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.

Why not, you don't get many free passes as a female!

She was a hot mess during her crying presumably because she is realising that she is crap at her role and it all got too much.

She looked as though she was about to collapse and should have excused herself. Personal reason my bottom. It all got too much for her and Starmer was so engrossed with his own yapping he didn’t even notice!

She did not.

Seriously?

You're right that women don't get many free passes. Which is why being the first female chancellor, and also being the first chancellor to cry in the house when under pressure is not a great combo.

The problem it really undermines the fight against misogyny.

The bare facts are that her fiscal policies have impacted every level of society in a negative way and damaged growth.
The criticism is valid.

Starmer, Sunak, Johnson, Blair, Brown, Major, Prescott and more have all been reduced down to their looks, demeanor, personality etc.

If ONLY she realised that and spared us all the effects of her incompetence! Alas…!

Quite.

Of course there’s a large helping of misogyny involved.

What U turns has she done?

Yes but society can't have it both ways, the press gassed on about her crying, correspondingly has articles on the damaging manosphere culture and violence towards women especially if committed by an asylum seeker and how women need protection from this but then feeds the misogyny with the Rachel from Accounts stuff.

Well this exactly what the people like them do. They either use their gender or race to get away with their incompetence. I expect Mandani to be saying people are racist towards him when he starts his cock ups just like Sadiq Khan in London. In the meantime their agenda goes through.

Do you follow markets? lets stop with the re writing of history and look at what happened?
Gilts went up slightly, they then dropped back to where they were when realised she was staying in post, as they believe her when she says she will not break her fiscal rules on borrowing.

Talking of markets, FTSE was 8300 when Labour took office, they are now 9500.

I ve done very well since she has been in office, as has everyone else who has an equities based pension.

"what's her face" is pretty misognistic.

I can see how you think that. except I genuinely forgot her name for a minute there and I absolutely refer to "whats-his-face" on a regular basis - I'm not great at names and this is x100 for people in the public eye. It's endlessly entertaining to DH!

Sturgeon - book mark this 😂

I think Boris was a twat. Rishi Sunak is perfectly decent and honourable.

Anyone who doesn't agree/says something against a female, even another female is automatically labelled a misogynist these days 🙄

I'm watching Celebrity Masterchef currently. Honestly, it's ridiculous. I can't discuss it with anyone as I've got not a single name right. I regularly forget the hosts' names too! As I'm tying, I know it's Grace and..... it will come to me in about 3 minutes...! So for now it's Grace and whats-his-face - the aussie guy....

Because she fibbed about the 2/3 years at HBOS. The joke is a specific reference to the fib she told about her job at HBOS.

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"

I mean, newsreaders and presenters 'accidentally' call him Jeremy C**t on TV and radio fairly often. And he was slated all over the place at the time.

I understand. I'm the same. I'm a nightmare to watch telly with as I have to google faces I recognise to see what they were in before!

Whats the connection between her linkdin profile, being involved in complaints at HBOS and "Rachel from Accounts?"

She has never worked in Accounts.

I don't recall Hunt being called "Jerry from the bookshop" he had a publishing company.

Hunt Cxxt they rhyme and a profuse apology followed, as far as i know, it happened once or twice, not fairly often.

I think she changed her role from Economist there to just retail banking

There is absolutely something wrong with crying when you're supposed to be reassuring the nation that you have the mettle to steer their economy.

With a PPE degree from Oxford, a Master’s in Economics from the LSE, and six years as an economist at the Bank of England, Reeves is hardly underqualified - in fact she's better qualified than most of her male predecessors. I'm not the biggest fan of the government, but by concentrating on infrastructure (see Oxford-Cambridge Growth corridor, acceleration of house-building), education, and industrial strategy she has managed to combine broadly progressive policies (freezing rail fares and prescription charges during cost of living crunch, increasing green investment), with fiscal prudence (no reckless borrowing or unfunded tax cuts). As the markets have responded broadly positively in terms of investment and stabilisation of the bond markets, I do think the term 'Rachel for accounts' is a very gendered way of undermining her technical abilities.

100% this^

Despite all the howls of "We are heading for the IMF" (ever since july 2024!) it hasn't happened, UK credit rating still good, gilts stabilising, growth better than we have had in recent years.

A long way from the IMF

I agree 100%.