Rachel Reeves - potential successor?

[GroundZero]

Apparently, the Tories have launched a petition www.sackreeves.com urging the PM to sack the Chancellor, after she was accused of misleading the public over the state of the UK’s finances.

If she is sacked, who could/should replace her?

With respect - that’s wrong.

I work in the sector currently - and the majority of people are hugely professional and competent.

Also, we recruit on a meritocratic basis - the old boy’s network is nowhere near where it was.

Well they did negotiate the terrible Brexit deal which is the main cause of all of this misery.

Have you seen the polling? Hiking taxes again, looming hospitality closures, most people are pissed.

I don’t think there will be an opening but I’m sure Torsten Bell would be suitable

What was Labour’s voting record during that period?

This was Bell's budget.

Ok! Rachel Reeves worked in a junior role at the bank of England. Her embellished CV, presents her as a senior economist.

Suella Bravermann is an actual barrister. As a result of her law practice she became Attorney General. What is your opposition to this appointment? Authentic CV.

Sunak worked and does now, work at Goldman Sachs, with an authentic CV.

George Osbourne, I will leave it there. Never liked the man and still don’t.

Ok, putting aside Reeves’s mendacity and questionable competence, and addressing her pandering to the back benches.

A family with three children that has at least one parent claiming the average rates of Universal Credit (UC), combined with other benefits, will receive up to £46,000 by next year, according to the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ).

That compares with the £28,000 take-home earnings of a family where one adult is working full-time, and another part-time, on the national living wage.

Let that sink in.

This is why many - genuinely working - people, are apoplectic.

Suitable in what way? He won’t get the electorate onside and you’ll need that to get votes.

Agreed.

@TheAutumnCrow

What was Labour’s voting record during that period?

Are you immune to Labour’s impact? Why?

People don’t vote for Cabinet Ministers. We talking about a replacement for RR

Sure same thing. His policies won’t get the electorate onside. They haven’t this time with his involvement.

Labour were absolute wusses over the EU referendum and Brexit but they were not in government. The Conservatives were and are responsible for Brexit.

Brexit has affected all of us, significantly. As has the infiltration of British institutions by gender identity ideology.

I’ll not be voting for Labour, haven’t for many years, have never voted Conservative, and would only ever contemplate voting for either as a tactical vote to keep out a Reform candidate in a general election. I am politically homeless.

A petition against a democratically elected and appointed cabinet minister, though? Who the fuck do the Conservatives think they are? The Oxford Union?

It’s a Hobson’s Choice for Starmer - he will be compelled to put in a left winger in an attempt to placate the back benches, further alienating the electorate in the process.

No.

And see above ^^ I’m politically homeless.

Yes I think his brief was save my leadership. Bell was chosen for backbenchers. That’s not going to work with voters and you can see it with this budget.

To answer your question, given Reeves lied during campaigning, and has lied subsequently - numerous times, I think the outrage against the Tories, faux or otherwise, is no longer applicable.

That train has long left the station.

Elmo!

Well, you could vote tactically at the next GE.

It’s how Labour got in, after all.

I’ve already said I’d consider it in a reply to you, to (try to) keep out Reform.

Who would you put forward as “a left winger” though?

McFadden would be the obvious choice.

Absolutely!