rachel reeves: plagiarist

[Rob Ray]

The real question though is when are the Tories going to take Reeves and her buddies on about Labour's rampant plagarism of all their policies?

 

[PTK]

'mistakes'

Rachel Reeves says she 'should have done better' amid plagiarism row

Labour's shadow chancellor admits some sections of her new book "were not properly referenced".

www.bbc.co.uk

Rachel Reeves does not just have a copy editor. She also has a copy copy editor.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Back in my day, they called it ”sampling”.

 

[tim]

Or, you know, if you can't write a book, don't.

I assume she didn't write the book and it was her ghost writer who plagiarised.

 

[Wilf]

Plagiarism is so last year. All the cool kids use AI nowadays.

 

[xenon]

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[xenon]

I don't see the big deal. There's nothing new on this earth. We all plagiarise all the time.

 

[PTK]

I don't see the big deal. There's nothing new on this earth. We all plagiarise all the time.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Rachel Reeves, so quick to condemn those she considers workshy, gets caught out copying her homework.

They're always weak fools, these hardliners. I suspect it's their own weakness and mediocrity they're really angry about. Then they just externalise that instead of dealing with it.

 

[teqniq]

Plagiarism aside what was she thinking of here?

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Plagiarism aside what was she thinking of here?

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I mean, plagiarism's not a criminal offence, so she shouldn't have been banged up for it like that.

 

[Elpenor]

Looks like the showers at school

 

[redsquirrel]

Reminded me of Derek Jarman sets from The Devils
Though if Reeves is Redgrave, who's her Reed?

 

[hitmouse]

"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea." - Rachel Reeves, probably

 

[Santino]

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

 

[Calamity1971]

Plagiarism aside what was she thinking of here?

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[The39thStep]

 

[Pickman's model]

Plagiarism aside what was she thinking of here?

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She's been put in the naughty corner

 

[bellaozzydog]

I don't see the big deal. There's nothing new on this earth. We all plagiarise all the time.

Moby lyric right there!

 

[The39thStep]

 

[lazythursday]

How is it that you can be both a plagiarist and fiddle your expenses and still be viewed as eligible to be Chancellor of the Exchequer? Why is it impossible for politicans to be held to the standards everyone else is forced to comply with?

 

[Dystopiary]

Plagiarism aside what was she thinking of here?

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Dreaming of her future role as Witchfinder General at the DWP.

 

[brogdale]

Christ-on-a-fucking bike.

 

[two sheds]

You'd think if it was the worst economy since World War Two they might think of adopting some of the solutions that turned the fucking economy round then.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Football, faith and Fabianism: what books by the new frontbenchers tell us about the way Labour will govern

Ed Miliband’s ideas are more radical than his party’s; Emily Thornberry is alarmed by Trump; Rachel Reeves has an unlikely role model. What else do the new cabinet’s tomes reveal?

www.theguardian.com

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Now it's time to plagiarise Tory economic policy.

 

[Serge Forward]

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Football, faith and Fabianism: what books by the new frontbenchers tell us about the way Labour will govern

Ed Miliband’s ideas are more radical than his party’s; Emily Thornberry is alarmed by Trump; Rachel Reeves has an unlikely role model. What else do the new cabinet’s tomes reveal?

www.theguardian.com

From that article...

I laughed out loud at the section on what she (Reeves) learned from Rosa Luxemburg: that there should be a windfall tax on big oil and gas companies, and the tax loopholes used by non-doms and private equity should be closed. The Spartacist wouldn’t disagree with any of that but I’m not sure, when she said on the brink of death – “Tomorrow the revolution will rise up again, clashing its weapons and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!” – that she had tax on her mind.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Fucking hell.

Nandy:

There is a hopelessly confused section on populism, in which Podemos, a grassroots Spanish leftwing movement defined and set apart by its pluralism, is bagged together with the far right’s Marine Le Pen (because people like them?); and Jeremy Corbyn is a populist because he said “the media can be a little biased”, while the Daily Mail is populist because it called judges “enemies of the people”.

Cooper:

It’s an anthology of speeches, each with a short introduction, and it is politically anodyne, celebrating Thatcher for “self-belief and determination” (shame about the neoliberalism), and May for being “brave” (shame about the hostile environment).

These are not people on the same side as me.

Milliband actually sounds ok.

 

[PR1Berske]

Highlights from Rachel Reeves' interview today

 

[Elpenor]

I don’t expect this rather sour individual will want to give out decent pay rises

The message over the last few years has been if you want the pay award the pay review body recommends it’s unfunded (edit or only partially funded) so cut something to pay it

With a Labour Party determined to stick to Tory spending / tax raising commitments all parliament it’s hopelessly naive to think this will change