Wondering: If this eyecatching post #budget2017 prognostication has anything to do with the quotes from Ken Clarke at

Manufacturing association @EEF_Press says recent 59% drop in apprenticeships "frankly unsurprising" and that #Budget2017 was a missed opportunity to correct this

Weak growth means even if UK maintains deficit at just 1%, it'd take until the 2060s for debt/GDP to fall to pre-crisis levels - and that assumes no recessions - IFS boss Paul Johnson #Budget2017

I can’t help but feel the endless conveyor or accounting firms writing up #Budget2017 summaries is redundant in this day and age. I get the marketing angle, but even that’s weak. How about some real customer value?

‘It will not be long before our politicians return from the land of the fairies’ said @ChrisGiles_ a couple of months ago in this prescient piece #Budget2017

Bank of England is more optimistic than OBR about er... just about everything! 🤪 #Budget2017

Who's more likely to be right?

At least for the moment, the OBR still isn't having Global Britain.

Trade boost to GDP to come next year... and that's about it. #Brexit #Budget2017

Lost growth:

Since March last year, 2.9% pts of UK GDP growth has disappeared from the OBR's forecasts for 2017 to 2020 #Budget2017

OBR's 2.2 pct pt chop to UK growth forecasts over 5 years horizon is biggest since Dec 2012, by my reckoning #Budget2017

The latest Pellicanadas! paper.li/Marcie14/1436215241 #budget2017 #estadao

UK will borrow £29.1 billion more between 2017/18 and 2021/22 than OBR thought in March. #Budget2017

UK will borrow £29.1 billion more between 2017/18 and 2021/22 than OBR thought in March. #Budget2017

The OBR estimates the stamp duty cut for first time buyers will "increase house prices by 0.3 per cent" #Budget2017

Lack of change on the benefits freeze means no relief from rising prices next April, or the April after that... #Budget2017

Not even mentioned in #Budget2017 but the most important policy is the continued roll-out of huge welfare cuts. Ongoing disaster for incomes

Chancellor announces Cambridge and Oxford will be merged to create new City of Oxbridge. #budget2017

Home ownership rates have fallen from every cohort to the next since the post-war baby boom www.intergencommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/... #Budget2017

Follow #CharityBudget for live updates and comment on how #Budget2017 will affect charities.

Hammond promises more tax breaks for North Sea fossil fuels #budget2017.

if there's a Midlands Engine and a Northern Powerhouse, is Scotland the Bonnet or the Boot? #budget2017

Cumulatively that's a 2.2 percentage point cut in GDP growth over the next 5 years vs March forecasts - pretty hefty! #Budget2017

good that Chancellor recognises that the environment underpins the economy. #budget2017

Anyone else wondering what's going to come out of the #Budget2017 today #WorcesterhireHour ?

Will @PhilipHammondUK discover that there is such a thing as unemployment after his budget? #budget2017

Will @PhilipHammondUK discover that there is such a thing as unemployment after his budget? #budget2017

Some duff public borrowing figures before #Budget2017

PSNB-ex £8.040 billion in Oct, above all forecasts in @ReutersPolls

On the eve of a productivity-focused #Budget2017, here's Harold Wilson 51 years ago, trying to address Britain's poor productivity performance.

All sounds very familiar...

#ImACeleb all this fear on show.

Think about the real fear of sanctions and benefit cuts
#Budget2017

#ImACeleb Kezia appearing on it means that for once a poliician will feel the same as many people do on budget day #Budget2017
#foodbanks #universalcredit #austerity #ESA