Has Reeves hit a new low- saying it's misogyny?

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I couldn't believe I was reading this today.

She accuses her critics of being against her budget plans because she is a woman. (But ignores the number of U turns she's done because of the criticism from back benchers)

Using the 'misogyny' card is really desperate IMO.

Hancock was allowed to cry. The reason is secondary. Of course he hasn’t complained. He had nothing to complain about

He distracted himself from the pandemic with an extramarital affair partially conducted in the workplace, This is grave and his preoccupation with personal affairs may well have been a contributory factor to the 23,000 avoidable excess deaths we have just learnt of.

As pointed out by PP, the criticism from those who are so vociferous towards the Chancellor has been strangely muted.

She's a senior politician and needs to own her bad decisions

Her own party doesn't seem to agree with her either - is that misogyny or realism?

I don't necessarily think being against the budget is misogyny but criticism of her and her budget (not what is in it) has definite been misogynistically based.

Rachel from Accounts for instance. Demeaning her to just a woman who works in a job that isn't public facing and is 'admin'.

It comes over as if when you can't stand the heat in the kitchen you accuse everyone they are being horrid to you because you are a woman.
Not because you are incompetent.

I am sure there will be male MPs who we could accuse of misogyny (including Keir who is a nasty piece of work) but she plays into their hands by doing U-turns the moment they turn up the heat.

Quite. To add to your list, Commie Corbyn and Call me Dave.

Shes called Rach from accounts because she lied on her cv and is grossly under qualified.

Im really tired of women using misogyny as a catch all for any criticism.

I've just seen some comments on this budget which I think are quite apt.

^No-one wants to be affected by anything, and any budget which impacts them or doesn't impact them positively is a "bad" budget.

I am expecting condemnation wholesale no matter what is announced tomorrow because some group or other will be assaulted/suffer a tax raid/made poorer/not get the positives things.

Labour could up all the "left-wing" child benefits and school lunches and it would be framed as helping selfish families with too many kids, or giving immigrants and scroungers free money.

They could tax millionaires, but then it would be framed as attacking the middle class, or forcing a exodus of talented people to leave the country.

They could hit income tax across all brackets, but then what about those poor mums with all their hungry kids and hardworking tradies just trying to earn a crust.

And if they don't raise taxes, then they'll be called out for not fixing the budget deficit and country debt.

Let's be honest, we're going to be told to hate this budget and Rachel Reeves regardless of what's in it.^

And Spreadsheet Phil is...?

It wasn't (just) the time she worked there. She claimed to have worked as an economist at HBOS. She actually ran a customer relations dept in their retail arm.

When the Times investigation made this public, she removed all mention of her working as an economist at HBOS from her online presence and replaced it with references to working in 'Retail Banking'. Her dept dealt mostly with complaints and mortgage retention.

When a politician - someone we hold to a high standard of truth as they ask us to trust them with running the country - gets caught fibbing, they get rinsed for it by the press, the public and their political opponents. Man or woman, black or white. Always have, always will.

The joke isn't that she's not a qualified economist, it's a reverse of the exaggeration she made. That she's a woman is irrelevant; 'Bob from Accounts' is the exact same joke.

Perhaps if she was a competent chancellor there wouldn’t be room for misogyny.

Male politicians are given so much slack
Where have you been in the last 10 years? Yeah Boris and his team never ever got criticised, especially during Covid 🤣

Yes this is true but why the focus on 2/3 years at HBoS and not her 6 years at the Bank of England?

Jeremy Hunt broke anti money laundering rules, a far more serious thing, yet no one makes any reference to that, it was all "an admin error"

Dredging up whataboutery from years ago, is that the best you can do?

Im really tired of women using misogyny as a catch all for any criticism
This! Men don't pay much attention to it but neither do a majority of women any longer because the way it's branded about any time a woman is criticised, making her a poor, vulnerable, misunderstood victim on the spot!

Jeremy Hunt was destroyed by the media when he was heading the NHS, and rightly so!

‘Rachel from accounts’ is a response to the absolute porkers she’s told on her CV. People are rightly furious about this. She’s incompetent and unqualified for her position. Don’t give a rats ass whether she’s a woman. I do care about the wrecking ball she’s taken to the economy.

There is always room for misogyny.

The most highly decorated women in STEM, some of whom have been honoured by more than one Head of State, were regularly mocked through their careers (the most decorated ones are retired now) by snotty male undergraduates - as far as I can see, mainly because they did not dress or groom to please young men.

See also Theresa May, the best PM

Cont’d … of the last decade - admittedly not a high bar

Yes i would be too apart from its not happened, the economy in Labours 1st 16months has done better than the last 16months of the Tories governance, which included 6 months of recession.

Unemployment was 8% under them, 5% now.

Stats can be used either way, so whilst its gone up since july 2024, the number of jobs in the economy are at record highs, as is tax take.

What qualifications are required to be Chancellor?

💚Come back Gordon Brown Alistair Darling George Osborne Philip Hammond Sajid Javid Rishi Sunak Nadhim Zahawi Kwasi Kwarteng Jeremy Hunt!! All is forgiven!! 🤑

Also John Major as Underpants Man

Her job was awarded to her because there was a dearth of talent to fill the role and she was a woman.
DEI at it best! ( ꩜ ᯅ ꩜;) 

She breezed in with arrogance, she thought she was automatically 'good' and clever because she is a Labour MP. She has assured us that she we will be better off in many different ways.
We do not believe her because none of the measures she has brought in will benefit most of us. (only the feckless who have litters of children will do well).
Worst of all it is not a case of enduring for just another 12 months until it gets better.
There is no sign of improvement in the future, no reason whatever to be optimistic. So why would we soft pedal our opinions of her.

Of course it's bloody misogyny. Open your eyes to how ALL women are described in the media.

Some of the bias against women is unconscious, like all bias. But it's no excuse.

Is the economy her fault or is it a mess due to global macro factors and "the Tories 14 years of mismanagement".

She has an MSc in economics from the LSE. So why doesn't she just apply what she learnt.

She has put my child’s future in jeopardy and for that I despise her. Anyone else with kids in the UK should too. Nothing to do with misogyny. Their future prospects are through the floor. The country will not recover from the damage they are doing. Despise Starmer too.