Here’s The Money… Oh, No, It’s Not…

In all of the coverage of the Budget over the last 24 hours, it is hard to find something new or different to say. But perhaps there is just one more example of Brown’s shameless attempt to grab a false headline that is worthy of note.

Essentially, Brown announced more money to encourage carbon neutral home building. However, as a friend of mine, who works in renewable energy and is therefore effected by this, has pointed out, the DTI has said that it will not be distributing that money just yet, after all. This is because it does not know how it should be allocated.

Expect that one to end up in the long grass along with the other tax cuts that will not take effect for over a year.

Update: The BBC have now started to report this, too. See here.