Rachel Reeves crying in PM questions

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She’s visibly crying

She's my age. I cry at everything and nothing depending on time of month. It's ridiculous and not a true reflection of how I actually am

Och, Starmer doesn’t listen to anyone.

He simply purses those skinny lips, and narrows those porcine eyes, with a look of mounting fury.

Mcfadden is the obvious choice, but that would doubtless anger the left.

I looked at the UK map of PIP assessments. Looking at North Wales because it's my home. Without exception the high areas are drug ridden areas where they have been dumped by English councils in the north West. They're offloaded in sub standard accommodation, along the county line corridor from Liverpool to Holyhead. Lost souls who are their own best customers.

Bad-Enoch 🙄 cutting edge wit right there

Reminds me of “Badison” from Orange is the New Black. That was cringy too but I think that was actually meant to be.

But Badenoch's spokesperson says that the "personal matter doesn't really clear it up" as "you normally tell people what the personal matter is".

mmm, no you don't - you say "personal" as in none of your business

Exactly.

Scraping together VAT for private school whilst I scrape together money to pay school dinner debt. 🫣

At work?!

Don't like her politics but she was visibly upset. Her face was all puffy too. People don't tend to cry in public for no good reason.

I don't even cry at funerals, and there's only a couple of things that would make me cry at work (the cat being on death's door was one of them).

I don't know. Inherited wealth, marrying into wealth, creating wealth before becoming an MP. You'd need to follow it up with how they cash in once they leave politics - Blair, Osborne, Johnston... and the why the money from certain individual and companies finds it way to some ex-MPs and not others.... but this isn't that thread.

I broke down at the hospital yesterday after a diagnosis long awaited. Is that everyone's business?

Says someone who has probably never actually worked with AI

seeing as this is WOMENs.net, I'm surprised at PP for dissing a woman who shows vulnerable emotions.

Seems like a very 'male' standard of being tough = show no vulnerable emotions. Shame that PP aren't rallying to say showing you're upset during a tough week is ok. Bet nobody would be dissing her if said Fuck rather than cried from frustration.

I still like Starmer, Reeves, and fully supported the WFA terms last winter and original benefits eiligiblity proposals.

Maybe I should start voting Tory? <muse>

I think politicians should get paid well as let's be fair its a shit job but the problem with that it makes it hard for them to understand how some of the poorest people in society are actually living their completely out of touch.

Yes think of this aspect @Resetqueen

@raffegiraffetotally! Some weeeks I can take on the world, other weeks I’m a nervous wreck! It’s not a flaw! It’s called being a woman! We’ve been so conditioned by the patriarchy to see crying as weak! As many mumsnetters have stated, they wouldn’t expect a senior MP to show emotion at PMQ! Why is that? Because men have conditioned us to believing society should act a certain way!

being a woman means showing emotion. The fact woman showing emotion at PMQ says it all! The patriarchy always wins! And when farage gets his grubby little hands on the country, we’ll all feel it even worse!

To be fair even a pineapple 🍍 would do a better job at this point so ai is a fair point

Is that you, Rachel?

I think deciding to go to PMQs when a personal matter has caused so much distress was a poor move on her part.

That’ll be because she owns a London house. Which she probably bought a decade or so ago.

I've known children thrive at private sen schools and go on to good jobs and universities.

I've seen them sink in the state sector.

Ditto. But you would surely have enough sense to not go on TV if your face looked like you had been stung by a bee - and were allergic to bee stings - and what were her colleagues thinking letting her. The 'personal matter' should have been used to explain why she wasn't there, not why she was clearly crying, had a face that suggests serious prior sobbing, in the HoC/TV.

“Allies of Reeves later say Reeves was upset after an altercation with Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle - although no-one the BBC spoke to witnessed the interaction personally”

At some point maybe just maybe running a country isn't all that easy and there isn't a magic solution to everything. That's why things are difficult are both parties.

She was sat on the front bench in the Commons! Being filmed. We all cry at times not when you're on telly surely.

Why on earth didn't she feign hayfever or something. Or even leave?