More than a bit I think!

I have one nagging thought that this whole thing is a conspiracy. Reeves was boxed into a hard place by pre election promises (Tory unknown black hole or not, but I'd say should have been known). So to make things balance and appease the markets, press etc she creates on balance a sensible budget knowing full well it would be rejected by the core "spend spend spend" elements of the party.

The markets respond well, there is no panic but of course the heirarchy know what is coming. And it's now come. But they have split the impact - the bad news on ERNI was offset by the proposed spending cuts on welfare. But they never intended to cut anything - and now they can blame the party for the shambles instead of taking front bench responsibility for busting tax or borrowing election pledges.

Slippery *******s indeed.