Spring Statement: Banal, vacuous, and uninspiring — and that was just the ministers...

Even the National Association of Anticlimaxes would have refused the spring statement entry to its ranks for fear of reducing its already disappointing reputation to an all-time low in the minds of right thinking people.

Despite all the hype, it was a spring statement of the bleeding obvious — the Coalition is desperate to cling on to power at any cost and will throw every last penny it can manage to scrape together at the electorate to try and do so.

After more leaks than an Irish Water pipeline, the spring statement was much like that unloved utility — overblown, overbearing, and out of touch.