Nigel Farage is 'greatest threat' to livelihoods, says Chancellor - as protester interrupts her Labour conference speech
The Chancellor has branded Nigel Farage’s agenda the "single greatest threat" to British people’s livelihoods as her Labour conference speech was interrupted by a pro-Palestine protester.
Rachel Reeves accused the Reform UK leader of pushing “falsehoods” and “easy answers”.
It comes as polls show Mr Farage is on course to be Prime Minister, with his party overtaking Labour with voters.
"The single greatest threat to our way of life and to the living standards of working people is the agenda of Nigel Farage and the Reform party,” Ms Reeves told the annual political conference in Liverpool on Monday.
Rachel from Accounts would do better by trying a spot of honesty about the political difficulties she faces. Easy to say of course, but not so easy for any member of her absurdly dishonest government.
Yet Reeves could do better and admit the difficulty her party has with spending and the resistance to cutting back even on waste, because everyone knows there are vast swathes of waste to be scythed from government spending.
Politically though the Chancellor can't admit the monumental scale of it. Until her party grasps this problem, the political mire is where they'll stay. Everyone knows it too, apart from Starmer as far as we can tell.
Unfortunately for Reeves there is no point to being Chancellor of the Exchequer in this government. There is nothing to achieve, the political restraints are far too strong. Not that her failure isn't deserved, as far as we can tell it is fully deserved, but there is a certain mild poignancy to it.
8 comments:
Oh, I thought it was Starmer's Labour cabinet that was the biggest threat to working people? They've got a track record to display haven't they?
There are signs that Starmer and co. are gradually swinging around to 'properly' reducing illegal immigration and trying to keep government borrowing to a muted roar rather than an overheated scream.
Unfortunately there are many in the Labour Party who are unwilling to go along with such common sense so Starmer is reduced to 'stealth' reduction in both illegal immigration and borrowing.
Such stealth changes will not only be insufficient they also won't win over any undecided voters. Starmer has snatched greater defeat from the jaws of defeat. Again.
Is there anything else to mine in the story about Starmer's boys getting an undeclared £700k towards his campaign to become Labour leader?
My own question would be "What on earth did you spend £700k on? Labour MPs come so cheap that it can't all have gone on vote buying, can it?"
Recent headline: "Ministers beg Reeves to unleash spending".
What on earth do they think she's been doing for the last year or so then?
They are so totally not living in the same world as the rest of us, are they...
Tammly - yes it is the biggest threat to working people, let us hope it collapses as completely as it deserves.
DJ - I agree, he has a problem, if he can't promote a swing towards sanity, he can't gain from it politically. He'll have a problem with credibility too.
dearieme - yes, £700k sounds too small an amount to be furtive about unless it was spent in a way which couldn't be declared. Odd.
Peter - that's it, they live in a world which is not ours and can't be ours because it doesn't make sense.
If Reeves had any sense she would resign. If we ignore her total fiscal incompetence even she must realise that it's impossible for anyone to produce a budget acceptable to the country and foster growth while the labour government are hell bent on spending and wasting money on all and every scheme they fancy. Clearly she is going to be the scapegoat when the government crashes and burns, for her own health and the good of the country resignation is her only moral way out.
First rule of economics ,both national and personal, When in debt, STOP SPENDING.
This lot are worse than the mythical drunken sailors on a run ashore as it is everyone else's money they are wasting.
Woodsy - I agree, she should resign and say why because you are right, she is going to be the scapegoat. She might even boost her political reputation, not much but better than the likely outcome at the moment.
John - I agree, it's the only thing to be done, cut waste, control the spending.
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