Quote Originally Posted by OchPie View Post
The energy windfall tax went up from 35% to 38%.

Feel sorry for all the commentators sure this would be the most disastrous and inept budget of all time. Criticising someone for what you think they will do based on your own preconceptions and not what they actually do rarely turns out well.

You can quibble the details with any budget but it was a solid Labour budget, full of things the Tories would never do - and how angry that made them.
No doubt some of those commentators were 'briefed' by those 'in the know' in the Westminster wine bars that reduced ISA limits, tax reliefs for higher taxpayers etc. were 'all on the table' but now those 'bad' things didn't come to fruition the perception is the budget 'wasn't so bad after all'. Smoke and mirrors as with all flavours of politicians.