Emeritus Prof. Christopher MayJun 7

Whatever the future holds for Rachel Reeves after a challenge to Keir Starmer's leadership of the Labour Party (and Premiership), her supporters are burnishing her reputation, claiming a range of quiet successes laying the foundations for country to escape the economic malaise into which it fell under Tory rule.

You can take this with a pinch of salt, otherwise consider if Reeves has been misjudged as she's a woman... I'll leave that with you.

#RachelReeves #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/07/rachel-reeves-unpopular-quietly-rebalancing-uk-plc

Rachel Reeves may be unpopular, but she is quietly rebalancing UK plc

Policy U-turns could define her stint at No 11 despite many sure-footed advances on devolved spending to help kickstart growth

The Guardian
Show threadbeemoh
@ChrisMayLA6 "quietly rebalancing UK plc" is an interesting way of describing "doing fuck-all beyond cutting social security and hoping everything else balances itself", but each to their own.
Jun 7 at 5:10pmWeb
Show threadLeiaJun 7
@beemoh @ChrisMayLA6 Words cannot encompass how much I loathe the expression “UK PLC” as if the aim of government was to turn a profit rather than look after people.
Show threadEmeritus Prof. Christopher MayJun 7

@leiawelsh @beemoh

Yes, its a particularly corrosive political category error....

Show threadWanWizard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱Jun 7

@leiawelsh @beemoh @ChrisMayLA6 It sums up everything that is wrong with neo-liberal thinking.

It is the main reason public services are either non-existent or crap, as everything is looked at as a cost to UK PLC, instead of the public services they are (whose value can not be expressed in pounds and pence).

Also, given the amount of money a government wastes, if it was a PLC, it would have been bankrupt a long time ago. Fortunately for them, they are backed by the bank of you and I.

Show threadOyu F'kaJun 7
@leiawelsh @beemoh @ChrisMayLA6 That *is* the aim of the government.
Show threadLeiaJun 7
@Oyu_Fka @beemoh @ChrisMayLA6 Yeah sadly. Noses in troughs.