The Poke guide to the 2015 budget
It’s that time of year again. The Chancellor stands on the steps of Number 11 Downing Street and hoons his great, red box around, like a gimlet-eyed weasel annually emerging from its burrow to display its magnificent collection of shrew skulls.
The media, of course, will talk about nothing else for a while, and the mathsy ones will giggle and bulge through their glasses, as they consider exactly which people will be the most disadvantaged by what the government’s planning to do. There will be online calculators, and analyses from the CBI and trades unions and new mums and Polly Toynbee and a neverending torrent of joyful guff from the news, desperately grateful that, at long last, something has actually happened.
So, as an antidote to all that, we here at The Poke have prepared a very special guide full of everything you need to know about the 2015 budget. Except that it misses out lots of things you should know because there’s loads of it.
But we hit the main points. Some of the main points.
It’s a thing. Enjoy.
