All-round Budget thread

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Oh give over claig

Is <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39399000/jpg/_39399648_tory_boy203.jpg&imgrefurl=news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3112496.stm&h=203&w=203&sz=8&tbnid=ybqbzf4RUzf-UM:&tbnh=105&tbnw=105&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtory%2Bboy&zoom=1&q=tory+boy&usg=__B2kGb0M5iBxvlcaK6Hd55MYTIh8=&sa=X&ei=a_aJTZDgGsiWhQfgj6GsDg&ved=0CC8Q9QEwAw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this you claig?

We had the tough budget last October.... this one couldn't be tough as well. Don't think that equates to a 'false sense of security'.

Down, down, down, Miliband is dragging us down.

Can anyone take Red Ed seriously?

(Does anyone care what he has to say?)

Labour, not Osborne must 'appreciate the irony' of Labour criticizing growth plans

Deserves a knighthood?? You are a strange fellow.

Better than I expected - no new spending cuts, some positive elements.

Miliband is majoring on low growth in his response.

Typical Tories.

JemimaMop, that's not me, that's my brother

chil....see if you say that on the next budget when we get totally screwed

Well, DH is going to lose his job. Just what we need with a 3rd due in 7 weeks.

What does your DH do?

Mumsnet!

Did MN just get a mention then?

Mumsnet just got a mention

yep, MN is now a political buzzword!!

what did he say about Mumsnet?

It did but he fluffed it.

I just can't stand Ed M. I want to like him but I find him utterly uninspiring and don't want to watch him at all.

The fuel duty cut is all well and good but it is fuck all really, 50p saved on a tank of petrol isn't going to mean much to the average Joe.

Miliband is a loser.

No! I just turned it off and missed the bit about MN! What did he say?

They are taking away Flexible Working rights to families with children aged 16-18
He said that David Cameron agreed to that after consultation with Mumsnetters- and is now taking it away

ITV news - now!!!

I completely missed it all as had to pick up DS2 from Playschool.

What is going to happen to Tax credits and other benefits. Are they frozen?

Why would anyone need flexible working for 16-18 year old children? [mind boggling]

Fuck, I think I might be turning into a Tory if that's the best that Ed can come up with

It's the trumpeting of the nothingness of it that is so irritating.