{"id":5053,"date":"2009-10-10T11:26:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T09:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2009-10-10T11:26:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T09:26:23","slug":"3bn-mistake-in-george-osbornes-budget-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/10\/3bn-mistake-in-george-osbornes-budget-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c2\u00a33bn mistake in George Osborne&#8217;s budget plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2009\/oct\/09\/george-osborne-budget-deficit\"> Revealed: \u00a33bn mistake in George Osborne's budget plan | \t\t\t\tPolitics | \t\t\t\tThe Guardian <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We all make mistakes, of course.<\/p>\n<p>But I'd have thought Osborne might have a) double checked this and b) had the grace not to blame his assistants when it's been shown he was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>And this really does smack of incompetence. As the Lib Dem, Steve Webb, <a href=\"http:\/\/webbsteve.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/tory-rise-in-state-pension-age-do-sums.html\" target=\"_blank\">showed <\/a>on 6 October, the plan made no sense, and he reasoned that just by applying some common sense logic to the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Which says to me that Osborne lacks the ability to apply that common sense logic to numbers. Which is very worrying for someone who wants to be chancellor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revealed: \u00a33bn mistake in George Osborne&#8217;s budget plan | Politics | The Guardian . We all make mistakes, of course. But I&#8217;d have thought Osborne<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/10\/3bn-mistake-in-george-osbornes-budget-plan\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}