East of the M60’s 2015 Budget Statement: George’s Last Ride?

Nothing new for Mr or Ms Ordinary – apart from a twelve-sided pound coin

Another March, another budget, and nothing in the cupboard for Mr and Ms Ordinary. Not even a proper populist tax cut from the back of a Commons’ bench. The biggest beneficiaries of George Osborne’s last budget, in this parliament, were employers and well-to-do savers. Locally, affecting our area, Greater Manchester is set to gain control of its business rates.