a rare moment during the presentations of the budget

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, has not detailed further, yesterday, how labour is there take to reduce by half the budget deficit of the United Kingdom in a year, their goal. But his performance before the House of Commons and the immediate response of David Cameron, the Conservative leader, then allowed to predict what will be messages that both sides are hammering during the campaign, which is to accelerate, the elections before, it seems, take place on May 6.

On the one hand, labour will be argued that they negotiated the recession that the conservatives might have done better and will seek to oppose the methods of the two sides to negotiate the rebound by highlighting their vision socially more just against laissez-faire the right approach. On the other, Conservatives will focus on the degradation of the public accounts after thirteen years with the Labour orders, refute that the Tories were the Party of the rich and invite the public to reflect on the relevance of renew to power a disaster assessment team. "The issue of the intervention of this afternoon was much less talk about public accounts that put forward lines of division policy a few weeks of the elections," says Philip Stephens, editor in Chief of the British edition of the "Financial Times".

"Tax pot."

Still, Alistair Darling has confirmed that the Government would show a deficit of 167 billion pounds for the fiscal year 2009-2010, the planned 178 billion in December. Tax on bonuses of banks, who finally reported 2 billion, and improved tax revenues are responsible for this good news. Contrary to what some feared or hoped, Alistair Darling has not surrendered to the temptation to use this "tax pot" to announce significant additional expenses, apart from a Green Investment Bank with $ 2 billion and measures of support for SMEs. The goal of restoration of the public accounts is ambitious, but it is necessary in view of the seriousness of the situation with public debt on the road to reach 1,300 billion. By 2014-2015, the Labor Party wants to reduce the budget deficit to 74 billion and, like the Conservatives, labour now express the desire to reduce "the core" of the structural deficit to about 2.5 of GDP, compared to 8.4 in 2009-2010.

If Alistair Darling remained relatively austere as usual, this has not stopped him to highlight the fact that the bulk of the effort would be produced by the richest 5 of the British. To better place his party advocate for social justice, the British Finance Minister announced the transfer fees higher for the most expensive real estate acquisitions and a greater severity against tax evasion. A cooperation agreement with Belize, where is lord Ashcroft, a framework of the tory party which is the subject of a controversy over its taxes, will be signed. The Spades caused the hilarity of the Labour members, a rare moment during the presentations of the budget, traditionally very solemn. It is true that this fiscal year was quite theoretical, the next Government whatever it is, is to rewrite.