By the way the 'get up in the morning' dog whistle is all about the working class jobs in London - the ones who pay less than enough to live on in the capital but are essential to the capital functioning - get the early tubes and see who are on them, not the higher-earners, the graduate trainees etc.
The 'blinds down' will be heard by all those people as 'nearly everyone in the country who earns more than me' - its a fake appeal to say to the working class in london, cleaners etc that the conservatives are supporting them more than the office workers.. i.e. its sheer spin.
(for what its worth, my main room curtain is not only down all day, but its velcroed around the edges (saves on the heating fact fans!).
This budget is a weirdy one to say that they are motivating the poor by taking away all their money - the poor are not the people who are using the welfare budget - its mostly middle class pensioners with higher life expectancy who are spending the welfare budget, the amount spared for people who are unemployed and working tax credits is teeny tiny compared to it.
The conservatives pride themselves on allowing business owners to take priority over staff, and on blaming the poor for not earning a decent wage 'you should work harder' - but in middle class occupations this becomes 'you should ask for a pay rise' or 'you should play the market to get paid more'. BUT When working class people demand higher wages or move employers for better conditions they are seen as trouble makers, lefties and nuisances. Its a difference in perception and based largely on who makes the money from paying low wages - the sectors that do so, service sector, manufacturing, retail are dominated by large businesses, and these recruit disproportionally from private schools.
Private schools still have a perception of class that its difficult to get your head round unless you have been close to it, its pretty much Edwardian/Victorian. (for evidence see which film and series i.e. cultural mirrors still get the most funding still and think of Mary Poppins. How often do we see Jane Austen and Dickens? remade and remade??)
Most clearly though this is a budget that reflects the still very old fashioned class-based education received in private schools. The recent 'pub quiz' education being advocated perpetuates this idea, i.e. that we should instill into our children the 'horrible histories' version of the poor being brutalised stupid and industry, agriculture or army fodder and the Jane Austen country house idea of the middle class 'leaders' who have all the intellectual discussion, strategic power plays and have all the emotions.
Sadly this perception is still so ingrained into public school life that its not a surprise that these people cannot view the world differently - the House of Commons is an extension of private schools and is steeped in the same traditions of the eras they believe we still exist in. It makes us laughable in the world, but still it continues because so many routes to power and money are still designed by men of that type, surrounded by other men of that type.
Conservative MPs who complain about welfare excesses, unionisation, lazy poor people etc would do well to remember that they are the most protected and most successfully unionised group in the public sector - their wages and wage rises are guaranteed and decided upon collectively not by contribution, but by need, their expense accounts and living expenses allow them to keep a good chunk of their salary untouched, they have the best healthcare, pension and in work benefits of any single group in the private sector.