Rachel Reeves crying in PM questions

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She’s visibly crying

Maybe instead of saying when there is personal reason to cry women should go and hide in the loos, we should be saying to men it is actually okay for us and them to show emotion sometime. There should be no such thing as to 'man up'

Joan said it best.

(apologies if someone has already shared this)

Row with Lindsay Hoyle prior to the session now being reported in the Telegraph

Oh no @edwinbearsorry to hear that

https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics/2024-25

Around 25% of children qualify for free school meals. Admittedly that might not translate to exactly 25% of families. Even so, the poorest quarter of children get free school meals.

https://www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals

This outlines eligibility. The figure of £7,400 income is net income and that figure does not include any benefits you may get.

I’ll remind you of that when you eye surgeon is doing the most delicate of incisions in your eyes. or when the heart surgeon starts sobbing and forgets about her patient.

She was demonstrably out of her depth in the last few years as Shadow Chancellor as many people on here said at the time. It's no surprise she's made a complete shit show in office. She is a dead woman walking and she knows it. Starmer will sack her when the time is right. He'll probably make her announce the inevitable tax rises in the Autumn budget, i.e. blame her for the "bad news", then replace her soon after hoping for a clean slate for her successor.

Wow the first few messages on here are horrible! It shouldn’t matter what your politics are - the poor woman looked in real anguish. We have no idea if this is about yesterday, the alleged altercation with Lindsay Hoyle or something more personal, but I wouldn’t wish that on anybody. I really hope she’s being looked after.

Also being reported that Reeves handed in her resignation this morning. No doubt a lot more to this.

So? Much more competent men might have been selected if it were not for all-women short lists.

So, to recap:

Reeves publicly cries because of infighting (Rayner pulling a fast one), and/or being told off by Hoyle/being shafted by Starmer. So, frustration - like a spoiled child.

Nothing to do some sudden guilt for the misery heaped upon pensioners, small business owners, welfare claimants then?

Right, got it.

As you were…

@EasternStandard he’s doing a reasonable job. And I seriously mean that! Better than Bozo Fuckwit and his tribe……what a damn mess they made.
I mean, for gods sake, just let everyone get on and govern. No one needs to be going anywhere because they say so or don’t support Labour.
I’m concerned that RR is in tears in the Commons. Just been through the bloody menopause myself…..laugh a minute that was…….but we all try our best. She is human.

Ooh - not read that yet!

So when the economy collapses that’s okay because diddums needed a cry. For heavens sake where have the adults gone?!

She's risen to the top in a cut throat business. You'd have to assume she not a woman who's easily upset.

I do think "someone", probably her boss should have told her "don't worry, we've got this today. " Whatever it is.

Nige is that you?

Reform will be interesting as I doubt they have any loyalty to Reform or each other. They also don’t have any overarching political principles to guide them so no common approach on most political decisions.

Badenoch could have increased her own mana so much by rising above and, if asked, saying she refused to humiliate a fellow human being for responding to pressure in a human way. But no. No integrity in that quarter, either.

Reeves has done a poor job, but clearly she has been set up to fail by Starmer, a true weasel of a man. He is still promising billions to Ukraine, still vowing to increase military spending, still promising "more money in your pockets"- what money? Where's it coming from? From what I can understand, Reeves tried to find it by raiding the most vulnerable people in the country, Starmer fully approved, then he allowed her plans to be scuppered just to save his own neck for another day or two.

Dishonour all round. Tears don't matter; they suggest humanity in there somewhere. Which is a good thing because it's not a word that anyone would associate with this government.

She is an embarrassment. Go to the toilet and cry like every one else does.

Government borrowing interest rate has gone up because of those tears.

I wonder how much people care about the tears of disabled people?

The Labour Party won the last election and they are obliged to deliver the manifesto promises that they made and the speech that was made on their behalf by our head of state at the last state opening of Parliament. That's how this shit works. The manifesto was and still is undeliverable, as many economists pointed out. However, whether Starmer or Reeves like it or not that was the platform on which they were elected and therefore that is what they have to try and deliver! It isn't personal, as some people keep saying. It was what was voted for.

And @Soulfulunfurling if you go through Hansard or rewatch PMQs you will see Kemi Badenoch did capitalise on the in house squabbling in the Labour Party. There are plenty of references. It's about the first time Badenoch has landed any punches at all since she became Leader of the Opposition.

There is a significant amount of families working extremely part time or not working at all and claiming the child and housing element of universal credit which costs tax payers significantly more then supporting disabled people who have no choice but we dont talk about that we only talk about how awful and lazy disabled people are as they are an easy target.

I won’t argue it, but then go on to do so anyway.

If she had poor legal advice, that’s on her, she hired the lawyer. She can (presumably) read for herself the sentencing guidelines for the crime she’s pleading to. I did and I wasn’t charged with the crime. It took me approximately ten seconds to find. If I hadn’t committed a particular crime, I wouldn’t plead guilty to it.

Pleading not guilty wouldn’t have reduced her sentence, the opposite is true, unless of course she was found not guilty. Which she wouldn’t have been given the evidence.

all these violent criminals that were released to make room for the Southport rioters….were they all black and brown? If not, where’s the tiers?

The same ‘humanity’ she has shown for pensioners, parents, small business owners, welfare claimants, you mean?

Do me a favour.

I'm thinking a trip to Specsavers!

is this some kind of sickening joke?!!!! My heart bloody bleeds for them 🤢🤮