To support some work I have been doing I wanted to check some data from the March 2020 budget. So I did a search for it, and found it's already been archived:
I stress that archiving is not uncommon: it is usually done to the budgets of previous governments. But this government is already consigning events from four months ago to the archives.
The process of rewriting history is clearly not being left to chance.
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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/budget-2020-documents/budget-2020#annex-c-obrs-economic-and-fiscal-outlook
I was merely pointing out the archive label – which usually implies ion this context ‘no longer considered reliable’
I could get the data
I am just astonished that it has already been consigned to history
In what way has anything been re-written?
All the original documents are still available.
In what way is something ‘no longer considered reliable’ simply because the word ‘archived’ has been added to an easily accessible web page?
How has Budget 2020 “been consigned to history”? It’s enactments are still valid. Everything published on the day can still be found.
You are getting over-excited about nothing.
I am pointing out the complete abnormality of this
It is a citizens right to not trust the actions of his or her Government when they are out of the ordinary – especially this one.
I remember when a certain Tony Blair reneged on a tobacco advertising ban for F1. I watched him closely after that.
My view is that this Government sees things in very short time horizons which means that it plans to react, rather that be more proactive.
I think that this suspicion is under lined by the funding it is putting forward – it never seems to be enough.
Or it is banking on a Covid vaccine.
Hence ‘policy’ will go rusty very quickly.
Well, it was one of the crappiest budgets ever produced – unless you know of any others to amuse us with? – I’d want to bury it too.
I think, in light of the unique post Budget2020 international health and knock-on global economic fallout, the subsequent Finance Bill 2020 ( taken alongside ministerial statements in Parliament in the belated debate in the Bill) are probably of more contemporary relevance than the inevitably out dated numbers of the March2020 budget.
The budget material does not go into the Finance Bill
There has been no official update of official forecasts – albeit the OBR has done a new set of estimates
The point I was making is politically the Finance Act is legally required to implement the Budget measures
That is a very limited view of the budget