Rachel Reeves: ‘I’m sick of the mansplaining on how to be Chancellor'
Rachel Reeves has fired back at her critics, saying she’s “sick of people mansplaining how to be Chancellor to me.”...
She explained: “I’m not a public personality. I’m not in show business. I’m the Chancellor. If you want people to enter politics, you have to remember they’re human beings.
“I’m a mum with two kids. I’m a wife and a daughter. I wasn’t born into this, and I’m just trying to do my best.”
Oh dear, if she thinks that's an appropriate excuse for a failing Chancellor of the Exchequer, then she's a fool.
But we knew that.
Sooner or later Keir Starmer may acquire a small spine and explain to Rachel Reeves why she has to go. Assuming he doesn't go first of course, but if he does she'll probably follow him through the notorious revolving door.
Sooner or later Keir Starmer may acquire a small spine and explain to Rachel Reeves why she has to go. Assuming he doesn't go first of course, but if he does she'll probably follow him through the notorious revolving door.
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"If you want people to enter politics, you have to remember they’re human beings"
Human beings who DEMAND respect, apparently....
Dave - yes that's it, she's hopeless. Blagged her way into the position of Chancellor of the Exchequer and now demands sympathy and respect for her personal inadequacies.
That’s quite some achievement, single-handedly setting the cause of feminism in British politics back nearly half a century!
Who’d have thought it, after all her fuss about being the first female chancellor?
It will be interesting when 'it all come out' in peoples' memoirs how much advice Rachel from Accounts took from Treasury officials and how much was her 'asserting her principles'.
Macheath - for a successful charlatan she seem to lack some of that furtive, charlatan's awareness that she is a charlatan and it's all a game. The ideology doesn't seem to carry her along very well either, so maybe she is heading for a breakdown, but who would spot it and do something? Not Starmer.
DJ - that's an interesting question. Michael O'Leary has referred to Treasury officials as 'morons' which is no surprise coming from him, but the miserable performance of Rachel from Accounts does suggest that she could be receiving poor advice from the Treasury. A hopelessly ideological Cabinet won't help either.
I have this dream that she will show some self awareness, stand up next week and resign. Just admit there is no way that even a good chancellor could produce a budget to rescue the economy while the party behind her are addicted to wasting money by the shedload so she won't do it.
Woodsy - I like your dream, it's what she should do, show some spirit and admit what the problems are. It's the only way she has of repairing her political reputation unless we see an economic miracle.
Fascinating idea, Woodsy. She could declare that Labour's position is a dead end, resign from the Cabinet and the Party, and cross the floor to join Reform.
One can but dream.
This mansplaining goes back a long way. I wonder if RfA ever came across Charles Dickens ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Th98JSy6Ets.
dearieme - she'd blow all other news of the front pages too. Worth it for that alone rather than an ignominious exit.
Doonhamer - if she hasn't come across Charles Dickens it's not too late to absorb Mr Micawber's lesson.
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