Budget Day Looms.

Budget day looms. Its been at the heart of my thinking for the last few weeks and certainly on my mind for much longer. Its strange to think that the total budget is around £1.2b and a 1% increase in Council tax raises around £2m which is a tiny part of the whole budget. Yet there will be much more debate about the few percentage points one way or another on the council tax than there will on much of the rest of the budget detail. It is at budget time more than any when the tension between the public's desire for politicians to take a long term view and their hope that we will make a short term decision is most exposed.