The end of the year is getting closer and work continues flat-out to finish the chassis design, before manufacture starts in the New Year.
The science ringfence needs to be protected in next month's CSR, at the very least with continued flat cash.
In 2015-2016, the science budget allocation was £4,691m, so a headline commitment to "protecting today's £4.7 billion science resource funding in real terms", in an almost zero-inflation environment, means little more than continued flat cash.
Emissions were flat before the scheme's introduction in 2005 (largely because manufacturing is moving out of Europe); have been flat since; and, if the European Commission accepts the national plans for handing out allowances put forward for the 2008-12 phase of the scheme, will continue flat.
They are expected to show that the economy continues to remain flat, and international observers, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have questioned whether the chancellor should reconsider the pace of the government's austerity measures.
Overall, the Wall Street equivalents of the exit-poll geniuses opined that stocks would continue to stay flat, as they had been doing for months.
The shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, said: "Today's news confirms what business leaders, retailers and families have known for many months – that depressed confidence and a chronic shortage of demand mean our economy continues to flat line.
But Labour's shadow chancellor Ed Balls said: "Today's news confirms what business leaders, retailers and families have known for many months - that depressed confidence and a chronic shortage of demand mean our economy continues to flat line.
Continue flat ironing the rest of the curls Wait until all of the foils have completely cooled off and are cold to the touch.
James Knightley at ING notes that tax receipts are down, as the economy continues to flat-line and austerity fails.
But it is the timing of the intervention which is striking, coming as it does a few days after the European Central Bank launched more than a billion euros of public-sector and private-sector debt purchases, or quantitative easing, as the eurozone continues to flat-line, and as eurozone countries led by Germany baulk at providing further financial help to Greece.
