THE "CAN YOU ADAM AND EVE IT" BUDGET

I spent my lunchtime today listening to the Chancellors Budget Statement, enough to give those with the most hardiest of constitutions a stomach ache. After 8 years in the house listening to such drivel, you would have think I would have learnt my lesson, but no, I stuck it out. George Osbourne is no great orator and the story he had to tell was not a happy one. Therefore the whole experience was akin to watching the ombudsman episode of Eastenders on a Sunday, doom and gloom, greed and avarice, dodgy deals here and there all set against a background which in best Albert Square language means that the Country is still in a right “two and eight” (state) with half of the country either on the “rock and roll” (Dole) “on the floor” (poor) and over reliant on the “man from Cairo” Giro.


But what depressed me most is that here we are in one of the worst economic crisis’s the country has faced since the war all the Chancellor could concentrate his little grey cells on was reducing the higher rate of taxation for those earning over £150,000 a year and setting up means testing to withdraw Child benefit ( a universal benefit to which all contribute and all should be entitled) from households with one earner earning over £50,000 a year whilst still allowing couples earning £99,999.99p to claim it in full!

What happened to a “Budget for Growth”? where were all the measures to get Britain working again? What did he have to say about Banks who still fail to meet their lending targets to small business and then still give their senior executives massive bonuses for not meeting them? Would he announce new measures to get young people back into work? Or to kick start a still critical housing market? Perhaps he could have reduced national insurance contributions for employers taking on extra staff? Or announce tighter controls on companies still using tax avoidance schemes to siphon off their gains abroad?


But no, “Growth” (The Daily Loaf) to this government is still a dirty word, he quietly mumbled out his latest growth estimates conveniently forgetting to tell us that every estimate he has made to date has had to be downgraded and reduced, he warned us of another two years of public service cuts post 2015 if this awful government/coalition are re-elected and ripped the heart out of pensioners future plans by raising their tax bills by at least £3.2bn pounds in this governments term alone.


This Chancellor, and this government just don’t get it. They are a right bunch of Bengal Lancers (chancers) What do we care about the mansion tax and stamp duty on £2m houses when most of the country are currently struggling to pay their Burton on Trent (rent) or they are too “Boracic Lint” (skint) to pay the mortgage. What a bunch of Barclays Bankers this government really are!