Rachel Reeves crying in PM questions

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She’s visibly crying

There are so many pro-growth things she could have done but didn't.

Such as?

I just saw the clip - how incredibly embarrassing for Labour.

It simply isn't a position you should be holding if you're incapable of controlling your emotions.

Exactly! I couldn’t put it better myself.
Love that expression btw, so many connotations. Perfect. I’m nicking it.

I'm the same @SummerFrog25 ... I cry when I'm really really fucking livid, so I've cried at work a few times (different jobs, thank fuck).

I'm also the world ugliest crier...I go bright red, which takes AGES to go away, so everyone can tell for a long time afterwards...

Notice how that Labour lemmings are swerving the fact that gilt yields are higher than they were Liz Truss and the pound fell to day also.

There are no Tory defenders here, but how are these people defending Labour with a straight face.

MPs voted down an amendment to stop people killing themselves because they consider themselves to be a burden. In other words, they voted for people to kill themselves if they felt they were a burden.

And that is before you consider the huge risk to disabled and vulnerable people being coerced. Why do you think all disabled groups and the royal college of psychiatry was against the assisted suicide bill?

And no I don’t think women should be able to kill full term babies before the give birth.

@Bluebellwood129
Yes, I agree….I’m not a fan of the NI increases either

I don't agree with you. Do you really, looking back over the last 15 years, think the Tories did a good job?

Well, the images of RR crying are rather like the situation with a friend of ours crying. She’s a German teacher in a private school - made redundant and cried at work. The private school can no longer afford to teach German at all due to VAT/NI impacts that RR has implemented so friend was simply deleted.

But they did so anyway.

Mostly things you would probably hate:

• deregulation
• low tax agenda for business
• tax breaks for R&D

Just lowering corporation tax would have sent a great signal that the UK is open for business. But no, we up the NICS instead. Way to go, Rachel.

Yes they did. If I was an MP I’d have voted for it too.

Please do point out to me where I said in my post 'The Tories did a good job'?

And please do share with me the inner workings of Labour's vision and strategy? And how they're enacting it?

It's a trash thread, it shouldn't even be on AIBU.

To be fair Labour aren’t going to win any prizes for management of the economy considering the shit show they left in 2010.

And that was without a war in Europe or a pandemic.

Read other threads then and hide it. It’s not hard.

Well we’re on page 35 so clearly people want to discuss it

Time for this again.

That was the worst economic policy to get people back to work. Like shooting yourself in the foot and knee.

Much of what is unraveling for Labour stems from this.

Um, I thought people on Mumsnet were supposed to be the smartest women in society. What happened in 2008? The greatest economic crash since the Great Depression. Egged on by Gordon Brown and the American's.

Any government would have had to borrow that much money to print the money to get the banks out of the financial meltdown.

Well if it's true that her breakdown was due to a personal matter she could and should have excused herself from PMQs on account of being unwell or dealing with a family crisis and no-one would have been any the wiser. Obviously the timing of it would have caused some speculation on the back of the humiliating climbdown she's just had to do (again) but it can't possibly have been any worse than the speculation this public weeping and loss of gravitas is causing.

If it was because of having the mother of all shit days at work, feeling unsupported by your boss, thrown under a bus by your party and hated by the country, then as Chancellor of the Exchequer sitting weeping on the front bench, of course she's going to insist it was due to an unrelated personal matter.

This is what politicians do. Lie to us when it's blatantly obvious they are lying, pretend everything is fine and that there are no behind the scenes dramas or fall-outs when it's obvious there are, and spin shit situations into something they think sounds plausible.

Yes, what a wonderful contribution to political discourse. You can write this one down in your diary as one of your life's greatest achievements 😂

So basically she was damned whatever she did.