{"id":165,"date":"2016-03-16T17:11:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T17:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/bscbusinessmanagement\/?p=165"},"modified":"2016-03-17T17:50:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T17:50:14","slug":"budget-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/bscbusinessmanagement\/general-interest\/2016\/03\/budget-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-171\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/bscbusinessmanagement\/files\/2016\/03\/GeorgeOsbourneAndBriefcase-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"GeorgeOsbourneAndBriefcase\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/bscbusinessmanagement\/files\/2016\/03\/GeorgeOsbourneAndBriefcase-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/bscbusinessmanagement\/files\/2016\/03\/GeorgeOsbourneAndBriefcase-768x700.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/bscbusinessmanagement\/files\/2016\/03\/GeorgeOsbourneAndBriefcase-700x638.jpg 700w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/bscbusinessmanagement\/files\/2016\/03\/GeorgeOsbourneAndBriefcase.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many of you will have noticed that today George Osbourne carried his little red box all the way to Westminster, to give a highly anticipated budget. Being the last one before the EU referendum, this budget carried an sense of importance over the others given in this government. Unfortunately, while important, budgets are often not as riveting viewing as, say, Breaking Bad. So, we kindly provided a live-tweeting service this morning, managed by Zak Rakrouki. Hopefully those of you who followed this found it useful, but for those who didn&#8217;t managed to see this, we have collated all of Zak&#8217;s wonderful tweets below. I have also included a number of articles, that I hope you find interesting. Any opinions you might have, please share!<\/p>\n<p>Note: if you are struggling to access the selection of tweets, please click on the link in blue that says &#8220;The Budget 2016&#8221; &#8211; thanks!<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/storify.com\/tomjdavidson\/the-budget-2016<\/p>\n<div class=\"storify\">[<a href=\"\/\/storify.com\/tomjdavidson\/budget-2016-as-it-happened\" target=\"_blank\">View the story &#8220;Budget 2016: As it Happened&#8221; on Storify<\/a>]<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you will have noticed that today George Osbourne carried his little red box all the way to Westminster, to give a highly anticipated budget. Being the last one before the EU referendum, this budget carried an sense of importance over the others given in this government. 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