It’s Budget day! 13 of our favourite responses to make everything a bit better
Philip Hammond has delivered his Budget and Jeremy Corbyn was very angry indeed. Maybe it was the cough sweet joke that did it.
Here are our favourite responses to what the Chancellor – and the Labour leader – had to say.
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#Budget2017 Government to extend discounted rail fares to under-30s, making it easier for them to travel to the North where they can actually afford to buy a home.
— HaveIGotNewsForYou (@haveigotnews) November 22, 2017
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It’s 2097. The 78th year of the Brexit transition. National debt is now 2990% of GDP. There’s one GP and one nurse left in the UK and we’re now the 189th richest nation in the world. They blame the Great Labour recession of 2008.#Budget2017
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) November 22, 2017
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Stamp Duty cut for all houses under £300,000. = Estate agents up and down the country will be increasing the price of houses under £300,000 within seconds of the end of that sentence. #Budget2017
— Matt Thomas (@Trickyjabs) November 22, 2017
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"So your key young-voter-friendly measure will actually push house prices up?" pic.twitter.com/Ns0RrBhE2X
— Robert Hutton (@RobDotHutton) November 22, 2017
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The BBC was brutally honest here. #Budget2017 pic.twitter.com/eBC04KImBC
— Oonagh (@Okeating) November 22, 2017
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Meanwhile, in the House of Commons group chat…#Budget2017 pic.twitter.com/oW4GuRaAWn
— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) November 22, 2017
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Thinking of the intern sent to buy the cough sweets this morning. pic.twitter.com/ecRCYFQVFo
— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) November 22, 2017
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"The world is on the brink of a technological revolution," says the bloke whose desk has a briefcase but not a computer pic.twitter.com/MuH43HVNPQ
— Henry Mance (@henrymance) November 22, 2017
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So Hammond is spending more on Brexit preparations (£3bn) than on the NHS (£2.8bn resource cash). That wasn't on Boris's bus. #budget2017
— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) November 22, 2017
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The anger in Jeremy Corbyn's voice here is something! It is almost like as he looks at the Tory benches he is thinking. "How can you guys be so evil?" #Budget2017 pic.twitter.com/eS1UjtBUHk
— The Pileus (@thepileus) November 22, 2017
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https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/933332819421605888
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Brexiteers promised £350m a week for NHS. #Budget2017 gave it £350m. For the whole winter.
— Mary Creagh (@MaryCreaghMP) November 22, 2017
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Philip Hammond's budget announcement pic.twitter.com/c0xqEuk7uu
— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) November 22, 2017
