Well said! £30 compared to £30 million. It’s clutching at the tiniest of straws. If the desired outcome is to make me angry it’s having the opposite impact.
Friends and family have always laughed at how much of a pedantic stickler I am about things like expenses. This is proof positive that this is a wholly appropriate way to behave vs the alleged behaviour of the Chancellor. Grim stuff. I expect far better.
This is a non-story as the HBOS CEO said, there was no wrong doing. Seems to have disappeared off the BBC after they made it sound such an amazing piece of investigative journalism. Perhaps they've had their pants pulled down and are now embarrassed.
Who fucking cares? We should demand every reporter and editor involved in this charade explain every claim they made for the last 30 years. They need to be purer than driven snow or stfu.
Oc the point of the Times article is sneering at a 'lower class' job holding person. Not a Times class person. Their readership laps that stuff up. Nasty, and more than a hint of misogyny. C suite worried/annoyed about dealing with a not 'one of us' person, resorting to 'quality' insults
This Govt's downfall will be thinking that everyone else is going to play fair, the media won't, the opposition won't, the US won't and the private sector won't... They need to wake up and start fixing the things that are broken or our democracy is finished
A bottle of wine!!! My goodness. Imagine how angry the same journalists will be when they find out about Johnson (the odious moob) and his inappropriate donations of public money to Jennifer Arcuri.
I'm no fan of Team Skimmer, but this is hardly a smoking gun of impropriety. And I'm not sure I can stomach another 10 years of Tory fascism because swing voters are Murdochian candidates activated by the words 'labour expenses' 😮💨
I wish labour would stop pandering to rags owned by right wing billionaires who will always hate them. Just do positive policy like rejoining the EU and win public support that way.
These people have amazing memories. I doubt I could recall whether someone ordered/didn’t order, claimed/didn’t claim, received/didn’t receive a £30 bottle of fizz 15 years ago…🤷♂️
Labour have carved out their own downfall by pandering to them in the first place. Have zero sympathy for Reeves or any of the neoliberal zealots in the labour party
When, finally, admitting that she hadn't actually worked for nearly a century as an economist with the BofE, Reeves grudgingly admitted she had worked for "HBOS in Halifax, WEST YORKSHIRE."
Oddly, Reeves expected that GMB viewers would be familiar with " HBOS" but need help to find Halifax.
This is the stuff of dinner party gossip ("I came across Reeves once when I was temping").
It's then passed down a line of 7th hand repetition that a journo got hold of, mentioned to the boss who then gave them 3 months to go digging. Sunk costs compelled them to publish.
I don't know whether the accusations are true or this is all just anti-Labour propaganda, but Rachel Reeves needs to come out fighting and shut the f*ckers up with proof, or step down. The silence is too damaging.
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Maybe they are now trying to compete with @danneidle for investigative reporting....
Then she'd be being praised as 'the sensible option' and a 'safe pair of hands'.
Get the popcorn ready........
Oddly, Reeves expected that GMB viewers would be familiar with " HBOS" but need help to find Halifax.
Ffs. One bottle of champagne?
It's then passed down a line of 7th hand repetition that a journo got hold of, mentioned to the boss who then gave them 3 months to go digging. Sunk costs compelled them to publish.
Both are now self-preserving right-wing myths.