Rachel Reeves has been mocked in a spoof new video game created by AI, titled “Grand Theft Austerity”.
The video was shared on X by Crewkerne Gazette, who created the content to skewer the Chancellor ahead of Wednesday’s budget – and the tax hikes expected to come with it.
The clip shows an AI-generated Reeves standing at a lectern introducing her new video game called “Grand Theft Austerity”.
In the video game, inspired by the popular video game Grand Theft Auto, Reeves is depicted “standing majestically outside Westminster doing absolutely nothing about the economy.
The game encourages players to “feel the thrill of fiscal responsibility” by assaulting other non-player characters (NPCs) and taking coins from them.
Introducing Rachel Reeves’ brand-new video game:
— Crewkerne Gazette (@CrewkerneGaz) November 24, 2025
“Grand Theft Austerity.”
Coming just in time for Wednesday’s Budget — because if you’re going to break Britain, you may as well have fun doing it.
(Satire) pic.twitter.com/9Z1GWGKSWw
The AI Reeves goes on to explain: “Every collision raises government revenue by up to 3p, it's what we call a sustainable growth plan”.
The “chancellor” is then seen hitting a pigeon and stealing its coins.
The video goes on to take the player to the iconic green benches of the House of Commons, where Reeves is seen addressing MPs.
AI Reeves is then shown with a series of dialogue options, including “increases taxes but blames the last government” and “copy and paste from the IMF report”.
Audiences are then taken on a journey to a barber-shop, where the Chancellor’s hair is changed into styles including “austerity fringe” or “the administrative error buzz cut”.
The game goes on to announce: “So whether you're into fiscal chaos, light fraud or hitting wildlife with a clipboard. Grand Theft Austerity is the game for you.
“Available now for £39.99 or nine monthly instalments of whatever I decide in Wednesday's budget, and remember in this economy every penny counts, especially yours.”
This parody video was posted ahead of the Chancellor’s make-or-break budget, which is expected to include fresh tax hikes and levies.
Speculation around the Budget has led to economic uncertainty in the weeks leading up to the announcement, allegedly causing “paralysis” among UK businesses and customers.
The Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has even mocked the “hokey cokey” of the Budget build-up, after Reeves’ unpredictable U-turn on her manifesto promise not to increase income tax.
“It’s the hokey cokey Budget – one minute it’s in, the next minute it’s out"
— Will Meakin-Durrant (@wmeakindurrant) November 17, 2025
Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said a minister of old "would be resigning for anything that was released", as @JamesMurray_LDN took questions about pre-Budget briefings. pic.twitter.com/tE4eUIwG6E
At the beginning of November, it was rumoured that Reeves would be increasing income tax, but this was later reported to have been scrapped, alongside a 2p cut to National Insurance.
Reeves is expected to announce several tax hikes today in an effort to fill the black hole in public finances, such as a “mansion tax”, changes to workplace pensions and new levies for electric vehicles (EVs).
This isn’t the first time the Crewkerne Gazette has mocked the chancellor using AI – similar videos were released after it was revealed she broke the law by renting out her home without a license.
In that clip, Reeves is depicted boasting about the breach whilst holding up a sign reading, “I don't have a licence.”
In September, the former deputy PM Angela Rayner was forced to stand down on similar breaches, after it was found she had not paid the right stamp duty on her Brighton home.
The group released a skit in response to the news, titled “How Many Homes Can Rayner Buy?”, depicting Rayner, 45, wearing a fur coat over a tracksuit.
In the clip, Rayner is brandishing a stack of bills – a reference to the £40,000 she retroactively admitted to underpaying on her £800,000 Hove flat she purchased in May.
AI Rayner raps: 'Bought me one house, bought me two; flip another flat, taxman no clue; £80K saved with a Brighton tan; Dodgin’ more duty than the average man'.
While at the despatch box, she quips: “How many homes, I’ll name ’em all; Big Ange dancin’ in the Commons hall; Taxman cryin’, Rayner smilin’; One rule for me, none for thee!'.
The video shows the AI-generated former deputy PM dancing manically in front of sold signs, while cash falls from the sky. She is seen jubilantly smoking cigarettes in front of a rubber dinghy filled with money.
