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Welcoming the tax credits U-turn, Work and Pensions Committee chairman Frank Field says the four million "strivers" who would have been affected can go to bed tonight not worried about what's going to happen to their finances. But the Labour MP says George Osborne also deserves a pat on the...

Seriously - you come across as one of those who takes some sort of delight perversion in the Albion losing. Would you be happy to see a prosperous UK under Conservative leadership or would you rather the country becomes a mess so you can say "told you so - f*cking useless Tories"?

Question: would you rather it all falls apart because it's the boo-hiss-nasty-Tories, or do you genuinely hope it sets the path for economic growth and recovery, for the good of the nation?

Andrew Sparrow (political correspondent at The Guardian): Osborne does probably deserve some credit for abandoning his tax credits completely, instead for opting for a fudge. If you are going to do a U-turn, you may well do one properly, and Osborne pulled this off with some aplomb. His...

The OBR has calculated that today’s measures will raise gross tax take by £28.5bn by 2020. It says: These include the new apprenticeship levy (£11.6 billion), higher council tax (£6.2 billion), and the introduction of higher rates of stamp duty land tax for second homes and buy-to-let purchases...

The Office for Budget Responsibility confirms that it has raised its forecast for tax receipts, allowing George Osborne to ease back on austerity. In the first combined Spending Review and Autumn Statement since 2007, the Government has taken advantage of an improvement in the outlook for tax...

I've not see how the Labour press have responded so far. Are you suggesting it's all very grown-up and sensible, congratulating the Chancellor for being brave enough to reverse a previous decision? I look forward to this welcome seed change if so.

Again, I'm speaking from a position of limited knowledge, but no one has ever been able to convince me that the whole contract thing is anything other than one big taxation avoidance scam and in the current environment aren't we all interested in people paying a fair and just amount of tax (as...

Me? I think it's perverse how we perceive the price of anything going UP as generally a bad thing until it comes to property when a lot of people (but not all, clearly) obsess about the value of their home increasing. I have little interest in it, having just bought in the South-East again...