https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Brown+rebuked+for+scheduling+Budget+during+Festival.-a0112706098Even more outspoken was Peter Oborne, political editor of The Spectator, who said: "It is an outrage and shows that Gordon Brown is losing his grip. It was a mistake made by Tory Chancellors. Norman Lamont made it and it always augurs ill because it turns City sentiments against the Chancellor of the day.
"It is typical arrogance of the Chancellor, and just as they [the Government] are coming out of trouble with the Hutton report, to wilfully court disaster by this reckless decision to affront the City by this thoughtless, quite frankly cruel, act - sadistic I almost call it - towards City traders who are forced to stay at their desks on the three most important racing days of the whole year is diabolical."
monkey wrote:My favourite is the guy who says it’s an insult to ‘our four legged friends’
Lord_Griff wrote:Not true, the first letters of points 1 to 6 spell " Oo Twit"
LivDiv wrote:Its limp as expected. We all knew the police investigation would neuter it. I would not describe it as good news for Gov/No.10/Johnson though. In a normal time that report alone would have seen the back of any PM. We aren't in normal times though so we will have to wait.
poprock wrote:So the Sue Grey Report is 12 pages long. Two are ‘intentionally left blank’ and half a page is dedicated to explaining what a coronavirus is. Typical public sector skillset there, then.
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