[Crabcakes]

And, of course, stuff like this:



But that’s the cost of being Labour in office - your vastly outnumbered friendly press will be as critical as your hostile press because the left are self critical to a fault, and your hostile press will be hostile whatever you do because you don’t work in their interests.

[Yug]

The fact there’s little reaction of course could say another thing - that people who have seen the numbers realise there are very few ways out of the financial black hole the Tories left behind that don’t involve unpopular choices.

Plus there’s always the fact that these cuts aren’t very obviously funding tax breaks for the wealthy.

Plus, of course, no actual concrete statements have been made yet. All this pearl-clutching is based on little more than media speculation, much of which is bad-faith shit-stirring by the usual suspects in the hostile right-wing press.

I'm waiting for the Spring Review before I start chucking my toys out of the pram.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is the Spring Statement. The Spending Review was supposed to be in Spring before it seems to have slipped to Summer. I assume a load more Trump-inspired bad news will feed into that, for which Rachel Reeves will get blamed in the traditional "Gordon Brown crashed the world economy" way.

[Yug]

Statement, review, whatever it's called. I'm still going to wait for the official announcement, instead of getting my knickers in a twist over media shit-stirring and fear-mongering.