Gordon's new budget will save me £59.57 per year (calculate yours here ), £61.65 if my pay goes up in line with what I've been told to expect. So that's nothing to get excited about really. I don't really see where the positive impact of this budget will be, if not on middle-income earners like myself. Meanwhile the very poorest will actually pay more tax.
Meanwhile Cameron's popularity is ever-growing, and I have almost reached the point of being persuaded to campaign for the Labour party. Two things are stopping me:
1) I'm working 50-60 hours per week at the moment, and am generally doing something fun 5 nights out of 7. I can't cut the work, and I don't want to cut the fun, so any campaigning I do will have to come out of the teeny amounts of down-time I have. Maybe I could hire a cleaner?
2) I don't actually like the Labour party very much. I like their (our) stated aims and values, and the history of the movement inspires me, but I really profoundly dislike Blair. From Trident to Asbos, the Blair Government has used its majority to push through policies opposed by even its own members. I'd leave the party in protest, as thousands have done, but where would I go? A friend who is entirely disengaged from politics was telling me the other day that even he is considering throwing his lot in with a party that best approximates to his beliefs, because you can't really accomplish anything outside the machine.