George Osborne has clearly played his budget with more decisive, single mindedness than our boys have played in South Africa but his budget will have created just as much consternation.

I know very little about how to run a nation’s economy and am perfectly willing to admit it.  Still, I do know what’s fair and what isn’t.  I was keen to see Child Benefit means tested with money going to those who need it not the well-heeled women in Mr Osborne’s circles  who blatantly do not.  A freeze simply doesn’t go far enough.  The Chancellor claimed that while he had no problem with turning the screws on Family Tax Credits, doing the same for Child Benefit was too complicated!  Nonsense! Let’s face it, protecting Child Benefit for rich mums is just ring-fencing latte money.   And the fashionable coffee shops of Kensington and Chelsea are unlikely to hold it against him for reducing the number of massive, three-wheeler buggies in the isles. Moreover, Tarquin and Annabelle are likely to be less fractious out in the fresh air somewhere.

My son still remembers arriving at school to find that Ms Thatcher had taken away his milk, now lots of children from poorer families will soon find that their free school meals have been taken away too. 

What’s fair about ring-fencing lattes for rich housewives while taking the dinner  out of the mouths of children at school?