Hiding from reality

This post is not going to discuss the individual measures in the budget. There is no point. You might as well worry about the window boxes on a house that has half fallen into the sea. Jeremy Hunt, highly constrained by his own party, chose to ignore reality, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us have to. He is continuing to pretend that it will be possible, after the election, to hold revenue spending increases to 1% a year for four years and to cut capital spending by almost 10%...