Notwithstanding the Granny tax, notwithstanding the government blaming their predecessors is wearing a bit thin...

It could have been worse for the majority.

I somewhat surprisingly have little to pull Bridge up on in his presentation of statistics, other than statistics can be construed as you wish to portray them. I will, I admit pedantically, point the following out;

3 million jobs may be triple what Labour lost, but there is a difference between real jobs (ones that you can raise a family on) and cheap labour part time unskilled ones, (the ones that Bliar and Broon created.)

Th*tcher did lose all the real jobs and nobody yet has found where she put them.

Oh, and taking half a billion out of the NHS? You will find that they kept the last government's promise of losing £20Billion out of The NHS. One of the reasons NHS leaders were fearful of the new bill was that it was hard enough delivering £20Billion of savings without having the organisations trying to find savings abolished...

Cameron and Osborn are not on my Christmas card list and they are letting dogma get in the way of pragmatism, with the conniving weasel worded Judas mutterings of the disgraced ex political party Lib Dem.

But as I said earlier, those who got us in this mess are those who will have to pull us out again, so any chancellor has to present a balanced budget. The alternative would have made a Balls of it?