Darling's Fudge-it

£2k anyone?

Do I really have to comment on the budget? Go read a tabloid – they’re right for once.

Let’s get rid of this vanity politics – Labour seems to be perfectly content to make wild statements about a recovering economy, in direct contradiction with the IMF. Is this perhaps because they know they’re so far from winning the next election, that if something miraculous does happen to the economy in the latter part of this year they can pipe up with “I told you so” blurb?

Besides, I’m not trading in my eleven year-old motor. This is because the kind of people (the Jerk included) that own vehicles over ten years old don’t purchase brand new cars. We know that adding to our already troublesome debt burden by financing a new car is exactly the sort of action that got us into this economic detritus in the first place.

I’m bored off these naïve politics. Systemic change is needed – not a transparent tax hike on a demographic that isn’t paying the right amount to the inlanders anyway. That’s going to raise about as much money as a VAT cut.