budgets

[caption id="attachment_100177" align="alignleft" width="260"] I've never heard of a "pint" before, but I hear the working classes like them.[/caption] What do you do when you're Chancellor of the Exchequer and everything's going wrong, possibly because of your policies, and you have to introduce a budget today full of evidence of failure? Do you abandon those policies in favor of something that might work and might not cause a triple-dip recession?