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  • 25 Mar 2011
    Cuts are about ideology, not the deficit

    The 2011 Budget offers useful cover for the central deceit of the government’s economic strategy, says Simon Barrow – which is that massive cuts in the public sector and in the local and national state are “unavoidable” and “necessary” to eliminate Britain’s massive deficit.

  • 24 Mar 2011
    Budget analysis: short-term scraps, long-term damage

    Do not be fooled by the scraps from the table in Chancellor Osborne's 2011 budget, says Urban Forum chief executive, Toby Blume, analysing the implications for charities, enterprise, environment, planning and poverty. Sadly, the real damage has already been done.

  • 24 Mar 2011
    Budget is 'a betrayal of our future', says Lucas

    The first full budget from a government claiming to be the "greenest ever" is a betrayal of an environmental future, says Green MP Caroline Lucas.

  • 24 Mar 2011
    Oxfam reminds chancellor why a Robin Hood Tax is vital

    Responding to Chancellor George Osborne's budget yesterday, Oxfam has highlighted once again the need for a proper financial transaction tax.

  • 23 Mar 2011
    A budget from another planet

    Those who have learned their lines as the government intends might think they have been dealt a good, or at least unavoidable budget yesterday. However, many of us are profoundly sceptical of the twin tropes which Messrs Cameron and Osborne have been repeating endlessly in the hope that they will somehow become the backdrop of our thinking.

  • 23 Mar 2011
    Budget ignores the plight of the poorest, say Christians

    The Budget does nothing to help poor and vulnerable people targeted by the government’s programme of cuts, says Church Action on Poverty.

  • 23 Mar 2011
    Chancellor under fire on tax and Green Investment Bank

    Scottish Greens have said that Chancellor George Osborne's Budget statement today is "brimful of the wrong economic medicine."

  • 23 Mar 2011
    TUC, IFS and Greens probe budget claims and agenda

    The Institute for Fiscal Studies says that measures due to come into place in April 2011 will be equivalent to a loss of £200 per household on average.

  • 23 Mar 2011
    Osborne's budget 'big on rhetoric, short on action', says NEF

    The New Economics Foundation says that the 2011 Budget set out by the chancellor today is "long on growth rhetoric, but short on concrete action".

  • 23 Mar 2011
    Protests against 'destructive austerity' on budget day

    Protesters against the coalition government's cuts policies are using Budget Day (23 March) as an opportunity to galvanise public support.