"Ted Heath with an Instagram account"

[belboid]

Thus spake Rachel Reeves of Rishi Sunak, preceding those six words with 'he's not Nigel Lawson, he's...'

I was the same age when Heath was PM as RR was when Lawson was chancellor. And I've studied economics and British economic history. So I should have a clue what she meant, especially as the papers say it was part of a 'savaging' by her. But I have absolutely no clue whatsoever.

Can the hive mind of Urban shed light upon this peculiarity?

 

[two sheds]

"Like being savaged by a dead sheep" comes to mind

 

[not a trot]

Thus spake Rachel Reeves, preceding those six words with 'he's not Nigel Lawson'

I was the same age when Heath was PM as RR was when Lawson was chancellor. And I've studied economics and British economic history. So I should have a clue what she meant, especially as the papers say it was part of a 'savaging' by her. But I have absolutely no clue whatsoever.

Can the hive mind of Urban shed light upon this peculiarity?

He's not Nigel Lawson,he's a very naughty boy.

 

[danny la rouge]

Thus spake Rachel Reeves, preceding those six words with 'he's not Nigel Lawson'

I was the same age when Heath was PM as RR was when Lawson was chancellor. And I've studied economics and British economic history. So I should have a clue what she meant, especially as the papers say it was part of a 'savaging' by her. But I have absolutely no clue whatsoever.

Can the hive mind of Urban shed light upon this peculiarity?

I missed this bon mot. Who is “Ted Heath with an instagram account”?

 

[Pickman's model]

I missed this bon mot. Who is “Ted Heath with an instagram account”?

A left wing shammerite

 

[SpookyFrank]

Electability writ large this lot are. Real star quality they have.

 

[danny la rouge]

A left wing shammerite

That hasn’t enlightened me.

 

[belboid]

I missed this bon mot. Who is “Ted Heath with an instagram account”?

Rishi Sunak. I shall amend the OP to make this clear!

 

[planetgeli]

I missed this bon mot. Who is “Ted Heath with an instagram account”?

Rishi Sunak on acid

 

[danny la rouge]

Rishi Sunak. I shall amend the OP to make this clear!

I’m as much in the dark as I was at the outset of this quest.

Maybe we can play “who was chancellor when you were the same age as Rachel Reeves was when Nigel Lawson was chancellor?” (4-10).

For me it was Roy Jenkins, Iain MacLeod, Anthony Barber, Denis Healey.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

He's not a proper tory, he's a whiny wet.

As said by a Thatcherite?

Dunno. How else could it work?

 

[DaveCinzano]

I’m as much in the dark as I was at the outset of this quest.

Maybe we can play “who was chancellor when you were the same age as Rachel Reeves was when Nigel Lawson was chancellor?” (4-10).

For me it was Roy Jenkins, Iain MacLeod, Anthony Barber, Denis Healey.

Howe/Lawson - the Ream Team

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I’m as much in the dark as I was at the outset of this quest.

Maybe we can play “who was chancellor when you were the same age as Rachel Reeves was when Nigel Lawson was chancellor?” (4-10).

For me it was Roy Jenkins, Iain MacLeod, Anthony Barber, Denis Healey.

Who?

Heath's lot have really gone down in history, haven't they?

 

[MickiQ]

Selwyn Lloyd, Reginald Maudling, James Callaghan and Roy Jenkins.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I'm Healey/Howe

This is a fun game, but I don't think it helps the OP.

 

[danny la rouge]

Who?

Heath's lot have really gone down in history, haven't they?

Yeah, Heath’s chancellor. Introduced VAT.

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm Healey/Howe

This is a fun game, but I don't think it helps the OP.

I don’t think anyone can. That came out wrong. I mean the Reeves quote is nonsensical. It sounds like it might mean something but doesn’t.

 

[danny la rouge]

Who?

Heath's lot have really gone down in history, haven't they?

The Barber Boom: The Economy of the 1970s

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I don’t think anyone can. That came out wrong. I mean the Reeves quote is nonsensical. It sounds like it might mean something but doesn’t.

I can only read the quote as meaning she thinks Lawson was good in some way. In some way that Heath wasn't. (And given Heath never was a C of the E, that bit's puzzling in itself.)

That it doesn't mean anything is fine. But I'm struggling to think what she might have thought that it could have meant. The tories aren't Thatcherite enough, presumably.

 

[killer b]

She said: today we've got an energy price crisis, record prices at the pumps, inflation is back... the truth is, he's not Nigel Lawson, he's Ted Heath with an instagram account

I guess all those things were hot issues during Heath's term in office, and as the whole harking back to the 70s thing has worked so well as an attack line against Labour for the last 40 years maybe she thinks it'll work against the tories too?

 

[danny la rouge]

I can only read the quote as meaning she thinks Lawson was good in some way. In some way that Heath wasn't. (And given Heath never was a C of the E, that bit's puzzling in itself.)

I’m reading it that she thinks Dishi Rishi is a vacuous influencer…like, em, Ted Heath. Whereas Lawson was in charge during the height of Thatcherism, and has a daughter who is a TV cook?

No, lost the thread there.

 

[danny la rouge]

She said: today we've got an energy price crisis, record prices at the pumps, inflation is back... the truth is, he's not Nigel Lawson, he's Ted Heath with an instagram account

I guess all those things were hot issues during Heath's term in office, and as the whole harking back to the 70s thing has worked so well as an attack line against Labour for the last 40 years maybe she thinks it'll work against the tories too?

It might if people knew what the fuck she was on about.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

She said: today we've got an energy price crisis, record prices at the pumps, inflation is back... the truth is, he's not Nigel Lawson, he's Ted Heath with an instagram account

I guess all those things were hot issues during Heath's term in office, and as the whole harking back to the 70s thing has worked so well as an attack line against Labour for the last 40 years maybe she thinks it'll work against the tories too?

Ah ok that clears that bit up. She couldn't say 'Anthony Barber' cos everyone would have said 'Who?'

 

[killer b]

It might if people knew what the fuck she was on about.

I had a look and centrist twitter all loved it. None of the tweets I saw actually explained what they thought was funny though.

 

[danny la rouge]

I had a look and centrist twitter all loved it. None of the tweets I saw actually explained what they thought was funny though.

Centrist Twitter is a diabolical pit of depravity.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Shock News!! No-one knows what the shadow cabinet is talking about! Whatever next?

 

[killer b]

the delivery of the zinger is quite something too. Reminiscent of Theresa May

 

[bluescreen]

The analogy doesn't work and it's not funny anyway, but did she mean something like: RS aspires to be Nigel Lawson but he's just a bitter man like Ted Heath who had a vendetta against Thatcher? Plus he's always posting pictures of himself?
(I'm really struggling to make sense of it tbh.)

 

[danny la rouge]

the delivery of the zinger is quite something too. Reminiscent of Theresa May

Holy fuck.

 

[Pickman's model]

That hasn’t enlightened me.

You know what a shammerite is, of course, a loyal apostle of sir keithly shammer