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| Budget 2015: Treasury sent out an email with three words: 'Blah, blah blah' | |
| (about 14 hours later) | |
| If you thought George Osborne and his advisers didn’t put enough thought into how the Budget would hit those on benefits, you won’t be surprised to read their latest email. | If you thought George Osborne and his advisers didn’t put enough thought into how the Budget would hit those on benefits, you won’t be surprised to read their latest email. |
| A couple of hours after the Institute for Fiscal Studies delivered a damning verdict of the first all-Conservative Budget in 19 years, a member of the Treasury team accidentally sent an email to journalists containing three words: "blah, blah, blah". | A couple of hours after the Institute for Fiscal Studies delivered a damning verdict of the first all-Conservative Budget in 19 years, a member of the Treasury team accidentally sent an email to journalists containing three words: "blah, blah, blah". |
| Was it a sign of frustration from a Treasury staff member who saw months of hard work ripped apart by economists at the IFS thinktank? | Was it a sign of frustration from a Treasury staff member who saw months of hard work ripped apart by economists at the IFS thinktank? |
| Or was it a rogue civil servant offering an internal insight into what Treasury officials really thought of the Budget? | Or was it a rogue civil servant offering an internal insight into what Treasury officials really thought of the Budget? |
| Someone from the Treasury team accidentally sent this succinct email to journalists | Someone from the Treasury team accidentally sent this succinct email to journalists |
| With so many of the measures in the Budget designed to counter other measures - such as the compulsory national living wage paying for the cut in tax credits - perhaps Mr Osborne should simply have used the three words in his Budget speech on Wednesday, instead of the 10,000-words, 66-minutes he took yesterday. | With so many of the measures in the Budget designed to counter other measures - such as the compulsory national living wage paying for the cut in tax credits - perhaps Mr Osborne should simply have used the three words in his Budget speech on Wednesday, instead of the 10,000-words, 66-minutes he took yesterday. |
| It would certainly have saved a lot of time, energy and column inches for politicians, civil servants, journalists and economists. | It would certainly have saved a lot of time, energy and column inches for politicians, civil servants, journalists and economists. |
| But then we wouldn't be able to mock the Treasury on Twitter for proving that even those who work for the Chancellor are human: | But then we wouldn't be able to mock the Treasury on Twitter for proving that even those who work for the Chancellor are human: |
| Day after budget day is clearly a busy day in the Treasury press office, which has just emailed the lobby a release saying 'blah blah blah' | Day after budget day is clearly a busy day in the Treasury press office, which has just emailed the lobby a release saying 'blah blah blah' |
| Apparently the "blah, blah, blah" email from Treasury was a test run for summer drinks invite. Fitting. | Apparently the "blah, blah, blah" email from Treasury was a test run for summer drinks invite. Fitting. |
| Blah blah blah #treasury | Blah blah blah #treasury |
| Sure the email I've just received apparently from a Treasury address can't really have come from inside govt pic.twitter.com/BcD9DR8urZ | Sure the email I've just received apparently from a Treasury address can't really have come from inside govt pic.twitter.com/BcD9DR8urZ |
| Just in case anyone was in any doubt that the email was a mistake, the Treasury sent out another email saying: "Please disregard the previous email you have received from HM Treasury this afternoon (9 July), which was sent in error." | Just in case anyone was in any doubt that the email was a mistake, the Treasury sent out another email saying: "Please disregard the previous email you have received from HM Treasury this afternoon (9 July), which was sent in error." |
| Why it took the Treasury two hours to correct the mistake is anyone's guess. | Why it took the Treasury two hours to correct the mistake is anyone's guess. |