“In the black Labour” nails its colours to the OBR – the OBR that keeps on getting it wrong
The Into the Black Labour crowd have nailed their colours to the OBR just as it – and George Osborne – lose credibility. What gives?
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Osborne is perilously close to failing to cut borrowing at all
Tuesday was an awful day for the government, but the prediction is for 2011-12 borrowing to still be lower than 2010-11, writes Cormac Hollingsworth.
Devolved nations recoil from autumn statement
Ed Jacobs gives the round-up of how the devolved nations reacted to Osborne’s autumn statement
Osborne proved the doommongers wrong – the economy is even worse than we predicted
The economy has done even worse than Osborne’s critics on the left feared – and now we all have to pay the price.
How Osborne’s locked in to making the bad times worse
If the government misses its targets for growth and spending, it will be forced to cut further – making the bad times worse. Oh Goodee!
Who is paying for the chancellor’s announcements?
Richard Exell follows the money on the chancellor’s autumn statement, and finds that it’s the poor who are paying the price.
“We’re all in this together” – when ‘we’ means the bottom 80%
Will Straw examines the regressive nature of the chancellor’s autumn statement
OBR confirm Osborne will borrow more than the Darling projection
In his Autumn statement, George Osborne confirmed that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) now projects that the government will borrow more than Alistair Darling was projected to at the time of the last election. This puts the OBR intest
How the OBR’s growth projections have fallen
Will Straw runs through the OBR’s plummeting growth projections
Whatever Osborne’s growth forecasts today, the reality is probably worse
Today’s growth and borrowing forecasts are likely to be grim – they are just as likely to be over optimistic.