Rachel Reeves
I’ve no idea why it’s called the Greta Garbo Budget but we have a so-named discussion because Steve Goddard’s Christened it so.
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Coffee Morning – The Greta Garbo Budget….A discussion! CPD included
Type -Online
When – Tuesday 2nd December 2025 at 10:30am
You are cordially invited to attend our next Coffee Morning event.
Following the Budget on Wednesday 26th November 2025 we will be holding another “Round Table” debate on the Chancellors announcements…Is she holding on by her “fingernails”?
Our table panel will include Professor Mike Bromwich, Fiona O’Hara, John Quinlivan, Dr Con Keating, and Henry Tapper.
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Was it a success as a budget? There are many who see it as an opportunity lost, some who see it as a stabilisation of a rocking and rolling economy.
Are you worried about April 2009 and losing most of your opportunity to sacrifice salary for pension? Are you thinking that that’s tomorrow’s problem, I’ve got bigger fish to land right now.
How much of what was predicted came true? We have the prediction sheet from last week to refer to . What did we miss? Where was the rabbit?
It seems to me that Mike Bromwich , our veteran economist, got it pretty well bang on.
Sadly, my rant for a growth budget fell on deaf ears. The Government will not be funding growth – I suspect it hopes measures on ISAs and Pensions will spark investment into the UK. Will the private sector (and LGPS) rise to the challenge?
Your chance to have a debate on the budget at 1o.30 am. Sadly we won’t be joined by Greta Garbo though her brooding image will be watching over us!
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For and of their time, quite a lot of sins and sinning in Garbo films, which seems to accord with Richard Murphy’s view of that budget.
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I wondered if Steve Goddard has explained his Reeves/Garbo “hanging on by her fingernails” metaphor yet?
There is a non-PC Peter Cook & Dudley Moore sketch from the days of black-and-white TV which includes this PC fantasy:
PC: … I was just about to
drop off, when suddenly, ‘tap, tap, tap’ at the b****y window pane – I
looked out – you know who it was?
DM: Who?
PC: B****y Greta Garbo! B****y
Greta Garbo – stark naked save for a
shortie nightie. She was hanging on
to the window sill, and I could see her knuckles all white … saying ‘Pieter, Pieter’. You know how these b****y Swedes go on. I said,
‘Get out of it!’ B****y Greta Garbo. She wouldn’t go – she wouldn’t go. I had to smash her down with a broomstick, poke her off the window sill, she fell down on the pavement with a great crash …
Surely not, Steve?