Rachel Reeves’s tears are rational – Labour rebels have forced her to raise taxes | Politics | News
The crying game has always been a part of British politics. Our biggest national leader Winston Churchill was Lachrymose, famous for his distress or victory, and in 1990, Margaret Thatcher, and in 2019, both fried eyes and cracked sounds of Theresa May. In his last cabinet in March 1894, he was less upset by the disgusting Wiliam Gladstone by his colleagues. At the beginning of the 19th century, Viscount Goderich cried in front of King George IV in 1828 after his dismissal in front of King George IV.
The first workers’ Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald was a romantic Scot, tragically shrinking in 1911 of his wife’s death. Another Scottish leader. Robert McClennan, who was responsible for the SDP in his last days, had “concerns about mental stability” according to a colleague.
Similar concerns, during the Suez crisis in 1956, Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden left at a cabinet meeting and his colleagues cried, “You all leave me,” he was expressed. He cried uncontrollably and fled to the upper floor in the Downing Street. He resigned as prime minister within two months.
However, none of this matches the raw emotion, which was shown to the public by Rachel Reeves in Commons on Wednesday. While sitting on the front bench during the prime minister’s questions, Sir Keir Starmer, made by Tora leader Kemi Badenoch, could not keep a tear flow when he could not express his full support. It was a remarkable scene that embodies the turmoil and pain of the government on the humiliating collapse of welfare policies.
Although labor has emphasized that the cause of his pain is a “personal issue rather than a political thing, the chancellor is under great pressure in recent days due to the wild internal opposition against the welfare reform.
The determination of the government’s financial position to the shore has caused angry conflicts with Backbench deputies and ministry colleagues. It is also said to be rotten by a conflict with Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, the lover of left wing activists.
Indeed, after this sad week, the elements of Starmer and Reeves’ weakness of labor are in maneuvers to collapse the leadership crisis. It is surprising how quickly the couple’s authority is worn. A year ago, labor came to power with a majority. However, the incompetent, divided and evacuation of Starmer, who failed on every front, saw the most dramatic decline in the popularity of any administration in history.
Reeves as a chancellor became the key architect of this disaster. Growth had to be his greatest priority, but instead increased taxes, debts, borrowing and unemployment.
The fiasco on the welfare reform is another vital element in this failure catalog. Liz This government should not have great challenges and will not, ”he said. But that’s exactly what labor ministers do. The government had no stomach to fight, it offered so many concessions that the bill of welfare reform became completely meaningless.
The Labor Party, shaken by the dispute, cocoon itself in the traditional socialist comfort zone, where no strange questions were asked about the destruction of addiction or personal responsibility. But this sensuality is a transgender of reality. In fact, the looseness system is brutally exploited by the workshop, just as definitions of disability are expanded to cover drug addiction and even alcoholism.
The tears of the chancellor were rational for fears. He knows that the black hole in public finances should be filled with higher taxes and will lead to the depth. At the same time, the party will be captured by more chaos and divisions, especially when Starmer’s weak leadership is threatened by Rayner. If he wins the crown, it will really be a real reason for crying.
