The Budget.

Nothing to say about this really. Confirms we are all in a mess and that someone is going to have to pay for it and you can bet your last pound that it won't be those who created the mess in the first place. The idea that the recession, more like a depression, is going to be over by Christmas is fantasy and anyone who thinks that Britain can defy the forces of economic gravity should read the much more realistic economic outlook published by the International Monetary Fund yesterday. Any national budget produced in the current world economic crisis is a bit like using paracetamol to treat AIDs.