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  : George Osborne is still wedded to plan A
  
  The chancellor may generate a few good headlines with his small giveaways,
  
  but this was more of the same
  
  George Osborne seemed to have forgotten that Britain is on the edge of a
  
  triple-dip recession.
  
  George Osborne intends to go down fighting. That was the over-riding impression from a
  
  budget that began with the chancellor dolefully explaining just how dreadful everything
  
  was and ended with him eulogising about how he was doing it for the "aspiration nation".
  
  By the time he claimed he was delivering a package for a Britain that
  
  "wants to be prosperous, solvent and free", the chancellor appeared to have forgotten that
  
  the economy was still 3% smaller than when it went into recession five years ago
  
  and was now teetering on the brink of a triple-dip recession.
  
  It was as if Tigger had replaced Eeyore halfway through the speech.

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