Rachel Reeves crying in the House of Commons

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AIBU to think it's possible to feel sympathy for Rachel Reeves for being visibly upset at Prime Minister's Question Time today, even if you revile Labour and its policies?

Lots of misogyny on Twitter - the UK is a laughing stock because of the behaviour of menopausal women in the Commons (including an example of Stella Creasy with her baby in a sling asleep and another of Angela Rayner flashing); women can't hack it etc etc.

I can only imagine it must feel dreadful to know the world has watched you in distress and that the financial markets have reacted because of fears of government instability. The phrase 'bring your whole self to work' is a piece of HR speak I can't abide but what we saw today was Rachel Reeves doing just that. Despite my sympathy for her, it would have been better all round for the upset part of her to have stayed in her Downing Street flat.

She needs her cards for that im afraid.

She has my utmost sympathy, i hate to see anyone in distress.

But she is on the worlds stage for better or worse, emotion cannot be shown because people lose confidence

Its harsh but its human nature

I agree she has to go. In her shoes, I would resign because of having embarrassed the government and myself. If KS doesn't replace her, he looks even weaker than he does already.

She should perhaps have faked an emergency and not entered the chamber. It just gives her enemies ammunition.

BTW her enemies are not the ones sitting opposite her.

Twas ever thus in politics.

She is an intern and out of her depth. Zero sympathy. She should never have been in the job, she’s incompetent. She continues to destroy the UK, children and families prospects and is a threat to the nation. She should be crying. Don’t give a shiny shit that she’s a woman.

I feel really sorry for her. I've cried at work before, it would have been a hundred times worse if I'd had cameras on me and people were thinking I should lose my job because I got a bit emotional.

The thing is .. She's chancellor...if she's in tears and doesn't say why you start to think "oh fuck"

If it's true and she's had a row with the speaker then again you have to question her mental fortitude. Harsh I know but you have to expect a level of professionalism.

If you think I'm being hard, I collect deceased people for a funeral director and have to face people who have lost a child, a partner, a grandparent...how would it look if i.was in floods, how would it effect them?

I don't get how she faces such condemnation for being a human yet people like Boris can sleep around with impunity.

Karma.

Well she brought some pretty silly decisions to the table and it has backfired on her.
My daughter’s part time job is closing because of the NI hikes and goodness knows where she’ll find work when she graduates in six weeks. That’s a worry I feel daily as does my daughter and countless others in the country. She should have been more professional today but she absolutely needs to go

I could t see her crying on the video ? Just looking knackered . I mean… I have cried at work, but you do it in the toilets don’t you? Not when you know you’ll be on tv..,

Yes exactly. Reeves has been done in by her own. Worth some tears, but not in the Commons. Politics is a blood sport

Yes always in the toilets! If i suddenly broke down opposite the other side in a negotiation in my job i honestly dread to think my boss' reaction

Call me naive but it might be something private on top of everything and her argument with Speaker was just the last straw.
Of course she’s grown up and at the top job and should have controlled herself but it might be one and only time in her life when she couldn’t.

Yes it’s not as if her decisions haven’t impacted people. That said Starmer is even more accountable.

She's making women in positions of power look like they can't hack it. I'm sorry I know if you're a minority you shouldn't be held up as an example of everyone in that minority but we all know that you will be. She should have claimed illness or family emergency if she couldn't keep it together.

Nobody forced her to take a high pressure high profile job

I'd far rather have people in Government like Rachel Reeves who are human and have emotions, than people like Liz Truss (cwho I felt sorry for at the time), but who had no emotions at all. People without emotions are psychopaths.

YANBU. I feel for anyone in distress. Then again she should never have taken the job that she isn't really able to do.

I’m sure Truss has emotions. Even if she didn’t cry at PMQs

Regardless pf your political persuasion at that level you need to learn to keep your emotions in check.

I dont want senior ministers crying ffs.

I hate the Labour Party but no-one wants to see someone in distress .

I wish she hadn’t cried - perhaps there are other chancellors of the exchequer who have but I don’t know of any. Whatever is going on, however much sympathy one has for her as a person doing a difficult job - rather badly unfortunately - it doesn’t look good.

I did expect Labour to resist the PIP thing as that’s sort of what they’re for but if they end up costing the taxpayer MORE, then they will show what amateurs they are. I don’t think they want to do the wrong thing but they keep doing it.

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Its also unfortunate that she made such a big song and dance about being the first female chancellor.

She is now also the first to cry publically, put across the view that she cant hack it, cant do the job, and have markets react accordingly.

The more unkind in life will draw a parallel between those two firsts.

I feel fucking let down she has allowed that to happen

After witnessing the sheer distress she has caused disabled people over the last few months I just carnt feel sorry for her.