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YYou like to think that even in your toughest moments, your nearest and dearest will have your back. So you’ve just unveiled a national Budget he is done much criticized From every possible quarter? At least you can rely on your relatives to fight for you, encourage you and tell you that you did your best, right? Correct?
If you are not Rachel ReevesToday, the Chancellor will surely be feeling that deep, bone-level mortification that only arises when a family member does something incredibly embarrassing in public, And this feeling of outrage will only be multiplied by the fact that, instead of posting conspiracy theories in the local Facebook group, the concerned relative has now been printed in all the papers,
Reeves’ uncle Terry Smith, a retiree from Gillingham, Kent, has broken the family omerta and decided to instead start speaking out to the national press about his planned tax increases. “It’s the worst budget I’ve ever heard of – and I’m 73, so I’ve been on it for a long time,” he said. Sun“Rachel is my niece and a lovely person, but [the] The government is completely out of their depth.” Talk about a backhanded compliment.
Elsewhere, Uncle Terry (who is Reeves’ mother’s brother) has systematically destroyed almost every policy of his niece’s. Her political campaign is accompanied by a selfie that looks like it was taken seconds after the reporter asked if she had “any photos to send with this piece”, in which Terry is seen sitting in front of a microwave, with laundry in the kitchen sink in the background.
It’s an unbearable situation, and you can only imagine how many strange things will be on the Christmas table next month. But Reeves can rest assured Every family has a black sheepThat one relative whom you might euphemistically describe as “eccentric” or “a little bit of a character” whom everyone dreads striking up a conversation with during annual get-togethers. If anything, Uncle Terry’s rogue press tour might make the Chancellor, whose popularity is in a slump right now, a little more trustworthy.
She’s not the only public figure who has been hurt by her embarrassing relative’s public antics. Just imagine how many palm lines there are “Uncle Gary” Goldsmith There must have been a reason for this in the Middleton household (and, apparently, at Kensington Palace) over the years. The Princess of Wales’s uncle, who is her mother Carole’s younger brother, is a touchy PR nightmare.
He has the words “Nouveau Riche” tattooed on his shoulders, has an Fiji villa once nicknamed “Maison de Bang Bang”, and is, to put it mildly, a magnet for scams. Last year he entered celebrity big brother home with choice of x factorLouis Walsh and former this morning Star Fern Britton. After using his airtime to take some cursory digs at Kate’s sister-in-law Meghan Markle, he became the first star to be voted out – arguably making the whole affair even More If he had actually been, you know, popular, it would have been even more embarrassing.
In the world of politics, sycophant relatives are practically fanatics. Billy, the younger brother of the late US President Jimmy Carter, had a “red-haired”, heavy-drinking personality, once urinated in front of a group of news reporters and foreign dignitaries, and loved appearing on a national talk show. Tony Blair’s sister-in-law Lauren Booth has embarrassed the former Prime Minister and his wife Cherie on several occasions: she has publicly criticized his government’s policies (particularly the Iraq War), she appeared i am a celebrity, get me out of hereAnd made headlines when she “divorced” her husband on Facebook by changing her relationship status after an argument (classic Boomer behavior).
And you can only imagine how heartbroken the mild-mannered John Major must have been at the public pronouncements of his elder brother Terry Major-Ball (why is it always Terry?), who was always happy to give a journalist a witty quote and talk about the family garden gnome business, which he had inherited. Once, the story goes, he arrived at Downing Street unannounced when his sister-in-law Norma was hosting an official reception (and he politely informed the PM’s wife that he “hadn’t eaten anything all day”).
So Reeves can at least console herself with the fact that she’s in good company. And if you’re reading this smugly, thinking how lucky you are that you haven’t had to suffer any nightmare relationships, I have some very bad news for you: the chances are worryingly high that the embarrassing relative is you.