UK Budget, March 21 2007 - Case studies
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My Budget: Cliff Kentish, pensioner
‘I thought it was an appalling budget. The usual - 'I'm giving away' but no suggestion of where the money is coming from. Why do we have such huge debts, what has been achieved? What has happened to all the money taken from us through innumerable stealth taxes?’
My Budget: Patrick Browne, manufacturer
‘They should make it compulsory that all chancellors have to have worked in manufacturing for 10 years’
My Budget: Hillary Fanning, health service worker
‘There should be elements that people should have to pay for directly. The government has fiddled round the edges and created instability rather than being bold’
My Budget: John Fender, macroeconomics professor
‘We've had a stable macroeconomic environment. By and large Gordon Brown has done fairly well’
My Budget: Kate Nancarrow, environmental campaigner
‘Considering he's had a good shout at making a difference, he should have done a lot more’
My Budget: Joyce Coakley, entrepreneur
‘There was something in there for everybody. It looks like a vote-winning tactic’
My Budget: Tim Clarke, chief executive
‘In the mid '90s we were selling 15m meals a year and now it is 100m a year’
