Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been caught changing her online CV after the claim that she worked as an “economist” at the Bank of Scotland was exposed as untrue.
Gone from her LinkedIn profile is the claim that she was an “economist” at the Bank of Scotland. She now says only that she worked in “Retail Banking” at “Halifax” (i.e., Halifax Bank of Scotland, HBOS).
Guido Fawkes revealed last month that Reeves “actually worked in a small complaints team within HBOS which managed administration processes, IT matters, and small projects and planning”.
Guido further reports that a Treasury source has admitted that the LinkedIn entry 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.”
With a background as strong as that and integrity to match, no wonder she’s getting off to such a flying start as Chancellor…
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I guess ‘Corporate Minion’ is not very impressive either.
I thought anything was better than Economist
Maybe after a few further edits, we’ll find out she was a bank teller taking deposits (old people, farmers / Businesses), and handing out cash (Unios, Public Sector workers). She’s certainly using that experience!
A passel of liars, charlatans, grifters, incompetents, evil-doers.
Our Government.
And that I would say was a compliment.
Ex Tory MP and minister Miriam Cates thought this a minor matter on GB News yesterday which I think shows perfectly why she lost her seat. Here we have a Minister of State lying about her background experience for being the Chancellor while claiming this experience makes her perfect for her current role. A life ban on holding public office would seem reasonable. It is also fair to wonder what she actually did at the Bank of England but I doubt anyone will admit to what she really did there.
“Ahhh Rachel; time for coffee, tea and some biscuits if you don’t mind.”
Nah that’s too much of a responsibility for her.
Just trying, and failing to imagine media and parliamentary meltdown if it had been a tory Chancellor making such an excruciatingly embarrassing confession.
We’d never hear the end of it.
Off Topic — I hear Dominic Cummings has been making a statement calling for people involved on the Lab leak and Gain of Function to be exposed and arrested etc. Bit rich coming from him, but welcome. I got this information from Russell Brand on Rumble because I don’t have an X account. This is something I would think the DS would be interested in no?
Just to remind ourselves, it was Dominic Cummings, networking with ideologically-motivated modeller Neil Ferguson, who pressured the UK government into abandoning the sensible and science-based Pandemic Plan, and adopting “The Science” that appears to have been promulgated by the same cabal that produced SARS-CoV-2 in the first place.
Misleading Parliament? By-election? Why not?
surely at least the £22 billion lie should put her in serious contempt of parliament?
Thought: one could start a petition on https://petition.parliament.uk/ asking parliament to put her in contempt. If one gets 10k signatures then the government will have to explain why it isn’t a lie.
The headline is quite funny. Such a stupid thing to do. If you get caught out lying like that you can either confess or lie low until it dies down. You don’t change your bloody CV which will obviously be noticed and recognised afterwards and is clearly an admission of guilt. And then to lie about it again when the change got noticed. This is toddler stuff.
The actual situation is much worse than described in this article:
http://www.snouts-in-the-trough.com/archives/36933
At what point does this level of deception become a serious issue? Is it not serious enough to question her credibility and integrity in terms of her current role?
The same applies to the current government who does now instigate measures that were never in any manifesto and go against their rhetoric during the election campaign.
Is that all allowed?
Ironically her actual CV looks better to me than the “embellished” one, at least she has had some experience of a real job, after working for the BoE, followed by a move into politics.
But it remains a bit strange that a high-flying Oxbridge/BoE type would get a job dealing with customer complaints at Halifax.
It’s worth checking the additional comments Reeves’ ex-boss made on Linked In about her career at HBOS (via Guido). Not what you would label “distinguished”.