Is Keston a real place? I thought it was a mythological place that only appears in tales and folklore. Like Atlantis, El Dorado and Cloud Cuckoo Land.

I most certainly will be staying in The Capitol. At £1.99 for a cold Carlsberg, you’d need a crowbar to wedge me out of there now-a-days.

Many apologies for the drift south from your original thread.

So, to answer your original question. I don’t have the time to analyse the budget, at source, as it is enormously complex. (When was it ever not?) I also don’t consume much media. Radio 4 and The Economist at best these days for their relatively balanced views.

What I have found interesting is that colleagues at my work, friends and people that I chit-chat with in The Capitol have generally been silent on the subject. What do you think the general silence indicates? A positive view of the budget, maybe?