Rachel Reeves sembra piangere su Labour Frontbench durante PMQS

Starmer said: “We’re only getting started, the chancellor **has led** on all these issues and we’re grateful to her for it.”

Interesting choice of tense, shouldn’t it be “is leading on”?

Reeves will be ok. It’s not like she’s disabled and facing financial ruin 

Looks like she hasn’t slept well. Hopefully up all night tarting up her CV

The buck stops with her ultimately, she’s done a bad job and the rebellion this early into a parliamentary term demonstrates this.

The biggest travesty of this new parliament is that we voted for major change after 14 years of tory cuts, austerity and brexit – and this party seem obsessed with being more tory and sticking to stringent rules that hinder any progress.

NOTHING will happen with this stance. Either we cut benefits or we cut pensions or we cut services if we want to stick to borrowing rules that the right wing press have pressured her into. there is no way of stimulating growth or improving the country sticking to a tory plan that has stifled the country throughout history.

I would have more respect if she said “the public have spoken, you can have another say on the finances at the next election” and actually made real change. As it is, it looks more and more like an angry vote will get a reform government next time…and then we will see the death of the NHS and the end of the UK.

I don’t think it’s good form to celebrate someone being stressed in their job to the point of tears.

Fact is she’s having to make difficult choices the likes of which very few people on here can empathise with.

When they realize they can’t take any more from the poor, only then do they cry those sweet neoliberal tears

For some reason Labour refuse to sort out the right wing media and are letting them still dictate policy even when they have a massive majority.

Austerity was always just a con so the Tories could cut or steal everything, it only slows the economy and reduces the TAX take.

It is just not going to work. It time to face down the markets and tell them to f off.

A spokesman for the chancellor reportedly stated, “It’s a personal matter, which – as you would expect – we are not going to get into. The chancellor will be working out of Downing Street this afternoon.”

Two party system is facking bollocks. 14 years of useless toey government, where the centrists promise, and the right screw it over deliberately .. hs2 or ‘levelling up’, brexit…

Now we get more of the same, we know its either more taxes or cut disability. Centrist promise and the left screw it over deliberately.

We need proportional representation, and an end to first past the post. We have 4 political parties pretending to be 2, and it makes us stagnant.

It’s bad that she feels so under pressure that she’s breaking, but a large part of me really finds it hard to care.

Maybe if she hadn’t gone after the easy choice of targeting welfare. Maybe if she hadn’t gone after the most vulnerable in society, and tried something else. Maybe, if she had funded mental health care better, then I would find it easier to feel sorry for her.

But I don’t.

The issue was that they tried to sell it as reforming the welfare system but it was blatantly obvious it was only about saving X amount of money. They found the sweet spot where you can cut off the maximum amount of people without scrapping the whole thing but ofc it then blew up in their face.

It’s been reported by political observers that it was a personal matter, some people will just continue their own speculations though I imagine 

well it apears that when you attack the sick and disabled people for haveing serious illness treating them like scum it makes you feel bad? shame. good!

suggested alternate headline

**disabled entitled to die homeless and hungry in the streets with no support**

for the disabled people a lot of whom have only worsened because of two decades of having nhs and local services and support completed eviscerated

by consecutive government labour > conservative > labour again now cuts to everything from youth centres to autism support teams dementia care and so much more and that is just my locale

hope we are all prepared to see homeless disabled people dying on our city, town and village streets

(which IS the ultimate fate of someone who cant work having their support eroded over 20 years and then having the last of it ripped away gleefully while keir and reeves are cosy warm or right now i expect comfortably ac cooled in their fourth homes)

who care if reeves is suddenly growing a miniscule conscience actually i wouldn’t be surprised if they were tears of happiness or may she was sad she cant do all the euthanasia’s herself

She is fucked and Starmer is gonna struggle to survive given he’s stood so close to her.

I think it actually looks like she could just be suffering from really bad hayfeaver.

I came across this notion a while ago and it’s very true. Benefits are not for the poor. They are benefits for the rich. Here’s some examples why:
1. Corporations (who already pay little to no tax) pay shit wages which causes people to need state benefits as top ups. So this means the corporations make even more profits. Solution? Make them pay wages which don’t need state benefits top ups.
2. Landlords keep upping rents which means housing benefits and benefits need to go up to match the rent increases. So the state benefits are going directly into landlords pockets to increase their quality of life and their profits.
3. Electric and gas companies who are making record profits each year are still increasing prices which means people have less money and can’t afford to live – the state have to pay up to help. That money is funding the companies record profits.
4. Grocery store prices are rising although they are also seeing record profits. Same result applies as No3.

More than a decade of austerity has left us to a very sick, very depressed nation which does what? Cha ching – it costs the taxpayer.

Don’t tell me a wealth tax on these benefit scrounging billionaire corporations won’t work. But MORE austerity on the most vulnerable will. Their propaganda machine has well and truly brainwashed you.

Most state benefits money goes directly to the most rich. But they lie you to think the most vulnerable have this money.

Solution to not tax the rich but bring benefit costs down?

1. Make corporations pay decent living standard wages and people won’t need top ups (half the people on UC also are in work) if you’re working you should not need benefit top ups.
2. Rent caps = lower housing benefit payments needed
3. Nationalise energy and gas and the payments will drop drastically for the everyday person which reduces the cost of living.
3. Put a cap on grocery companies profits and reduce the cost of living.

If she has personal situation then it bad conduct having her on front bench. Starmer forcing her to be there to defend the fiasco.

I think her position untenable on performance level as she made so many mistakes.

Kemi had such ammunition. Farage and Reform gleeful.

The description of her as a human shield for his incompetence is accurate. He’s strung her out to dry like the coward he is.

So many people commenting on labours welfare reform but haven’t actually read or understood what it actually is 😂

Go vote reform like the good little racists you are and stop trying to create excuses to be racist. Own it and take your punches like you deserve.

Can’t wait for Reform to win because Rachel Reeves tried to stop the massive increase in people on disability, only for Reform to completely gut it and undo any of the other good moves Labour are making….

Some people really think they can just have everything they want and the economy will be fine

I have no sympathy for her to be honest. Can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen.