The Badenoch attack was smart for once. All the broad nonsense, especially the housing market stuff could actually have cut GDP, a wee tiny bit, by lasting a quarter. So dumb.
And I don't agree with Sentance, but some of this is the fault of last year.

I mean the idea she decided to make things seem worse is mad. Ranting mad. Mel Stride should wise up. He's not stupid. Stop wasting FCA time.
OBR is not her fault. It's the OBR's fault.
The 3 months of speculation is astonishing, but co-owned by Starmer. Budget is rickety tho. Move in Spring?

Can we cut out and post this to the Guardian's economics editor Larry Lexit? I don't think he's on the internet.

Might go Bill Nighy. Can we see the plays if someone filmed them?

I wonder if the idea of going for a massive overhaul of taxation would have been better. I suppose we'll never know. And it would have been presented by the 'usuals' as chaos. Also the tendency of people who would never be hit by changes to think they will be doesn't help.

This comes when you're mostly getting to a number albeit to preserve a strategy funding health, ship steadying.
So the 'there is no strategy' stuff - say Rawnsley - is harsh.
But some specific measures go against variously the growth strategy, the pension strategy, maybe even the housing strategy.

Backloading encourages people to take advantage now. Can mean less revenue.
It's been suggested employers might set up temporary salary sacrifice pensions.
People are showing a strange combination of being more informed but in the context of huge alarmism.
Not sure Treasury's on top of the shift.

We all do this Patrick. You're like only watching BBC or sommat.

Told a least a reasonable story of England each day. A bit too white and middle class. Still 20 brilliant stories.
If you swerved the madder columnists and letters.
Ah well.

Used to have some quite good bits.

Utterly pathetic. We're at a level of cynical pantomime scepticism, which obviously isn't journalism. Paid PRs essentially. Not the 'thinking of our readers' bollocks. Often thinking of what the owners want.
But some of them get very big salaries.

Jarvis Cocker? The lead singer of Pulp? Could make Elon a better person?