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Well, the Chancellor in his Downing Street bunker will be doing some serious spinning today as he seeks to steal more of our cash and we can naturally rely on the BBC to cast things in the most favourable light possible for Draling SO I thought I would open up this thread for your comments as we go through the day. Vince Cable was the first man on the BBC this morning to offer his words of, erm, wisdom – not sure if the BBC has heard of the Conservatives but the rest of the day will tell the tale. Speak later!

Today was Budget Day. Seeing as how government has been leaking the contents of the Budget to the media for the past several weeks, no real big surprises. But I happened to catch the BBC Radio 5 “Drivetime” programme this evening allegedly analysing this latest onslaught on the middle-classes, those cash cows beloved of the Nulabour redistribution of wealth machine. In essence the programme was just one extended sneer with the two presenters believing that surely those who can afford 4×4 cars can afford to pay Darlings’ extra 2k showroom tax. They failed to grasp WHY should they! They also enthusiastically advanced the faux “Green taxes are righteous taxes” argument so beloved of this government, and clapped their little hands in delight at the news that “key-workers” (ie Gordon Brown’s state sector army) would be the beneficiaries of even more largesse care of its masters in power. It is obvious to anyone with half a brain that Labour is in serious financial straits as befalls all good leftist administrations and that its profligacy in growing the State during the Brown era is the core problem, but perhaps expecting the State broadcaster to deal with that is a hope too far?