Presumably, Boris reckons that Our Amazing NHS is held in such high esteem that there will be few objections to a money-no-object policy. Yet Sunak has announced yet another ВЈ6 billion cash injection for the National Health Service, on top of the thick end of ВЈ40 billion allocated a couple of months ago. Mr Sunak said in his budget that the pandemic-hit economy is set to extend its solid recovery into next year despite strong inflationary pressures It will simply be swallowed up in pay rises.Д¬hancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak visits Bury Market on Thursday. Pumping borrowed billions into unreformed public services, at a time when the country is already drowning in debt, and expecting taxpayers to pick up the tab is madness. Yet this nominally Conservative Government is intent on burning through cash on a scale not seen since the famous Yorkshire housewife Viv Nicholson won a record ВЈ151,319 on the football pools in 1961 and promised to 'spend, spend, spend' until she'd blown the lot.ДЄt least it was Viv's own money to blow. The Chancellor may only be doing his master next door's bidding, but there's simply no justification for pouring more money into Government departmental budgets right now. Increases in corporation tax - a tax on jobs by any other name - and in National Insurance are in the pipeline. Petrol has already hit ВЈ1.43 a litre, diesel ВЈ1.46, and we're a long way from the peak.Д¬ouncil tax is about to go through the roof, and you still won't get your dustbins emptied. The big banks took one look and immediately hiked mortgage rates.Д«y the end of this Parliament, families on middle incomes will be paying an extra ВЈ3,000 a year in tax.ДЄny morsels tossed from the Treasury table yesterday will be gobbled up by rampant inflation.Д®ven Rishi's freezing of fuel duties is sleight of hand, since VAT receipts will go on rising as the world price of oil adds to the cost at the pump. Once the number-crunchers have sifted through the detail, the true picture begins to emerge.ДЄnd yesterday, the consequences of Rishi's tax-raising, spending-splurging package became glaringly apparent.

There's always something nasty hidden in the small print. As a general rule of thumb, it's advisable to wait 24 hours before commenting on any Budget.

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