Budget Coverage on BBC - does anyone else think Huw Edwards is making a pig's ear of it?

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He really seems to be struggling. Keeps on saying - "We'll summarise things so they're clear for you" when it seems like he's the one who is lost. Bring back Andrew Neil.

Agreed . Useless. David Cameron summed it all ip pretty well. I am not a fan of his, but he expressed the frustration with this bunch of incompetents who simply cannot help but spin, spin, spin. And we are all the poor buggers whose children will pay for it all...

I am not a huge fan of the current government MrsGuy but what would Cameron and his cohorts do better? I remember the last recession under the Tories when the country was allowed to suffer for years as interest rates soared, the British gold reserves were hocked and employment and repossessions spiralled. At least this time the government has tried to staunch the flow a little by putting pressure on the BoE to reduce interest and to bring in measures that will (hopefully) stem repossessions. I am not happy about the billions stacked up in bail-outs but I have yet to hear a coherent argument regarding the alternatives.

I also think if you believe the modern Conservative party and David Cameron in particular offer an alternative to spin, you must be certifiable naive.

And, no, extremely, I didn't think Huw Edwards was very good.

Do you know, I can't make head or tail of it myself, except that it looks like a lot of pointless electioneering 'tax the rich' blah blah blah.

And I don't for a second think that Cameron et al will do a lot better, but I do think that government needs a change round when things get stale, because they get to the point where they're just disappearing up their own backsides.

I should add that Nick Robinson was his usual peerless self and Stephanie Flanders was very good. Robert Peston was, as ever, ...err Robert Peston.

I agree that Cameron et al have not much to say other than they wouldn't do what Labour are doing. They also don't say how they would have acted differently had they been in power because of course they wouldn't have done anything different. Still, very hard to take the very tired line from Labour that it's a global recession when the UK is so much more badly affected than any other country other than Ireland and Iceland -and that is Gordon Brown's fault.