Budget

Budget 2016 Roundup

  Amidst a flurry of numbers meant to show in turn toughness, compassion, economic competence and in some cases just bamboozle, came this year’s Budget refrain of “putting the next generation first”. Despite such long term claims, the chancellor’s short term aims were not far away either, shown by his pointing to the stability of…

The Budget – communicating times of change

  In 1947 Labour Chancellor Hugh Dalton made an off-the cuff remark to a lobby journalist from an evening paper (The Star in London, apparently) that there’d be a 1d (1 penny) tax on beer and some changes to dog racing tax, football pools and purchase tax.  The journalist got the story into the Stop…