An all-women shortlist gave a parliamentary seat to Rachel Reeves, who has just gone on to overshoot her own official borrowing figures by nearly £15 billion, and that is hardly her first offence.
Reeves has ruled out taxing the rich, so yet more austerity will be along in the autumn. You would think that she were doing it on purpose. If she had two brain cells to rub together.
Rather than faff on about whether transwomen, who are in fact men, could be on all-women shortlists alongside transmen, who are in fact women, just abolish all-women shortlists once and for all.
People call her Rachel from accounts but she's not even that, she was on the complaints desk and thinks that made her a banker.
ReplyDelete"I'm an economist, well, I work on the complaints desk of a bank" is a delusion of a common enough type, and the clues were always there.
DeleteProfessing to have learned it all at her grandmother's kitchen table made Rachel Reeves economically as illiterate as Margaret Thatcher, who thought that running the economy was like being a housewife, hardly something that she herself had ever been, and that the State, the sovereign issuer of currency, had no money of its own. Based on Reeves's record in office, what, exactly, did her grandmother teach her?
You would lose a proper job if you had lied on your CV, including your LinkedIn profile. While Reeves is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, then Chancellor of the Exchequer cannot be a proper job.