Shadow chancellor Mel Stride implies Rachel Reeves should be sacked by Keir Starmer as chancellor. "To go or not to go. That is now a question. The prime minister will be damned if he does, but he will surely be damned if he does not." - ThreadSky

pippacrerar.bsky.social • 48 days ago

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride implies Rachel Reeves should be sacked by Keir Starmer as chancellor.

"To go or not to go. That is now a question. The prime minister will be damned if he does, but he will surely be damned if he does not."

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dmillbskysocial.bsky.social•48 days ago

Oh well if Mel Stride says so....

haletosis.bsky.social•48 days ago

What rubbish

ooaabarbara.bsky.social•48 days ago

You mean Mel Stride from that previous administration whose mess this is? Lest we forget how awful they were.

spacebanjo.bsky.social•48 days ago

Mel Stride? Mel actual Stride?

sleepysilvery.bsky.social•48 days ago

Let’s see if her plans work!

oldmanrambling.bsky.social•48 days ago

Oh, Pippa, what have they done to you at the Grauniad? You used to be good and now you are just part of the mass of English political corrs lining up to boost the an opposition who were thoroughly discredited only last year after 14 years of chaos. Mel Stride implies? Really? He’s a lying scumbag.

stevekellybirkdale.bsky.social•48 days ago

Sadly, the Guardian is descending rapidly to the murky depths of the right wing press. You shouldn't be uncritically amplifying this rubbish. Unfollowed.

lchoucs.bsky.social•48 days ago

For ‘balance’ will you be reporting on the substance of the Chancellor’s speech to inform us appropriately? I will wait.

satiricalplanet.bsky.social•32 days ago

Mel Stride, Conservative MP, government minister, and part-time controversy magnet, has spent his career climbing the greasy pole of Westminster while leaving a trail of public outrage in his wake.
https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/mel-stride-the-political-survivor

philmoura.bsky.social•47 days ago

The Guardian Economics team say hi, we should catch up more often. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/15/surprise-fall-in-uk-inflation-to-25-eases-pressure-on-rachel-reeves

philmoura.bsky.social•48 days ago

Ed Conway from Sky providing some helpful context. https://bsky.app/profile/edconway.bsky.social/post/3lfncicmkbs23

dylcha.bsky.social•47 days ago

Thanks for sharing hopefully @pippacrerar.bsky.social takes note

philmoura.bsky.social•48 days ago

It’s literally his job to call for her demise and it’s literally your job to give a bit more context. The market jitters are more down to the US and fears of inflation, than anything she’s done. Do better.

metaphorqu.bsky.social•48 days ago

@pippacrerar.bsky.social still hasn't apologised for saying "totally cringe" about the PM being thanked for his service. The leading liberal voice doesn't seem to have a clue these days.

sibelian62.bsky.social•48 days ago

That's rich coming from any Tory!

alanwino.bsky.social•48 days ago

Appalling reporting, no comment, no fact checking, no nothing. A once fine journalist on the slippery slope to GB News.

regmanator.bsky.social•48 days ago

Just amplifying rubbish

porl1878.bsky.social•48 days ago

Didn't somebody once say 'it's like being savaged by a dead sheep'. Why are you even quoting these failed politicians?

noughtytaughty.bsky.social•47 days ago

Think that was said of Thatcher after Geoffrey Howe spoke against her in the Commons. Can't recall who said it tho.

viviennesoton.bsky.social•48 days ago

They think it’s like the Tory party with people stabbing each other in the back and being sacked every five minutes!

plod1.bsky.social•48 days ago

Would have expected better from you.
No context!
Nothing about the world economies being nervous about America.
FYI the GBP has dropped 0.01 against the euro this last month.
You do know how much € 0.01 is??
I know it’s an enormous amount of money not!!

tynegal.bsky.social•48 days ago

Terrible Tories hurling insults at a woman who is trying to clear up their mess. F-off.

melferguson1.bsky.social•48 days ago

Didn’t look like Rachel Reeves is going anywhere - she totally bossed that session.
You going to report on that?

radomirtroika.bsky.social•48 days ago

Weak governance by previous incumbents does not want to be the signature of the current Labour Government. The question that needs to be asked will never appear in any UK MSM. Why suddenly is this occurring? What on the world financial stage could be causing it in Germany, France and the UK.

allyttime.bsky.social•48 days ago

Dear me, Pippa, what on earth makes the half hearted warblings of Stride worth tweeting about?

pablothetrucker.bsky.social•47 days ago

Mel Stride. Who gives a sh#t what she has to say?

johnwjones.bsky.social•48 days ago

Pippa, context? This is so one sided it’s a valueless post? Not the first time I’ve suggested you can do better than this.

skulking-loafer.bsky.social•48 days ago

Mel Stride makes a feather seem heavy.

dpmanchee.bsky.social•48 days ago

'The UK is not suffering another Truss shock'. So why even propose to sack a Chancellor ?

https://bsky.app/profile/jdportes.bsky.social/post/3lfoqk336us2h

There are long term structural problems in the economy that the Tories failed to address during 15 years in power.

juneussell.bsky.social•48 days ago

Oooh! Fancy talk!

robcave.bsky.social•48 days ago

Not sure Mel stride or any other Tory that served under Johnson have much moral authority on who should or should not be sacked.

worcestercourt.bsky.social•47 days ago

Mel Stride might have forgotten that Kwasi Kwarteng crashed the UK economy, but those crippled by soaring mortgage payments certainly haven’t.

tanders24.bsky.social•48 days ago

Can’t help thinking that Stride should be sacked

mitchellst.bsky.social•48 days ago

This is absolutely twaddle invented by a bored lobby who think they are part of the entertainment industry.

metaphorqu.bsky.social•48 days ago

Spot on. Thank you . 🙏🙏👏👏

dickp.bsky.social•48 days ago

Why are you amplifying his BS with no comment?

seanbeag.bsky.social•48 days ago

Because they have no real news to report now that the Tories are out. Journalists were spoiled for choice with scandal when the Conservatives ran things. They were spoon fed great stories. Now they don't know what real journalism is.

dickp.bsky.social•48 days ago

You're implying that modern journalists can't produce interesting positive copy. You're probably right. But she was spoonfed bullshit by a professional bullshitter, and passed up the chance. If only Labour had been able to dictate the news agenda when in opposition. And this is the Grauniad!

pondo1664.bsky.social•48 days ago

Why are revurgitating this bollocks verbatim? Tell me one thing Stride's ever done to make his opinion worth listening to.

lila7.bsky.social•48 days ago

And we used to think you were worth reading.

What happened to you Pippa?

coopermxc.bsky.social•48 days ago

I can’t take any of this seriously. They’re in shadow roles pretending they were competent in government. Much of the media giving too much credence to the labour government falling narrative. I think they are missing the daily buffoonery of the previous government to fill hours of their schedules.

jacklondonbluesky.bsky.social•48 days ago

Mr Stride thinks he will import some gravitas by mangling a bit of Shakespeare....

Not sure any Tory is capable of existential angst.....

jessie65.bsky.social•47 days ago

He's so full of s***

richardham1956.bsky.social•48 days ago

What has happened to Mel Stride? Or was he always beneath the surface an unthinking Tory ideologue? Seems to have lost his soul somewhere recently.

mrgimlet.bsky.social•48 days ago

Piss poor reporting.

mrgimlet.bsky.social•48 days ago

Why? Because Mel Stride says so?

ralphfarrugia.bsky.social•48 days ago

Who gives a shit what Snidey Mel Stride says? Irrelevant turd from an irrelevant Party. Brains of a rocking horse.

lintonbostik.bsky.social•48 days ago

Literally just found out that Mel Stride is the SCOTE. #NewsWeCanUse actually, we can’t.

robin51.bsky.social•48 days ago

Why are you reporting this garbage? I thought you were better than this!

paul1020.bsky.social•48 days ago

I can see me blocking you as you become more GB newsy 🤬🤬🤬

artbookreview.bsky.social•48 days ago

Yet again, the Tories fail to understand the global financial situation. No wonder they were such a disaster.

lenny-66.bsky.social•48 days ago

Mel Stride is an excellent example of someone who twists words and uses half truths to make a point.

Tories can never be trusted again. You know that..

fib3.bsky.social•48 days ago

Shocking news reporting. We're in the throws of wild hysteria,I'm backing Reeve's all the way, when she speaks Mountain's move.

rob9194.bsky.social•47 days ago

Not a story .

ben-yeti.bsky.social•48 days ago

Not sure Crerar deserves all the vitriol she’s getting here. Her journalism has been of greater service to UK democracy than most in recent years. Will these same people in the comments lambast her when she quotes a sound bite from a Labour frontbencher having a pop at a Conservative?

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