A Smal Light In A Dark World.

One good point that emerged from a pretty crap budget was thar Osborne decided not to increase duty on alcohol.  As regular readers of this blog will jbow, we have for some tine been pointing out the detrimental effects   of increasing taxation on alcohol in terms of the way that tax increases impact on theBritish pub, Sadly. the chancellor did not also find some way of levelling the playing field when it comes to the big supermarkets selling cheap boozr, but I suspect that we may see something along these lines when the government unveils its new alcohol strategy later this year.

Personally, the budget had little impact as far as mt life is concerned but I suspect that things may well be different when the next round of public sector spending cuts come along.  Having begun to attack somewhat wealthier pensioners then myself, I would expect that Osborne will be soon messing around with other things that make life tolerable such as the bus pass and the winter fuel allowance. The people I really feel sorry for are those aged fifty and under who seem to be neing prepared for the day when they will have to work tikk they drop.pub.  Sad;