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Sam Freedman's avatar

To continue the argument from social media.... surely the problem is the fiscal rules not the forecasts or who does them? The reason decisions have got worse is not the OBR appearing but much harder economic conditions plus increasing dumb fiscal rules (and bad ideology).

Your position seems to be that there is a virtue to allowing essentially doctored forecasts because they might allow governments to pretend their following rules when they're not and thus stick to a coherent plan? But that surely just makes the whole thing murkier and risks another Truss-style problem?

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tom flemming's avatar

Something about man, and the Sabbath?

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