Rachel Reeves crying in PM questions

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She’s visibly crying

One of the better quotes from the media…

Reeves looks how many voters feel.

NEVER A TRUER WORD SPOKEN.

She should have excused herself. She's made herself look weak and scared as well as incompetent.

Oh please, Labour don't care about people killing themselves. Look at the cuts to farmers and Euthanasia.

You are all for big business making millions out of the NHS budget from coerced disabled people killing themselves because they feel like they are a burden, or because a proxy thinks so? And for government to be able to expand the terms without seeking parliamentary approval?

I hope the Lords kill it off.

They certainly didn't pause for thought when Age UK made in plain that some pensioners would die as a result of the wfa changes.

Yes, that is my point.

Reported that poster for what?
Since when have a few swear words warranted a report? Or saying she doesn't care about a politician crying? Far from the only person to say such a thing.

Reporting every little comment is the reason there's unreadable Mumsnet threads where half the comments have been removed 😂

I take it you’ve never been in a situation where you had something pressing and high profile to attend to, had other stressors - personal and/or professional - but believed you could hold yourself only to find you couldn’t. I very much doubt when she woke this morning she thought she would very publicly breakdown at her workplace.

We've paid off our mortgage years ago, put money aside each month for bills, holidays and car maintenance. We have about £10k in savings, and on a good month can put around £200 in an instant access account. We have no debts. I think we are lucky, and probably a lot better off than many. However, we are now being asked to have sympathy for people who can afford to put away £1700 a month just so they can get tax free interest on their savings, and now may not be able to put quite that amount away in the future. Nah, don't think so!

Funny - you’re making a fair amount of contributions yourself to a thread you don’t approve of 😂

RR crying?

Big deal. She's a serial fucking liar and hasnt a clue how economics work.

Quicker she is sacked off the better. Not that any replacement would be an improvement.

Out of her depth, out of tricks and out of time. Like all politicians, she can get to fuck.

You know how interest works? The NHS certainly do given the billions of interest they have had to pay on Labours PFI projects.

Very unprofessional of the Chancellor I have to say. She should know that these things have an impact on the economy - investors confidence was already shaky her tears do nothing to reassure them about the competence of this government.

Anyone can have a bad day and I feel sorry for her, but we deserve better.

Yep

Poor soul, i hate to see anyone crying, i hope she's ok

I didn't vote for Labour (didn't vote for anyone because I believed then as I do now that the country is in such a state that no party can fix it) but I actually feel a bit sorry for Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves. She fucked up over NI contributions but I despair over the Welfare and WFA U turns.

As the saying goes, if nothing changes, nothing changes. They're never going to get any major changes to anything through in the next four years are they?

How depressing.

I'd be crying too if I were in her shoes. She can't fix anything without tough decisions. The people want miracles but at the same time "dont touch my WFA", "dont touch my benefits", "you want to kill the poor and disabled, no reform", " don't raise my taxes", "give me pay rise" spend more on NHS, Police, education , foreign aid, asylum seekers and on and on. Slow death for the UK it is then.

If she isn’t she needs to resign.

Labour pledged the tax thing pre GE and didn’t say much about cuts before it either.

The majority of people making new claims for PIP are young people claiming for mental health and behavioural conditions.

Instead of wringing our hands about people killing themselves because they feel like they’re a burden (a very tiny % I’m sure) we should be discussing why the profile of claimants has changed in this way.

Why are young people so anxious they can’t use public transport or deal with the public as part of their job? These are two examples I’ve read on MN this week.

You've got to be kidding.

I'm talking about her Masters in economics from the LSE. As anyone on here whose child has applied to the LSE knows, that's a pretty challenging thing to do. The last Chancellor with a 'real job' before was Jeremy Hunt, & I had the misfortune of doing some work for one of his companies once. Running a company is nothing like running a country, and having some background in the effects of the bigger picture is a good thing.

Sigh.

I voted for Kier Starmer as leader of the Labour party.

I regret voting for him, and also regret being in the Labour party at all. They have been such a disappointment.

Rach is not qualified for her role.

Labour seems to be ideologically captured and it feels like a lot of sixth formers are running the country.

Starmer seems to have no integrity or meaningful position on anything.

I absolutely hated the Tories, but honestly, I'd probably take Boris back right now! I am sad we don't have better leaders who can just inspire confidence.

I quite like sensible tories like Tom Tugendhat. I wish he was PM!

Britain has a lot of problems right now, big ones, and I feel quite worried as do many people.

I do not think cutting off disabled people (at least the way they have done it) is the right answer to any of those problems.

What they should do instead is what Germany does and actually help disabled people into work in a meaningful way - I have disabled family and it's extremely difficult to find work and the job people are bloody useless making ridiculous suggestions.

I think they have rushed through legislation in a panic.

I think a lot of our best MPs were lost in the last 10 years from all the ruckus and very few sensible ones are left.

I don't feel sympathy for her because she wanted to be famous really, that is why she is there.

Then we will all be crying.

Wes Streeting is the only one that seems to be up to the job IMO.