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It's a stressful job, especially if not up to it. But cabinet reorgs are common and expected so no one should trust to remain in the same position from term start to finish.

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Reeves genuinely believed she could stimulate an over-taxed economy by taxing it more.

She thought making it more expensive for employers to hire would somehow boost employment.

Or that burdening small businesses with inheritance tax would inspire entrepreneurship.

Quite breath taking levels of incompetance

Will a replacement Chancellor make much of a difference?  The replacement is hardly likely to scrap the NI hike. 

She is way out of her depth - and she looks like she knows it.

She would be out of her depth in a damp lawn.

She is a dead woman walking.

Jeremy Hunt

Kwasi kwarteng

Nadhim Zahawi

Rishi Sunak

All dead in 3 years, that will take some beating. <:0)

Nice attempt at deflection, Robber Reeves is the topic here, anything to say in her defence?

Inflation is down.

And yet ....

 

//If you were to produce a political heat map of the government right now, there is one big bit that would be bright red, and probably flashing: the Treasury.//

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly90yd1w7wo

 

Another 4 years to go TTT? I think you may have more trouble coping, you could blow your head gasket. <:0)

to use a sporting cliche, the football club's board has given her their full backing.  never in the history of the sport has a manager so blessed lasted very long after that........

"All dead in 3 years, that will take some beating. <:0)"

Not quite correct. 

The period from Mr Sunak taking office as Chancellor to Mr Hunt leaving it was four years and five months. Of those 53 months, Mr Sunak remained in office for 14 months and Mr Hunt (whose term was ended by the General Election) 21 months.

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12:09 that's an interesting point, yes often they get the bullet straight after the board gives them a vote of confidence. Sadly her replacement could be worse!

""No longer mistress of all she surveys, no longer empress of the horizon, Rachel Reeves crouched on the Commons front bench with a knot of her closest supporters. Six fretful souls at a bus stop. There had been more of them near the start of her parliamentary statement. The likes of Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting had swept into the chamber for that, albeit late. A brief flaring of energy. A few perfunctory cheers. Then scorn and laughter at a Tory opposition that hammed it up with talk of Shakespearean tragedy.  Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride even called Ms Reeves's trouble-dodging China trip 'the Peking duck'. The sauce of the man. Ms Reeves chested this incoming surf. She managed not to sink below the breakers.  When you have a big parliamentary majority you can use it as covering-fire. In parliamentary politics, the physical presence and noise of a majority has value. But as the Chancellor sat there for 55 minutes, listening to questions and bawling her staccato, adenoidal, inchoate answers, she was a bag of tics and odd expressions. At times she attempted butch aggression, yanking her jaw to one side and pushing forward her chin.  She did that when spitting a retort to Harriett Baldwin (Con, West Worcs). Ms Reeves's voice occasionally bordered baritone, it was so deep. At other points in the lunchtime exchanges she essayed breezy nonchalance – look at me, am I bovvered?  This play for carefreeness was undone by her rapid blinking which caught a stray strand of her fringe. Genuinely cool customers keep their eyes open. She was looking more like Benny Hill. Believing that she was out of trouble, she tried to smile. Aieee. It only made her look airsick.  If flight attendants en route from Beijing had seen her looking like that, one of those small paper bags might have been proffered. Maybe double-bag it to stop any leakage. For a senior politician she is amazingly bad at acting. Not much good at economics either, arguably.""

Quinten Letts 

He also said another Monday morning another Starmer reset speech   ... whose Government has had more relaunches than Cape Canaveral. 

Togo 12:48,he's just brilliant, it's worth buying the newspaper just for his witty put downs of this shower ne'er-do-wells.

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