The real cost of the Budget

So the Guardian scoops today:

Budget will cost 1.3m jobs - Treasury Exclusive:
Leaked government data concerning next five years shows hidden costs of austerity drive.

So where are those millions of jobs for those currently on incapacitated going to come from?

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The BBC has picked up on it:

Forecast suggests 600,000 public sector jobs to go.
Some 600,000 jobs are expected to be lost in the public sector over the next five years, the Office for Budget Responsibility has said.

Leaked Treasury documents had suggested last week's Budget could increase unemployment by up to 1.3 million.

What we are up against

I said to watch the Blue Blog. Watch the comments also. This is a comment from there, this what we're up against:

A good budget. I’m particularly pleased you are raising VAT the one tax we can decide to pay or not by limiting our consumption.

I can never understand why Labour say poorer people are most affected — do the poor regularly buy wide-screen TVs or state of the art consumer goods? I don’t think so, People make do and mend — in any case, everyday consumables such as food or children’s clothes are zero-rated.

The Budget

Government opts for medical exams over form filling. Aims to put all people claiming Disability Living Allowance through examinations - presumably these examiners will be highly qualified experts in every kind of debilitating illness? Yeah right. Ha! not that I even qualify anyway.

Anyway. Comment here at Arbitrary Constant.

Housing benefit cap should not affect me either as I live in low cost housing. Note that the government is unable to reward people who save money, only to punish the profligate - and some people appear to have been very profligate indeed - if the stories can be believed!