Well as expected Georgie did nothing about the beer duty escalator, he hardly mentioned it in fact, but he did mange to fool a lot of the medja with his slight of hand by saying "no plans to change my predecessors alcohol duty plans". Of course this was widely reported as "No Change" until the error was pointed out. George spent more time making a lame joke about Wallace and Grommit than he did on his attack on brewers, pubs and drinkers. Pro-industry my arse.
I heard Tim Martin tongue lashed the beeb for their sloppy reporting, it's now been corrected on their website.
Brewers and Publicans everywhere are writhing in pain even though we knew it was coming. This one is typical
The duty rise is from 26th March.
PS about 2500 people have signed the epetition since the budget non-announcement