I think the Guardian very clearly shares my view of Osborne's budget - as their editorial in tomorrow's paper makes clear. I quote just a part:
"Voters got their first real chance to see whose side George Osborne is on. Two years into his tenure, the chancellor delivered a budget that was not about the big picture of public spending, nor the cratering of the economy. [And] he showed just who and what he thinks deserve the biggest handout; and the answer is a dismaying one.
Going by his budget, the chancellor — and by extension the government as a whole — thinks that the super-rich deserve lower taxes while pensioners should hand back more to the Treasury. He believes business ought to get a helping hand through lower corporation taxes, even while Britain's army of 2.7 million unemployed got barely a mention."
That's it.
So much for the Robin Hood budget Clegg talked about. This was the exact opposite - clearly massively redistributing wealth upwards.
The Tories have shown their colours on the NHS.
And now they done so again within 24 hours.
I reallyt do hope they have alienated the old as a result. Because they, of all people, have the power to swing the next election.
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Let’s not forget (nor should the Guardian forget) that this is a coalition budget, not a Tory one.
However watching Newsnight showed two things; there does not seem to be anybody on the Left who is left to decry what this government does because there no big hitters on the left or in the union movement prepared to appear on this flagshlp programme; secondly this was a programme of totally London based self-satisfied people mostly far removed from the realities of the UK. Indeed by the end of the programme so ineffectual was the criticism of the Budget that Osborne was being praised by all the editors and spin-doctors invited on. Channel 4 news coverage is making the BBC look increasingly deferential , elitist, metropolitan and lazy.
I was invited on to BBC News 24 at 7
At 5 I was cancelled – they said they had no time for the interview
At 7 Joanna Gosling (wife of David Cameron’s press secretary) spent about 6 minutes interviewing Pimlico plumbers about the budget – who delivered pure right wing rhetoric
I had been told the day before this was my opponent
At 5 I’d been told the whole interview was cancelled
It turned out just the left wing part was
This was blatant BBC bias
As I have said on previous occasions, I no longer watch or listen to the news on BBC. This organisation is much too biased because it is afraid that it will have its public funding chopped by the present government. Channel 4 news is superior and its journalists are not afraid to ask the searching questions. I also watch RT com and Al jezeera because often there are discussions on subjects which are never mentioned by our news channels.
You need a blog on this, Richard. I’m sharing just this comment on FaceBook for the time being.
Maybe they just didn’t think you were good enough to be worth an invite?
You can hardly claim the Beeb’s coverage of the Budget has been uncritical – they are currently leading with the granny tax and the cut in the 50p rate.
So I’ve done ~Radio 2, 4 and 5 plus 2 local stations but not OK for the news?
Pull the other one
The BBC seems well on the way of becoming a propaganda vehicle for neo-con liberal economics; Market Naztism, the veiled totalitarianism of governance by financial markets.
Do you wish to help Polly Curtis find out if Osbourne is lying about being affected by the 50p tax rate? I would find this interesting.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2012/mar/22/budget-2012-georgeosborne
That’s bordering in tittle tattle and playing the man, not the issue
I don’t much like that