the chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK, and yesterday he delivered a spring statement, which is essentially a budget on a statement of intent to advise everyone what will be happening in terms of their household finances. I am not a financial expert by any stretch of the imagination, but for the most part of you budgets as opportunities for political parties in power to shore up their support from the base while giving a token not to their opponents, constituents and those that may or may not vote for them in the future. From all accounts, this is exactly what happened. Dear Keith. We hope that the various dear Richie, let me stop you there. You don't need to explain yourself. You are seen by many and certainly by yourself as the next leader of the country to take over from Boris Johnson. You've been lining himself up to be his successor for so long. You must feel like you're lining up your own successor. At this stage, your budget was just another step along the road to you becoming prime minister. Sure, you have to weigh in the fact that fuel prices and food prices are rising in such a rate that society may be about to regress by a century, with the poor literally living on the scraps from the table of the upper class, the panic in the middle classes where your votes lined and that's the word they will be comport. So there are rewards for them within the budget. The road to success and leadership appears, has always to be a road of bones, and it seems to be no different for you.

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