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So Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, has
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given two sort of hype pre-match
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interviews to newspapers uh ahead of the
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budget this week in which she complains
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that she's been underestimated her whole
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life and that she's sick of people
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mansplaining how to be chancellor to
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her. Look, I think it's utterly pathetic
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to play the victim in this way when it
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was she herself who made such a big play
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out of being the first ever female
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chancellor, which is in any rate a
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second tier achievement compared to
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being say the first female prime
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minister. Let's not forget the Tories
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have had three of those. Labour's never
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even had a female leader. I think it's
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also particularly insulting to all the
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people who she's making poorer with her
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own bad policy decisions. It's not
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mansplaining for a business leader to
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say that your jobs tax means I can't
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hire, I can't invest, and that you're
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strangling the animal spirits this
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economy needs to grow. Rachel Reeves
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came into this job as chancellor,
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promising stability. But if you read
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these interviews, it sounds like she's
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miserable, emotional, and driven by
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petty resentments against like posh boys
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she used to play chess against as a
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teenager. That's not to say that sexism
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isn't still a problem in British
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society. But whining and special
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pleading from powerful women like Reeves
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doesn't help the rest of us at all. I
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think it also speaks to a deeper problem
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with this Labor government in that
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they're driven by basically by class
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resentment and by their own sense of
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moral superiority which means that they
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dismiss any criticism however justified
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as either sexism or racism or far right.
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This government doesn't understand
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business and it doesn't have a plan. And
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I think since by definition only a man
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can mansplain, I cannot be accused of
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sexism when I say to Rachel Reeves,
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"You're not underrated. You're doing a
