Rachel Reeves crying in PM questions

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She’s visibly crying

You really should reflect on why you don’t want someone more representative of the general public to be in charge. It must actually be really sad to be so narrow minded and bitter, poor you ☹️

Oh 100%! But they care more about holding on to their marginal seats and keeping the gravy train rolling than the future of the country.

Everyone knows, Rayner did this to Reeves. To bring down Starmer. Reeves now has to break her own so called fiscal rules. If she goes, Starmer goes. Then we’ll have full blown socialism.

Buckle up folks…..the clowns have fully taken over the circus.

She was in the middle of a televised meeting. There is no discrete exit to compose yourself in that situation. She powered through as best she could. There is no shame in that.

Her general decision making is much more debatable.

@Jennps where did I mention race? I said classism, perhaps read things properly. And nice cheeky quick edit. 🥱

The average person in an office doesn’t have half the country criticising their work, their appearance, their qualifications. And I can absolutely assure you that if my workplace was reflective of the treatment she gets from the public, I’d be crying.

Kier Starmer was bashed by badenoch for missing PMQs while he was away on official engagements. I’m sure she’d have had some grind to say about Reeves being absent for a personal matter.

Keep paying attention, you might learn something.

@edwinbear she didn't really burst into tears. A tear rolled down her cheek. She wasn't sitting there boohooing. You could see that she was trying not to cry and hold it together.

I'm amazed at the harshness of some of the comments. I completely understand that you may totally disagree with the Labour Party, the political system, the Welfare Reform Bill, VAT on school fees etc, but as one human to another not to have any empathy at all for someone who is clearly distressed, I find surprising. I get that people want to vent about the Labour Party policies and decisions but that is different subject altogether to observing a moment of distress in someone.

Explain how that works with an all-women shortlist?

Ridiculous comment. If you hired a plumber and he flooded your house you’d say he wasn’t up to the job. No one would tell you it’s was time to apply to be a plumber then. This lot were voted in to do a job, they’ve failed spectacularly, we’ve every right to call them out on it.

I wouldn’t need three years off to regain my composure, a few days/weeks would be enough.

For delicate calls or difficult moments I would take them privately. I would remain out of sight until I felt sufficiently confident I could manage my personal life at work.

I’d have a therapist that I would see at lunch times.

If I still couldn’t cope, I would have to resign, in my line of work no one can cry or show personal emotion, so I would need to switch careers. This would the case for many other professions that rely on laser precision and focus - due to the impact on other people’s lives and their outcomes. I would consider government ministers to be in that bracket along with defence.

A high degree of composure is expected and required in many professions. We can’t all be emotionally incontinent.

Awww looook she has nothing good to come back with, poor you

It’s more likely her own party’s actions making her cry. Including Starmer.

ETA did you criticise the last gov?

Once more.

Labour have made things personal - look at some of the rhetoric since they assumed office.

They give no quarter, and can expect none in return.

Keep going @Jennps

I am with you.

Yeah, whatever. You seem to be triggered. Like I say, pay attention.

Keep going with what? She misread what I put and then had no actual come back. She’s classist and frankly I’m sick of out of touch people thinking they know what the majority want / need.

Yes they have. It’s coming back to bite now.

Apparently one of the rebel MPs was overheard saying that’s it’s only a few billion, why can’t they just borrow more.

These are people who are running our country. People so dense light bends around them.

I thought Kemi looked concerned, she did not draw attention to Reeves at all - and she could have done very easily.

I'm going to guess you've never been there because you really have no idea.

You think you'd regain your composure within a fee days of the diagnosis and them never feel it again at any point during 3 years of treatment. That you wouldn't have days when you thought you were OK in rhe morning,or that going to work and keeping busy would do you good, but it turned out you couldn't hold it together?

And even if that is how you'd be, you can't see that others would experience it differently?

To what? You’re random ramblings that don’t relate to the message you’re replying to? Trying to understand.

mixed feelings on RR as a chancellor and certainly no Labour fan but having been stressed to the point by of tears in work on more than one occasion in my career, I absolutely feel for her and hope she gets all the support she needs.

Can you link to where you saw 2 million pounds? Dollars was what came up for me as well.
It's splitting hairs somewhat because even 2 million pounds is not that much in the south east.

I don’t understand. Which part of the changes would make that happen?