Yelps of excitement were heard coming from the Chancellor’s private office this morning with news that his new leather goods had been delivered to HMT. Conclusive evidence that Gideon enjoys the sensation of black leather (finest quality, naturally) on his posterior.
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The "independent" Office for Budget Responsibility: the same economists in exactly the same room!
George Osborne’s much-vaunted Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) was supposedly set up to guarantee the “independence and integrity” of growth and borrowing figures which, he claimed, had been subject to “fiddling” under Labour. Revelations that the OBR is is staffed by exactly the same Treasury economists that produced data slammed by Osborne have only strengthened claims that the [...]
