Rachel Reeves dismantles Tories' "shameless" mini-budget

[@familyjohnson5494]

Surprisingly impressive take down of the Tories by Rachel Reeves: "The Tories can't solve the cost of living crisis because they are the cost of living crisis" good and quotable line

[@billfred666]

Not surprising at all to me.

[@polliebain7450]

@@billfred666 me neither. Reeves is an impressive woman

[@williammclaughlin497]

Not surprised. RR is a very clever and astute. Not allowing scrutiny likens us to Russia.

[@katewelsh3095]

None of this was shown on the bbc, they don’t want to show a credible argument against the tories.

[@polliebain7450]

@@katewelsh3095 really??!! How depressing. That says it all.

[@kathleenferguson3675]

They sit laughing at us .

[@harveydontell777]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! (Deep breath) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[@TheFesta01]

I had to stop watching this. The conservatives jovial manner whilst ruining so many lives was just too much for me to stomach.

[@futures2247]

laughingly all the way to bankers bonuses

[@declang303]

It's just a game for them.

[@Pstephen]

@@declang303 That's always been the trouble with Tories.

[@ellastarrr1st149]

And me!

[@Hurc7495]

In all seriousness approximately 1% of the population are psychopaths whereas between 4% and 12% of CEO’s are. Given the revolving door between the conservative party and big business and in light of the behaviour we see, there’s a better than 1 in 10 chance that the tory front bench are literally not capable of empathy!

[@jbtv5617]

Pound kept sinking as he spoke...

[@larrygerry985]

Yup, more inflation

[@tobybaker5187]

Every time he opens his mouth he plunges more people into poverty.

[@g1ld]

Powerful speech, but anyway Tory MPs are unable of feeling remorse or sensible understanding

[@breadyegg]

It does make me wonder if these speeches actually do anything. Is there something that goes on behind the scenes? I'd love to know how the cogs turn and actions are influenced.

[@bennyfyfemusic]

@@breadyegg try not to lose hope. It was a powerful speech and more in support of workers than I've heard from any of the other Labour frontbenchers in a while (Nandy is a snake). Hopefully the speech signifies a shift in the substance of Labour rhetoric in the very near future.

[@polliebain7450]

@@bennyfyfemusic yes - absolutely

[@stop-the-greed]

Or empathy

[@ryanconnor9240]

I think 60% of conservative politicians are diagnosable psychopaths.

[@catherinemartin6258]

It’s like the last 12 years have never happened even though we are suffering for it.

[@themightyredboatadventures]

Absolutely brilliant Rachel 👏 we need to be calling for a general election now too!! We need to stop the tories from destroying the country further.

[@MrSpanks]

Too late! 😢

[@josephineguerrero1802]

Agreed !! GENRAL ELECTION NOW!!!! vote labour

[@themightyredboatadventures]

@maso most people on benefits these days are in work mate. People who have completed degrees in professional jobs, are having to use foodbanks. Give your head a wobble feller.

[@josephineguerrero1802]

@@themightyredboatadventures lol 😂 true af

[@andrewmaccallum2367]

2 simple rules for life; No.1 - Never trust a tory No.2 - Never forget rule number 1

[@davidpeacock40]

Well said

[@painkiller8639]

Unfortunately tho, these past few years its been more like: No.1 - Never trust a tory No.2 - Forget rule number 1

[@sassythesasquatch4425]

Number 3: never trust any politician or party. They all get funded by the highest bidder and work for them not for people.

[@socialistsolidarity]

@@sassythesasquatch4425 That's why you need to abolish capitalism.

[@davidpeacock40]

@@sassythesasquatch4425 That's bollocks what you are advocating is anarchy. We have to get a Labour government asap and get rid of this Tory clown show that are destroying our country

[@comanchio1976]

Angela Rayner should receive an apology for being criticised for her "Tory scum" comment. It's the most accurate description of them I've ever heard.

[@TheValeyard92]

Bevan described them as lower than vermin.

[@robertwaldron5762]

Yes yes yes

[@0141D]

They will be dragged from their houses this winter don’t worry

[@anthonywright6237]

My family come from ABSOLUTELY NOTHING we needed help labour voters for generations.. let's let labour run this country and fuck everything up more than the conservatives do.. because that's genuinely what they do. We need a tough honest person and get back to basics...the rich are slandered but they do so very much for this country. Everyone has the opportunity to make something of thier self in this country.. this nation is abused by people that want everything for nothing. Ive just passed my 4 day week so I'm now not giving a toss about my responsibility's to everyone else fuck off till Monday...

[@NorrinRaddNorrinRadd]

@@0141D. You do know that they are no better for heating the home, than they are for running the NHS, or running the country, for the betterment of the people and the country, which is exactly what, they swear an oath to do, when they are elected………..

[@mikeyoung8293]

The tories remind me of the medieval barons keeping the peasants under the heel

[@kevinturner5857]

Exactly what they r , lookin after the landed classes & only interested in bigger profits 📈

[@californiadreamin8423]

Kwarteng was laughing just like that during the Queens funeral service !! First generation immigrant from Ghana, in favour of deporting immigrants to Rwanda. Just where did the money come from to pay for his education at Eton ?

[@HShango]

He's a disgrace

[@dub604]

Kwarteng never found a ladder he didn't pull up.

[@MASO204]

@@dub604 wow love this.

[@californiadreamin8423]

@@HShango The pound has dropped 1.5% against the dollar and the euro in response to Kwartengs policies.

[@MegaKapo12]

Where do you think it came from? It's frim the poor.

[@bobjohnbowles]

Labour are looking more and more capable than the tories every day.

[@ThymeTwister]

That is the absolute bare minimum.

[@daviddoink872]

thats not saying alot

[@RichPurps]

They always did except you suckers fell for the JC slurs that the Tories devoted a whole office block to discrediting. Yes, LIES. You weak minded fascists

[@alana8863]

Brilliant. She's really good.

[@Alex-pk1iy]

She’s just as bad tbf

[@alana8863]

@@Alex-pk1iy She clearly sets out policies that are distinct, supported by research and the evidence of past policy, and explains why the Tories have failed and will continue to do so. So I'm confused about '...just as bad...' In what way?

[@chrismason7272]

@@alana8863 Don't ask a Tory supporter to provide reasons for anything they say, it just angers and confuses them.

[@Kurwajegomac]

@@Alex-pk1iy oh yeah Alex, really? Is this the best line you can come up with? Don’t bother answering. It’s so called rhetorical question.

[@dts7824]

@@Alex-pk1iy please explain your reasoning

[@SMALLAXE.]

Just do what Boris said and buy a new kettle ......... Add water a bag of sugar boil and throw it at the nearest tory

[@jellokween1680]

🤣🤣🤣

[@aercoolio]

🤣🤣🤣

[@techjunkie68smusicandtech56]

preferably when boiling hot!

[@monkeytron5061]

What a speech

[@darkangel686868]

Powerful speech!!!!❤

[@135Ops]

It's hard to imagine the Conservative's are stupid enough to believe this budget is good for the country so we can only assume they don't care and are happy to keep rewarding big business's which fund their party....

[@TruthTortoise81]

Is it a secret that the tory party's biggest donors are the fossil fuel industry?

[@billfred666]

Yep. All I can make of it is that they know they will need significant funding for the next general election.

[@davecostello560]

It’s a deliberate plan to bankrupt the UK by racking up unsustainable debt that will be unexpectedly called in by the lenders.

[@davidpeacock40]

It's good for the vermin who financially back the continuing tory clown show whilst betting against our currency and picking over the carcass of our economy.

[@scottwallbank4794]

It feels like they know they won't win the next general election, and are raiding as much as they can now.

[@MissyGail4eva]

👏👏🇬🇧 _Bravo from across the pond_ 🇺🇸👏👏

[@eliakimjosephsophia4542]

Labour appear to have a much better front bench these days.

[@ConradBroom-wj8tk]

I am English never British and never trust any Party!!!

[@royboy565]

Labour bench is streets ahead of the tories. One failed minister after another sit on govt front bench. Incompetent the lot of them.

[@patcampton7163]

It's not like the bar is very high though.

[@SuperSupermanX1999]

People who don't bother to look love to declare that there's no alternative, but Starmer, Reeves and co have been competent, egalitarian and evidenced based throughout this whole crisis, as we can see in the fact that they have been months ahead of the Tories at every stage

[@Meow-In-Trouble-Now]

@@jake751 Tory support are we 🤔

[@Ma55ey]

Listening to them talking you'd be forgiven for not realising that they'd been in power for over a decade...

[@caroltodd6691]

and in 12 Years they have done nothing get these Tories out

[@magicmoon2817]

They sit there laughing! Sick

[@timcomley5948]

Repairing mess behind them

[@timcomley5948]

@@caroltodd6691 what a well reasoned argument ffs 🙄

[@MegaKapo12]

@@timcomley5948 what's better under the Torries? Nhs? Education? Economy? Security? Even the roads need Rodd Stewart to do something because this lot can't.

[@gailclough1665]

This woman is impressive. She seems to have a brain and strength. Maybe she should lead the labour party

[@gwyn.thomas]

I'm pretty sure she will at some point.

[@kevinturner5857]

V impressive lady 👍

[@travisbickleish]

Definitely.

[@basengelblik5199]

Yes she should

[@timyo6288]

Yes impressive indeed although I think it is a man dresssed as a woman.

[@stormytempest6521]

GO GIRL! seriously, Well Done Rachel.

[@scottwallbank4794]

I saw a homeless man today and decided to help him out. Following Tory logic, I went to the richest part of town and posted £100s through the letterboxes of different mansions. I'm sure it'll get to him soon.

[@martinknight1821]

Decent chat sir

[@jorriffhdhtrsegg]

And the rich people bought sticks with that money and hit the homeless with it, then when they realised they wanted more money, charged the homepess guy for the service. Something trickled down there, didn't it! Something always trickles down it just tends to be caustic greed acid

[@xewa7951]

Surely

[@MASO204]

She's good.

[@clarecollins2547]

And all the while Truss looking puzzled and Kwarteng laughing. 😡

[@intent7705]

12 years of high tax, low growth and crippling austerity. We can't afford them any more!

[@50_Pence]

They all need 12 years in prison. ... killing me (and us) while the rich shovel it in because they bought the unelected 'yes woman' Truss.

[@tomanderson8121]

Yes. Jail the corrupt Tory scum I fukn hate them.

[@CrazyInsanelikeafox]

Also... NOT MY PRIME MINISTER!

[@NowFunStarts]

erh invertibrates can`t vote..so..?

[@VeryGrumpy1949]

With brilliant people like this in Parliament why do people vote for the Tories?

[@IterativeTheoryRocks]

Err… because they don’t understand it?

[@NowFunStarts]

because of right wing press, and tory bullshit. btw i loved her speech.

[@freqeist]

The working class Tory is not that bright lets be honest.

[@MassiveHappyClapper]

Because the Turkeys like to vote for Christmas

[@seang3019]

Because they peddle an appealing blend of hatred.

[@tonyh-l5196]

Just a brilliant speech.

[@hailstone2554]

One of the best speaches I have ever seen in the house of commons. I know I have posted this before but it still seems very true Starmer has picked a fantastic team to support him. Even though I have been at odds with some of the decisions he has made. 👍👍

[@adityashivaappalla1384]

Only waiting to see who enter No. 10 in 24

[@hailstone2554]

@@adityashivaappalla1384 what scares me is they are throwing away any chance of winning next election so they can blame their CATASTROPHE ON THE OPPOSITION.

[@davecostello560]

RR makes Labour seem refreshingly electable.

[@_caseyjames]

I’m very impressed - this is a properly assembled team that will pull moderates to labour. Time we move in a much needed new direction

[@1991jamesbond]

If only one of them could replace him

[@lokischildren8714]

Well said Rachel reeves

[@hypatia4754]

The rich are more concerned in storing their money in off shore accounts. Not in investing, not in giving back to society (an old conservative tradition, btw). Simple HOARDING.

[@Anton-ji4td]

Brilliant performance by Reeves. She is a PM in waiting.

[@blacktarroses3108]

This trickle down economics doesn't half feel like someone's pissing down our necks from a great height !

[@davidpeacock40]

I have posted similar comments elsewhere however I have realised it's not piss its diarrhoea

[@JJamJ]

Wow, she is a powerful speaker!

[@fatedestiny1397]

I wonder how many people in the UK who voted conservative, now wish they voted for Jeremy Corbyn.

[@DD-jm5ug]

This 👆 👆

[@ennesshay5040]

the 1min 33sec video ''Jeremy Corbyn | Bankers like Morgan Stanley should not run our country.''

[@StratsRUs]

Forde Report

[@justno808]

It's hilarious. Labour voters didn't want Corbyn because they felt he was too left wing. Nope. They didn't. The system felt he was too left wing. Can you imagine a Corbyn government? Energy, Financial Services, Gambling all would have seen massive changes and cuts. National Rail, Water Companies and Energy firms would have seen Nationalisation, removing their profit lines. Corbyn didn't lose. He was made into a loser, unfortunately by those who should have seen that Labour Left Vs Conservative Right would have been a winning fight, but Conservative Right Vs Labour-Tory Lite was always a losing battle. You can only fight extremism with further, countering extremism.

[@parallaxview2143]

I didn't vote but I wish I'd voted for Jeremy.

[@jonathanhurst980]

her smirk is worse than Boris's how is this possible

[@Geffo555]

As my old mum used to say... There will be ructions. And I fear this government's end will be very loud.

[@martinsmith1538]

Anarchy, looting of shops on the horizon as people suffer hardships. Tell you it needs this to make government realise they cant treat people with incompetence .

[@MrSupertom09]

We're at that stage where the company is going under and before the workforce know how bad it really is, the top table are taking all the money and doing a runner before they can be held accountable.

[@imperialcommisar5279]

We aren't just the backbone, were the whole skeleton - without us, everything stops!

[@fingerhorn4]

I used to be sceptical about Reeves. But every sentence of this speech was if anything understated, yet utterly true. And well delivered. Competent. Fair. Intelligent.

[@nicolarenshaw6460]

Why do these people who are responsible for the wellbeing of the British people seem like a group of children in the playground calling each other silly names and laughing. Oh yes, it's because this cost of living crisis does not personally effect them. That's why it's all so amusing.

[@HarryFlowerrs]

Four ‘PM’S in the last six years, now that’s ‘Strong and Stable leadership’! 🤔

[@dominicbaggott3525]

Damn good speech..."you're replacing leveling up, with trickle down" just about nailed it for me!

[@Stuboy]

The Tories are doing exactly what is and has always been expected of them no matter the PM , keep the wealthy more wealthy while throwing crumbs dressed as caviar to the not so , you council house owners need not apply , they spend what you own and earn on a weekend away but we're grateful for your votes , in the meantime we will continue .. working problems not solutions , it's all about privatisatisation baby and the super rich

[@davidpeacock40]

Let's hope even those triggered working class latent racists wake up and smell the stench

[@david-no6xl]

Great speech by Rachel

[@comparecards5688]

1 year on and she’s the new Tory 😂

[@IterativeTheoryRocks]

Marvellous. Reeves needs more airtime!

[@empathyrevolution]

How does Truss sit there looking so smug? Is there anything being those eyes?

[@uniquerebeljaney3639]

Cheese??

[@regoftherovers7175]

Very good speech, this is someone I could vote for!

[@TheSkunkyMonk]

They all need dragging out of office and we need to start over. All rotten.

[@Notalloldpeople]

Fantastic performance and the way she did not waver when the opposition guffawed in the school kid way was creditable. More pose in her little finger than truss has in her entire body..

[@TheBillaro]

The arrogance of the Tories is frightening because it suggests that the greater powers behind them know that they have a stranglehold on you, the average British citizen.

[@jackgreene5663]

Rachel Reeves brilliant - an MP to watch!

[@HyacinthFl0wer]

A fabulous speech!

[@alexbetts8291]

Im poor this hurts so much ,, i have worn my body out helping these muppets ruin our lives

[@MsCharlieBrown78]

Rachel Reeves nails it again.

[@oystercatcher943]

Businesses need stability and good infrastructure to invest. They are getting chaos and incompetence

[@bigpants6121]

They had Peppa Pig and car noises for 2 years!

[@GetToDaChoppa-k5r]

Rachel Reeves sounds like a very articulate, smart and thoughtful lady. She would make a wonderful PM.

[@Viewer-discretion-is-advised7]

“Two desperate gamblers chasing a losing run”

[@urbanimage]

Good news for the average Premier League footballer (salary £3.5m) who has just been given a £167,500 tax cut. An own goal by Kwasi Kwarteng & Co.,

[@karimkekhia4369]

jesus she is soooo saying how it is….👏👍top girl..you go!! 🥰 this is what’s needed just like how mick lynch says it too…expose this awful government for what they are and what they are deliberately doing to all of us decent hard honest working people

[@tobywhitehead7488]

Powerful! 👌

[@Skylark_Jones]

"We support wealth creation" said Reeves. I don't know why the Tories laughed at that comment. Could it be because they don't realise the rich get rich off the backs of the poor and ordinary people? Reeves' comment implies it as well: that only the wealthy create wealth.

[@caroltodd6691]

you are Bang on well said

[@domhuckle]

They are so disgusting

[@jorriffhdhtrsegg]

Their ruckus said it all: "not our rich toff wealth, you mean society's wealth- how lame, me need money"

[@Afghamistam]

It's because we live in a post-fact society where you can get elected on a manifesto full of memes, not reality: Where the last time Britain had a serviceable economy was under a LABOUR government, and the last 12 years of Conservative have seen nothing but a lurch from one fuck-up to the next. Literally anyone could just look up a graph of how much the £ was worth a decade ago and compare it to now just to see one clue about how things are going, but people still vote Tory. It's fucking incredible.

[@modusponens18]

Rachael being 💯

[@jakkuwolfinsomnia8058]

I never voted Labour in my life but the chaos of the Conservatives has forced my hand. I’m willing to give Labour a chance given how disastrous Conservatives have been

[@cshartley101]

You're only gonna end up just as, or more than disappointed. But go for it if you believe it's gonna make a difference.

[@seang3019]

@@cshartley101 and you'll be doing what? Sulking?

[@clockywork]

oh my god bro I was only gonna watch a min and I sat through the whole thing. That mic drop moment at the end. JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ

[@georgebrowne5935]

Wake Up Britain !!

[@bar10ml44]

You are right but from the comments on here that’s never going to happen. The way people are fawning over this woman you’d think her words actually meant something. You would think that the ping pong game of Labour, Tory had finally been seen as useless and unworkable. She didn’t mention the her salary has also increased substantially. What isn’t transparent is that both parties are working behind the scenes to increase control and surveillance of the British people as well as those in other countries. Digital currency is already planned as well as the social credit score and both these parties are in lockstep. The charade that is parliament has nothing to do with the real governance that happens behind closed doors. Make no mistake, these bastards are only interested in their own well being.

[@joannehorsburgh7631]

Well said 👏

[@adamedge5417]

we need an actual general election

[@librajinx84]

Nice one Rach... 👍

[@stevec7028]

The fact is that the UK needs a labour Government ASAP

[@brenglover72]

It's needs any government other than this one.

[@thatguywiththeface9463]

Labour will not save the country but it will stop the hemorrhaging.

[@stevenkorber885]

I lost it at "a menu without prices"

[@MrSupertom09]

Kwazai Kwateng is that guy who failed maths all of his student life and became an economist

[@juskahusk2247]

2+2=5

[@_caseyjames]

So many of them it’s untrue

[@ollyflashman]

she fucking killed truss

[@royfearn4345]

Didn't do a bad job on Kwarteng either!

[@wildey1207]

The conservatives think it’s a laughing matter as family are struggling

[@martsamm8789]

Well done lady very impressive speech liz trust take mote

[@martsamm8789]

you know what liz truss should be usa president too since she is doing the best job in uk

[@hallamrafat2193]

Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.

[@blindfreddy9157]

The Tories are laughing at you.

[@samedz3966]

We need more of Rachel

[@chippysteve4524]

They con. We serve.

[@robertlyall]

"They are the cost of living crisis" 💯

[@cathalorourke1]

I'm getting flashbacks of rollcall in school with all those 'here's'

[@brianlaudrupchannel]

She's an excellent speaker

[@isabelclinton9229]

Not bad Rachel. However trying to get our new cabinet to feel shame is like getting a blancmange to do maths. Parliament is a joke, their dabates are futile and political debate is pointless if the government are set on a course that disregards the populace, the experts, the economists, the law and their own manifesto.

[@ryanslack2666]

Labour have really stepped up. They have my vote.

[@johnkirton2534]

She nailed that! I think that she will be the UK's next female PM. She will also be a thousand times better than the last three combined.

[@johngalvin3124]

She's right, you know. The Tories are actively working for themselves and their rich donors. Actively and blatantly.

[@Paul-ok4sp]

Stand with Labour. The time will come. Keep believing.

[@leeterry688]

Rachel is absolutely fantastic 👍🇬🇧🌹

[@barryc1968]

Brilliant speech, brilliant ethics, standing up for Britain.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Even big businesses don't believe in the plans look at the bonds crisis and the pound dropping.

[@fbenbow2197]

They don't believe it's wrong, they know it's wrong.

[@adamabele785]

Finally, somebody has woken up and seems a bit angry. Use this energy and fight back.

[@jox1256]

I have a british Mum and live in Germany...I have a british Passport aswell, cause of HM Queen ElizabethII....I cant understand why so many vote Conservative...The Empire and the Great British History, made me take my Oath to the Queen and become British...I am no socialist, but that strange Liz Truss...that didnt even curtsy at Balmoral to our beloved Queen...I cant stand her...Great Leader like Lady Thatcher nearly went down on her knees to HM and she had class compared to that truss tramp, that I understand, cheated on her husband....

[@drilllord6207]

Labour in!!!

[@WestfaliaStuff]

How those rotten people are laughing when she speaks of wealth creation. Despicable.

[@paramotorhead]

That’s because they also believe in wealth creation. Except theirs is a selfish, psychopathic wealth creation for just them and their rich cronies. If they want a class war, they should go all out and admit it. They’d do well to remember we have the numbers on our side with that one.

[@WestfaliaStuff]

@@paramotorhead Exactly - to some 'weath' is something that's completely removed from the less affluent ranks of society.

[@bigpants6121]

Truss certainly 'delivered' for the wealthy!

[@calderarecords]

She is a weak-minded weak-willed half-wit who barely comprehends what is going on around her. She is a fool's fool. Another usable asset. Some rich cloth-headed reprobate who they can throw under the bus. We need a new system, not another ghost Government.

[@declang303]

Delivered, delivered, delivered you might say....

[@daveyboy19761]

It's ike my late father always said - the conservatives will look after the rich and sod the rest of us. How true, sadly.

[@katewells7670]

My father (a lifelong socialist) told when I was about 10 that the tories make the rich richer and the poor poorer ---- plus ca change

[@Danster82]

You have to go further and say, because all these points are so obvious it must be assumed that the tories are fully aware of the effects of them, in that they are fully and wilfully aware it will create further inequality and an increase in an elitist society and they know this and want this. For as pointed out this is fact based as well as many studies that have been carried out demonstrating these policys are destructive and have been always.

[@RobertSmith-di5ll]

Cracking response to a damaging "budget"