Reeves hits back at ‘Rachel from accounts’ nickname saying she has spent her life ‘proving people wrong’
Rachel Reeves has hit back at her critics, saying she has spent her life “proving people wrong” when asked if she is hurt by the nickname “Rachel from accounts”...
But asked if she was hurt by the nickname, she said: “I’ve probably been called worse things… in the end, people are going to judge me on the job that I’m doing now, that I’m doing as chancellor of the exchequer.”
Oh dear - the job you have been doing and are doing now is why the name sticks.
It began almost immediately with what? The career claims perhaps? Or maybe the winter fuel payments debacle because it was and still is an absurdly foreseeable political blunder. Being landed with that was a resignation issue, but here you are.
The increased NI as a tax on employment was another debacle in a swamp of debacles, but now it's the strident insistence that all is well and going to plan when it clearly isn't.
'Rachel from Accounts' it is then.
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“ Oh dear - the job you have been doing and are doing now is why the name sticks.”
What chance she will ever realise it?
If she has spent her life “proving people wrong” then she clearly has a problem setting other peoples' expectations. Bit of a drawback if you want to 'talk up' the economy.
Hasn't she ever heard of the Barbra Streisand effect?
Interesting career trajectory. PPE plus a Masters in Economics, and then taken on by the Bank of England. That's a high flyer. It's been pointed out that she must have really mucked things up to go from there into retail banking.
If that's what happened, then a new career in Labour politics would have seemed like a reasonable way out. Better than training as a teacher or setting up a little business as a consultant.
Well she managed to prove her former bank employer wrong, when they thought she was working in her office. Is that what she means?
James - she seems incapable of realising it, others will have to do it for her.
DJ - it is a drawback, she'll need to go easy on talking it up.
Anon - possibly not yet, but someone may point it out to her.
Sam - that does seem to be how it has gone for her so far. She can blag her way in until things go sour, but with politics than can take a long time as it favours the blagger.
Tammly - ha ha, I hope someone reminds her of that.
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