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22-02-2016, 04:35 PM
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Just how independent is the independent OBR???

Seems the GGovernment ('nasty party') have been interfering with the 'independent' OBR reports, getting them to rewrite chunks of their reports to put 'government' spin on those reports.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a6888906.html
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22-02-2016, 04:48 PM
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Re: Just how independent is the independent OBR???

As independent as Independence Day on Independence Island
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22-02-2016, 04:51 PM
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Re: Just how independent is the independent OBR???

Originally Posted by Uncle Joe ->
Seems the GGovernment ('nasty party') have been interfering with the 'independent' OBR reports, getting them to rewrite chunks of their reports to put 'government' spin on those reports.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a6888906.html
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When it comes to rewriting reports to put Government Spin on things, this lot are rank amateurs compared to Blair.
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22-02-2016, 04:56 PM
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Re: Just how independent is the independent OBR???

Originally Posted by swimfeeders ->
Hi

When it comes to rewriting reports to put Government Spin on things, this lot are rank amateurs compared to Blair.

Your comment is crass, since OBR only existed after 2010!!!
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22-02-2016, 04:59 PM
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Re: Just how independent is the independent OBR???

Originally Posted by Uncle Joe ->
Your comment is crass, since OBR only existed after 2010!!!
Not as crass as your continuance of the use of the word 'nasty'
Time to get out of the schoolyard and grow up Geoff.
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22-02-2016, 05:02 PM
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Re: Just how independent is the independent OBR???

Originally Posted by malcolm ->
Not as crass as your continuance of the use of the word 'nasty'
Time to get out of the schoolyard and grow up Geoff.
T'wasn't me who first labelled them 'nasty' - although the epithet is appropriate, but one of their own Cabinet Ministers - Theresa May!!!
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22-02-2016, 05:05 PM
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Re: Just how independent is the independent OBR???

Originally Posted by Uncle Joe ->
Your comment is crass, since OBR only existed after 2010!!!
Hi

I did not refer to the OBR which I was well aware did not exist until 2010, I referred to the fact that Blair and Co were experts at altering reports in general.
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22-02-2016, 05:08 PM
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Re: Just how independent is the independent OBR???

Originally Posted by swimfeeders ->
Hi

I did not refer to the OBR which I was well aware did not exist until 2010, I referred to the fact that Blair and Co were experts at altering reports in general.

I wouldn't know - I don't often have a need to read fiction -= have better things to do with my time.
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22-02-2016, 05:12 PM
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Re: Just how independent is the independent OBR???

They really want it all their own way, so they have to try to spin everything. Can't have us all knowing what is really going on.
 

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