Blog: Money for everything, everywhere, just not your pay rise

Today’s budget was supposedly a ‘back-to-work’ budget, with policies trailed over the past few days promising to help parents, disabled people, and the over-50s return to the workplace.
In reality, though, this budget was back-to-normal for the Conservative Party – big tax cuts for some of the highest earners, and billions of taxpayer money spent subsidising big businesses.
Over thirteen years of Tory austerity, chancellor after chancellor has claimed that there is no mon