that Farmers are wrong that they think they will be hit by capital gains because they can avoid it by tax planning.

So let’s see….

Capital gains tax increased to prevent ax avoidance and then the government is telling people that it’s all ok because they should consult tax consultants about how to avoid it, because the mechanisms are built in for them to do so.

This government is made up of clowns. They seem to be surpassing the previous lot. When the entire government is a joke, it’s not exactly jaw dropping that we have a chancellor that has no clue and is making it up as she goes along.

It’s wholly predictable.

But the Tories…..
But she’s the first female chancellor
But its misinformation

yadda, yadda, yadda

It can’t be spun. But ideologically driven will still embarrass themselves by trying.

This is so funny. You could easily replace left with right in this. Just look at this thread!

Filling up a thread that has turned quite nasty with trivia seems like a good idea to me. Who wants to keep a nasty thread going? 🤔

After all it has become quite an echo chamber - it's not like anyone is changing their view.

And why would you when people keep posting the same thoughts over and over despite the debunking?