[The Weeping Angel]

Also, in some cases it's the local councils themselves who have requested the delay.

[Tubby Isaacs]

There's something odd going on with serious policy people, like they're being hypercritical. Reeves seems to have got more stick for saying that income taxes wouldn't be raised, which (what? raised the cost of borrowing for a few days, before it fell a lot?) than Osborne did for all those ridiculous budgets that passed up the chance for virtually free investment borrowing. The only budget where Osborne did get more stick was the "omnishambles" budget, where a load of taxes had to be cancelled. Reeves' budget, by contrast, didn't "unravel", whether you agreed with it or not.

I don't really know what the explanation is. My guess is that lots of that group really hate the immigration stuff (which well they might) and that's meaning they get stuck into the government across the board.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Reckon they'd do this in government? Me neither. But I suppose it needs someone to say it.