Like many others I’ve been astonished at the sight of the Chancellor Rachel Reeves visibly crying in the House of Commons. Normally I’d feel some sympathy for someone who if afflicted by a personal or family issue lets slip some tears in the workplace as many of us have been in a position due to bereavement or some other issue where we temporarily lose it, we are after all all too human.
I’d even be forgiving of someone crying in the House if they were talking about some horrendous atrocity that they had to speak about because an MP or a Minister probably might have access to information that might not be in the public domain and might be considerably more gruesome than the information that has been released to the public. But I find it difficult to be so forgiving in the case of Ms Reeves. This is because she might not be crying for some valid or understandable reason but because she can see the end of her career rapidly approaching from the horizon and the reason for that career death looming over her is her own actions. I put it to you that Rachel Reeves is not crying for us the British people but only for herself.
Rachael Reeves tears might well be in part because she knows she’s been found out as not being sufficient for the position in government she holds. Her tears seem to me like the tears of an errant husband who has been caught cheating on his wife and who only latterly realises what a monstrous screw up he’s made of things.
She’s not crying for the businesses that have folded due to the policies of the Government that she not only supported but also formulated. She’s not crying for the degradation that British people are suffering because of Labour’s policies. She’s not crying because of the poverty both fiscal and cultural that her party has forced Britons into. She’s crying for herself.
Rachel Reeve’s tears have as expected brought out the enormous hypocrisy of the Left. The Left are clutching their pearls and expressing horror at those on the Right mocking the tears of the clownish Chancellor even though it was Leftists who mocked Baroness Thatcher for tears when she left Number Ten for the last time and did similar for Liz Truss’s tears when she was replaced by Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party.
If Rachel Reeves was affected by some personal issue be it familial or similar that was making her a bit wobbly then she should have stayed away from the Chamber. Of course the commentariat both from the mainstream and the alternative media would have had a field day with criticism of her for her absence, but it would have been better than sitting in the Commons crying and making herself, her office and the country look weak. I’m going to save my tears and my sympathy for all those whose lives, businesses and communities that have been wrecked by the idiotic policies of the government that Rachael Reeves serves.