Rachel Reeves crying in PM questions

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She’s visibly crying

It’s up now on various articles. I didn’t watch the PMQs but saw it there.

Really? It can be pretty brutal for women in the Scottish Parliament.

Sorry, but the most Government finances round the world have been utterly dire since 2008 - here in the UK, that was a Labour government.

Reeves knows what the rest of the country doesn’t, and she has good reason to cry. Trust me. They have massively let down their voters, who they promised the world too.

I am thrilled she is crying!!

She can join the thousands of children and parents who have cried as their private schools have closed down or that their parents couldn't afford the 20% increase.

May she not rest in peace.

Presumably she didn't come up with these policies and announce them all on her own - the Cabinet must have backed them.

Nothing worse than a boss who throws his reports under the bus, I've lost respect for the lot of them tbh and I say that as a traditional Labour voter.

I am sure you could do better. What happened to women supporting women??

That may be true, but that's why we've had such shocking governments. Even the working classes subconsciously believe we should be governed by the ruling classes, with their condolence and stiff upper lips.

This.

He's fucked up her budget by caving to rebels. She and her team have probably worked night and day on this and it's in ruins.

I'm no fan of Reeves but she and many have been shafted by starmers weakness.

Honestly, good. As a disabled person who claims PIP and works full time I have cried many many times over the proposed changes to PIP and the impact it will have on me and others like me. The whole lot of them are disgusting.

I've watched it and I can't see her cry.

You don't blindly support women when they are deliberately hurting others. That's like asking why I didn't support Thatcher!

Reported. Obviously. As if private school pupils are a major priority for the government.

Poor woman looks broken to me

m.youtube.com/watch?v=P9jOUSCesmY&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD

And the Tories have had 14 years to do something about it. In that time the level
of people in receipt of state support has increased hugely, while poverty levels have similarly increased. I’ve not seen anyone with any decent ideas to try and tackle that - but it does need tackling.

It says that she’s dealing with a private matter in The Telegraph - just updated now.

Then she should not have done into the lions den. Another example of her lack of judgement.

According to BBC, her sister was seen to comfort her on the way out. Otherwise I might have gone with the hay fever explanation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg33njxve0t?post=asset%3Aaf81217e-7250-4352-b1df-5f57ec250654#post

The really sad thing is that she was trying to do the right thing.

It is madness to give a bung to the richest portion of society (pensioners) while taxing young families heavily.

The country cannot afford to have an ever increasing proportion of the population self-declare as disabled and get given money which allows them not to work. Generous welfare benefits sound kind but just trap millions in poverty. (and yes, I know there are some disabled who can never work but they would not have been impacted as they would still have qualified).

Shame on the Labour rebels who have voted not to address the country's challenges.

And shame on the Conservatives for trashing the economy in the last 14 years.

It’s called Labour imploding. Maybe she’s read the bond markets situation.

Women supporting women who are making a hash of their job just because they’re women?! Bloody hell I’ve heard it all now.

And if she failed to appear at PMQs dealing directly with the country’s finances…?

Why would you report me?

I am entitled to my opinion.

Private school children have been negatively affected by RR. I hope she resigns. Vile women.

I was at risk of having my PIP taking away. I don’t hold Rachel Reeves solely responsible for that. Liz Kendall is the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, she could have chosen any other part of the welfare system to reform, instead of PIP, but she didn’t.

I don’t disagree with cuts to Winter Fuel Allowance either, it was just the threshold that was too low, now imo it’s too high. We need to get away from this notion that pensioners are all poor because they’re absolutely not.

Reckon she will be gone by the end of the day