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Madeline
 Post subject: The Budget 2014
PostPosted: 17 Mar 14, 10:09 
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Britain's five richest families worth more than poorest 20%
Oxfam report reveals scale of inequality in UK as charity appeals to chancellor over tax
Larry Elliott www.theguardian.com
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 Post subject: Re: The Budget 2014
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Budget 2014: George Osborne, it's not your job to look after the very rich
Britain will always have a wealth gap. What's shocking is how governments conspire in its obscene unfairness
Simon Jenkins www.theguardian.com
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The budget: look out for even more of George Osborne's sham pledges
The chancellor likes to appear committed to shrinking the deficit with cuts – but it's a fraud, just as his budget will be

Polly Toynbee www.theguardian.com
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Tax changes to boost pensioners and savers in Budget BBC
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Budget 2014: fluffy little delights unleashed to soften up older voters
The chancellor had his eyes firmly fixed on the 2015 poll – and one section of the electorate in particular
Jonathan Freedland www.theguardian.com
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Budget 2014: Savers and pensioners to benefit from tax overhaul
The Chancellor put savers at the heart of his Budget package, praising those who have 'worked hard and saved hard all their lives' www.telegraph.co.uk
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Budget 2014: George Osborne Gives HMRC Power To Take Money From Bank Accounts www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
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Grant Shapps' 'beer and bingo' is the final nail in working-class Toryism
There's a serious point behind Shapps' already notorious tweet – that the Tories are a dying party that needs to rebuild
Owen Jones www.theguardian.com
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Forget the beer and bingo, this budget has a darker side
Cameron and Osborne claim to be fixing the roof. In reality, they sawed off their foot and then put up a tarpaulin. Labour desperately needs to articulate this

Hopi Sen www.theguardian.com
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Osborne's pensions 'freedom' will be a long-term social disaster
The chancellor's budget claims that making annuities optional is a great blow for freedom are far from the truth
Will Hutton www.theguardian.com
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Benefits cap is evidence of Tories' vile political smearing of sick, disabled and jobless poor
BY KEVIN MAGUIRE Mirror
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George Osborne Set To Give Big Banks A Secret Tax Cut www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
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How the right sold austerity as the only economic solution
More than 30 years of neoliberalism and six years of austerity have floored us, yet the left is incapable of mounting a serious challenge to this economic orthodoxy. Why?
Richard Seymour www.theguardian.com
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The budget shows that politics is all about appearances
Osborne, Miliband and Cameron are all worrying about their image for very different reasons
John Crace www.theguardian.com

So funny, I love John Crace's Westminster digested. ::lol::
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