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[–] 28 points 1 day ago (5 children)

She sent markets into chaos by announcing £45billion of unfunded tax cuts without commissioning an independent forecast - but claimed no one told her of the risks.

Why is she still on tv?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    It's actually even worse than that. The office of budget responsibility normally reviews budgets before they are announced (this is an impartial review done by multiple people and then the results merge together at the end). She refused to let them look at hers. She knew what it would do, she just didn't care, and for some reason thought she could ram it through.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    She has a book to plug.

    But weirdly her marketing team suggested she promote the book like you would bury bad news in government. As in, announce it just before another big news story so that everyone forgets your announcement and focuses on the other one. The other one being The Budget!

    She, and her whole team, are fucking crazy.

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