No 10 denies Reeves 'lied about £21bn black hole' before budget
Rachel Reeves has been accused of “lying” to the public about the state of the country’s finances to justify £26 billion in tax hikes announced in her Autumn Budget...
But it has since emerged that Ms Reeves made those comments just days after receiving a letter from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) stating that the economic outlook had improved and that, rather than a deficit, she in fact had a £4.2 billion surplus.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the letter showed Ms Reeves had "lied to the public" and was “bribing Labour MPs to save her own skin”, as she called for her to be sacked.
Does it matter? This is Rachel from Accounts being criticised here. Nobody with even a modest degree of acumen is likely to pay attention to her tedious mendacity.
She emits economic numbers no moderately alert person would ever believe. She concocts facile strings of reasoning which aren't likely to convince a single MP, journalist, grounded observer or even a BBC presenter.
Nobody paying attention is surprised, shocked or even particularly interested. Rachel from Accounts is widely known to be habitually dishonest, so nobody who knows anything is listening to her within the framework of mendacity she erected. Her verbiage is reported because stories still have to be churned out, but that's it.
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If an MP called Rachel from Accounts a liar in the House of Commons he or she would be reprimanded by the Speaker - and he can order someone guilty of using unparliamentary language to withdraw the remark or leave the chamber.
But if ten MPs, one after the other, called Rachel from Accounts a liar...
Sadly, it's also the case with Kallas of the EU. There are many things to criticise Russia over but Kallas chose that it was too big ... much better to have smaller countries on the territory, not some superstate. Kallas of the EU. Put her with AOC, Von Leyen etc. and there must be a school somewhere churning these out.
DJ - that would at least make the point, although even Labour seems to lack the courage to make any attempt to turn things round.
James - too big sounds like something else is the real problem, such as too independent, not woke enough, too much gas and so on.
Are they really lying? These are delusional people who have never got to grips with reality.
Tammly - yes that's the question. Lying is one of those awkward ideas which doesn't seem to work if we think the liar believes what they are saying. The trouble is, what we observe is much the same, whether lying or deluded.
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