UK Budget

[Silent Hunter]

...is tomorrow, but it's worth looking over what may come;

A £15bn cut in public spending is expected to be announced through 'efficiency savings' due to be implimented after the next general election. The thing about efficiency savings is that the impetus is on the public service, not the government to make these savings and if they cannot be found...out come the P45's. In the long awaited 'budget for jobs', the government may just jeopardise quite a number of them.

Well, so would the Tories, who will probably argue for further cuts.

[Silent Hunter]

Not exactly a brilliant budget, by any means.

This will probably be our last budget for this government, unless the economy does recover early next year.

We messed up. We got too close to big business, we made errors on spending- if we'd have done things better, we'd not have to borrow so much. It's not totally our fault, but we have a role to play in this recession.

That said, Britain is stronger for 13 years of Labour rule. We have made long-term decisions that will help this country and changed the political consensus away from the "me, me, me" approach of the Thatcher/Major years.

We'll be back.