There was such a tiny cheer over the triple lock increase 😬😬😬 MPs know it’s unsustainable

"having changed my mind about the OBR, my internship there has begun smoothly"

Pretty unhappy with the pension contributions being tinkered with

We need full proper council tax reform, as well as the announced mansion tax. It is insane that we base it on perceived property values in 1991!

None of the Plan 2 student loans are going to be paid off, get real! The coalition government have truly fucked over whichever government is in power in the 2040s

One fiscal event a year is right I think. Avoids the farce of the reversed welfare cuts announced at Spring Statement

Did Rachel Reeves just make a Polanski hypnotits joke?? 🤣

Not the cursed Theresa May cough! #Budget

On the one hand, this is the perfect end to an amazingly chaotic Budget process. On the other, it makes it much easier to cover than having to actually listen to the speech.

OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity

Liz Truss lowkey cooking here, I'm ashamed to say. What an omnishambles from the OBR

This feels like OBR forecast figures fiddling than a permanent policy. Which still sucks btw, but there's years for someone to change their mind

Reeves is basically saying "I'm angry, I'm just disappointed" to the OBR hahahaha

What I would say is quite interesting about the OBR leaking the forecast is that there isn't actually much in there that hadn't already been leaked anyway? I might be wrong, but anything significant was in the FT a week ago.

Rachel Reeves is not drinking at the Budget despatch box 😢

Nus Ghani on fire (both in scolding the govt and fashion)

Loving Nusrat Ghani's outfit, btw #Budget #BudgetDay

Super depressing that no Prime Minister has worn a red ribbon for World AIDS Day for 4 years in a row😡 #PMQs

Omnishambles incoming..... #BudgetDay

absolutely batshit insane for a government to drag out the fuel duty "freeze" (annual tax cut) even further

If Rachel Reeves doesn’t use her traditional right to drink an alcoholic drink from the despatch box when she’s delivering a Budget we’ll all fucking detest, I’ll seriously question her judgement. It’s going to suck, why not make it easier on yourself?

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? See ya folks I’m doomed!

Will this year’s Budget box picture be kinda camp like last years? Only thing to look forward to tomorrow imho

Such disingenuous nonsense from the Tories - who fully supported the Cass Review last year and are now u-turning on that support. The Overton window shifts further and further to the right and trans people continue to pay the price. This is why we shouldn’t give an inch to transphobes.

Wednesday’s Budget is going to go down like a cup of cold sick, I feel. I’m hoping there’ll be some unannounced individual measures that are genuinely progressive - but very little of what I’ve seen so far is suggesting that to be the case. Annoying that once again it’s been dripping speculation.

Cindy Beale has been involved in a stair-related accident THREE YEARS IN A ROW #EastEnders

"In her telling, racism and xenophobia seem not themselves objectively bad things that must be combatted, but a natural outcome that occurs when too many rights are given to immigrants and asylum seekers." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Current mood:

I will absolutely lose my mind if we get a Miliband government 10 years after the fact (There are many worse options)

All the transphobes telling on themselves by now saying the Cass Review shouldn’t have recommended a puberty blockers trial You had no idea what was in the Review! It’s all anti-trans bigotry and always has been. And people claiming puberty blockers are physical castration prove they have no clue.

I’m fucking sick of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill being filibustered. People deserve the choice in death Many amendments are done for filibuster purposes, not scrutiny This should be an individual choice for the terminally ill

Ahoy there! ⛵️⚓️🫡

Butlins weeeeekender!!

Normally a fan of Electoral Dysfunction but all this undeserved praise being heaped on Shabana Mahmood who has not yet achieved anything meaningful in her brief is nauseating

The summary of the latest COVID inquiry report is so stark - lockdown could have been avoided altogether if better decisions were made. There must be accountability for those who decisions and lessons NEED to be learned.

Shabana Mahmood just said “Boriswave” 🤮 as if it’s a normal term. Whatever happened to Global Britain, eh folks?? Political brains are frying on X, down the far-right rabbit hole!

DLR being extended to Thamesmead is great - we should be investing in transport infrastructure all across the county, including London!

Every time I remember Keir Mather is a Minister and I see him at the despatch box I think of this meme I saw 😅

Way to miss an open goal 🤦 #PMQs

#PMQs actually like

Lovely snow in Hertfordshire this morning (sadly melting already!) ❄️❄️❄️

Keir Starmer at today’s #PMQs as his backbenchers get ready to strike after after the Budget and Labour’s new heinous asylum policy.

I’ve just seen a video of Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick with a cow wtf!! x.com/guidofawkes/... (Its real another MP posted about it) 🤯🐄🐮

Savage

That’s actually a completely unnecessary level of aggression in Mahmood’s response like wtf