Coalition's First Budget Tough But Hardly Fair

George Osborne gave us what he promised in his first Budget.

Tough measures to bring down the Budget deficit - policies that will hit the poorest in Britain and can hardly, therefore, be described as fair. 

In particular, the plans to cap Housing Benefit will affect many very profoundly and so will the decision to make claimants of Disability Living Allowance undergo a medical assessment from 2013. 

Surely the government could have found other ways of dealing with the deficit? What about increasing taxes on alcohol and tobacco? That would have raised millions. 

Instead the Conservatives and their Liberal Democrat poodles chose to penalise those least able to cope financially.  

Millions of voters who were promised by David Cameron during the election that the Tories will always look after the most vulnerable in our society have been well and truly duped.