Truss and Kwarteng to hold back OBR forecasts for six weeks | Economic policy

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  1. No need to rush. Not as if your credibility is on the line.

    I’m sure stalling is going to convince people you actually have some sort of plan and aren’t just frantically making it up as you go along.

  2. Doesn’t sound like they are expecting great news in the report.

    I’m sure Kwasi will have worked his magic on the economy by November though.

  3. Presumably the OBR can’t just release it themselves? I guess we’ll all just have to pay careful attention to what they say in the meantime so we can try to read between the lines — that or hope a whistleblower leaks it.

  4. Honestly… at this point… who cares?

    I don’t need to see a report to know we’re fucked… we all know it. We can see it with our eyes, we feel it in our homes. It’s cold!

    At least this is helping with my diet in the most macabre way possible.

  5. Classic Johnsonism. Just hide and delay, maybe something will come along and it will make this seem small. You can survive for ages as long as there’s always something worse around the corner

  6. Maybe there’s just too much winning in the report, got to ration the good news to stop us all getting over excited and going on a massive spending spree, or at least turning the heating on.

  7. Absolute lies.

    They sticking to schedule.

    They won’t be cowed by a hysterical media wanting to manipulate this government.

  8. Great, so it’ll be published just as they announce their cuts of every public service, to continue to fund showering the rich with more money.

  9. It won’t make the bad news go away, all it might do is let them survive for another six weeks. That will just allow them to do more damage to the economy and make more profit from shorting the pound simultaneously.

  10. They shouldn’t be able to delay the report.

    Leaked report due to hit the papers next week during the Tory conference for maximum impact.

    Actually that would give Odey, Truss, Kwarteng et al enough time for another short.

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