Rachel Reeves crying in PM questions

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She’s visibly crying

It seems RR is crying because Kier’s U turn on targeting the most vulnerable in our society is going to leave a £5.5 billion black hole in her pot.

Exactly this!
And there are SO MANY horribly wrong things happening, just look at the state of Children's Services for example, which needs desperate changes (and a lot nothing to do with funding).
But public outcry only happens when folks are personally affected - and mostly when their pockets are hit.
You cant just magic up money out of nowhere, PIP nd benefit changes to my understanding are meant to be done reasonably and in a positive way encouraging for people to not be entirely dependent - on a system that simply can't support it.

I completely agree with this.

Every party has shown itself to be wanting. And the people running the show for at least the last 15 years have been overall quite useless.

In what way is taking measures that move private school kids to state helping anyone? Its a policy that distresses the kids and costs the state money, what is the sense in that?

Guess we all need an Iron Chancellor - an Otto von Bismarck then or one that doesn't cry at dispatch box. How can she carry on?! Cameras will be waiting to her to do it again - too much of a distraction from £££.

This

The world is to busy being both gobsmacked and terrified by Trump to notice

Stop paying for thousands of undocumented young men to enter the country and be housed and fed at a cost of billions. There’s the real ‘black hole’, the cost we are not allowed to challenge.

It's the speed at which people who were arrested for any infringement during the Southport demonstrations, put up in front of a judge and jailed with the maximum term. Oh and the fact violent criminals were released to 'make room' for all the white working class trouble makers (some of whom were elderly and have since died in jail). Then are the slowwwww cases like MP Mike Amsebury... no swift justice here just a hope that if it's left long enough everyone will just forget....
That was all down to Starmer knowing the court system inside out, declaring 'swift action' on anyone breaking the law (the kind of breaking of the law that would normally result in a slapped wrist or conviction with minimal term). He wanted to crush anyone who might have ideas about upsetting his term as PM. Think it has rather backfired.

I'm sorry to hear that.

I burst into tears at work last year when I had a phone call from my letting agent to tell me the landlord wanted to sell the house, 12 months to the day after we'd been evicted from our last house when they wanted to sell! Luckily my work colleagues are also human & gave me a hug rather than tell me I was a silly cow.

If she is, perhaps that's appropriate and should be normalised instead of stigmatised? I can think of many, many, many politicians of many parties who SHOULD have been crying (for shame, if nothing else, but often in absolute despair) many, many times, but didn't.

And @2dogsandabudgie& @roses2 You are assuming she knew ahead of time that something awful was going to happen.

Like I should have? I didn't know beforehand that he was going to die, I didn't know how, when and where I was going to be told, I also had to tell others (family and work colleagues).

Fortune telling powers too required for public office?

FGS, have some compassion.

FTSE 100 currently showing a 0.36% drop. I'm not sure I'd call that "tanking" to be honest.

Also known as tall poppy syndrome and it is rife in the UK.

Which, as world at one was saying, will now come out of departmental budgets.

So don't bet on those potholes being fixed or that bus service to rural areas being saved

If you still think certain jobs are a, "men's game' because of outdated ideas of acceptable emotional expressions; then arguably the individual who thinks that, really should re-examine their heretical beliefs and be reminded that it is 2025 not 1955!

Simply saying it's personal circumstances is not going to cut the mustard.

id take it personally if I was incompetent at my job too

if it's a genuine issue, family death, illness etc of course I feel for her, but she shouldn't have done PMQ's .

feeling thrown under the bus by two tier is much more likely the 'personal circumstance'

Not even Keir Starmer would be that heartless would he if that was the case?

Are you well? The Prime Minister doesn’t control the courts

the same swift action was taken by the Tory government after the riots in the 2010’s

The school bullies are out in force today.

Labour are totally stuffed. Their brainless rebel MPs have made this country ungovernable and this government will fold rapidly. We’ll get reform in instead who will bin all disability payments entirely. But that’s what happens when idiots are made into MPs and don’t like cold hard truths of government.

Just looking at the Labour supporters who have never voted for a woman leader. This plays right into their hands....

Yes this last line.

This. The world has a lot bigger issues then the UK government

I assume this is written with tongue firmly in cheek….