"I've worked multiple disasters, but I've never worked an ice storm with a forecast like this.
Searching for savings at the end of its term in government, Labor said it was indefinitely deferring the already legislated changes because the floating carbon price was forecast to be far lower than originally calculated and families did not need as much compensation.
It has acknowledged that the deficit, forecast at 8 percent of G.D.P. this year, needs to fall.
Today he had to admit that not only has he missed his debt target but that growth will be substantially lower than he forecast.
This has fallen slightly since then, but their report suggests that with NHS England projections of flat cash for the NHS, and reasonable assumptions around forecast GDP growth, we could see our spend on healthcare falling back to around 6% of GDP by 2021, equivalent of 2003's spending levels.
Well, Wednesday's update from Lord Wolfson at Next was certainly optimistic (at least by his standards) in that he forecast "some recovery in the consumer environment" by the second quarter of next year.
George Osborne's sunny economic forecast and much of his claim that Britain is a "comeback country" have more to do with higher than expected levels of net inward migration than his stewardship as chancellor or the falling oil price.
If Labour take three extra MEPs than the 23 they are forecast to get by PollWatch then they could prove instrumental.
The budget documents suggest that the government expects it to take people a while to save enough to be in a position to buy – spending on the policy is forecast to be £45m in the current tax year, increasing to £835m in 2019-20.
The weather forecast is a little better for Friday – bright sunshine still but slightly stronger breezes.
Not in any year of the budget forward estimates is there a forecast to cut government spending in real terms which is unlike the post-crash period when, after the stimulus measures, government spending fell in real terms in 2010-11 and 2012-13.
