Rachel Reeve’s CV

I read it on the news a week or so ago.

What a numpty. He sounds quite an unpleasant character with a dim view of women and disabled people.

It's just that had this been.....ooh, let's say a Labour councillor there would have been a triumphant thread announcing it by now.

This does not detract from my irritation and disappointment at the Labour party officials who did not make sure that there was not a thing to be revealed in RR's background checks.

I just thought I would let those whose information comes from GB News know, just in case they hadn't heard.

Me? Stirring it you say? Never!

I assume that he has been suspended?

BBC!

People on here are suggesting that Ms Reeves has her hand in the till and diverting funds to her personal pocket. There is no evidence of this. No outcry on Grant Shapps and his multiple online business persona, Sunak benefitting from his wife’s billions, Zahawi and his tax dodging , Covid fiddling by government etc etc. seems a bit one sided witch-hunt.

vegansrock

People on here are suggesting that Ms Reeves has her hand in the till and diverting funds to her personal pocket. There is no evidence of this. No outcry on Grant Shapps and his multiple online business persona, Sunak benefitting from his wife’s billions, Zahawi and his tax dodging , Covid fiddling by government etc etc. seems a bit one sided witch-hunt.

Maybe start a thread on those?

I don’t think you can equate Sunak ‘benefitting from his wife’s billions’ with possible improper use of expenses, which would be theft or fraud. The only questionable uses of expenses that I have read of are the purchase of a bag for Reeves’s PA and purchase of a gift for her manager. I wouldn’t expect the purchase of a personal gift for a colleague to be claimed as an expense. I haven’t heard of any other allegation that Reeves used her expense account for personal expenditure, but it is a curious coincidence that she took voluntary redundancy around the time of the alleged investigation. Obviously we need to have confirmation from HBOS that there was no investigation, if that is the case. So far we have only heard that someone in HR has said that if there was an investigation she (the HR person) would have known about it. We don’t know if she necessarily would have known, as surely that would depend on the stage an investigation had reached, and its findings.

It's obvious she is used to having a cavalier attitude to other people's money. She and Starmer are a pair together.

I wasn’t even considering accusations about expenses (in this instance), merely about the inaccuracies on her CV.

Telling us that she spent ‘the best part of a decade’ working as an economist at the BoE is, to my mind, a pretty serious deception.

Barleyfields

Telling us that she spent ‘the best part of a decade’ working as an economist at the BoE is, to my mind, a pretty serious deception.

I don’t really know what her job at the BoE involved, but maybe she was still using Y2 maths when she said The better part of a decade.
In Y2 maths, children are taught rounding numbers up or down and numbers ending in 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 round up to the nearest 10.

That would explain it then.

Mollygo

Barleyfields

Telling us that she spent ‘the best part of a decade’ working as an economist at the BoE is, to my mind, a pretty serious deception.

I don’t really know what her job at the BoE involved, but maybe she was still using Y2 maths when she said The better part of a decade.
In Y2 maths, children are taught rounding numbers up or down and numbers ending in 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 round up to the nearest 10.

That would be "the better part of a decade"

The best part of a decade would indicate 9+ years, I would have thought.

That’s undoubtedly what she wanted us to believe. She has said it several times in interviews - I wonder if Starmer knew the truth? She must be glad of the focus on Trump and Ukraine, but I doubt this will conveniently be forgotten. Who else might Starmer appoint as chancellor though? Any ideas?

Children in Year 1 are taught how to use comparatives and superlatives so KS1 maths and grammar.