Jacob Rees-Mogg says opposition to fracking in the UK is being funded by Putin. In other news, the Conservative Party has received £5 million from Russian donors since 2012.

A UK gov ‘budget’ that benefits wealthiest over poor/middle income earners, tanks the £, pushes up the cost of (v substantial) borrowing, and is castigated as reckless. And yet Tories (& right wing commentators) will demand that Scottish Government blindly follows suit. Mmm…

Income £10,000 better off by £0 Income £100,000 better off by £1,470 Income £1,000,000 better off by £55,250 Income £10,000,000 better off by £617,720 #MiniBudget #Trussonomics

Torsten Bell of the Resolution Foundation tells Sky News 45% of the gains from personal tax cuts will go to richest 5% alone, and someone on £1million will get a £55k tax cut

Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers tells Bloomberg: “It makes me very sorry to say, but I think the UK is behaving a bit like an emerging market turning itself into a submerging market.”

I’ve been following U.K. budgets for 20 years or so. I have often profoundly disagreed with the decisions made. But I’ve always at least - sort of - understood the logic behind them. Today is a new for me. I genuinely don’t understand the decision making process.

MP explains how mini-budget & trickle down economics is like “watering a garden. Selectively”

The markets have basically decided that the mini-Budget won’t deliver enough growth to offset higher borrowing – and they’re right.

Real entrepreneurs like strong regulation because it guarantees a level playing field on which they can compete whilst keeping the charlatans, cheats and tax abusers out of the market. It would seem the Tories do not understand real entrepreneurs.

- Pound has lost 1/3 value since 2015 - UK Exports destroyed - Underfunded & failing public services - Highest inflation in 35 years - Recession - Energy & food crises - Strikes & civil unrest - Highest borrowing & debt burden ever Tell me again, what are the Tories are good at?

Don't get depressed by the UK Government and it's ridiculous budget. Be like Bussi, and get on the bus... 😁

This is the Health & Safety Team at HMV.

This time, four months ago, It was a normal day. I was at my office getting a booklet made for each of my coworkers that would show their growth in their skills to help get them raises. 2 hours from then, I’d get a call that would shatter my world. My wife called, screaming

Somehow I respect this man's opinion more than some big tobacco sponsored right wing nutter from the IEA

Family; please note I’d like something like this when the time comes…

The BBC morning news reads out the headlines from the newspapers. Today it was headlines about the mini-budget. 5 were positive 2 were cautious But because most of the print news is biased towards Tories it makes the BBC complicit in the biased reporting. #BudgetForTheRich

Good question.

The logic of the redneck.

Why?

I'm thinking of setting up a new social media service to rival Twitter. It's going to be called 'Shitter' as I reckon that's what most people are doing when they are tweeting.