Quintin Jardine's blog

I’ve just listened to Osborne’s Budget speech, and seen the embarrassing performance of the Shadow Chancellor, and the back-bench clowns on both sides. My interpretation is that there was stuff there to encourage both the aspirational and the least well off in our society. Here are the key points.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21851965

I’ve also just read some of Ed Milliband’s sound-bites. I’m not a card-carrying Tory, not any moe, but equally I’m not quite sure what’s so bad about putting 600,000 more jobs into the economy, or taking people out of tax, or helping employment by cutting the NI burden on small businesses.