[Tealeaf]

Whether this budget works as planned or not, only time and external circumstances will tell. I do not think there is anything really radical about it – it’s simply a case going towards balancing the beans and I doubt if the overall impact will be that substantial. How better it would have been to shut down the Department for Overseas Development and slashed the salaries of any bureaucrat in the public sector to the level of an MP – aprox. £65K a year. These two measures would alone have saved about £12bn. The problems we now have in the UK run far, far deeper, and as such fiscal and monetary measures should have been addressed to the following:

Within the so-called EU, we have the highest rate of teenage pregnancy, the lowest rate of active sport participation, the highest rate of binge drinking, the lowest rate of social mobility, the highest rate of teenage obesity, the lowest rate of life expectancy, the highest rate of violent crime, the lowest rate of literacy/ numeric ability for under 16’s, the highest government borrowing requirement, the lowest rate of oncology survival, the highest rate of employables choosing welfare, the lowest rate of manufacturing apprenticeships, the highest rate of asylum seekers, the lowest rate of local fresh food available in the shops, the highest rate of legal negligence claims, the lowest rate of voting turn-out, the highest rate of Niqab and Burka wearers, the lowest rate of international football success, the highest rate of rotten MP’s, the lowest rate of electrified railways, the highest unfunded public sector pension liability, the lowest rubbish recycling record, the highest house costs psf, the lowest average-size house build, the highest number of net immigration, the lowest number of criminal repatriation, the highest number of skilled emigration, the lowest satisfaction for financial services, the highest per capita public funding for bank bailouts.....I could write another 10 pages of this but I can’t be bothered.