Chancellor Rachel Reeves - Former Colleagues Say She Lied About Role as ‘Economist’

Guido Fawkes has been investigating the woman who found an imaginary £22 Billion "Black Hole" in our finances , robbed pensioners of their Winter Fuel allowance and on Thursday will do her best to wreck our economy by raising taxes on business and British people , her former colleagues paint a different picture about her claims she was an ‘Economist’

The Chancellor states on her LinkedIn that she was working as an “economist” at HBOS. This is not true. Guido can reveal that Reeves worked in a mundane support department at the bank, according to multiple former colleagues. Within the Halifax/HBOS Complaints team there was a small support unit which managed administration processes, IT matters, and small projects and planning. It was a team of three people far from the Economics Department. Reeves held a mid-level position. HBOS was acquired by Lloyds in 2009 and the Chancellor left in December of that year to pursue a career in politics…

Reeves has a tendency to be selective about the truth when it comes to her CV – Guido exposed her “chess champion” myth as a falsehood according to records last week. Guido reached out to Reeves’ team – they did not deny she did not work as an “economist” for the bank, but instead said she “covered various areas using her economist background.”As she prepares to drop a huge tax bombshell on Britain, her self-styled claim to be an economic technocrat is unravelling…
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Guido Fawkes has a long history of exposing the lies and wrongdoings of politicians on both sides of the house , I have no doubts in their investigative journalism.

Rachel Reeves today received what could be termed as a proper bollocking by the Speaker of the House Sir Lindsay Hoyle for making budget announcements outside of the House before Wednesdays budget.


Reeves is going to change the rules so she can borrow Billions more to be wasted on Net Zero and other looney Labour projects.

Labour's set piece tax raising budget yesterday has seen the value of the Pound drop and caused the cost of government borrowing to rise , the non-partisan Institute for Fiscal Studies has accuse her of the "same silly games playing" of the Conservatives.

Director Paul Johnson says it is "striking" that much of the increase in day-to-day public spending happens in the next two years, (4.3% and 2.6% respectively), but only 1.3% the year after.

He says: "I am willing to bet a substantial sum that day-to-day public service spending will in fact increase more quickly than supposedly planned after next year."

That is because a rise of 1.3% overall "would almost certainly mean real terms cuts for some departments".

"It would be odd to increase spending rapidly only to start cutting back again in subsequent years."

Mr Johnson goes on to say: "I’m afraid this looks like the same silly games playing as we got used to with the last lot. Pencil in implausibly low spending increases for the future in order to make the fiscal arithmetic balance."
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The story seems to be gaining a bit of traction now as Guido has found she has altered her CV , Farage had this to say.

Rachel Reeves told us that she was an economist. In reality she ordered the paper clips instead.
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Gone is the Chancellor’s claim that she was an economist at the Bank of Scotland. She now just says she worked in “Retail Banking” at HBOS. As Guido revealed last month Reeves actually worked in a small complaints team within HBOS which managed administration processes, IT matters, and small projects and planning. Just in case you thought her experience as an “economist” justified that budget…

UPDATE: A Treasury source admits the LinkedIn was edited: “She worked in retail banking covering various areas drawing on her background as an economist. Her LinkedIn has been updated to reflect that.“
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Not surprising the economy has stalled after her ridiculous budget is it.

Statement from former Head of Banking Operations at Lloyds Banking Group Kev Gillett on Rachel Reeves roll with the bank.


Oh dear , the guy driving the bus don't have a licence.

The MSN have now got their teeth into the story and questions have been asked of No10 to which they had this to say.

"He is very clear this is a chancellor that has been straight with the public about the state of the public finances and what is necessary to restore financial stability - that is most important," said a spokeswoman.

Typical none answer then.

everal media outlets also reported a change to her profile on the networking site, removing a role as a Halifax Bank of Scotland economist and changing it to "retail banking role".

The reports came after Tory leader Kemi Badenoch referred to her as a "copy and paste chancellor" at PMQs last week, in a dig at past reports that she'd lifted sections of her book from Wikipedia.

Pressed by journalists on whether the prime minister thought she'd been entirely straight with the public about her career, or exageerated her CV, Number 10 offered Sir Keir's definitive backing.
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A useless PM backing a useless Chancellor , what could go wrong.