The ThunderDragon: The Budget 2008

12 March 2008

The Budget 2008

The first Budget in a decade will be made today by a politician who is not Gordon Brown. Well, at least that's the plan. But we all know that, in reality, Alastair Darling is just a wooden puppet, controlled by strings. He may jump up and down and proclaim that he is "a real ~~boy~~ Chancellor", but we all know the truth.

What do you want to see from the Budget? The one thing we won't get is any tax cuts - heaven forbid we be allowed to keep any of our money! - or even a freeze on certain things, such as alcohol, which is inevitably to be a victim of this budget considering its current whipping-boy status in politics. Iain Dale has a list of the top ten lines the ~~wooden puppet~~ Alastair Darling definitely won't say. More's the pity.

Last year's budget was boring, and backfired. What will the result be this year? Probably more of the same. But I will be keeping an eye on accountancy firm KPMG's budget website for comprehensive analysis - especially since they think that the budget will "see the fiscal rules being bent, if not outright broken and/or rewritten".

Should be interesting.

PS: Does anyone else find it ironic that they call it a "budget" when all they're limited by is how much money they can take from us?

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