Call it whatever you will: the budget-we-had-to-have or the budget-that-13-years-of-wilful-Labour-spending-made-necessary…but the overriding message is perfectly clear – the benefits gravy train that so many enjoyed a free ride on for so long and for doing so little has come to an end.

And about bloody time too!

It is a tough budget but for those who are already living with their belts tightened to the max the changes will make little difference to their lives, those who flourished under the irresponsible social disaster that was the welfare spending of the Labour Party will feel the pinch the most. Time to get off those bums, turn off the Jeremy Kyle show and start earning a living! VAT will see an increase of 3% but will that stop the High Street devotees on their Saturday morning shopping sprees…? I doubt it – people will still spend so long as the must-haves exist. People will still buy their booze and fags, the latest console games will fly off the shelves when they hit the stores – few British children will go unindulged, heaven forbid.

As Harriet Harman shrieks and yells in protest from the other side of the Floor she fails to remember that had her Govt not been so busy throwing taxpayers money at the lazy, feckless and workshy for 13 years for doing nothing other than breeding children in homes which would never see an adult go out to work, then this budget would not need to be of the ‘damage control’ type that it is. The benefits system desperately needs reform, reducing and redressing – to stop it becoming a lifestyle choice and to stop it being the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for so many eastern Europeans and asylum seekers who come here for no other reason.

Judging by Harman’s response it is clear that had Labour retained Govt the United Kingdom would be in the hands of Administrators before the end of the year.