That should save me 6p a week - I'm a responsible drinker - not much else I can see yet

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A real old scattergun of a Budget. No clear policy thread running through it at all.

Giveaways for some (shale gas explorers, middle income families with children, buyers of new build houses, beer drinkers), kicks in the teeth for others (further cuts to public sector budgets, pay rises capped at well below inflation).

Basically, a whole load of tinkering around the edges of the economy while it continues to lurch further away from the Government's own targets on growth and borrowing. Quite how Osborne has the cheek to insist that everything is still on track I don't know.

Mind you, when you've got News International on your side you can convince the public of anything (apparently the Sun front page this morning massively understated the debt position - accidentally or otherwise).

Thanks for that, it's going to be fun watching this develop.

And all for the sake of a pathetically token crumb of 1p off a pint.

As with the pasty tax, it merely shows how out of touch he is.

In a post - my ideas have been exposed for what they are - but rather than accept my ideas are flawed I will resort to deflection - typical Mr Fish