Just plain idle?

The latest piece of popular wisdom on offer concerns our wonderful Chancellor, and explains why she no longer has a job at the Bank of England. It’s because she’s a skiver as well as a liar.
    She kept claiming before the general election that Labour’s spending plans were fully costed, and then blamed the need for post-election tax rises on a Gordon Brown Hole, which she claimed she’d suddenly found in the national accounts.
    “No hole,” said the Office for Budget Responsibility, which has been making its accounts available since 2010. And if there had been a hole, Labour would have been yelling about it all through the election campaign.
    Which suggests that Reeves couldn’t be arsed to do due diligence on her sums before the election and all she could think of to shed blame was to come up with a really poorly lie.