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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The IFS have just said that the black hole in the budget is the same size as the changes in the last budget by Jeremy Hunt. It looks like they knew they were done and decided to leave some landmines around to mess Labour up.

Kicking projects like the Stonehenge tunnel into the long grass seems the sensible temporary response.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's ridiculous, we are all one people. Using the right hand to stab the left hand to encourage ourselves to be right handed....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Because they don't see it that way. The world is divided into two groups, them, and everyone else, and they don't care about the everyone else group.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The Stonehenge tunnel is a boondoggle that should never have been funded in the first place.