Budget - good or bad?

Well, after listening to yesterday's budget from Mr Darling, and then reading some of the paper's today I am now even more convinced that he, and the rest of our wonderful government, are brain dead. This is a budget for recovery and will help the normal, working person. What planet is he on? Booze tax up 2%, tobacco tax up 2% - that's hot pretty much everyone of us in some way. And the pubs n clubs, as all the drinks are going to be more expensive, so i know that i will have at least one less drink each time i go out. May not seem like much, but multiple that 1 drink sale lost by 52, and that's just me. How many other's will do the same? And petrol, going up again in September. more money from the pocket, less to spend on clothes etc n help the recovery! And the ISA changes, great if we had any money left to save! My mate is out of work, and this so called mortgage relief package - where is it? no one knows anything about it, not even the job centre or benefits people. Let alone how to claim it!

Are they for real? - offensive advert

Have you seen what the Advertising Standards Authority have done now? They have made courage pull a beer advert, all because they received THREE complaints from the millions of people that have seen the advert! It was of a young nervous man, next to a woman... he has his pint and the slogan 'Take Courage my friend'. It hasn't been banned as offensive, but because it implies that the beer could give the man confidence with women.... known to the rest of us as Dutch courage! And Courage have used that slogan for decades! What a waste of time and money!