I thought, as you would expect, it was a well balanced, thought out budget, fair and square (perhaps with a few niggles here and there, but nothing awful).
Then I ended up thinking, is there anything in that budget the left can complain about?!
Apparently so, but it is slightly hypocritical.
Before the election in May, Ed Miliband, the then leader of the Labour Party, promised that he would get minimum wage up to £8 an hour by 2020, the Conservative Chancellor yesterday promised it would rise to £9 an hour by 2020.
A whole pound more, surely the left would be stumped?
No, they've now decided this isn't enough, am I surprised? No.
Let's face it, anything the Tories out do on Labour will never be high enough, the left are the depressed side of politics with their anti- this and that, is there anything that the left is pro or for?
They always see the cup as half empty, instead of half full, instead of making the best of a situation, all they see is chaos and destruction.
Then again, if the left didn't see the world in this way, would they exist as they do today?
Would we be having this tube strike because the drivers want more, and more pay?
Would they be chanting, ironically, about hope for Greece, which is surprising as the ancient Greek Gods used to think hope was an evil, as it can make you act under a delusion. Perhaps that's their problem.
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