As far as I can see, yesterday's budget tinkered. There were a few good things, a few bad things and just about everything except the so-called "Granny Tax" had been leaked in advance.
Yesterday's budget can best be summed up as "meh".
There was no great innovation on the proposals. There was no vision for the future. There was no sense of a new political ideology or fiscal system.
George Osbourne may as well have stood up and said "Everything increased by inflation. That's it!"
Where are the great pitical visionaries? Why is there no desire to do more than tinker? Where I'd the politics of principle and ideology?
Yesterday's budget, once the dust has settled, will be viewed as a non-event that did nothing for the UK, its citizens, or the wider world.
The UK has become a one-party state, but a one-party state with different faces so that the proles think that change has happened.
Opposition oppose for the sake of opposing but offer no alternative and no vision for a better future. And yet, while they're busy opposing, they refuse to say they'd do anything different or reverse decisions.
We have hit a stalemate in which bland consimerist capitalism is the only choice available and it makes no difference who delivers the budget.
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