[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.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Government's now getting it in the neck for... doing a proper review of the carers scandal that happened under the previous government, because a senior person at the DWP made a crass comment in an internal blogpost. Pat McFadden has already said the Government didn't agree with this comment, and £75m has been set aside initially. There's really nothing in it for the Government to cap it at the amount, so doubtless there will be more. The Government's work seems to count for very little because they haven't sacked the senior DWP person who made the comment, nor the Permanent Secretary.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... ce-scandal

Bafflingly

Prof Sue Yeandle, the UK’s leading expert on unpaid carers, said ministers and senior officials had issued “really misleading” claims that the failures affected only a small number of people.

While also

Ministers last month pledged about £75m to fix the scandal and ordered about 200,000 historical cases to be reassessed.

Is 200,000 a small number?

[The Weeping Angel]

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.

Negative polarisation is a key factor. As for the budget, considering the buildup, it's remarkable how it's been forgotten, as it hasn't crashed the markets or caused the sky to fall in.

[davidjay]

But it is being blamed for every bad thing ever.

[The Weeping Angel]

Indeed, look here.