"A Walking DISASTER!" | Rachel Reeves Under Pressure To Fix UK Economy

[@Bluejohn]

Never in the field of human incompetence have so many been harmed by so few.

[@davidmiller7771]

And paid a lot of money for doing it ,

[@jeffworthington9286]

Do you want to take that back , Gilts back to normal Footsie record highs inflation down , growth up and IMF saying uk growth 1.6% this year.

[@Bluejohn]

@@jeffworthington9286 1.6 ? are you for real ?Where do you get your news ? The Beano ?

[@Ken-yy9us]

No, he gets his facts from the right places, not from the right wing media BS you seem to believe is always correct and impartial 😂😂😂

[@Bluejohn]

@@Ken-yy9us If you say so

[@Shrub-bx8fm]

Instead of raising taxes on the British people, stop all foreign aid

[@malcolmleyland7610]

This dictatorship will not do that.👎

[@Dismanameboi]

You mean stop the legal bribes?

[@johnagar7610]

Taxes on ordinary people have not been raised. I hope taxes for the rich are raised in March. A true patriot would accept tax rises if used in vital sectors

[@JimClark-s8h]

And stop supporting Ukraine

[@suziforester]

@johnagar7610 You're just an idealist...try being a realist fella

[@andreaconroy3623]

It's time she cut our foreign aid bill...feed and heat our own first.

[@marylauder3374]

And keeping the newcomers with 5* treatment whilst we pay and go without.

[@IsabellaLouiseAlexandra]

Definitely! Cut foreign aid.

[@andrewmicas4327]

Send Billions abroad for Climate Change, (bet Mercedes doing well out of that)

[@raymonddonaghy2314]

Question is why are we paying for energy bills in 2025 nobody should be paying

[@Shrub-bx8fm]

How about the MPs taking a pay cut and stop claiming for their second homes!!!

[@mambajoopa]

When has the country ever prospered under a Labour government? .

[@srg5405]

I will be 89 next month, in all my life Labour have always ended up destroying the economy when in Government, it is par for the course.

[@sueharwood6681]

@@srg5405 I'm 84 and I agree with you 100 per cent. I remember the seventies and all the power cuts during winter too. The Tories let us all down badly and that's why we now have this bunch of incompetent idiots in charge.

[@albertardvaark]

Never

[@samr8603]

​@@srg5405 what about Clement Attlee? The darling of the Left was he any good? I do notice he got booted out in 1951 though.

[@mambajoopa]

@@samr8603 The Labour party now is a much different beast than it was 75 years ago.

[@jerrylanning6717]

She has absolutely no shame at all.

[@TonyHills-c2d]

She's all right Jack !!

[@roywatson8133]

she will have when the economy goes down the toilet

None of them do.

[@mrbipolarmattyhoward6071]

The Chancellor is not qualified to be chancellor it’s not that hard to understand why she is making such a mess of the economy.

[@danielmitchell6996]

she is not qualified to run her own household budget, my grandkids have more idea than her

[@mrbipolarmattyhoward6071]

@ Tells us how bad Starmer is and how incompetent he is if you employ a top economist to be your Chancellor your made to look good but he is so incompetent he can’t even make that decision.

[@1970pipeliner]

Starmer.... Incompetent Nandy.......Useless Reeves......Failure Do I need to continue through the current Government Cabinet?

[@mrbipolarmattyhoward6071]

@ it’s unbelievable how bad the whole government are there’s been nothing like this lot ever not that I can remember ever.

[@GrahamFearnley]

We're s your proof the tories did a good job didn t they bankrupting the country borrowed 3 trillion in 14 years the national debt was 9 hundred million when they took over what they spent the money on

[@unclejoe208]

If this is the best woman to oversee the country's economy, God help us.

[@Phylicity]

She’s not the best person to do anything! Except maybe embellishing CVs!

[@tombridge3608]

@@Phylicity Do you mean lying?

[@CharlesWhite-j4f]

Her banking experience was all spent in the customer complaints department, Starmer should use her talents for dealing with 60 million angry voters

[@JimVanlint]

@joejambul6982 Since it's more than likely that god doesn't exist where is there any help?

[@unclejoe208]

@@tombridge3608 call it as it is brother, don't sugar coat it - honesty is the best policy

[@petercook8679]

She's a failed economist. That's why she landed up in customer complaints, and none of them have ever run a business.

[@met54]

From what we have seen they couldn't run a hotdog stall at a village fete.

[@marylauder3374]

Met - they'd poison us all to get rid!

[@TonyHills-c2d]

Not an economist

[@CharlesAvery-u7p]

Agree

[@CharlesWhite-j4f]

Not even a failed economist, she's no economist at all, just a call-centre worker dealing with complaints about cheque books lost in the post

[@jayday1463]

I despise Rachel Reeves.

[@andrewcoxhead6451]

I dispise all of parliament except reform and a few good politicians 😊😊

[@Bob-f3x6w]

So do Pensioners,students,farmers and British businesses..they're all queuing up like they did in that scene in the comedy 1980 film Airplane !

[@denizberk3504]

Who doesn't????!!! She is terrible!

[@Coyb1866]

She looks at herself in the mirror and despises what is staring back at her.

[@kevinmallinson4170]

Thicko😂

[@MinkieWinkle]

Labour voters were warned ⚠️ about how terrible labour was. They can only blame them selves now

[@n0_h4ndl3]

It doesn't matter to them... Tories bad, The Right bad, white man bad, Christians bad, orange man bad, UK bad... Always hating on others. That's the Left.

[@steveb3060]

When my dad used to say you can't teach experience, I keep thinking how correct he was.

[@robin7623]

My olde dad back in the 1950's never voted labour and rightly warned me of doing so , just communism under another name , but over the years it as began to appear more so

[@SubjectiveFunny]

Why blame them? Why not blame the other 80% of the population for not voting against them? WE had an overwhelming majority, it is our fault, not theirs.

[@avryllsixtus3429]

Oh Robin this government even gives communism AA bad name..​@@robin7623

[@CarlAndersen-t8u]

Just imagine how bad things will be in a few months time if this is level of incompetence is allowed to continue .

[@srg5405]

Imagine in 4 years time!!! HELP.

[@andrewwaller5913]

Already virtually in recession now.

[@GrahamFearnley]

Tories put us in this mess with bankrupting the country it is thatchers legacy she started it by selling off all the utilities and destroying large industries

[@janebruce6625]

It’s frightening.?

[@janebruce6625]

Theory and Practice are two different things????

[@AndreaStobbart68]

She isnt qualfied to fix this country

[@Royboy50]

But over qualified to absolutely trash it in 15 weeks

[@REFORM_ALL_THE_WAY]

but her CV said she was!

[@AndreaStobbart68]

@Royboy50 reeves has an nvq not very qualified lol

[@davidgreenwood5241]

Well I don’t know about that she did work in a bank

[@Royboy50]

@ so do cleaners

[@Pagespinner]

If it wasn't for Talk, GB News and the persecuted independent journalists, the gaslighters would be in complete control.

[@Ken-yy9us]

If it wasn't for the right wing media BS, people would actually think for themselves!! Billy Bunter is paid a fortune to get you sheep to follow his daily BS and you follow like good little lambs 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@arthurthorpe5445]

AND Lammy is in Germany giving away more of our money to a country in Europe (Ukraine) what about spending that money in our country !!!!???

[@TTrider2024]

I would point out that if this was the reasoning in 1939, most of Europe and the UK would now be part of a Federal German Republic.

[@freedomvigilant1234]

Exactly.... Why are we giving people in a very corrupt country money to fight a war that the CIA engineered?

[@Killergoat69]

@@TTrider2024and all the better for it.

[@jeffk3185]

Corrupt liars

[@tims9434]

Or delusional is always another option

[@Tyronepeader]

That's the Murdoch owned media all over the world. 😊

[@GrahamFearnley]

Corrupt pot calling kettle comes to mind

[@justin3606-j8l]

Here comes a massive tax rise and huge cuts...

[@TonyHills-c2d]

Recipe for worse rsising taxes. CUT the size of the state.

[@GrahamFearnley]

Blame the tories for trashing the economy

[@jeffreyroberts7438]

You seem to have forgotten COVID! The tories had to spend over £123 billion to protect our economy. Before that growth in the economy was at an average all economic experts said was acceptable. Can you begin to imagine another COVID under Labour……..doesn’t bear thinking about!!!!!

[@rogerbennett9641]

It will be much worse than the seventies.

[@simplesimon5739]

Get your candles in then.

[@mrsupplementsUK]

Plus endless immigrants extra now that we pay for 🤬☠️💀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@damianbutterworth2434]

@@simplesimon5739 I`ve got 2 big caravan batteries charged up with a big mains inverter just in case.

[@terryjacob8169]

@@simplesimon5739 With gormless Ed Milliband our 'Energy' minister power cuts are inevitable. It appears his plan to take us back to a candlelit, horse and cart exsistence.

[@paulgerrard6085]

@@damianbutterworth2434 similar here, thinking of buying a small generator as well. Despite my skepticism of home solar from a financial perspective, one area where it really might come into its own is when the brown out and black outs start. The writings on the wall with this crazy lot.

[@robinburn4974]

Why pick on Reeves, the whole cabinet is a walking disaster

[@Van-1954]

But she’s the one that’s costing us money

[@MinkieWinkle]

She wanted to be in the spot light, so now she is. If she can not handle it, then step down

[@polaris7122]

@@Van-1954 MILIBAND?

[@latchdoorlatch996]

How about lying on her CV

[@Van-1954]

@@polaris7122 as well sure but she gave mad EDD the money for net zero

[@graemeshort1928]

Why is our useless Chancellor RR still in Post? as her Budget has Failed as slammed by B of E and OECD? She needs to resign NOW! Find a real economist! Support the OAP’S, WASPI's and the FARMERS. STUCK FARMER

[@marylauder3374]

Resign! Sacked more like.

[@graemeshort1928]

@@marylauder3374 Sorry you are so RIGHT!!!!

[@rogernevin7461]

Ken Dodds accountant would be a better bet than this barmy bint. Stability my arse.

[@paulkirkby6188]

I'm not sure Labour has a real economist in their ranks

[@graemeshort1928]

@@paulkirkby6188 Neither am I but an external adviser would at least hold her hand ,somebody like Prof RJ Murphy as treasurey dont seem fit for purpose and have own agenda

[@REFORM_ALL_THE_WAY]

2TK, Rachel from accounts, no-brainer Rayner, Mastermind Lammy, Jess Pisslips and Refugees welcome cooper. The dream team........FROM HELL.

[@andrewcoxhead6451]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I like it 👌

[@JaneCox-i8c]

😂😂😂😂

[@Lonerstoner512]

Soros dream team maybe

[@jennifersanders7764]

How can someone wih no experience as a true economist tell us what to do with money shes a fraud.!!!!!!!

[@Gerald-m8w8v]

She's doing as instructed

[@williamthomson7820]

Evan a child wouldn't give it's sweets away, yet this woman is giving our money away freely to other countries nilly willy.

[@GrahamFearnley]

She s probably got more experience and brains than you

[@Steven-m1h8t]

She's complicit not complaicant don't get mixed up

[@bostonbikebits6539]

How the hell did we get to this? Starmer, Lammy, Reeves, Rayner, Haigh, Philips, every one of them an absolute disaster. Not one of them has any political or diplomatic nouse. They couldn't muster an iq of 100 between them.

[@meljen8592]

Because someone voted for them.

[@GrahamFearnley]

We got in this state because of the incompetent tory party bankrupting the country you tory clowns

[@sharonseed]

@bostonbikebits6539 add Phillipson, Milliband, and Streeting to that list of failures!

[@bostonbikebits6539]

@@sharonseed good point, well made.

[@ellie.l6585]

Just when you think Keir Starmer couldn't look anymore ridiculous he goes after Elon Musk trying to find any way to prosecute him. I'm embarrassed to be English 🙈

[@garygarygary3324]

Stability 😂😂😂 theives has aged 30 years since July , utter amateurs 🤬

[@Baileee1978]

Everything about starmer is weird

[@leonhantz6383]

He needs a charisma program uploading into his Robot RAM

[@Maverick25ish]

Thats why nobody likes him, and i dont mean just the public, everywhere he goes and interacts with just dont take to him, they never meet him a second time round they avoid him

[@Van-1954]

Down the drain we all go

[@Lonerstoner512]

Not the politicians tho just us plebs and peasants

[@JohnSmith-gb7rz]

PLEASE... can we have the real grown-ups back running our country. I'm sick of big kids, playing games with our futures.

[@Suzi-kv5jb]

I remember the 70s - I left the country. I came back in the mid 80s. I am regrettably experiencing serious deja vu

[@johnswarbrick2365]

Not her fault. She blamed the Tories for the problem - next she'll be blaming globall issues and Trump.

[@GrahamFearnley]

Who s fault is it I d say it was the tories they put the national debt to 3 trillion and bankrupted the country tories look at life through rose tinted glasses they couldn't t do anything wrong

[@JamesBond-c2p]

Starmer is proving he is nothing more than a tvvat

[@GeoffHalsey]

If this was any company, she would have been shown the door months ago. Her job is far too important to leave to any clueless politician. Get someone in from the private sector who knows what they doing, before it's too late.

[@whitehart11]

The whole board room would be out!

[@1970pipeliner]

She was, by the Bank of Scotland!

[@GrahamFearnley]

We ve just had 14 years and a 3 trillion debt and a bankrupt country from the last guv so does that mean they did a job ?

[@paulkirkby6188]

Labour despises the private sector

[@borassictime918]

The gormless sheer incompetence of these Labour ‘adults’ and the complicity of Labour’s client media, and its utter failure to scrutinise their policies in any way, is breathtakingly shameful.

[@GrahamFearnley]

The media really told the trueth about tories didn t they probably because its there owned and still are by super rich tory donors

[@andrewcoxhead6451]

You only have to look at the local council's that have declared themselves bankrupt over the last few years...yup you guessed it, they were all labour run council's!!!!😂😂😂

[@GrahamFearnley]

Why were they declaring them selves bankrupt because the tories cut their money for 13m4 years just like they did to the NHS

[@Brian-om2hh]

Correct....

[@davelobban999]

Starmer was busy congratulating himself for appointing Rachel Reeves as Chancellor of the Exchequer, making history as the first woman to deliver a budget. Yet, isn't it Preposterous that this lightweight can't even define what a woman is?

[@msingh2333]

Never has a Chancellor been so against British businesses

[@jenniferbarry5887]

No young woman or any woman is looking to Rachel Reeves for anything, they are watching what she is going to do to their pensions.

[@thecatsofkipling5401]

The day the world stood still. Woman delivers budget.

[@douglastodd1947]

@thecatsofkipling you forgot " TEA " before Woman.

[@martinbrown983]

STOP GIVING HARD WORKING PEOPLE MONEY AWAY TO OTHER COUNTRY'S SPENDING ON ILLEGAL MIGRANTS AND GIVING MONEY TO PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT WORK AND CONTRIBUTE

[@petertodd-fh5sb]

She needs to go back behind the bank desk

[@margaretthompson1258]

They wouldn't have her didn't someone say she couldn't balance her own account

[@GrahamFearnley]

Tories you ve got to love them

[@jamessalkeld781]

Just cancel Rachel Reeves return leg ticket and call an election. Vote Reform UK!

[@scooter0012]

Starmer still hasn’t addressed the fact she committed an act of gross misconduct by lying on her CV. Bottom line she should have been sacked long ago! By default, lack of act and omission on the issue, Starmer should be required to resign also!

[@Lonerstoner512]

Rishi warned ⚠️ us plebs about labour

[@Brian-om2hh]

He did indeed.....

[@douglastodd1947]

When is SHE getting Arrested & Charged with Breaking Fraud Act 2006 ?

[@Stuart-f2m]

Rachael from Accounts makes Dianne Abbot look like Carol Vorderman

[@jenniferscott2216]

😂😂😂😂

[@terryhosker1298]

Still keep her job and her fat pension Makes me sick

[@martinhambleton5076]

👩 We will probably find out out she did a "Home Economics" course for a week. This woman is not a qualified economist, surely? How the hell has this been allowed to happen, and why would Rachel even want to put her head on the chopping block knowing that in all honesty that you're not up to the job? In the interests of this country and its general well-being, the current Labour government has to "retire." Elon Musk is successful, business minded, and definitely a mover and shaker. Kier and Co are making themselves look even more ridiculous.

[@1ForTheShieldz]

What a mess. Another guy was 'let go of' today at work. Now over half of my department have been 'let go of' since the labour budget. I'm-allowed unpaid eternal holiday' as well in April. Sad times coming, everyone at work is worried.

[@hannahbowen7268]

Cannot all the other MPs see they will never get back in

[@timwingham8952]

Two letters for our Chancellor....C V.

[@simplesimon5739]

We must be grateful that we have all this equality. Rachel from accounts is the first female Chancellor. Did you know? Anyway, there's really no need to panic. It's not as if we don't have electricity, the trains are running, we have adequate food supply and the bins are emptied regularly. What joys.

[@Spriteside]

Well, the trains aren't running properly and and we'll struggle for hometown food if farmers have to all sell up

[@marylauder3374]

Currently but not for long!

[@davex2614]

Only for now

[@WilfTompkins5546]

Shame on Mark Carney and Mervin King for supporting Rachel in Accounts.

[@petergordon4525]

Carney wasn't the brightest either tho'

[@AndrewWilliams-ry6tb]

Andrew Marr has always been a truly appalling journalist. It's incredible that he's treated like some sort of national treasure. On his lbc show yesterday, he linked the L.A. wildfires to climate change, Trump and Musk, just before it's been revealed that many of the fires were started deliberately.

[@paulkirkby6188]

It was probably climate change nutjobs who started them

[@Gina-vu4mu]

King should dissolve Parliament now this killing our once was a great Country

[@whitehart11]

No power to do so

[@terryjacob8169]

Don't hold your hopes up with limp-wristed Charlie-boy, he agrees with most of Starmer's nonsense. And his heir, Willy, is no better.

[@StephenEvans-x3n]

Probably no power to do so, but also afraid Charlie boy agrees with Starmer as he is a woke and a so called green freak. Not my king.

[@PaulLancaster-hj3kx]

Interest on the massive debt before Reeves disastrous budget was £90 Billion. Thats £240 million every single day. The end is near.

[@GrahamFearnley]

National debt 90 billion when tories got in now 3 trillion when tories left whats your point isn t 90 billion less than 3 trillion tell me what we got to show for it besides a bankrupt country

[@johnswarbrick2365]

If everyone is super taxed and has nothing left then she will regard it as a success because we will be stable.

[@Clem_Fandango11]

Always cracked me up when Starmer droning on about first female Chancellor. In the meantime the other lot have had 3 female prime ministers and a black female leader...... Starmer really does set the bar low.

[@marc871]

They still want to cover up the covering up. Its disgusting this.

[@JonUKcitizen101]

It doesn't matter if she has lied on her CV the results show exactly how capable an economist she is.

[@rackynjeff]

Rachel Reeves embarrassed us women 😮I’m from the US and I still feel this second hand embarrassment..a woman CAN do that job, but not THAT woman..

[@homemaintenance1234]

I disagree. Women spend, men earn it. Modern women don’t budget, but men still can and do. Sorry, but in the modern period there IS most definitely an issue about women. Western society is dying precisely because you, as women, have been given a certain sort of ‘equality’. There is no equality, there is not DEi. There is competence and incompetence. Nowadays I would never work for any woman whatsoever. Keep dreaming, dear.

[@StephenEvans-x3n]

Like what you are saying 😊😊

[@johnclark5115]

We would be better served with reform and conservative as the two main parties.

[@GrahamFearnley]

Yes sure has t the las4 14 years taught you anything tories and reform are the same party but one is far right you d be saying good bye to your rights and the NHS there only interested in lining theirs and the riches pockets they wouldn't t piss on you to put you out if you were on fire but you cannot educate pork

[@peterham7439]

Up the river without a paddle😅😅😅

[@avryllsixtus3429]

If they knew what a paddle looks like

[@Royboy50]

We’re down river 5 metres from the Zambezi falls hey Ho here we go.hold on the labour government he just jumped into a speedboat they’re going to be ok

[@manishg214]

I can hear Sunak laughing at us! He tried to warn us 😢

[@Brian-om2hh]

He did indeed.....

[@davidellis279]

One blunder after another,Reeves has to go before the country goes bust.

[@easytiger652]

So where's the stability.?????????????

[@easytiger652]

Stop all foreign aid to Ukraine and other countries.why are we giving away taxpayer money when the country is In a cost of living crisis.....why.?

[@DarrenleeBradbury]

Two Tier, I'll just use 10 million of Tax payers money to see if i can sue Elon Musk. Because there's no way am i willing to lose all of my own money.

[@JeanGreig-vx2zy]

It's obvious it is all too much for her. She looks dreadful & l think she is heading for a nervous breakdown. along with the public😂

[@philbamford6957]

Borrowing at it's highest since 1998,guess who was in power in 1998,yes you guessed it LABOUR.

[@alblakeley3501]

You don't need to be a brain surgeon or a professional economist to know if you make things really expensive for business to trade and hire people. It will kill the economy. It's common sense.

[@imbonkers3629]

She’s in China begging them to invest in uk 😮and buy our gilts lol good luck with that 🙄

[@rogerbennett9641]

Selling England with a Yen for communism.

[@gerardfreeman8784]

She is a serious economist, first female Chancellor,has a clear plan (Labour said had a clear plan on everything. They told us so. They lied

[@Brian-om2hh]

Labour's lie tally is already clocking up, just 6 Months into power. During 2023, when Labour were in opposition, Kier Starmer stood up (on camera) and declared that nobody would (quote) "pay a penny more in Council Tax under Labour". Labour recently gave local authorities the green light to increase Council Tax by up to 5%. Again while in opposition, Labour repeatedly shouted for tax havens to be abolished. Labour recently received a large donation (allegedly £millions) from the Cayman Islands - a tax haven. It seems things are different once you're in power.....

[@OGChoPPeRGriFF]

This is INSUFFERABLE !!

[@reachsandy11]

china should start adding huge trade export tariffs to UK to teach them a lesson for preaching china on net zero and zero emissions policies.

[@trevdean540]

Carney endorsement was the warning!

[@alunevans2377]

Carney is a liberal leftie who is considering running for the Canadian PM

[@annbaldwin1376]

I hope Labour voters can now see what they have voted for.

[@Brian-om2hh]

They've all gone very quiet....

[@teryd5672n]

I recall the 70’s so I know what’s coming.. youngsters watch and learn.

[@Brian-om2hh]

I recall the 70's too. The biggest difference seems to be that this bunch have the capability to outdo the last Labour governments several times over. I'm just glad I retired last Summer, because Britain's industry is going to take one hell of a pasting under these clowns.

[@teryd5672n]

@ yes I agree. I can’t recall ever seeing such incompetence. Let’s hope people learn from this experience.

[@chrismeredith8995]

I thought they didnt know what a woman was!

[@Vincent-dc6ku]

She's just got started, look another 2 years down the line, IF YOU DARE😱😱

[@gabriellerochelle4367]

The problem is they are borrowing to give it out in foreign aid, that's before you even look at the uk finances. Also the billions spend on migration again before you even look uk finances. Massive borrowing before looking at how the country funds

[@windsong2875]

Rachael from accounts- so well said!

[@fredo1070]

"The Chancellor is said to be prepared to impose more severe spending cuts on departments if necessary, having already ruled out increasing either borrowing or taxes." Sounds like she is turning into a Thatcherite.

[@imbonkers3629]

She will start with cuts but will be raising taxes before the year end 😢

[@maccagrabme]

Reform

[@jabberwokky8]

She’s no Thatcherite. The coming spending cuts are as a result of her incredibly bad decision making. She’s killed the economy.

[@whitehart11]

Hurrah!

[@doortjedartel9009]

May the Lord save Britain (and all of Europe)🙏

[@andreaconroy3623]

We'd see her greying hair too if she stopped with the box dyes.

[@Lea-ce2vf]

I also remember the 70s. Spot on Mike. I was in last couple of years of school and it impacted my education for sure. 3 day weeks, power black outs - candles, no tv, massive inflation, food shortages….absolutely horrendous. I have never voted for labour for this very reason and I never will.

[@rogerbennett9641]

We are in recession already 😂 thank god summer is coming with a Reform goverment.

[@polaris7122]

Hahahaha, 2029!

[@Brian-om2hh]

Reform don't have anywhere near enough MP's to form a working government....

[@rogerbennett9641]

@@Brian-om2hh That's the point of elections.

[@valansley]

Do they actually believe their BS 😮

[@wongfeihung9724]

Reeves's 'stability' just like Brown's 'prudence' 🙄

[@Brian-om2hh]

Ah yes, Gordon Brown, the man who sold off a heap of Britain's gold reserves, which would now completely wipe out this so-called 22 £billion black hole. Well done Mr Brown, maintaining the Labour tradition of doing exactly the wrong thing.....

[@nezzam100]

If Mark Carnage supports her that's a red flag right there.

[@colinharrison5501]

We are heading for deep dark place in our county, if we let this labour carry on what they are doing,

[@IwasBraveFor2WholeSeconds]

I can't wait to see the next economic situation report, it'll be a slap in the face of those students politics

[@JACB006]

I honestly think this government is making more mistakes than the comedy “Peter Pan Goes Wrong (with subs) (2016)” listed by “Irizu Germain”. That was fun, this isn’t.

[@ja9star824]

Not Mistakes

[@j.4332]

So if the economy is in the toilet,surely one easy cut would be the £15 billion "Foreign Aid"?If the UK Govt is having to borrow money to run basic services,then SURELY we should not be doling it out abroad?Thats effectively borrowing to give away.

[@edthompson9337]

Yes, only a fool borrows money to give away to someone else!

[@Lonerstoner512]

1% global emissions yet will pay the highest energy bills un the world

[@petergordon4525]

Because of the obsession with wind power, apparently we were very close to having blackouts this past week. Cold and still, no imports from mainland Europe because they have the same conditions, happens every year at this time!

[@BrianHagan-t8m]

Rachel reeves couldn’t deliver a carry oot!

[@ade3628]

My god she doesn't know what she's doing

[@jamesgreen807]

Fix????!!! NOT A CLUE!!!!!

[@ianbird7444]

sadly this is going to hurt i to remember the 70's and as bad as that was this is going to be worse they battered everyone and everything and now look at what's happening

[@nicholacarr969]

I remember the blackouts - I used to love cooking on a camping stove and reading with my mum by candle light! I am not sure that I want to do it again!!!

[@Phylicity]

Mark Carney ludicrous man! Serious Economist! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣well that went well! Her as economist about as credible as Carney as Bank of England governor!

[@RobertShaw-l9m]

Not just her but Starmer and Angela too.

[@EricSallis-k4r]

But she's fixing the foundations😂

[@nickgreen5829]

What of the shitehouse